Ancient Soul Sisters
The way Sh’ana and Kaggi work together is always with love and respect. They create nonjudgmental, honest spaces where, as women, we come to awaken and reconnect with our inner wisdom
The 13 Moons Blood Mysteries came about when Kaggi and Sh'ana gave birth to their babies within an hour and a half of each other, although their due dates were nearly 4 weeks apart. Already good friends, unknowingly they laboured that same night on Wurundjeri Country to "the twins". One coming before the dawn and the other soon after. Our twins are now 22 years old! We took it as a sign from our wombs to bring our work, passion and interests together to offer a year long 13 Moon Blood Mysteries Journey as soon as our babies were old enough. We called together the first round of women and began. At that stage what was formed was an outline for the first 3 circles, and the knowing we would complete the year with a "Moon Quest". It was all a bit of a Mystery but we were in trust and as the journey began the theme of the next moon revealed itself. What unfolded was profound and we decided to keep offering the journey to women until 2019 and things shifted again. With no in person work allowed in 2020 and the tides of change happening both outside of ourselves and within we held a seed that one day we would be able to offer the format of our work to other women, to imbue with their own flavour.
It's been a big few years and Sh'ana is now 10 years into her post menopausal journey whilst I, Kaggi, have just completed the first year of "holding my blood". About 7 moons into that year I noticed during that the themes I was revisiting during the often arduous letting go of the old way of being seem to be reflected in what I was experiencing and this once again gave me an anchor and a map. Now I am a "Baby Crone" it's time for me to water this seed. My intention for this year is to hold a monthly space for women to come together. I am going over our songs, dreams, writings, meditations. It is an opportunity for me to offer what I have learned and also act as anchor as I begin my own menopausal journey.
Please Note: My beloved Sh'ana is currently doing deeply satisfying and important work on Galiwin'ku in the NT on Yolgnu Country with her dear husband and is not a part of the 2025+ experience unless at some point she is able to make a special guest appearance!
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Kaggi Valentine
At 22, five months after coming off the pill, I got my first bleed back under the full moon in the remote Himalayas. It felt like a mystical initiation. When I bled again with the next full moon, I was filled with wonder that my body was syncing with something so vast—alongside a deep grief and anger that I’d grown up in a world that treated menstruation as shameful or just a nuisance. That moment changed everything. It drew me into listening to my body—and especially my womb—as a source of wisdom, guidance and truth.
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I arrived in Australia in 1996 and began immersing myself in both Shiatsu and sitting in circle with women. These two streams—one rooted in touch and energetic practice, the other in shared story and ritual—offered me ways to reconnect the mind, body and emotions.
Listening to my womb shaped the way I approached pregnancy and birth, and guided me to become a doula. I birthed all three of my children at home on Wurundjeri-Woiwurrong land, where I still live and work today.
During these years Sh'ana and I birthed and offered the 13 Moons and created a lunar-based calendar to help others chart their rhythms and reconnect with the sacred nature of their cycle.
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Whether through birth, sex, loss, pleasure, pain or transformation, I’ve always been drawn to the places where the seen meets the unseen. Where emotion and memory live in the body. Where story is held in the tissue.
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After my father's death in 2019, I became a Somatic Sex Educator, and took a deep dive into Scar Remediation continue to explore how pleasure, presence and nervous system safety can support deep healing and aliveness and work one on one with people healing from birth injuries, surgeries, trauma, and disconnection from their pelvic space.
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I love working with my hands and heart, listening through touch to the subtle language of the body. The tissue speaks, the body remembers. I hold deep respect for the role of witnessing in this work—how being truly seen in our experience can be transformational.
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I offer in-person sessions from my home on Wurundjeri-Woiwurrong land. These may include hands-on bodywork, embodied non-touch sessions, ritual, and integration support. I work online in embodied, relational ways that allow for depth and intimacy across distance.
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In my first year as a post menopausal woman I am once again drawn to revisit 13 Moon themes and share with others from the new space I am in now. If you’d like to book a somatic sexuality offering or learn more about my one-on-one hands-on work, please visit www.kaggivalentine.com
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In my first year as a post-menopausal woman, I’m feeling the call to revisit the themes of the 13 Moons and to share from this new place I now inhabit. Over the next year, I’ll also be offering ritual spaces to small groups of women who wish to come and sit with me on the land here—slow, spacious spaces for remembering, witnessing, and reweaving.
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Sh'ana Shean
Sh’ana brings over two decades of experience in holding space for women’s rites of passage, healing, and deep reconnection to self. She is a mother of four and co-created the 13 Moons Blood Mysteries with Kaggi Valentine, facilitating circles and retreats for 15 years. Together, they supported women to reclaim the sacred wisdom of their cycles and transitions, before pausing the work in 2019 as Sh’ana entered her own menopausal journey.
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In the years that followed, Sh’ana embraced the fertile pause of menopause, working with Connie Kaplan’s Dreaming practices and immersing herself in the quiet inner landscapes of this powerful life stage. Her lifelong exploration of The Mystery, guided by intuition and an innate reverence for life’s thresholds, eventually called her into academic study.
She spent three years in a Psychotherapy and Arts Therapy degree before answering a new call: to live and work in the remote YolÅ‹u community of Galiwin’ku, NE Arnhem Land. There she currently coordinates the Djäkamirr Project as part of the Birthing on Country movement, supporting YolÅ‹u women to reclaim and lead their own birthing practices.
Sh’ana’s work and life continues to weave threads of curiosity, creativity and community care in her post menopausal world