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- MOON BODY CLOCK Heart & Light Living — Michele R. Jones Think of the Moon’s phases as your body’s weather report. You don’t argue with the weather—you just kind of dress for it. A New Moon asks for quiet and for planning. A Full Moon asks us to feel everything fully and then let it move through us and out of us. Hello, my friends, and welcome home to Heart & Light Living. I’m so glad that you’re here. This SoulBody broadcast is lovingly sponsored by Nashville Colon Care, where body support, gut intelligence, and coming home to ourselves meet in a practical way. Learn more or book support at NashvilleColonCare.com. YOU ARE A BODY OF WATER You are mostly water. Let’s start with that plain fact. The adult human body is around 60% water. Your blood is nearly half water by volume, and the plasma carrying it is about 90% water. Your brain—the organ doing the thinking right now—is roughly 73% water. You’re not a solid thing that happens to just contain some water. You are a body of water shaped, for a little while, like a person. The same pull that moves the ocean moves us, and here’s where the Moon comes in. THE MOON AND OCEAN TIDES Ocean tides are real. They’re measurable physics. The Moon’s gravity pulls harder on the side of the Earth facing it than on the far side, and that difference in pull stretches the ocean into the bulges that we call the high and the low tides. That part is settled science. It’s not a debate, right? But now I want to be honest with you for a moment, the same way that we always try to be with each other. The idea that the Moon pulls on the water inside your body the exact same way that it pulls on the ocean is more of a traditional wisdom—maybe from Indigenous cultures—than proven physics. Your body isn’t a large, open sea. It’s a small, contained system, and the actual gravitational tug on a glass of water or bloodstream is tiny compared to what happens across an entire ocean basin. So here’s how we hold it, and how I’d like for you to consider holding it, too. The Moon may not be yanking your blood around in the way that it moves the tide, but you’re still undeniably a body of water, living on a water planet, moving through the same sky that moves the ocean. Ancient traditions across the globe watched that connection and used the Moon as a timekeeper for the body long before anyone could measure gravity. That’s not superstition. It’s observation carried forward as wisdom. And there’s real modern research out there suggesting some of our biological rhythms—especially sleep—shift subtly around the Full Moon. The mechanism isn’t fully settled, but people are now starting to carefully study the pattern, and they’re starting to notice patterns that repeat. MENSTRUAL CYCLES AND THE MOON So, women’s cycles and the Moon—this is where, for half the planet, the connection gets personal. The average human menstrual cycle runs close to 28 days. The Moon’s cycle, from New Moon to New Moon, runs about 29 and a half. Those two numbers have been sitting near each other for as long as we’ve been counting either one, and the word “menstrual” itself comes from the same root as “moon” and “month.” Modern studies on whether individual cycles actually synchronize to the Moon’s phase are mixed. Some show a loose pattern; many show none at all, because your own cycle answers to your own body first. But there’s a tradition of watching the two together. It’s thousands of years old, across cultures that have never spoken to each other. I think that’s worth honoring—not as a rule that your body has to obey, but as an old, patient observation. Two rhythms, both close to a month, both worth tracking with the same kind of attention. NEW MOON AND FULL MOON The Moon’s phases as your body’s weather. Whatever the exact mechanism, here’s what I’ve watched that holds true, reading after reading, session after session. The New Moon does feel like a low tide: water drawn in, energy pulled inward, a body that wants to rest and gather before it does anything new. The Full Moon feels like high tide: water at its fullest reach, feelings at their most visible point, a body ready to shed what it’s been holding and let something go. YOUR BODY AND YOUR HEART Your Moon Body Clock message is about your body—the water in you responding to whatever phase the Moon is in, that low-tide or high-tide feeling in your actual tissue, your actual bloodstream. Your emotional support message is about your heart: what that same lunar moment is asking you to feel, forgive, ask for, or let go of in stillness. They come from the same sky, but they land in two different places in us. Your body and your heart don’t always experience a New Moon or a Full Moon in the same way, and we deserve messages for each. LIGHT ACTIVATION So, Light Activation. With one hand on your heart, one hand on your lower belly, right over the water that makes up most of what we are. Breathe in for a slow count and out for the same count. Feel your own tide rising and falling right now with every breath. WATER IMPRINT Hold your water and say it with me. “I’m a body of water moving through a sky that moves the ocean. I trust my own tide to rise and fall exactly when it needs to.” [Pause to drink water together.] Blessings. LISTENING TO YOUR OWN RHYTHM So, in closing, we don’t have to understand the physics to actually feel the pull. We just have to notice which phase we’re in—a low tide or a high tide. And are you giving your body permission to move the way that the water is built to move? That’s the whole practice. If this explains something that you felt but never had words for, like, subscribe, and share it with someone who needs their own Moon Body Clock explained to them. And tell me in the comments: New Moon or Full Moon—which one do you feel more in your body? This SoulBody broadcast is brought to you by NashvilleColonCare.com. A CLOSING BLESSING And, friends, we’d like to close out this one, as we always do, with a blessing for your beautiful body. May your food be clear. May your water be blessed. May your breath bring you back to that truth in your chest. Always trust your gut, y’all, and come home to you. Thank you so much for listening. We appreciate you.