Welcome back to the podcast!

In today’s episode I have the pleasure of speaking with my friend and colleague Emma Kupu Mitchell to discuss using your moon sign as a practical self-care tool for grounding during stressful times, overwhelm, life transitions, or just as an everyday practice for self-study. Emma is a holistic practitioner and a creative spiritual guide for women in midlife and beyond.

This conversations was inspired by Emma telling her daughter to “do your moon” while adjusting to university life in England. Emma shares her background in aromatherapy, Ayurveda, massage, and nature-based living, plus a love-hate relationship with astrology that emphasizes taking “spoonfuls” and focusing on embodied, elemental connection rather than overwhelm or rigid predictions.

You’ll hear us frame astrology as an ancestral, seasonal navigation tool to observe how different lunar transits affect one’s inner life, not binary “good/bad” interpretations.

If you are new to astrology or want to deepen your connection with the elements and daily practice of self study, I recommend you get out your journal and follow along!

In today’s episode I have the pleasure of speaking with Elizabeth Tidwell, womb guide and menstrual cycle coach at My Club Red. We’ve been in each other’s orbit for a number of years, and it was great to finally get a chance to share about transforming the next generation’s relationship with the menstrual cycle as they navigate a world that is slowly waking up to honoring this rhythm.

This is a refreshingly candid conversation about the ins and outs of understanding the menstrual cycle at a time when we are still unlearning the cultural programing about living in a cyclical body.

If you are a Mother of a Menstruator (MOM) I would love to hear what resources or tools you wish that you or your menstruator could have or what the could have benefitted from when they were younger!

“We haven’t been given a shared understanding of a pattern for our cyclical energy.”- Elizabeth Tidwell

In this episode Elizabeth offers practical advice on how to integrate cyclical awareness into everyday life, making it a powerful tool for personal and collective liberation. She also reveals the significance of cycle awareness for youth through menopause and how it can transform cultural perceptions and practices within families and communities.

Get ready to explore the power of cycle awareness as well as:

* Moving away from “fixing” to befriending

* Working with the menstrual cycle as a compass and anchor

* Self-care through building buffers

* Hyper-personalizing the menstrual cycle archetypes

* What is wrong with me - why can’t I rise to the occasion?

* Removing self blame and shame about fluctuations in energy

* Meeting (and naming) the different versions and parts of ourselves

* Breaking the model of the inner seasons every cycle

* Dealing with deficit and depletion

* Cultural expectations and inner wisdom

* Pay attention to the “Inner Summer Woman” and pleasure receptors

Elizabeth shares her secrets on dealing with energy dips, equipping kids for their first period, and why tracking your cycle is more vital than ever. Be prepared to unlearn, relearn, and laugh along the way!

Ready to practice menstrual cycle awareness on a circular calendar? Head over to the shop to get your copy of the 2026 Lunation Journal for yourself or someone you love here: https://themoonismycalendar.com/new-products

This podcast episode follows a flow through these chapters …

* Introduction and Welcome

* Cycle Check-In: Understanding Our Inner Landscape

* Personal Stories and Cycle Awareness

* Lessons from Cycle Work

* Rediscovering Personal Anchors

* The Power of Integrated Practices

* The Importance of Daily Cycle Check-ins

* Returning to the Moon Calendar

* Working with Youth on Menstrual Awareness

* Family Dynamics and Menstrual Cycles

* Supporting Families and Community

* Practical Tools for Cycle Awareness

* Final Thoughts and Resources

Hope you benefit from listening to this episode, if you do - please leave a review and share it with a friend.

Show Notes:

Wild Power by Alexandra Pope and Sjanie Hugo Wurlitzer of Red School: https://www.redschool.net/wildpower

Connect with Elizabeth…

Website: https://myclubred.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/myclubredFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/myclubred

Elizabeth Tidwell helps women and menstruators discover and live in alignment with their menstrual cycle superpowers. She helps adults and children learn vital body literacy and facilitates a deeper relationship between menstruators and their cycles, bodies, and whole selves.

As a former university educator, Elizabeth loves to bring menstrual cycle awareness to both her local community through live workshops and the broader international community through individual client work, virtual workshops, and My Club Red.

What are some resources or tools that you wish you or your menstruator could have or wish the would have had when they were younger? Feel free to share in the comments!

“Thanks to impermanence, everything is possible.” — Thich Nhat Hanh How To See

On today’s episode we explore the themes of navigating life transitions, big and small as well as rituals for renewal within the lunar cycle. We delve into our connection with impermanence, focusing on the theme of sensing endings.

If you loved these themes and want more, you’re invited to join me tomorrow Friday Nov 21st from 1-2:00pm Pacific for the New Moon Workshop for Scorpio: https://themoonismycalendar.thrivecart.com/new-moon-mandala-workshop-in-scorpio/

I share insights on how the lunar cycle can support us in navigating these transitions and the importance of creating space for new beginnings. I also reflect on personal experiences illustrating the cyclical nature of life, like dealing with a difficult landlord and the recent passing of my beloved grandmother. Throughout this heartfelt episode, I invite you to trust you intuition and the wisdom of cycles to find balance and continuity in your lives.

These time stamps may be a little off due to editing:

00:00 Introduction to The Between the Moon Podcast

00:41 Exploring the Theme of Sensing Endings

01:41 The Importance of Recognizing Endings

01:51 Personal Stories and Reflections on Change

02:20 The Concept of Impermanence

03:49 Practical Examples of Sensing Endings

06:29 The Role of the Lunar Cycle

10:16 The Practice of Letting Go

11:33 The Intersection of Love and Grief

17:30 Cultural Perspectives on Cycles

21:50 Final Thoughts and Invitation to Reflect

This episode is a farewell to Scorpio Season as the sun enters the sign of Sagittarius Nov 21st. It is a reflections on the lessons of life and loss and how to practice saying goodbye with the moon. My hope is that there is sweetness and insight that flows through this transmission to offer a sense of belonging within cycles; to yourself, to nature, to the cosmos.

“A linear society that thinks in terms of ‘cradle to grave’ will have an endpoint. It won’t be sustained. However, a culture that thinks cyclically and reinvests all ‘waste’ into its livelihood will continue like a circle, it will never end.” - Dr. Lyla June

Visit https://themoonismycalendar.com to purchase you Lunation Journals and Lunar Wall Calendars today!