Gildenmyth
The Tender Hour
Chang'e, Chinese Goddess of the Moon · Female Voice
A soft three hour sleep meditation for the nights when you are missing a particular person, or you are a long way from home, and the quiet in the room is the hardest part of it. A gentle female voice tells you the real story of Chang'e, the Chinese goddess who lives on the moon, and then lets you fall asleep to hours of warm ambient sound.
This one is for the specific ache of distance. Missing someone. Being far from home. Homesickness. A person you cannot call tonight, or cannot call at all. The Mid Autumn Festival falls a few days after this episode, and it is the festival of reunion, which means it was built by and for the people who could not get there.
You will hear the oldest surviving version of Chang'e, from the Huainanzi, which is far colder than the story most people are told, and then how twenty centuries of Chinese tradition quietly made her kinder. The jade rabbit. The osmanthus tree that heals as fast as it is cut. And the poem Su Shi wrote in the year ten seventy six, drunk, a long way from his brother, which ends on the line that everybody still knows.
HOW TO USE
Lie down, dim your screen, and let it play. The voice fades after about twenty minutes so nothing wakes you; the ambient sound continues for almost three hours. Headphones optional. Set a low volume.
New sleep meditations every Monday, plus rituals on the new and full moons. Subscribe and turn on the bell so a goddess can sit with you each night.
DISCLOSURE & SAFETY
This episode uses AI in its production (voice and music). It is for relaxation only and is not medical advice, and it is not a substitute for treatment of any sleep, grief or health condition. Do not listen while driving or operating machinery.
The Tender Hour is soft, first person goddess sleep meditations in a gentle female voice. Each episode is a guided meditation that melts into hours of warm ambient sound so you can fall asleep and stay asleep through the night.
For rest and reflection only; the voices are AI generated. Not medical advice.
Chapters
- 0:00Settle in, and the quiet in the room
- 1:42The one who went the furthest
- 2:27Ten suns, and the man who shot them down
- 3:31What the oldest book actually says
- 5:43The toad, and two thousand years of getting kinder
- 7:57Who else is up there
- 9:10The festival for people who are not together
- 10:43What a man wrote when he could not get home
- 12:54The one object you can both look at
- 14:53Letting the day go
- 17:20What is actually here
- 18:21Going under
- 20:32Rest is a practice