Clarissa Pinkola Estes really was the one who brought the Wild Woman back to life again through her writing.
in Women Who Runs With The Wolves she says, “ The Wild Woman carries the bundles for healing; she carries everything a woman needs to be and know. She carries the medicine for all things. She carries stories and dreams and words and songs and signs and symbols. She is both vehicle and destination.”
Somehow we have forgotten for if we remembered we would let go of competing with one another. We would stop judging our sisters and we would embrace our feminine beauty and expression. It still happens that when a woman shines her light and shares her authentic self other women find fault and turn away from her.
The Dali Lama says that Western women will save the world, yet that won’t happen if we can come together in support and understanding. If we can’t find compassion for having survived the experience of being woman at this time in history.
Women need to find and explore their wild nature again.
Estes says, “When we lose touch with the instinctive psyche, we live in a semi-destroyed state and images and powers that are natural to the feminine are not allowed full development. When a woman is cut away from her basic source. She is sanitized, and her instincts and natural life cycles are lost, subsumed by the culture, or by the intellect or the ego- one’s own or those that belong to others”.
Finding your wild nature is an inside job. It is about reaching past our false sense of identity as a woman. The identity given to us by our culture. We are no longer teenage girls vying for the attention from the current heart throb. There is no need for judgment, jealously, or competition. Every woman has something unique to offer the world. Finding and embracing your wild nature is the beginning.
