When the Moon Whispers to All Bodies: Hormonal Wisdom Beyond Gender
We’ve built a world where bleeding became the badge of cyclicality — and forgot that the cosmos dances in everyone.
The sun rises in a man’s chest too. The moon pulls at his tides. And even if blood doesn’t spill from his body every month, something quieter does — a shift in hunger, a crash in energy, a thinning of patience, a sudden softness he can’t explain.
Call it hormonal. Call it energetic. Ayurveda simply calls it rhythm.
The Forgotten Cycles of the Masculine
In modern culture, we’ve armored men with linear expectations. Climb. Achieve. Provide. Don’t pause. But the body isn’t a machine. And a man is not just testosterone in a suit.
Ayurveda teaches that the doshas — Vata (air), Pitta (fire), and Kapha (earth) — move in all of us, regardless of gender, in cycles so subtle they go unnoticed until they erupt.
And so, men cycle too:
Not in blood, but in burnout
Not in cramps, but in chronic tension
Not in mood swings, but in emotional droughts followed by floods
Not in PMS, but in the quiet collapse that comes from decades of pretending they don’t feel
Hormones: The Doshas in Disguise
In Ayurveda, hormones aren’t separate from the soul. They’re the physiological echoes of deeper imbalances.
Too much fire? He burns bridges and forgets tenderness.
Too much air? He overthinks, under-feels, and floats away from himself.
Too much earth? He grows heavy with what he can’t express.
Hormonal imbalance isn’t a disease — it’s a message.
Not of weakness, but of misalignment.
The Emotional Periods of Men
We don’t talk enough about how men go through cycles of:
Low drive, low light, low hope
Restless ambition that turns into irritability
Sudden surges of tenderness they hide in silence
Fatigue that no gym or protein shake can fix
Ayurveda invites us to treat these moments not as problems — but portals.
Rituals for the Forgotten Moon Within Men
Daily Self- Attunement (Dinacharya for the Mind):
Not just oil massage — but touch with intention.
Not just meals on time — but eating without armor.
Not just breathing exercises — but breathing into your chest where your grief lives.
Track Your Inner Moon:
Even without menstruation, every man has a 28–30-day emotional and energetic pattern. Notice when you withdraw. When you’re creative. When you feel desire. When you feel done.
Transmute Fire, Don’t Burn With It:
Pitta energy must be offered, not exploded. Sweat through martial arts. Pour it into art. Let competition evolve into contribution.
Let Vata Speak:
Listen when your mind gets noisy. Anxiety is often a soul trying to be heard in the wrong language.
Kapha is Not Laziness, It’s a Request for Stillness:
When the body feels heavy, maybe it wants to root — not run.
For the Ones Who Were Told to Be “Strong”
Strength isn’t stoicism. In Ayurveda, strength is ojas — the juicy, radiant immunity of one who is rested, connected, and real.
Ojas doesn’t come from protein shakes.
It comes from a life in rhythm.
Let the Masculine Heal Softly
If men knew they were allowed to cycle, they’d stop collapsing in secret.
If boys were taught that rest is sacred, they wouldn’t grow into men who break.
If we all honored the moon in everyone, we’d raise a generation of souls — not soldiers.
Let this be that remembering.
