Participate
How you can get involved
- Respond to existing rituals by adding Comments below each post.
- Create a life-affirming ritual that honours, celebrates or facilitates the fertility cycle or its transitions, such as first periods (menarche), pre-menstrual phases, the period itself, perimenopause, menopause, post-menopause, etc.
- Develop new ways of thinking about the cycle; imagine new possibilities for interpreting it; perhaps invent a new language for describing it (Philosophy).
- Alert us to other information about rituals and the feminine cycle.
Send us your contribution proposals via the Contact Form on the Main sheTIME Participate page.
Do you have a ritual to share?
Please supply your rituals in the following format:
sheTIME RITUAL PROPOSAL
Title:The name by which the ritual is (to be) known
Category: Cycle, Fertility, Menarche, Menopause or Menstruation.
Source: The ritual’s inventor, or the website, book or tradition where you found it.
Tester: The person who tried out the ritual.
Materials: All materials required to carry out the ritual
Ritual: All steps involved in carrying out the ritual
Hints: Suggestions and caveats for a successful ritual
Experience: Your/the Tester’s experience, conclusions and recommendations
Download this sheTIME Ritual Proposal in Microsoft Word format.
Thinking of developing your own rituals?
Consider these questions:
- Do any existing rituals (or elements of them) from my tradition serve to affirm and strengthen me as a woman?
- Can I participate in these and feel good about myself?
- Do some rituals (or elements of them) make me feel unclean and unworthy, or restrict my ability to live a full life?
- Can I take some parts and leave others, or do I need to start afresh?
- What is fertility to me? Do I need to celebrate it, or mourn its absence?
- What do I associate with menstruation? Would it be good to change these links?
- Can I associate any colour, music, poetry, art, movement, dance, word, image, place, object, action, form of dress, etc. with any aspect of my menstrual cycle to help me feel in harmony with it, at peace with it, energised by it, open to it?
- Can I use these elements and their positive associations to develop private or shared rituals?
- Do the transitions into and out of the fertility cycle: the menarche (first period), perimenopause, menopause and post-menopause, feel significant to me? Can I mark them or negotiate them positively with the help of ritual?
- How can I share these discoveries? With other women? With men?
Note: Copyright remains with the developer of the ritual, but by sending it to us you agree to our displaying it in accordance with sheTIME standards, and to the use of the ritual by sheTIME users. Publication is not guaranteed as we cannot show all contributions here, but we review all material with interest and attempt to give you feedback or recommend appropriate channels for your work if possible.
Enjoy!
