It was All Saint’s Day and Day of the Dead yesterday, All Soul’s Day today, New Moon tonight or Lunar Samhain. I put a quote on WWW’s FB page out of a book called “The Herbal Lore of Wise Women and Wortcunners”. The etymology of the word wortcunner basically means root-knower. The quote was about…
Category: Women’s Mysteries
Menstrual Huts may save the world
The sentiments of the following are the entire reason I started Wild Women Wisdom. Rob Brezny is such a huge inspiration….this is taken from his Moon Lodge thoughts he shared on Facebook today… Here’s an excerpt of a letter I wrote to America’s richest woman, Oprah Winfrey. “Dear Oprah,” I began. “Please buy up all…
Final Harvest Moon and Wisdom of the Feminine
Moon tonight over Laguna Canyon One of the roots for the term harvest moon comes from old european peasant ways. The season of agriculture and of grazing animals–who lived and feasted in the pastures–followed the growing cycles of the earth. Now is the time the final harvest is cut and hung, the last of…
Women’s Mysteries: New Moon, before Fall. Roots.
I cried when Jon sang the words to the Traveling Song. Just his voice, the snap-sounds of fire, the circle of ocean below us in a constant shhhhhushhhh. One of those times noise actually makes you feel quiet. That’s how big it was, the silence in the night. While you are away from…
Women’s Mysteries: The Threshold Stage
Last Thursday I felt my body ushering me into my threshold time. Threshold means at the edge. In this case, I use the word to mean being in-between two different ways of being. One way is active, initiating, directed, this is called the follicular stage, the time of month when our sex energy is ovulatory…
The Real Work
Sitting in the auto shop waiting Here are the women: 3 beside me, a divorcee and a mother daughter pair And the daughter says the sweetest thing to the divorcee about her eyes The divorcee’s heart crack fills this room & this is the myth us gals must dispel That we are here to work…
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,…
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