Wild Woman
The Wild Woman is the untamed one. She’s the woman who’s heard the demands of the world and knows the conditions they try to place on her… yet chooses her own path. The wild woman isn’t ashamed. She isn’t embarrassed. She won’t hide herself, or deny the river of her emotions… She is the woman who dances, sings, and lives life fully, on her terms.
The wild women you see and recognize from your life probably make it look effortless. It appears as though this natural state of freedom comes easily. But for most of the women who’ve harnessed their inner wild woman archetype, it’s been a long old battle.
A healthy woman is much like a wolf — strong life force, life-giving, territorially aware, intuitive, and loyal. Yet separation from her wildish nature causes a woman to become meager, anxious, and fearful.
With the wild nature as ally and teacher, we see not through two eyes only, but through the many eyes of intuition. With intuition we are like the starry night, we gaze at the world through a thousand eyes. The wild nature carries the medicine for all things. She carries stories, dreams, words, and songs. She carries everything a woman needs to be and know. She is the essence of the female soul.
Being wild does not mean to lose one’s primary socializations. 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, to speak and act in one’s behalf, to be alert, and to find what one belongs to. It means to rise with dignity, to proceed as a powerful being who is friendly but never tame.
-Lindsay Mooney, find her at SOÜLHAPPY
