About the Lunar Conception Method
3. Using the Method for Conception
The rule is: if you want to conceive a child at the Lunar Conception moment, then the intercourse
should take place in 24 hours period bofore this moment.
For instance, if the Calculator shows that your next Lunar Conception moment will be at 9:18am on the 21st
of October then the intercourse should take place in the period from 9:18am 20th of October to 9:18am 21st of October.
This is the rule as it was given by Dr. Jonas.
The natural question is: if the intercourse happened three hours before this 24 hour period, or 3 hours
after it, can conception still happen? The answer is: it could, but we don't know for sure. If we had at least
a few reliable cases where it happend like this, we would be happy to confirm: yes, this is possible. But
for now, we advise just to follow the 24-hour rule.
It is important to understand that in each month you have potentially two moments when you can conceive:
the natural ovulation (a stage in your hormonal cycle) and the Lunar Conception moment. Some women have
these two moments very close to each other, they might even coincide. So the probability of conception
for these women at such a moment is as high as it can be. Francesca Naish in [2] suggests an idea that
it is natural to have these moments coincide when a woman lives a healthy, stress-free life in tune
with nature.
But for most women Lunar Conception and hormonal ovulation are two different moments. Research described
in [1] has shown that in such cases the probability to conceive at the time of Lunar Conception is much
higher than at the time of hormonal ovulation. And it doesn't matter at which stage of your hormonal
cycle the Lunar Conception moment happens to fall. In fact, Francesca Naish writes that the second
highest probability of conception takes place when the Lunar Conception moment coincides with menstruation.
This is something that contemporary science cannot explain, but it should be noted that the physiology
of human fertility is still relatively poorly understood by science. For example, science doesn't have
a clear explanation of why intrauterine devices help to prevent conception - but they are used around
the world, and in many cases quite successfully.
