Sublime

the hag-maiden, she shows us what it means to be, not withered, but wizened. Babies are born wizened with instinct. They know in their bones what is right and what to do about it. It is innate. If a woman holds on to this gift of being old while she is young and young while she is old, she will always know what comes next. If she has lost it, she

from body, from dreams and journeys of all sorts. La Loba parallels world myths in which the dead are brought back to life.

And that key, that tiny symbol of her life, suddenly will not cease its bleeding, will not cease to give the cry that something is wrong. A woman may try to hide from the devastations of her life, but the bleeding, the loss of life’s energy, will continue until she recognizes the predator for what it is and contains

Even the most captured woman guards the place of the wildish self, for she

when girls and women who were tightly girdled, tightly reined, and tightly muzzled were called “nice,”

The Four Rabbinim

lived in careful listening.

The cure for both the naive woman and the instinct-injured woman is the same: Practice listening to your intuition, your inner voice; ask questions; be curious; see what you see; hear what you hear; and then act upon what you know to be true.

The basic premise that runs through all my work asserts that all human beings are born gifted.