The Second Spring: Menopause as Rebirth, Not Decline
This month is a sacred portal for me: it will be exactly one year since my last period. I have officially been through menopause and am considered postmenopausal. It's a mighty threshold for any woman, one that has been in the making for many years and which can take many forms.
In the West, the messages around this sacred passage are all about what you're losing, whilst other cultures are more focused on what you're finally free for.
My intention with this blog is to talk about my own experience and my own point of view of this passage: a Second Spring, not an ending. I am not a doctor so I won't cover HRT, weights or protein targets.
Why does the West talk about menopause like it's an ending?
I recently went for my annual medical visit and the first thing my doctor suggested was HRT to counteract the long and scary list of physical deteriorations to be expected now that I was post-menopause. Don't get me wrong, I have a great doctor: she is super open minded and compassionate. Yet I was genuinely surprised by her focus on symptom management and loss of function rather than talking about an empowered transition.
Menopause Symptoms and the Medical Medium Puzzle
I have had my fair share of symptoms: unbearable hot flashes every 5 minutes, sleepless nights and terrors, weight gain, anxiety, and the constant dizziness to name but a few. So I am always looking for helpful remedies.
What puzzled me was something that I had read in The Medical Medium years ago stating that menopause was a return to our pre-puberty state. That part of me was measured, happy, steady. If menopause was truly a return to that state, why did it arrive for so many of us as debilitating symptoms instead?
Anthony Williams writes in The Medical Medium (p. 195) that menopause actually slows the aging process, framing it as the body's way of supporting a long, healthy life.
Nervous System, Burnout, Liver and EBV
I have some theories about why menopause is so extreme in our Western world.
Our nervous systems are completely shot because we live in constant stress. Our levels of estrogen are what allow us to constantly push through even when we shouldn't. When we lose the protective buffer of our hormones, then all the accumulated stress and nervous system burnout hits us hard. Chronic stress keeps cortisol high, and elevated cortisol both worsens menopause symptoms and interferes with the adrenal glands' ability to produce estrogen and progesterone during the transition. Stress and constant production are glorified in the West where rest is frowned upon. Women are also asked to function like men, with a 24 hour cycle, when our cycles run 26-32 days. Women just can't always be 'on' like men. They need regular down time to restore themselves.
Our liver can't do the job of clearing out all the toxins and stress hormones it has to deal with daily and is having to work extra hard. So supporting your liver will go a long way towards managing your hormones and menopause symptoms. The liver metabolizes and clears estrogen through two detox phases, and when that process is sluggish, hormones can recirculate rather than clear. It is worth doing your research and finding what could make your liver more efficient. Herbs like milk thistle or even castor oil packs can make a huge difference.
This isn't peer-reviewed science, it's Anthony Williams' own framework, but it resonated with me: Anthony Williams (the Medical Medium) talks about the Epstein Barr Virus (EBV) as one of the reasons why perimenopause and menopause hit us so hard. And that the problem is viral, therefore manageable with food and supplements. I had a terrible EBV when I was 17 years old which I never quite recovered from. His theory really makes sense to me in that context.
What do other cultures call menopause instead?
It's not that other cultures feel nothing, it's that their culture gives them an entirely different framework to live the transition through.
When I did some research on menopausal women in the world, I found some interesting statistics: Japan and some parts of East Asia have low hot flash rates due to dietary, lifestyle and cultural mindset. They complain mostly of stiff shoulders and muscle pain.
There is in fact no single word for hot flushes, though Japanese women actually use three distinct terms for different heat-related sensations, which speaks even more to how differently the experience is named and understood there. 'Konenki' is the Japanese word for menopause, describing a positive transitional stage in life.
Mayan women experience the same low hormonal levels as Western women but they welcome and interpret the transition differently as increased freedom and improved status.
So how we think about menopause might be more important than the transition itself.
Does your mindset actually change how your body handles menopause?
Cultures that frame menopause as loss report more symptoms, cultures that frame it as an empowered rite of passage report fewer, on comparable biology.
These cultures rejoice in the end of menstruation, seen as a passage to freedom, where one no longer needs to worry about the stress of pregnancy and related issues. It is also a social status elevation, where women are regarded as respected and wise elders. It can also be a freeing of social expectations and taboos and the ability to mix with men in a way they couldn't before.
Why do I suddenly not give a f#ck about things I used to care about?
Estrogen primes you to attune, absorb, accommodate, give. Look at how friendly and in a good mood you are in the first part of your cycle when you are preparing to ovulate. That's estrogen working its magic. When you don't conceive and enter the luteal phase of your cycle, you are much grumpier and unaccommodating. As estrogen drops, it's testosterone that becomes relatively more dominant, and that shift alone can explain a lot of the bluntness.
Lower levels of estrogen that accompany menopause remove the capacity to nurture and be adaptable, not your capacity to care. The veil of estrogen lifts, and you can finally discern what is important and what is not.
What is postmenopausal zest?
Margaret Mead has coined the term 'postmenopausal zest,' which is defined as a renewed sense of physical and psychological energy, freedom, and confidence.
Women are finally free of the cycle of reproduction and can now focus on a new way of using their creativity and their wisdom. It might not be immediate but it is the evolutionary process at play.
One of her most famous quotes is: "There is no more creative force in the world than the menopausal woman with zest."
What is a Second Spring, really?
In Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), menopause is named 'Second Spring' or 'Second Bloom' because it signals a period of wisdom, renewal and personal transformation.
Your energy and blood is no longer focused on nourishing your womb, your cycles and nurturing life. Your heart used to send energy and blood to your womb through the Bao Mai extraordinary vessel, meaning that your vital energy had a downward and outward movement.
With your Second Spring, that movement reverses itself: your vital energy and blood now flow upwards to your heart to nourish your spirit, your creativity and your internal systems.
Your vital energy is now fully available for your dreams and self-actualization with a return to power and self-authority. In short, all of what you have been giving to others is finally available to you and to your dreams.
Second Spring Light Language Activation
So with that intention in mind, I have created the Second Spring Light Language Activation: to help navigate this transition with grace and ease.
The frequencies work to soften any symptoms and fully engage your wisdom, power and self-authority so that this passage becomes about you stepping into all of your glory on your terms and with your design. You really embody this energy and harness it for yourself.
A Sirian perspective on the second spring
On Sirius, the Second Spring is called 'TaAitiIkKaAh', which means Second becoming. Similarly to many indigenous cultures, the Second Becoming heralds a time when the soul becomes a role model and a wisdom keeper.
By the time this happens, they have been through many deaths and rebirths and are inducted as guardians of Remembrance.
There is a real reverence towards those whose energy is now 100% focused and dedicated to the community.
They accept the role of being the portal through which Heaven and Earth can meet and be grounded on Sirius.
They are also the keepers of Breath: their breathing patterns change to reflect the way their energy is better utilized. The Keepers of Breath hold cosmic loyalty records that are continuously breathed through the community gatherings.
The Death & Rebirth Oracle Light Language Activation
It is the companion activation to the Death & Rebirth symbol in the From Sirius With Love Oracle Deck.
It supports:
Releasing what has completed its purpose, cleanly and without grief-clinging
Finding closure, making amends, and clearing old grudges tied to the ending
Softening the transition so it becomes graceful instead of forced
Moving through birthing pains with less resistance and more surrender
FAQs
Q: Is menopause really easier in other cultures, or do women just not talk about it?
A: It's not that women in other cultures feel less, it's that they're handed a different framework to experience it through. In Japan, konenki frames menopause as renewal rather than decline. In Mayan communities, women report the same hormone shifts as Western women but describe the transition as a passage to greater freedom and status. The biology is comparable. The meaning isn't.
Q: What is postmenopausal zest?
A: A term coined by anthropologist Margaret Mead to describe the surge of energy, confidence, and creative drive many women experience after menopause. Far from decline, it's a documented pattern of women stepping more fully into themselves once the cycle of reproduction is complete.
Q: Why don't I care about things I used to care about after menopause?
A: Estrogen primes you to attune, accommodate, and give. As it drops, that pull softens, and what's left isn't indifference, it's discernment. You're not losing your capacity to care. You're finally able to see clearly what deserves it.
Q: Do I need HRT to feel good after menopause?
A: I'm not a doctor, so this isn't medical advice, and HRT is a personal decision to make with your own physician. What I can speak to is my own experience: alongside anything medical, mindset, nervous system support, and how you choose to interpret this passage all shape how you move through it.
Q: What is a light language activation and how does it relate to menopause?
A: A light language activation is a frequency transmission designed to support a specific energetic shift, in this case, easing the symptoms and emotional weight of the menopause transition while reconnecting you to your power, wisdom, and self-authority. The Second Spring Light Language Activation was created specifically for this passage.
This Second Becoming is a deep initiatory passage that will have many ramifications, but it also carries this: the energy was always yours, it's simply no longer spent elsewhere.
Two frequencies are here to walk this passage with you: one to help you bloom into what's next.
and one to release what has completed its purpose.
