A Guide to the Red Thread Collection
How to Walk the Red Thread
The Red Thread Collection is a set of four herbal allies — one for each phase of the menstrual cycle. But this isn’t a prescription. It’s an invitation.
There is no wrong way to walk the Red Thread. Here are three paths. Choose one. Move between them. Let your body lead.
Path One
Follow Your Bleed
If you menstruate regularly, this is the most direct path. Your cycle is your calendar. Your blood is your compass.
Womb Fire
Menses · Inner Winter · New Moon
When your bleed arrives, begin here. The descent, the shedding, the return to ground zero — warming, releasing, remembering.
Rose, blue lotus, cinnamon, lady’s mantle, schisandra
Not for pregnancy.
Maiden Spark
Follicular · Inner Spring · Waxing Moon
The first glimmer after the dark — clarity beginning to surface, ideas beginning to move. The ember before the flame.
Red clover, moringa, nettle, licorice root
Consult healthcare provider if high blood pressure.
Wild Radiance
Ovulation · Inner Summer · Full Moon
The peak. The offering. You are most visible, most magnetic, most alive — in the fullness, the fire, the open bloom.
Shatavari (cut & sifted root), damiana, rose, cacao nibs
Not for pregnancy. Trace caffeine/theobromine. Steep covered 15–20 min.
Crone’s Shadow
Luteal · Inner Autumn · Waning Moon
The descent into shadow. The reckoning before the release — the slow return inward before the bleed begins again.
Schisandra, red raspberry leaf, rose, lady’s mantle, blessed thistle, motherwort
Not for pregnancy. Caution if trying to conceive. Caution with heart meds (motherwort).
Path Two
Follow the Moon
If your cycle is irregular, absent, or if you simply feel more aligned with the sky — follow the moon. She’s been keeping time for women since before we had a word for it.
New Moon → Womb Fire
Darkness. Stillness. The void before the spark. Drink Womb Fire during the new moon to honor the quiet, the inward pull, the deep rest.
Waxing Moon → Maiden Spark
The light returns. Energy builds. Possibilities multiply. Maiden Spark carries the momentum of becoming.
Full Moon → Wild Radiance
Everything illuminated. The fullest expression of your power. Wild Radiance meets the Full Moon with celebration and open-hearted fire.
Waning Moon → Crone’s Shadow
The light recedes. What no longer serves is revealed. Crone’s Shadow holds the waning moon’s invitation to release, to discern, to let go.
Path Three
Follow Your Body
Sometimes the most sacred thing you can do is stop tracking and start listening.
Open the jars. Smell them. Hold them. Let your body choose.
You might reach for Womb Fire on a Tuesday in the middle of your luteal phase because your body is asking for warmth and release. You might crave Maiden Spark during the full moon because something in you is ready to begin again.
There is no wrong choice. Your body is the ceremony.
A Note for the Woman in Between
If you are in perimenopause — if your cycle is shifting, skipping, flooding, whispering, or going silent — you are not broken. You are not at the end of something. You are in the threshold.
Perimenopause is not the loss of the cycle. It is the cycle deepening. The seasons don’t stop — they spiral. What was once a monthly rhythm may become something longer, stranger, more sovereign.
Use the teas however they call to you. Follow the moon. Follow your body. Mix the paths. Some weeks you may want Crone’s Shadow every day. Some months you may live in Womb Fire. Trust that.
The woman in between is not lost. She is becoming something that doesn’t have a map yet — because she is the one drawing it.
However you come to the Red Thread — by blood, by moon, by instinct, or by some pull you can’t quite name — you are welcome here.
These teas were made for you. Not a version of you that fits neatly into a chart, but the real you — the one who cycles and shifts and bleeds and doesn’t and comes back and begins again.
Every cup is an invitation to remember.