My Sacred Life Sunday: Reading

My Sacred Life Sunday

I am reading this again for the third time.  Its been quite a while and it feels like coming home to an old and significant friend.  I am circling with sisters again after a long break, and the Sacred Space created by a circle of Women is so potent.  It pulls me back into the bones of my femininity. 

I believe every woman should have this book and read it quietly to herself as a meditation, to her sisters in tones of importance, secret keys revealed, and to the young ones in a voice of potent knowing.  This book is a soul reclamation.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ph.D shares in the very beginning of the book,

"We are filled with a longing for the wild.  There are few culturally sanctioned antidotes for this yearning.  We were taught to feel shame for such a desire.  We grew our hair long and used it to hide our feelings.  But the shadow of Wild Woman still lurks behind us during our days and in our nights.  No matter where we are, the shadow that trots behind us is definitely four-footed."

and

"Healthy wolves and healthy women share certain psychic characteristics:  keen sensing, playful spirit, and a heightened capacity for devotion.  Wolves and women are relational by nature, inquiring, possessed of great endurance, and strength.  They are deeply intuitive, intensely concerned with their young, their mate and their pack.  they are experienced in adapting to constantly changing circumstances; they are fiercely stalwart and very brave."

All this by page 4. 

As this new cycle of seasons begins, I encourage you to give this book to yourself.  If, like me, you have already read it, read it again.  Let this be a path back to the heart of your core as a woman.  Lets allow the path for our unfolding freedom and wildness to begin again!

I am so feeling this in the air.  So in-tuned to a drum beating in the far distance, beckoning a huge shift back into the truth of who I am... the Truth of who we are as Women.

Now, I know that my soul brothers out there come and read this blog from time to time.  My intention is not to exclude you, or discount your Sacred Wildness.  But for this day, with this book, I send this note to my Soul Sisters.  Hold space for us as we make our way into more of who we are.

Blessings to all of you,
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Comments

[leah]

i've had the strangest bit of synchronicity reading this post! tonight i was doodling and it led to a drawing of a woman and wolf that had to do with intuition...i'm going to sketch it out more soon and post it. it was so cool to stop by here tonight and read this. gave me the chills! i love that book. it's a good one and a good reminder to pick it up again. xoxo

[Kriebels & Krabbels]

I agree. Every woman should read this book once in a lifetime. Some years ago I was in a bookstore. I was searching for a book on mandala's. While my hand was reaching out for one of those books another book fell..... Women who run with wolves (or in Dutch (my native speaking): De ontembare vrouw).

[storyteller]

Thanks for the reminder about this amazing book. It’s been a while since I’ve taken it off the shelf … and methinks I’ll seek it out today and put it someplace handy ;--)
Hugs and blessings,

[susanna]

I can't believe I haven't read this book before. A friend of mine lent me his collection of Estes's cds on women and myths which I thought were terrific. Thank you for the reminder. I think I'll check out this book at the library this week.

[Jana]

This book is sitting on my bookshelf, waiting to be read... perhaps this post is a sign? *a bit wierded out, but in an excited kind of way* lol

[Christine Mason Miller]

Thank you SO MUCH for your insights on India...this word - overwhelming - has been used over and over again, and while everyone has encouraged me to go experience that, it has always been within the framework of doing it as gently as possible. I really appreciate your advice!!

[Dawn]

Brilliant! thank you for such an inspiring and passionate post about the feminine in all women. Wild, wild women come and heed the call!

[Yoli]

I have lost the scent, the wild, animal side of me. I loved that book when I first read it, a long time ago. I lost it. I think it is time to buy it and read it again. Thank you for the reminder.

[deirdre]

I LOVE this book - it taught me so much about myself. When I find myself struggling with something I'll often use the book itself as an oracle, letting it fall open to just the thing I need to read in that moment.