Untie the Strong Woman: Blessed Mother's Immaculate Love for the Wild Soul
Clarissa Pinkola Estes Ph.D.amazon.com
Untie the Strong Woman: Blessed Mother's Immaculate Love for the Wild Soul
Fairy tales, myths, and stories provide understandings which sharpen our sight so that we can pick out and pick up the path left by the wildish nature. The instruction found in story reassures us that the path has not run out, but still leads women deeper, and more deeply still, into their own knowing. The tracks we all are following are those of t
... See morenurture, and sustain life. We do all this and much more. But most women are not aware of their tremendous power for good. We are asleep to our Divinity. We’re not consciously awakened to the realization that we are descendants of an ancient, sacred lineage: the She. Isn’t magic what you’re performing when you create an authentic lifestyle for yours
... See moreThis is our meditation practice as women, calling back the dead and dismembered aspects of ourselves, calling back the dead and dismembered aspects of life itself. The one who re-creates from that which has died is always a double-sided archetype. The Creation Mother is always also the Death Mother and vice versa. Because of this dual nature, or do
... See moreAfter all our losses and sufferings we find that if we will reach we will be rewarded by grasping the child that is most precious to us.
We breathe the wild into our corporate work, our business creations, our decisions, our art, the work of our hands and hearts, our politics, spirituality, plans, homelife, education, industry, foreign affairs, freedoms, rights, and duties. The wild feminine is not only sustainable in all worlds; it sustains all worlds.
Like a human mother, the archetypal Mother gives birth. But she doesn’t give birth to a child. She brings to life the priceless quality Ann found inside herself: an unshakable sense of optimism.