Of all the articles, blog posts, and newsletters I’ve written over the years, the one that has resonated most deeply with women around the world is the post called Should your period land on the full moon or the new moon to be in sync with nature?
I published that three years ago and have never stopped receiving questions and comments on it. And more responses keep pouring in! If you didn’t get your PDF graphic on Red Moon/White Moon Cycles, [thrive_2step id=’14316′]grab one here![/thrive_2step]
A quick recap of the Red Moon/White Moon cycles in case you missed it:
A White Moon cycle is when a woman bleeds with the new moon and ovulates with the full moon. This is the cycle of the mother archetype, a woman whose focus is on bearing and nurturing children. She reflects the natural cycles of the earth, as she is dark and inward when the moon is hidden, and bright and fertile when the moon is full.
A Red Moon cycle is when a woman bleeds with the full moon and ovulates with the new moon. This is the cycle of the healer woman archetype, a woman whose focus is not on bearing children but on birthing and nurturing herself, her projects, her visions, and the community of other women.
What if you’re a Red-Moon woman trying to conceive?
Because only the White Moon cycle is traditionally associated with motherhood, one of the biggest questions I’ve received in response to these articles is: If I’m on a Red Moon cycle, can I still get pregnant?
The quick answer is: Yes.
And the caveat to that answer is: But there’s a good chance you’ll conceive a girl!
There is some evidence that the phase of the moon at the time of conception influences the sex of the baby conceived. One study out of India found that full moon ovulation (White Moon cycle) resulted in a significantly higher rate of male births. New moon ovulation (Red Moon cycle) did result in fewer pregnancies, but those pregnancies resulted in all female births. I’ve also noticed this anecdotally with clients in my own practice.
This may be because women who ovulate at the full moon have a greater increase in basal body temperature at ovulation, as well as alkaline rather than acidic vaginal pH, both of which appear to create more optimum conditions for conception of male babies. Women who ovulate with the new moon or three days prior to the full moon, in contrast, have a lower BBT spike as well as acidic vaginal pH, resulting in more girls.
Tamara’s story of Red Moon conception
Tamara is one of my clients who conceived her daughter on a Red Moon cycle. As a teacher and Reiki practitioner, Tamara has always connected to the red moon energies, seeing herself as a visionary and a priestess. When she began trying to conceive, she was disheartened because all the information she found told her that women are most fertile on the full moon, but she was ovulating at every part of the moon cycle except the full moon.
Tamara began to see that her ovulation, whenever it happened in the moon’s cycle, was her own personal full moon. Not only did she make peace with not ovulating at the full moon, but she began to consciously honour this part of herself. And then she conceived her daughter—on a new moon.
Now she says, “I feel really proud that my daughter was conceived on a red moon cycle, because I have always connected so much to the red moon energies. I am looking forward to one day when she comes of age explaining all of this to her. It is her story as much as it is mine. It will be a wonderful way to explain all I know about moon cycles to her when the time comes.”
As a Red Moon woman myself Tamara’s story really impacted me. Not only did she get pregnant on a new moon but they forgot all about ‘trying’ that month (they were too busy moving) when surprise, surprise their little angel was conceived!
Her story reinforces two of my central teachings around women’s fertility and the moon:
1. It’s not the full moon in the sky that matters. It’s when you ovulate that’s your personal full moon time. This is the time in your cycle for self-nurturing and opening your heart and womb to the miracle of conception.
2. Stressing out about what pills to take or reading online forums or googling late at night reinforces the masculine mode of doing more and trying harder. Conception comes when you relax into being. That’s the feminine – to let go instead of trying to control or force the outcome.
Tamara took what I taught her and made it her own and that was an amazing gift. To see her then get pregnant was the icing on the cake.
So if you’re on a Red Moon cycle and you’re trying to conceive, take heart. And let me know if this article gives you hope or not. As a woman on the Red Moon cycle do you believe you can conceive? Leave me a message in the comments – I would love to know!
And if you’re fascinated by your relationship with the moon and would like to deepen your connection to the moon and your fertility, check out my Moon Goddess fertility yoga and meditation virtual program.
loooove this article… I have a Red Moon Cycle and I conceived a girl (after 4 cycles of trying). She’s now 11 months <3
Yaay Maria!!! I’m so happy to hear that you’re on the Red Moon Cycle and your baby girl was born in alignment with the Healer Woman energies. So powerful to stay true to who we are at our core! Thank you for sharing beauty.
I am a red Moon woman, and am a healer. I really want to have a baby with my man. This article helped. Btw i am very creative.
That’s great to hear, Hayli! I invite you to join us in our private Facebook Group, Yoga Goddess Support Circle: http://www.facebook.com/groups/yogagoddess
Red moon cycle and have been ttc for a little over a year and this article just gave me so much hope
That’s beautiful, Bianca! I’m so glad. If you haven’t already, I invite you to join our private Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/yogagoddess. It’s a safe space to connect and share with other women walking the same sacred feminine path. I hope to see you there!
I’m a red moon mama!!! I am shop grateful for my daughter. It can happen! Though I’ve only a her I still feel fertile and powerful <3
Thank you for sharing, Sarah! I invite you to join our private Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/yogagoddess, if it resonates with you.
Hi Zahra! I believe I am able to switch easily (and frequently) between moons. Prior to the birth of my son 13 years ago, I was under the impression I couldn’t become pregnant. My cycles were very unstable. I always felt a kind of affinity for the moon- I spent a lot of time as a teenager outside “moon gazing”. After my son was born when I was 20, I became ill with a number of different conditions, one of which was related to my menstruation. I don’t remember what the official diagnosis was, but the treatment was one month of hormone treatments: Progesterone. (Note: I was not trying to become pregnant at this time; I was in terribly poor health.) Well, the hormone treatment worked to a degree and I found my cycles going somewhat back to normal. However, about 3 years later I discovered I had developed a brain tumor. “Benign Left Occipital Meningioma” (The pathology report after the surgery determined it was a progesterone-fed tumor.) The moment I woke up from surgery I felt as though the old me had died, and I was born in her place, on the operating table– as if the tumor was acting like a signal jammer in my brain, preventing me from fully inhabiting my body, if that makes sense. Since then, my cycles have been pretty regular and non-problematic, with one exception. My cycle will either completely cease for a time, or occur more rapidly for a time, with one common result: At times, I flow with the New Moon; at others, I flow with the Full Moon. In the past 2 years, two big changes have happened in my life: 1) I finally got to start studying at college and am discovering my path as a health and wellness coach, and 2) my partner and I are discussing having children. I feel like I am able to influence my flow with just my intention alone. For example, sometimes I convince myself that I should wait until I’m finished with college before we try to have children. Other times, I tell myself that there’s no good reason to wait, which fills me with the desire to become pregnant. It’s in those times that my cycle will either cease or speed up, which switches me from full moon to new moon ovulation. In fact, just 2 months ago my cycle switched again from Red Moon to White Moon. My flow stopped for over 2 months. And just 5 months before that it had “sped up” and switched me from White Moon to Red Moon in under 2 months. Is this something you’ve encountered before?
Thank you for sharing your wisdom. I look forward to hearing your thoughts about this. <3
Thank you! This gives me hope!
Thanks for your article. It calmed my mind and gave me hope. I was ovulating on full moon and TTC for more than a year without success after miscarriage. In April I took estrogens thinking to help my endometrium to thicken, instead I did not ovulate and few days after I had my period, caused by lack of corpus luteum and progesterone. It was a relief since period is a natural reset of hormones, however I realized it was full moon when I was bleeding and I started to worry I would not be able to conceive now and that my following appointment to the clinic would be a waste of time an another failure. Your article gave me hope and I want to trust my body and the moon. Thanks.
Hi Zahra. I have a red moon cycle and not that I follow this cycle regularly but off late my periods were delayed so this time I will bleed with the powerful November full moon ( I also followed your meditation on November super moon article)
I am trying to conceive for last 2 years now and I recently discovered your blog articles and since then I am following you and your meditation advise along with yoga asanas. I am very confident that I will conceive and every time I read your content, this confidence doubles up. I have very low AMH and I am following Homeo treatment for the same after trying 9 cycles of allopathy. Haven’t yet gone for IUI and IVF because I believe my body is totally capable of having it naturally. Would be of great help if you could recommend anything specific in terms of yoga or mediatqton for low AMH! Many thanks
I conceived my daughter in a red moon cycle, and following her birth fell into a white moon cycle. I was so pleased because I desperately want a boy and only a boy. Now 3 early miscarriages in a row have put me back into a red cycle. What can I do?
I love this! I can see that for the last six months my cycle has been slowly moving from ovulation in the middle of the waxing moon towards a perfect Red Moon Cycle. This month I ovulated right on the New Moon instead of in the middle. While I could wish for a nice White moon Cycle, I’m happy for any synergy with the moon :-). And, boy would I be happy with a little miracle girl to complement my little miracle boy!
Thank you so much for sharing it has given me so much hope. Moments before finding this article it just dawned on me! That I’ve been looking at my cycles from the opposite perspective. I’m a red moon cycle, always get my period on a full moon ? like right now! I always thought, oh yea typical me always going against the grain of life, taking the hard road! ?
But then It dawned on me! That it’s beautiful and I am a divine feminine goddess, that this is magical, and extremely meaningful and significant to my life journey! The description of a red moon cycle fits me to a T. Except the only thing I’ve always known I’ve wanted to be is a mum! I’m an early childhood teacher, spiritual teacher/healer, although I’m currently single! Babies and they old tick tick sound has plagued me for years. But this article has given me faith and hope and love for all that I am. It’s helped confirm and squash that niggling bit of doubt I had about my ability to conceive, and understand myself. Thank you so much ? xx
That’s wonderful, Jane! I’m so glad this article resonated with you.
I am on a red moon cycle and ovulate during the new moon. Last month I finally committed to the idea, for the first time, to try to get pregnant (I am 43 and my partner is 45-so you can imagine the suggestions to check my enthusiasm) I have never attempted consciously to create a baby before but equally was quite relaxed about it, mostly as part of me felt it would take a while and possibly because of my age it wouldnt happen. I figured I would just enjoy myself trying. Over May new moon just gone, we stopped using protection and yesterday I tested positive for pregnancy confirmed by another positive test today! I saw this article as was furiously googling conception on a new moon and what it means. I’m glad I didn’t know it was less likely on the new moon because being a red moon woman definitely has not made it harder for me to conceive. I have always found that I never make decisions based on statistics and allow for my experience to be an exception to the ‘rule’. I do long for a girl though so hope that this part of the statistical probability applies to me- but I feel so blessed now and am happy for whatever comes. I hope my story inspires other women to relax into the belief that when life wants to move through you, it will always find a way. Thank you for this article though in terms of the qualities of red and white moon women. I definitely relate to the red moon archetype.
Congratulations!
Thank you for sharing. This did give me faith that I am on the right path for me. I am 39 with a laundry list of stats stacked against not only me but my husband as well. We were told our only hope is IVF. I know am a red moon woman, have been my entire life and IVF doesn’t aline with me. Nothing against it, as a nurse I see it’s purpose but for me its hard to Aline with something so controlling.
Lately, I have taken a different approach and as you said relaxed into the knowing that I will be a mother and I don’t have to control when or how. So again thank you for reaffirming that the path I have chosen can and will be a successful path for a red moon woman. We are the exception to the rule xoxo
Sending you so much love and peace! Thank you for sharing your story–and yes, red moon women can and do conceive all the time! xo
This article is a source of inspiration for me, it helps me
a lot in sleep problems. I also used this Rain Sounds https://youtu.be/uSxflHAxweE to fall
asleep easily. Thanks, keep it up!
I’m so glad, Shemeka. Thank you for sharing!
Hi, Any tips to switch red moon cycle to a white moon cycle? Thank you so much!
Hi, Jen! There’s no need to try and force your body to cycle in a certain way. What matters most is that you are have a cycle that is consistent for you. If you are cycling regularly, your cycle is healthy, and you have a predictable cycle length (meaning a similar number of days each month), then you don’t need to worry about what the moon is doing. However, if you still feel called to try cycling with the moon, there are some things you can do to gently shift your body. I give some tips for how to sync your cycle with the moon in this blog post: http://yogagoddess.ca/how-to-sync-your-menstrual-cycle-with-the-moon/
I conceived my daughter on a new moon. 💕. Just ovulated on the last new moon, and I am opening my aura to another pregnancy.
That’s wonderful, Nina.💖 Thank you for sharing. I invite you to join our private Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/yogagoddess, if it resonates with you.
I only realized half way of my pregnancy that I conceived my daughter on a red moon cycle. It all made so much sense. I was 43 at the time and didn’t plan to get pregnant since I (only) had an affair with the father. I feel the universe wanted it this way. When I first felt the energy of my daughter very early in the pregnancy it was divine. Very thankful for this experience!
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I’m actually with the white moon cycle I just noticed my period was the 19th of last month which the new moon was on the 20th.Yesterday was the full moon and I was at ovulation peak yesterday and the day before so I’m hoping I concieves this cycle I looked back at all my other cycles and it’s never been this aligned! 14 months after my miscarriage hoping this the month ☺️