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We are entering the last quarter of the Snow Moon or what was commonly called the Hunger Moon.
A time when the most snow occurs and coldest temperatures. I think it is a neat thing the Snow Moon began in Valentines Day this year.
I have long had a strong affinity with the Moon. After finding out from my astrological chart that my Moon is is Pisces, it makes perfect sense to me why I have always said I am in love with the Moon and identify with this planet.
The Moon is associated with the feminine and the mother. It represents our inner child and our inner mother, spontaneity, and instinctive, intuitive abilities and having an empathetic compassionate nature. I am a hopeless romantic, a typical personality trait of someone born with the a Pisces Moon. I've been told I wear my heart on my sleeve, and have been described as a ball of emotion. There was a time that I'd try to hide these personality characteristics and even thought of them as defects, but now I know they are my strengths, being older and wiser.
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The Last Timber Wolf
Wild Woman Singing Over The Bones
From the Introduction -
Singing Over the Bones
The archetype of Wild Woman resides in the guts, not in the head. She
can track and run and summon and repel. She can sense, camouflage, and
love deeply. She is intuitive, typical, and normative. She is utterly
essential to women's mental and soul health.
She is the female soul. Yet she is more; she is the source of the
feminine. She is all that is of instinct, of the worlds both seen and
hidden -she is the basis.
She is intuition, she is far-seer, she is deep listener, she is loyal
heart. She encourages humans to remain multilingual; fluent in the
languages of dreams, passion, and poetry.
She is the voice that says, "This way, this way."
She is the one who thunders after injustice. She is the one we leave
home to look for. She is the one we come home to. She is the things that
keep us going when we think that we're done for.
To adjoin the instinctual nature does not mean to come undone, change
everything from left to right, from black to white, to move the east to
west, to act crazy or out of control. It does not mean to lose one's
primary socialization, or to become less human. It means quite the
opposite. The wild nature has a vast integrity to it.
It means to establish territory, to find one's pack, to be in one's body
with certainty and pride regardless of the body's gifts and
limitations, to speak and act in one's behalf, to be aware, alert, to
draw on the innate feminine powers of intuition and sensing, to come
into one's cycles, to find what one belongs to, to rise with dignity, to
retain as much consciousness as we can.
La Loba (Wolf Woman), the old one, the One Who Knows, is within us. She
thrives in the deepest soul-psyche of women, the ancient and vital Wild
Woman. She describes her home as that place in time where the spirit of
women and the spirit of wolf meet —the place where her mind and her
instincts mingle, where a woman's deep life funds her mundane life. It
is the point where the I and the Thou kiss, the place where women run
with the wolves.
The Creation Mother is always the Death Mother and vice versa. Because
of this dual nature, or double-tasking, the great work before us is to
learn to understand what around and about us and what within us must
live, and what must die. Our work is to apprehend the timing of both; to
allow what must die to die, and what must live to live.
You can dent the soul and bend it. You can hurt it and scar it. You can
leave the marks of illness upon it, and the scorch marks of fear. But it
does not die, for it is protected by La Loba the underworld. She is
both the finder and the incubator of the bones.
People do meditation to find psychic alignment. That's why people do
psychotherapy and analysis. That's why people analyze their dreams and
make art. That is why many read Tarot cards, cast I Ching, dance, drum,
make theater, pry out the poem, and fire up the prayer. That's why we do
all the things we do. It is the work of gathering all the bones
together. Then we must sit at the fire and think about which song we
will use to sing over the bones, which creation hymn, which re-creation
hymn. And the truths we tell will make the song.
There are some good questions to ask till one decides on the song, one's
true song:
What has happened to my soul-voice?
What are the buried bones of my life?
In what condition is my relationship to the instinctual Self?
When was the last time I ran free?
How do I make life come alive again?
Where has La Loba gone to?
Go back and stand under that one red flower and walk straight ahead for
that last hard mile. Go up and knock on the old weathered door. Climb up
to the cave. Crawl through the window of a dream. Sift the desert and
see what you can find. It is the only work we have to do.
You wish psychoanalytic advice? Go gather bones.
- Clarissa Pinkola Estes Ph.d |
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