Astrology and the menstrual cycle

I thought I would post this.. I was researching astrology and reflexology and thought this would be useful to know... If you know any other cycles that occur among use in relation to the cycles of astrology please let me know..

Excerpt from: http://www.skyscript.co.uk/reflex.html

Way back in my pre-reflexology days the alarming rise in the number of my clients with infertility problems prompted me to search for an astrological solution. I started with the fact that the moon controls a woman’s natural menstrual cycle. The Lunar cycle takes 29 ½ days and the NATURAL menstrual cycle also takes 29 ½ days – NOT 28 DAYS. This misconception is the result of a 2000 year old contrivance to control the natural rhythms of the female cycle that culminated in the false linear time concept of the birth control pill which induced a 28 day straight line cycle.

The natural cycle is in synchronization with the cycle of the moon. Ovulation takes place around the three days of the full moon and menstruation commences on or around the new moon. The introduction of the electric light globe has further affected the natural biological rhythm which was so dependent on the light of the full moon.

Studies by two American doctors in the 1960s involving ½ million women over 8 years, showed that more conceptions took place around the full moon than at any other time of the month. The least number of conceptions took place on the three days around the new moon, demonstrating that women at that time were in sync with the moon. However, since the introduction of the contraceptive pill, women’s natural cycles (and their fertility) have been badly damaged by the presence of so many oestrogen mimicking chemicals in our environment. This adversely affects the reliability of self-testing ovulation kits, only recently introduced. The kits contain 7 test sticks with instructions to use them between 10-17 days of the cycle. It was recently estimated that only one third of women ovulate within this period.

The old wives’ tale about it not being possible to conceive during menstruation was at the time based on fact, ie that the ‘moon/woman’ cycle was a constant. On the basis that two-thirds of women ovulate between days 1-9 and 18-1 - yet are being told that days 10-17 give the best chance of conception - it is no wonder that so many women are referred to subfertility clinics and a miracle if conception takes place at all! In the last few months two of my clients have ovulated simultaneously with the onset of their periods. Subfertility clinics today are using the rhythm/calendar method devised in the 1940s. Women are told the best time to conceive is 14 days before the period is due, based on the mistaken belief that the luteal phase is a fixed gap of 14 days; for two-thirds of women this timing is either too early or too late.