Periods, Brainwaves & Astrology
The hormonal interplay inside a woman’s head creates her reality. Her hormones tell her day to day what’s important. They shape her desires and her values.
— Abhijit Naskar (Neurosutra)
Periods
The re-emerging wisdom regarding the spiritual essence of menstruation is essential to cultivating a healthy, harmonious state of being both on an individual level and collectively.
Magic, intuition, vibrationary adjustment, release and flow are just a few bi-products that come with adapting to the chemical, biological,
emotional, spiritual and quantum potential innate within you, cycling each month.
A basic awareness of the phases and how you can tune to the vibration being offered by your hormones can bring an incredible shift to how you operate in your day to day and create this beautiful overlay to your timing which prevents you from over-reaching, spinning your wheels or spending your energy loosely.
Brainwaves
Emboding and adapting to altered frequencies is something we do naturally, albiet unconsciously. To do so intentionally with awareness is an ongoing practice, but it’s the key to mastery.
When applied to your menstural cycle, you can benefit from an enhanced experience with the astral realms, emotional and mental equanimity, pain reduction, a sense of ease and a refined auric field. Not only that, but understanding brainwave variability enhances your psychic perception and unlocks dormant gifts within you that are obscured by stress states and over-thinking (high-beta waves — see graphic below).
Astrology
On a cosmic level, an understanding of the planetary weather can assist with adapting to the waves of your cycle and understanding your timing on the whole.
Just one quick look at your natal chart shows that you are made up of a variety of energetic imprints (house orientations/placements + aspects), so the very idea of comparison is redundant because each of us in completely individual in our energetic make-up.
This moves us from operating on an independent level where we are constantly pushing out (masculine/yang) toward fitting into preconceived constructs and social constructs (geared toward feeding the man) toward working with the receptive and timeless energy of the unified/quantum field (feminine/yin) and really harnessing the innate and unique potential within. We need to slow down to this though, and go within.
Astrology helps with this.
Noticing the short and long wave transits of planetary bodies can help broaden perspective, identify patterns and tune your authentic rhythm.
The state of overwhelm/stress is high beta.
To slow down brainwaves, remove your attention from the stimuli in your environment — from the activity of the neocortex (see graphic below) — and soften/broaden your focus to loosely experience the space around you, noticing your energy field and the vibes you’re giving off.
Add breath, expanding the space within you.
We’re more space than matter after all.
Then, focus on your Limbic Brain and continue directing the breath there.
The Limbic brain is the seat of the subconscious.
Soon, you’ll slow brainwaves from high beta (stress) to mid-low range beta, then alpha.
Side note: These insights come from a graphic content library I’ve created called (you guessed it), Periods, Brainwaves & Astrology. You can view more on this here.
Intergrating Brainwave Variability
An ability to recognise states of high stress (high beta) and being able to calm your energy to low beta has a massive refractory influence.
It reduces cortisol (stress hormone), oxygenates the brain, reduces the heart rate and calms the adrenals.
This kind of mastery can be used in any situation when you feel like the external world is asking too much of you.
Also, after simply calming the mind to a steady state, you open the doors to mastery, where you can harness more refined mental energy and access subconsioous memory — which is responsible for 95% of our vibrational output.
This is kind of major, actually.
Consider your Limbic Brain akin to the energies of Uranus
- unlimited
- expansive
- innovative
- genius
- other-worldly
From slow wave brain activity (alpha/theta) we’re subject to sudden insights, cosmic downloads, clairsentience. It’s like being struck by quantum knowledge that makes implicit sense and overrides past programming in an instant.
This is how Uranus works, and one result of how the subconsious mind operates when attuned to it.
Your Neo-Cortex is more the energy of Mercury concerned with lateral thinking, recounting past/recent memories and replicating familiar habits/behaviours.
It governs 90% of practiced (read: already established) neural connection repeated day to day.
If you find yourself in repetitive thought patterns, or unable to ‘think’ yourself out of a problem, there may be too much focus on thought based on past experiences (aka, activity in the neo-cortex/high-beta activity).
Einstein said it, you can’t solve a problem from the same kind of thinking which created it.
THE KEY IS AWARENESS & SELF-RECOGNITION.
Just like everything in this electro-magnetic universe, unless we have a semblence of the vibration of what we seek within us, we wont be able to attract those qualities toward us. It’s a matter of frequency, of resonance.
Making conscious decisions to veer in this direction of self-appreciation — even if it is simply spending one afternoon taking yourself on a date and enjoying your own company . Doing so sets this new standard because you’re openly receptive and accepting of your own vibe, and from that place everything changes.
Your energetic influence makes significant ripple in the quantum field, and if you’re working with unrefined vibes (ie. you don’t do the work to know yourself), your impact is diminished.
You have massive power at your disposal, but until you see that comes from within you, you’ll always be seeking.
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