Product Description

An inspiring collection of interviews with and profiles of a diverse group of strong, mature, wise women, all of whom view menopause as a life-affirming, spiritually enlightening transformation, Red Moon Passage features discussions by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Carol Pearson, Kachinas Kutenai, Paula Gunn Allen, and many others.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1998745 in Books
• Published on: 1996-12
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover

From Kirkus Reviews
Articulate feminists of diverse backgrounds share their similar thoughts about menopause as a transforming spiritual experience. Horrigan, publisher of the journal Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine, sought out eight women whose work she admires- -a healer, an English professor who is also a shaman, an anthropologist, a Jungian psychoanalyst and performance artist, an Apache medicine woman, a college dean, a part-Cherokee, part-Seneca songwriter, and a feminist writer--and interviewed them for their views on menopause. Every interview is accompanied by a glowing tribute from the author, who presents her interviewees as remarkable, wise, and deeply spiritual and insightful women, and herself as the novice who gains in wisdom as she listens to them. The women explore the female psyche through visions, parables, ancient myths and legends, and tales of goddesses, archetypes, and matriarchies. The book's title has a mythic ring, but it is a phrase Horrigan devised to evoke a positive image of menopause as a transforming journey out of a time of monthly bleeding into a time of creativity not based on reproduction. Menopause, the reader is reminded often, is to be viewed not as an ending but as a beginning. For women in touch with their spirits, as the author and her interviewees presumably are, menopause is a time not simply of biological change, but of spiritual transformation marking the beginning of the most powerful years of a woman's life. Devotees of Joseph Campbell will find much that is familiar here, and the author's advice to follow one's heart echoes Campbell's counsel to follow one's bliss. Inspirational reading for New Age feminists, especially comforting to those approaching menopause. -- Copyright ©1996, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

From the Inside Flap
An inspiring collection of interviews with and profiles of a diverse group of strong, mature, wise women, all of whom view menopause as a life-affirming, spiritually enlightening transformation, Red Moon Passage features discussions by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Carol Pearson, Kachinas Kutenai, Paula Gunn Allen, and many others.

About the Author
Bonnie J.  Horriganis a journalist and publisher of the medical journal Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine. She lives in San Diego, California, with her husband and son.


From the Trade Paperback edition.

Customer Reviews

A fine and sensitive insight into the passages of women

Bonnie Horrigan has served a fine favor to women who
confront the mysterious passage of menopause as
both a physical and a spiritual transition. She
provides answers with compassion, depth with
clarity, and wisdom without complexity.

Ms. Horrigan has created a book which all men and all women
will do well to absorb as part of their life-insights collection.

Red Moon Passage
This book is an exciting find. The wonderful selection of mentors for women seeking ways to survive a sometimes very tulmultous time in their lives gave me hope for a my heart and body being wiser for the experience. I would recommend this fine text to anyone who wants to understand the path of the maturing female.

Such postive mentors !
How wonderful to find such positive guides and mentors in this cofusing time of life. The loss of our menstrual cycle makes us disconnect for a while from our own rhythms, passing through the menopausal journey is an in-between state, and it's easy to be confused about our own place in the whole scheme of things.

These women have been there, and they have words to guide