*Pictures from a Wild Woman event Forest and Village in August in New Hampshire
I have had the divine feminine app for over ten years and have seen thousands of different divinely feminine events all with different flavors.
Some are in beautiful places with beautiful things. Red Tents lined with silk and pillows. Altars with powerful Goddess statues, incense, flowers and more.
Some are intellectual bringing into awareness a herstory that was suppressed in history. Statues, artifacts and temples from throughout antiquity when other cultures honored and respected the feminine face of God.
Some are seeped in other religious traditions but with a Sacred Feminine flair: Mary Magdalene in Christianity, the many feminine Goddesses of Hinduism, the peace of Tara in Buddhism.
Some are community and healing based focusing on recognizing our emotions and learning authenticity and acceptance.
And some are Wild.
I first heard of the concept of Wild Woman through Clarissa Pinkola Estes, but like most things in life reading about it and living it are completely different.
Wild Women are Witches.
Witches live close to the Earth and use nature in one form or another to Heal.
Wild Women know their innate power. They hold themselves differently.
They don’t care a lick about the dirt and cracks on their bare feet. Their beauty requires no make up.
Making a choice between a five star luxury hotel with unlimited shopping and the woods with a full moon shining on a river bank is done in a blink of an eye.
Don’t get me wrong, they appreciate creature comforts but they have come to an understanding of the balance between Nature and Civilization.
They understand that what you get in terms of hot showers, air conditioning and comfortable beds, you must give, too, in terms of land stewardship and eco-awareness.
Just like Nature, every choice ripples throughout.
Their homes are filled with stones and bones, rocks and crystals. Not the expensive ones that you pay hundreds for in stores but the ones that call to you when you are spending the day outside.
You ask permission to take them home and understand they bring home with them the power of the place.
They live with all the dangers of nature: ticks, snakes, bears and even have a respect for the aforementioned because they keep the human population down in the Wild.
You’re likely to see a look of impatience on their face when you walk by in your expensive Columbia hiking gear chatting loudly about your work day.
Well, actually you most likely won’t see that look as they will be off path making their own way.
They know it takes 12 minutes of sitting quietly in nature before She accepts you, and you begin to see a world that the Patagonia, uncreased, chemical smelling Day Hikers will never see.
Wild Women events are filled with all the noises they told us not to make: screaming, crying and loud. Drumming. Bonfires. Trees reverberating the beat. Tents scattered around. Herbs and plant medicine.
And Wild has nothing to do with the Virgin/Whore dilemma in Patriarchy. They have mastered both. Nudity will most likely come into play somehow but not in a wanton sexual way but rather in an acceptance of our Goddess given skin retaining your own individual power and at the same time, allowing vulnerability.
Ain’t nothing sexier than that.
And Wild Women don’t rebuke men. Their Wild Men stand on equal footing with them. Or maybe not. Maybe they choose other women, but any which way, it is their choice to make.
As they make their own choices free from the constraints of society. Their constraints are natural and cyclical. Mother Nature is not to be messed with.
They are Her helpers providing bridges from Her mysteries and moods to the rest of civilized society.
They are valuable and needed and coming back.
Does this call to you? Interested in a Wild Women event? Here’s one in August in New Hampshire. .
Find other Wild Women events on the divine feminine app.
