Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype

This is why teaching stories are so nourishing; they provide initiatory maps so even work which has hit a snag can be completed.

Though we might have mercy upon it, our first actions must be to recognize it, to protect ourselves from its devastations, and ultimately to deprive it of its murderous energy.

Developing a relationship with the wildish nature is an essential part of women’s individuation.

Art is important for it commemorates the seasons of the soul, or a special or tragic event in the soul’s journey. Art is not just for oneself, not just a marker of one’s own understanding. It is also a map for those who follow after us.

Stalking the Intruder: The Beginning Initiation

Stories are medicine.

Often the creative life is slowed or stopped because something in the psyche has a very low opinion of us, and we are down there groveling at its feet instead of bopping it over the head and running for freedom. In many cases what is required to aright the situation is that we take ourselves, our ideas, our art, far more seriously than we have befo

This early training to “be nice” causes women to override their intuitions. In that sense, they are actually purposefully taught to submit to the predator.

The modern woman is a blur of activity. She is pressured to be all things to all people. The old knowing is long overdue.