Menstruation myths

This is a co-creation post in which you are asked to participate, if you like.
It is about all the myths around having your period.
Which ones have you heard or experienced to be true and which ones do you think are very untrue and maybe even downright insulting. I happen to know of a few that are actually quite empowering.
So if you are interested, read on!

I am having my period at this moment and I was just wondering wether or not it is a good time to plant my seedlings out in the garden. I know the moon cycle influences the plants and I was wondering if our menstrual cycle has some affect on that too.
I was wondering about this because we, as women are in a state of building something up when we are creating our new womb lining and especially when we are ovulating, we can be very creative and have a lot of creative energy in and around us. But when we are shedding our old lining while we menstruate we are at a stage of letting go, releasing what does not serve us anymore, maybe mourning some losses emotionally and if we can withdraw from society get in bed an walk around in rags, without make up. ( That's what I like to do :-) ) This is a beautiful and necessary stage in our cycle, physically and emotionally, but a very different energy then a building up, or constructive energy that we have at the beginning of our cycle.

Each energy serves its purpose in the right place. Like sad music is suited to a funeral and cheerful decorations of light collors and promesses for a wedding or baptism. Some things are more suited to endings then to beginnings.
But when we mix them up what will happen? Like is it a good idea to bring my energies of my ending cycle and emotional release to my vegetable garden and plant a seedling that still has to start and grow? Or maybe I could better work with the compost today because that is an area which can benefitted by the energie of endings and release. On the smelly, messy and seemingly chaotic compost pile, things are broken down AND are in the proces of being birthed into something new and fertile. And like no vegetable garden can flourish without compost, our fertility depends on us shedding our old lining each month so that our egg can nestle in to fresh lining after that.

Ou periods are times of hidden renewal, the blood that flows is a sign of our creative powers. As it has not been used to create human live in the previous month, some say it still holds a lot of shakti/ life force when it comes out of our wombs and is therefore holy. It is also said to hold living stemcells ( this has been scientifically proven) that have healing powers.
Fo me it is maybe the most pure and holy physical substance that our bodies hold as it is able to receive a spark of life and gift it with a body. Some say it is good to drink your holy blood diluted with some water as a medicine as it is said to hold the pure information of even the most original genes from our very first ancestor. I imagine the least polluted genes are in our menstrual blood, because the best of the best has to be transferred to the new life, for survival and evolution. It is also good to drink it because of the amount of life force that it contains and is said to give a lot of vitality.

If that all seems a bit too much for you you could just dab a tiny bit of it underneath your tongue as a homeopathic medicine of your own physical source of wisdom. It connects us to all ancestors and holds all their wisdom and the wisdom of creation itself. Some even call it 'the wise blood'. In those circles menstruation is seen as a holy time of purification and renewal instead of a time in which women are considered dirty.
Although, while menstruating, we are present in the releasing energy of 'death', which might not be suitable for happenings that represent life and birth, (maybe that includes cooking, canning or gardening), we are not dirty.

People have mixed these things up in their minds. As death is considered scary and negative so has menstruation become something negative. But it is a necessary part of the cycle. Without death, no birth and no life. Death is sacred. Release is necessary. To be walking around with radiant beauty with a content smile on your face, it is necessary to walk around without make- up in your most ugly, comfy pajamas a few days a month, not so sociable and if possible even a little stinky. Just wallow in it girls!

I am really excited to learn what kind of menstruation myths you have heard of and experienced to be true or untrue?
Will you please share? Where I can I shall dismantle the ones that have become distorted but have some core of truth in energy medicine.

Thanks a lot
and enjoy your sacred release during your next menstruation,
Maybe gift your blood to the garden for fertilisation of the plants.

Lots of love Undrach-Clara

P.s. this was an ecotrain post, to see who else is on the train and what holistic stuff they are on about check out @ecotrain.