Women are Keepers of Time

Written by Amanda Welsby & Holly Ryan

I (Amanda) would like to claim that I have been quietly pondering the conclusion of another year and launch into the next.  It would be a lie.  I have been racing around like a mad woman handling two family birthdays - a 21st and a 60th in the week before Christmas, followed by Christmas, followed by hosting a 3 day New Year reunion of 5 college students from around the Midwest who spent a year in Germany together in 2022-3.  It has all happened on time and mostly according to plan.     In the midst of all this my daughter (Holly) had something to say -  I instantly knew THIS would be the inspiration for the next blog.  She said…

“Women are the ultimate keepers of time”.   

For as long as women have been and bled, we have held inherent power as the timekeepers of the world. Our menstrual cycle is on average, 28 days long. Similarly, each cycle of the moon is 28 days. Women have determined longer and shorter increments of time, able to plan, organize and prepare around seasons and harvests – even strategically planning births around farming seasons.  A year consists of 365 days and divides perfectly into 13 moon cycles.  Had the men of the Roman empire had a clue, perhaps we would have thirteen even 28-day months a year, rather than an eclectic mix of 28, 30, and 31.

Women are AMAZING.  With a unique ability to leverage their internal clock to manage and keep time, they keep billions of lives moving, every day, every week, every month, every year.  Maybe a valid conclusion for why women live longer than men is that men simply cannot live without women!   

Time is powerful. Having an organic attunement to time provides a sense of agency – a degree of control - over it.   This becomes a gateway for feminine power, allowing us to leverage, accommodate or even manipulate the movement of life in many dimensions other than the purely physical.

In 2024, acknowledge what is and what you intuitively know.  As a women, you HAVE a special grasp of time and power. How can you constructively use it?

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