What It Means If You Get Your Period On The New Moon

Because the average menstrual cycle is around 28 days, it has been connected with the lunar cycle for millennia and across many cultures. If you have a regular cycle that is roughly this long, and you tend to bleed near the new moon, then you are likely ovulating near the full moon, which some say puts you "in tune" with the natural energies of the lunar cycle (via Dazed Digital).

As Lisa Lister, author and well-woman therapist, tells Dazed Digital, if you get your period with the new moon, you are being called to go inwards. As the new moon is a time for introspection, self care, and gentleness, bleeding at this time doubles down on your need for these things. We live in a culture that expects people with periods to get on with business as if nothing is happening, but that is not what you, a new moon bleeder, are meant to do. This is a time for sacred rest, for being loving and kind to your body, and for getting in touch with he higher wisdom that will come to you more easily at this time if you are still and quiet, and allow it to flow.