Oddbean

Absolutely...We must re-create a society where women have the support to live their cycle... When entering autumn and especially winter season we should be supported by the "system, employer, community..." so we women can allow ourselves to withdraw and go within. Other women or/and men take care in the meantime of nurturing, of the children and work during that time...And when entering spring and summer, women will have new energy to step out and thrive. My vision since ever!!! 🙏🏽🥹

This is why I struggle so much with things like full-time school or 9-5 jobs in factories, etc. I am highly productive, except when my fertility waxes and wanes (then my productivity is low), and I have to be lower-medium-productive straight through, to take part in normal routines. I tend to fall back into homemaking and branch out from there, with part-time work, volunteering, or self-employment. Then I can produce in fits and starts, and nobody is bothered. And this way, I managed to have children and actually spend time with them.

I do have to say that my past employers have always been eager to keep me and never complain because they are willing to tolerate my very-low-lows because of the very-high-highs, but I always feel guilty about it. Feels like I'm doing something wrong.

One of the most enlightening things about being a homemaker was meeting other homemakers and being completely astounded by how many of them are some of the most talented, intelligent, and industrious women I've ever met. That's probably why homeschooling has taken off, in such a big way, anywhere it is allowed. Can't work a normal day job? Teach a group of high schoolers all about Chaucer, various forms of map projection, and the Table of Elements, instead.

make housemaking great again seriously, i can cast back to my most recent experience of living around an old school housemaker, a 70 year old serbian woman who was the mother of my colleague back in parallelcoin days, she loved doing her thing and i loved appreciating her for doing her thing, we had strong sympatico me and her once a woman gets into this groove she does not want to leave it, it's what she was born for anything else is like saying bone cells want to take the damage from the environment no, there's a reason why the most acute pain is signaled by the nerves that wrap around bones to detect breaks they are the backbone of human society, what's not to be proud of there?

run by the most inhumane factory managers possible, who are fine with massive body counts to achieve their prescribed targets sick, twisted, violent pieces of shit who are gonna get their asses canned very soon

I bet that more women than people know suffer from exactly what you are describing. I feel the same way. I have always worked part-time and was also self-employed so that I could at least manage my energy a little bit myself... Not everyone can do that. For one year I actually accepted a full-time job I was offered, which really drained me. When we women are in our moon, it is so counterproductive if we are not allowed/able to go within. Because that's where we have the chance to recharge our batteries. Not being able to live our cycle destroys our power. And I am sure that the world is so "broken" because it has become a very male-dominated world and we women cannot fully live out our magic. It is so important to go back to the roots and recognize who we really are 🙏🏽

I suspect a lot of women just turn their cycle "down" by taking hormones straight through or staying very overweight or underweight, to depress their fertility. And many use pain medication, stimulants, or antidepressents, to stabilize themselves.

Germany has this, with Gleitzeit (you can spread your working hours over the course of the month), but some jobs really need a tight shift schedule, as otherwise the customers show up and lights are out. I think the latter are simply not jobs appropriate for everyone. Not just fertile women. Also, family men or those caring for the disabled or elderly, or anyone with chronic illness, can't always just jump up and run out the door and stand at a machine for 8 hours straight .

Absolutely 🙏🏽 Oh and another thing which I feel is so important to illuminate: Men also run through monthly hormonal cycles...and also have lows and highs...They have been taught that this is not the case...but it is! And also men may learn to listen again to their body and take their time when they feel a low...otherwise it can turn into illness, rage, depression....

I've got a feeling the whole "advanced" civilisation thing where most people are doing what most people don't need or seldom need is never stable or maintainable long term, the problem is the population has gone beyond the numbers that can be sustained otherwise... Rome was rather a soft landing, I don't see how it can be for us.

the entire ecosystem is affected by the changes of gravity and radiation caused by the presence of the moon in its orbit around us, from the tides to the blocking effect of the moon shielding us from solar radiation to the rise and fall of gravity due to the alignment/opposition/square relations of the moon relative to the sun and it affects the magnetic fields as well, there is an entire complex of magnetic flux lines that are constantly changing due to the orbits of the planets and these have big effects on how much radiation hits us both from the sun, from the galaxy around us, and even from such things as jupiter and saturn

ancient jewish and chinese and other calendars also were devised to track these things... modern technology allows us to also further monitor the sunspots, plasma channels and explosions that blast plasma at us, and shower us with X-rays and other things, these all have massive influences, and the Hindus and their Yuga thing... yes, turns out that this is a cycle that is created by the rotation of the galactic disc and when it gets to the vertical points every ~12000 years it can cause such drastic effects as causing the entire earth to rotate to a new rotation axis, the 6000 and 12000 and 25000 year cycles the hindus talked about are real, and we are in the midst of a reversal now, and likely within 30 years there could be such a dramatic disaster that very few of us survive according to fossil and genetic records, one of these transitions some 50,000 years ago almost wiped out humans altogether

no, keep saving, but think about how to get into a place where you won't get washed away by the ocean flooding everything and the rain dumping petatons of water on you at the same time also, pray that there is a Jesus and he's coming with his posse to collect the righteous

yes, "a god" in old myths is a keyword that usually refers to a human with advanced scientific knowledge and benevolent intentions, usually... some of them are not benevolent, thus shit like the human sacrifice of the aztecs and the more modern cult of kings

The dramatic disaster you describe seems terrifying. I’m still a believer of a positive change for humanity…. Even if this could be one… at least my descendants should live in paradise. The cosmic energies are so fascinating.

As far as I know, men have more likely a daily cycle of rising and falling testosterone. No doubt they cycle with the moon aswell… everyone does, differently, but men need to be always ready in that case, so they get some daily peaks. They should be able to live out their hormonal triggers, express feelings and movement, or as you say, they bottle their feelings up.

i say that such things are for example a session in a float tank, or a massage and acupuncture session, or a days long journey into the wilderness and camping and such things that are mostly not doable in your own house, especially not if it is your workplace

we all listen, and we resist the person who told it, and then it absorbs, we dream, we ponder, and then springs inception, and it becomes ours, and we follow but we aren't really following the person, we are following the Wisdom