17 Tammuz - The Descent Begins

There’s a cosmic shift happening today.

I used to struggle with intense PMS - it’s the main reason I looked for deeper answers around my cycle. I would feel it most around one week before my period - THE DROP. 

I didn’t know then how this reflected the literal drop in hormones, but I very acutely felt the drop in my moods and general motivation for almost anything.

I only later learned how the premenstrual phase was a profound invitation to draw inward and prepare to meet the deepest internal spaces through menstruation.

Destruction of the temple.

Disintegration of the uterine lining.

There are so many similarities between this time of year and the mysteries of the menstrual cycle. 

Starting today - the 17th of Tammuz. The day the walls of Jerusalem were breached. The beginning of our collective descent into the narrow, tender days of mourning.

The Tammuz moon wanes into the bleeding Av.

It mirrors the premenstrual phase of our own cycles.

The energy shifts. The mood darkens a bit. We begin to descend inward.

And while it may look like breaking… it’s actually a sacred opening.

A time of heightened awareness.

A portal to deep emotional honesty.

A call to return to what’s real.

It’s why Secrets of Niddah takes place exactly this time of year.  

Because Niddah, too, is a descent.

A liminal space.

A walking through inner exile.

But it’s never just about darkness.  

It’s about what you can access within the darkness.

It’s about meeting yourself in the tender spaces - and discovering that even in separation, the Shechinah is with you. In fact, She’s even closer than you think.

Secrets of Niddah is not a halachic refresher course.  

It’s a soul-level reclamation of the feminine rhythm of exile and redemption.

This is for the woman who always sensed that her cycle was trying to tell her something.

Who has felt the mood shift, the withdrawal, the ache before her period arrives, and wondered if it meant something more than hormones.

Who observed niddah her whole life and felt that there was a door inside it she had never been shown how to open…Something more she's been itching to learn but nothing ever felt like that full "this makes sense and I LOVE it" she was searching for.

That is what Secrets of Niddah walks you through.

In 14 days, you will learn how the rhythms of your body mirror the rhythms of our people.

How the descent is not a malfunction but a preparation. 

How the exile is not abandonment but an invitation to meet yourself, to meet the Shechinah, to discover that the places that feel most empty are often where all the answers live.

You will come out of these 14 days with a different relationship with your cycle, your body, your niddah time, and yourself.

Because you finally understand what they're here to do.

And you will never experience the descent — the premenstrual drop, the niddah separation, the 9 days, any of it — the same way again.

This is the reclamation the women of our generation are ready for.

A return to the living, breathing, pulsing wisdom that has always been inside us, written into our bodies, our cycles, our monthly rhythm of exile and return.

Secrets of Niddah begins Rosh Chodesh Av.

This is your invitation.

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