worship of the woman

"La Loba sings over the bones she has gathered. To sing means to use the soul-voice. It means to say on the breath the truth of one’s power and one’s need, to breathe soul over the thing that is ailing or in need of restoration." ~ Clarissa Pinkola Estes ~ 

Georgia O'Keefe

Bone by bone, hair by hair, Wild Woman comes back.

Through night dreams, through events half understood and half remembered.

Wild Woman comes back. Singing over the bones.

This is called "Mater Dolorosa," the Unruined Heart. It is a blessing on you.

You can have pain. You can have tragedy. You can have devastation. And still, still a heart will remain unruined.

"It has to be in you, it is in your dreams. Dreams are the center of your psyche. So at the center of your psyche is all this wholeness, all this fullness, all this unruined heart."

This work, Untie the Strong Woman, is a continuation of all other works of Dr. Estes. She looks at the largest archetype of the holy, integral woman from many different angles.

Wild Woman, Wise Woman, Holy Woman - we share the same heartbeat.

In Women Who Run with the Wolves she writes -

"Wild Woman archetype is not savage or out of control but is a natural, instinctual set of longings and knowings that are embedded in our psyches."

Wisdom is not a condition, it is a holy endeavor.