Sublime

In some traditions, there are women whose job it is to grieve on behalf of those who are stuck with inability to touch their own grief. {44}

“The Death Mother as Nature’s Shadow,” {12} author and anthropologist Daniela Sieff

Some have said that my work constitutes “a newly emerging field.” I must say, with all due respect, that the essence of the work I’ve been given to do is from very old tradition. This kind of work does not fit restfully under the category of “emerging” anything. Thousands of people in every generation worldwide, mostly old ones who are often

As long as a woman is forced into believing she is powerless and/or is trained to not consciously register what she knows to be true, the feminine impulses and gifts of her psyche continue to be killed off.

reliance on this attribute is also part of the wild nature.

the innate predator.

Feral women of all ages, and especially the young, have a tremendous drive to compensate for long famines and exiles. They are endangered by excessive and mindless striving toward people and goals that are not nurturant, substantive, or enduring. No matter where they live or in what time, there are cages waiting always; too-small lives into which

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