My ol Winter Blues, “Women’s Mysteries,” and Merc Retro

I was driving on Bestgate Road in Annapolis and something in the way the wind hit me through the window made my heart give this respondent ache.    It was March of 2001.   My body, my heart was awake.  I didn’t feel that dull, grey, sunless east coast flat.  The nothingness that accompanies it,…

Soul-work is NOT self-esteem!

Now, it’s important to clarify some ideas. This work, soul work, it can edge up next to concepts that  are self-helpy and lots of people, including myself, get eye rolls when it comes to that subject.  Yea, it seems to surprise people when they learn that I shrink at New Agey I’m okay you’re okay…

Self-honesty as Soul Work

What does it mean, Soul Work? And how do we start? This is maybe the great pressing drive of my life so far.   Having a life of soul.  The need for it was characterized early on by an unyeilding sense that there had to be more meaning to life than the daily grind.  I…

Sun and Moon Symbols, and lunar Imbolc

Today is the full moon. Full moons are significant because they symbolize a center-point in a growth cycle. Growth cycles are circles, never-ending or beginning, a continuum of todays informed by yesterday.  This feels good to me because one way of looking at this means that wherever you are in your understanding of your life and the…

Wild Women Wisdom Symbols in dreams, & Mercury Retrograde

This morning I awoke with a crudgy feeling.  This means I felt like grrrrr, I don’t want to get up. I lay there a minute contemplating what to do–it was 6:30, do I go back to sleep, make coffee, write…? And then I recalled an odd dream last night in which me and Mandy, my…

Welcome!

Welcome to the first post at Wild Women Wisdom! Look to this blog two to three times a week for posts on everyday life wisdom and how to know the soul through such daily ups and downs. I will use this blog to present accessible information about how our inner-life and rhythms are both our own, and…