Category: Women’s Mysteries
Katrina
She is the wisdom We hide On our dark side The wisdom Like the moon That goes dead Just to be reborn
Wise Women Ways: Biology of Cycles
Clarissa Pinkola Estes, in her book “Women Who Run With the Wolves”, writes about the Medial Woman. In fact, I’ll go so far as to say that the book, in its entirety, is instruction–no, reminder!–to me of how to be a medial woman. Women, and this is medically studied stuff here, (see Dr. Christiane Northrup’s…
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,…
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…
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…