“We only have to go back a century or two to find evidence of the crucial relationship between the cycles of the moon and their influence over almost all aspects of life. In pre-patriarchal times, many religions had female deities who in various ways represented and described the relationship of women to the moon, thus allowing women a sense of divinity of their bodily processes. The moon also has a sense of luminous beauty that pulls us into a different state of awareness. Whereas the sun lights the way for work and the round of daily life, the moon lights a different aspect of the human experience: the inner life, the imagination, the watery diffuse realms of the unconscious.”