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Moon Mother, Moon Daughter

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A group of us - four mothers and five daughters, gathered together monthly using this book as our guide. For one special year, Moon Mother, Moon Daughter inspired, educated, called us forward and deepened our journey together, both as mother/daughter teams and as a group. I heartily recommend this book to women of all ages, and especially for girls who are transitioning into womanhood (and their moms).

Thanks Janet and Terri for sharing so many of your personal stories and insights with the raising of your daughters during their sensitive "coming of age" years. Through your wisdom in Moon Mother, Moon Daughter, I was able to understand, appreciate, and be more present for my daughters', (now 20 and 17), journeys as they questioned themselves, their bodies, their cultural messages, and family values, as they metamorphosed into beautiful young ladies. The sharing of your rituals were also invaluable and helpful tools in celebrating this time instead of "just getting through it".

"Conventional femininity cannot be our guide. We are reinventing the feminine. And most of us have barely begin to appreciate the value of the enormity of this task."
--Hope Edelman, Motherless Daughters

Moms: Wouldn't it be nice to anticipate and have as much joy in your daughter turning into a woman as you did with her first smiles, steps and words? Wouldn't it be great to have the confidence in guiding your daughter as she crossed the threshold into womanhood? Moon Mother, Moon Daughter: Myths and Rituals that Celebrate a Girl's Coming-of-Age can help you discover and embrace such a journey with your daughter.

Moon Mother, Moon Daughter: Myths and Rituals that Celebrate a Girl's Coming-of-Age is chewy and concise, informing moms about how they can honor the sacredness of being female. Authors Lucy and Allison weave moon and goddess mythology and provide a myriad of activities for moms and daughter to do independently and together--to encourage reflection, introspection, understanding, and celebration of becoming and being a woman.

Among topics addressed in the book are the value of spending time alone, how to guide your daughter in awakening and connecting to her inner wisdom and intuition, how to guide her in finding and having confidence in expressing her voice, and the power of honoring your body.

As the cover of Moon Mother, Moon Daughter promises, the advice has new-age overtones, using the moon as a guide and metaphor (the most sacred feminine) throughout the book. However, any mom (including this one) can easily draw upon the ideas and tweak them to fit into and guide her relationship with her daughter. This is a terrific book with wonderful goddess mythology to share and empowering ideas from which to borrow. This mom is looking forward to using some of them with her daughters.

Note: Moon Mother, Moon Daughter: Myths and Rituals that Celebrate a Girl's Coming-of-Age is geared for moms of daughters ages ten-thirteen.

by Judy Miller
for Story Circle Book Reviews
reviewing books by, for, and about women

Read this book after the fact of my three daughters coming of age. Although they are now adults I incorporate much of the information in dialog with them and with my inner self to heal and reframe many of the difficulties, misunderstandings and lack of mothering encountered in my life and therefore in their lives. I have purchased copies to give to my two daughters who now have daughters of their own. Excellent resource and perspective.

This book is full of positive, supportive, and personal guidance for strengthening the relationships between mothers and daughters and provides creative ideas on supporting girls growth to womanhood. Although I do not have a daughter, as a 20 year old, I enjoy reflecting on the girls' stories and challenging myself....it's truly inspiring!

This is a very special book - written with tremendous love & wisdom. At a time when we are increasingly digitized and disconnected, Moon Mother, Moon Daughter brings us back to the intimacy of relationship with great insight and creativity. It is a unique exploration of the many facets of this important transition for women and girls and I recommend it highly!

Written with clarity and heart, Moon Mother, Moon Daughter, is an invitation to all mothers and daughters who want an inspired guide through the pre-teen and teen years. Drawing from the ageless goddess traditions, Janet Lucy and Terri Allison entertain us with stories, myths, and legends that empower young women. In this delightful book, we learn or remember the cultures that valued the feminine and recall the powerful goddesses from the Virgin Mary to Kwan Yin, including a pantheon of divine female deities: Inanna, Hera, Isis, Demeter and Persephone, Tara, Artemis, Hina, the nine Muses, and of course, Gaia.

These stories empower and inform the book's activities and rituals for a coming of age daughter--not through goddess worship, but through a renewed sense of power, legacy, and the feminine potential. I so enjoyed the retelling of the Native American Spider Woman who taught weaving to the Navajo people and then to learn that this archetype is one of the most ancient for female power. The authors then apply these traits to a modern social context in describing women's ways of leadership.

I heartily recommend this well written guide to all mothers and daughters: it is timeless, timely, universal and personal!

Wisdom Has a Voice: Every Daughter's Memories of Mother

Congratulations on the release of the second edition of Moon Mother Moon Daughter! We love sharing this book with our mom and our goddess circle of friends!

Inspiring and practicle, "Moon Mother, Moon Daughter" is a must read guide for mothers, daughters and those who love them. Simply fabulous~

I love the way Janet and Terri shine a light on the power of ritual and rites of passage that mothers and daughters can share. My daughter and I participated in a small group of mothers and daughters and enjoyed sharing many of the activities in the book.
I've given this book as gifts and am delighted to be able to continue to give it even as my daughters become adults.