Our planet is dying; it’s losing its pulse.
The project of never-ending profit-seeking – never-ending growth – is unsustainable. The ice- caps are melting. The oil burns night and day. Commerce is never interrupted. The lamps are permanently ablaze. Capitalism is burning up the one planet we have.
We need to stop. Turn the world upside-down! Once a month, each time the moon dies, let’s act to quench the fires.
It means pulling out capitalism’s plug. It means going on strike. It means switching off and staying out on strike until full moon. It means dying to this world as the moon does, emerging refreshed and renewed. Death followed by new life.
That’s the secret of every magical tale, every initiation, every faith. It’s also life’s earliest beat. Planet Earth may be dying, but go with it – die properly – and we’ll come out the other side. Dying properly means making sure it’s only capitalism, not life on earth, that disappears. For over a hundred thousand years, since Homo sapiens evolved, our species has lived by the moon.
After all, we were everywhere hunter-gatherers; as any successful hunter will confirm, you need to keep track of the moon.
For women, the moon is internal; menstruation is part of human nature. So it’s hardly surprising that when patriarchs began establishing their jealous gods, they denounced menstruation as ‘the curse’ and all associated traditions as ‘moonshine’, ‘lunacy’ and so forth.
They’re still using such language today. Patriarchal religions everywhere privilege the sun. "Let there be light!’, they command. Torturers during the Inquisition claimed to be in terror of women’s ‘dark arts’ – their healing powers. Despite this, the ancient traditions linger on. Scheduling ceremonies by lunar phase remains central to all religious traditions to this day.
Rule by the moon harks back to an egalitarian lifestyle forged in a revolution. Archaeologists call it ‘the human revolution’. You’ll find links to the archaeology on these pages, much of it recent and exciting. But this website is not primarily for scientists. You don’t have to be an archaeologist to derive inspiration from the first and greatest of all social revolutions – the one which really worked.
The project of never-ending profit-seeking – never-ending growth – is unsustainable. The ice- caps are melting. The oil burns night and day. Commerce is never interrupted. The lamps are permanently ablaze. Capitalism is burning up the one planet we have.
We need to stop. Turn the world upside-down! Once a month, each time the moon dies, let’s act to quench the fires.
It means pulling out capitalism’s plug. It means going on strike. It means switching off and staying out on strike until full moon. It means dying to this world as the moon does, emerging refreshed and renewed. Death followed by new life.
That’s the secret of every magical tale, every initiation, every faith. It’s also life’s earliest beat. Planet Earth may be dying, but go with it – die properly – and we’ll come out the other side. Dying properly means making sure it’s only capitalism, not life on earth, that disappears. For over a hundred thousand years, since Homo sapiens evolved, our species has lived by the moon.
After all, we were everywhere hunter-gatherers; as any successful hunter will confirm, you need to keep track of the moon.
For women, the moon is internal; menstruation is part of human nature. So it’s hardly surprising that when patriarchs began establishing their jealous gods, they denounced menstruation as ‘the curse’ and all associated traditions as ‘moonshine’, ‘lunacy’ and so forth.
They’re still using such language today. Patriarchal religions everywhere privilege the sun. "Let there be light!’, they command. Torturers during the Inquisition claimed to be in terror of women’s ‘dark arts’ – their healing powers. Despite this, the ancient traditions linger on. Scheduling ceremonies by lunar phase remains central to all religious traditions to this day.
Rule by the moon harks back to an egalitarian lifestyle forged in a revolution. Archaeologists call it ‘the human revolution’. You’ll find links to the archaeology on these pages, much of it recent and exciting. But this website is not primarily for scientists. You don’t have to be an archaeologist to derive inspiration from the first and greatest of all social revolutions – the one which really worked.
