The Girl Who Became The Moon

What will you tell your girl when she menstruates for the first time?

In many traditions, the menarche is considered a rite of passage, the moment when a girl becomes a woman. This book, “The Girl Who Became The Moon,” comes to bring us ancient wisdom – ancient memories, forgotten and silenced for so long – of a time when we felt the honor, power and pride of inhabiting a female body.

“Then, in just a short time, everything became strange.
Her ears heard words never said before.
Her eyes saw things she'd never seen.
Her smell changed too, as she recognized
herself with a new scent.
In her voice, whining had no place to belong
and all of a sudden, her body seemed
too big to fit anyone's lap.

Growing up felt very strange indeed
It was like becoming without actually being,
An almost something but not yet,
A point of no return or moving forward,
An eternal meanwhile,
The beginning of an end that one still can't see.”