Moon, Mind & Law quotes from The Great Cosmic Mother by Monica Shoo & Barbara Mor
1âŚwomen were the first observers of lunar cycles. As first agriculturalists, women related moon phases to planting and reaping times. It is women who live the lunar cycle in our bodies. Becoming and changing are the lunar order of things. The moon exerts an identical influence on the magnetic serpent current of the earth, the tides of the sea and womenâs menstrual flow. The lunar body is mirrored in nature, and it synchronises with the flow of menstrual blood. (P142/143)
2.Women originally went into menstrual huts in order to get gather the dark moon power, to focus it and study it, in solitude. In both group and solitary meditation, moon power became mind power.
3.In most languages there is a common root word for âmoonâ and âmenstruationâ. Our own word for menstruation comes from menses, the Latin word forâmonthâ, which was measured originally by the moon. And both words are related, through Indo-European roots to the Old English, mona (moon), deriving from me, which meant bothâmindâ and âmeasurementâ.
4.All are cognates-moon, mind, measurement, month, menstruation- since it is the moon that establishes measurement, including calendars.
5.Menstruation also means âmoon-changeâ, also mind-change. P151
6.Light is a potent trigger of biological rhythms. (Lunaception.)
7.Human life begins with birth. âŚthe femaleâs experience of surviving pregnancy and bearing children and keeping them alive. From: Monica Shoo & Barbara Mor The great cosmic mother P145
8.There is a resemblance between Moon Mothers everywhere. In this form the Great Goddess is always the law-giver, the orderer of time, the judge of the dead, and the eternal source of wisdom and ecstasy.p155
9.The Hindu Moon Mother Kali sits in her lotus posture, breathing the rise and fall of our earthly tides.155
Birth Death Rebirth
10.The moon is the Goddess who dies and rises again. The fruit that produces itself out of itself, with the power of life over death. The moon dies and then conquers darkness to rise again as the new moon, small at first but with energy within to recreate herself. These are all the original, ancient, and matriarchal ideas of cyclic birth-death-and-resurrectionâŚ
11.The cup of soma is also the mind (mens:mind:moon). It is mental perception and knowledge conveying the psychic-cosmic inspiration of the moon when the understanding, of its own motion, forms ideas within itself, it then comes to be called mind. Soma is distilled from the primordial waters, and is the dark fruit of the moon tree. Soma is the mind-fruit of the spine-tree.
12.Women were everywhere the original mantics-the shamans, the ecstatic oracular prophets, the visionary poets. Mantism is the natural art of prophesying, divining, receiving, and channeling psychic-biological energy from the earth and moon. This is womanâs original and organic province.
13.The moon fruit is the highest transformation form of the Earth-seed, the discipline designed to help the group channel and direct the real power of the universe, radiating into and from all of us.
14.Women were the first bearers of this technique, since it emanates from our own bodies and psychic processes.
15.Women are tied directly to the mantic moon by both a mental and blood cord.
16.And what were those children like who were born with the blessings of both the Moon Mother and their human mothers? Were their psyches wide open, communicating easily with the greater Self? Was the psychic/astral/lunar body more vibrant and aware? Were they able to communicate and resonate with the animals and plants, the stones and whole earth, and also tune into cosmic vibrations of the moon, sun and stars? What were moon minds like? (p152-3)
17.Goddess was the judge and giver of law. Crimes, challenges, problems were investigated by the women by moonlight. Bright nights were spent sitting around the fire thinking, contemplating, envisioning. This is why words that have to do with mental activity are, in most languages, cognate with names for the moon, e.g., mens, mental, measure, month, mind.
18.âThey call the the moon the mother of the universeâ, having both female and male powers and reproducing herself alone. (p152-3)
