An Ode to Rage, Soul, Intuition: Things of Our Wildish Nature

There's never been a better time for women to strengthen intuition, befriend their wild nature, and participate in the life of the soul. Too often do societies dull the color of our lives and douse the flame of our spirit out of insensitive hope for peace and communion. I've always felt connected to my wild side, but it goes without saying that reaching the heights within comes as a daunting and tiresome task when pursued amongst life's various importances.

Have you ever felt this? As if finally you are gaining cohesiveness in the wildish and soulful nature of yourself, only to retreat back to the same belittling habits within your comfort zone - failing to speak out, catering normalcy, keeping coolness, striving for perfection.

Well yes you have because you are in fact a human being! (Sorry to all you who thought you were mermaids or fairies with your own spiritual quirks.) Within us all lies the inevitable and inextinguishable ego - big or small - plain and simple. 

After Oprah's electrifying and moving declaration for revolution, we have seen woman's wildish nature blossom. The will to stand, demand, be heard, fight, rage, to not sit on our bums being complacent, is more prominent than ever. We are sick of the cliches, tired of listening to ignorant statements of accepting the things we cannot change, knowing there's much more to living and breathing than simply following the guidelines of a life explained by the successful. 

So now what? We can march and we can speak up, we can rage, and we can continue to go the lengths of emailing politicians to impact their decisions that constitute the future of our lives, but what can we do to strengthen the wild nature within? How can we reform and rebuild the soul, free from self-limiting boundaries and insecurities that arise while standing in a barren desert with those of opposition? 

Today and tomorrow and the days to come we won't have all the answers, but I think we can all agree in the ways self-realization and self-growth sustain our consciousness, motivation, and our will to understand both our inner world and outer world. 

My most important reason in writing to you is to share with you the book that gave me hindsight to all of these things - Women Who Run With The Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estés. One friend told me that the book is her bible, and I think all women who've read it can agree. This book is the female bible, guiding us towards the "intuitive wisdom and instinctual self-confidence" of the female psyche. 

It's mighty dense with knowledge and wisdom in rebuilding our wild and feminine nature. If you're shy to large books with sentences requiring two-time or three-time re-read, don't allow yourself to fear, even slightly, this life-changing and life-charging piece of work. Its nothing to rush to finish as absorption of anything meaningful takes time. Again, this scripture is like a bible in its ability to guide and strengthen intuition, spirit and soul, and our overall ability to fight with courage. 

We can sit or we can stand. I hope you stand.

Some words of Estés I'll leave you with:

"...to be ourselves causes us to be exiled by many others, and yet to comply with what others want causes us to be exiled from ourselves. It is a tormenting tension and it must be borne, but the choice is clear."

"It cannot bloom all the time. But let your own innate cycles dictate the upsurges and the downward cycles of your life, not other forces or persons outside yourself, nor negative complexes from within."

"Women who try to make their deeper feelings invisible are deadening themselves."

"...the reward for simply being nice in oppressive circumstances is to be mistreated all the more."

"Another way to strengthen connection to intuition is to refuse to allow anyone to repress your vivd energies... that means your opinion, your thoughts, your ideas, your values, your morals, your ideals."

"...one has to work to do something about what one sees. To possess good intuition, goodly power, causes work. It causes work firstly in the watching and comprehending of negative forces and imbalances both inward and outward. Secondly, it causes striving in the gathering up of will in order to do something about what ones sees, be it for good, or balance, or to allow something to live or die."

"..with this light the miracles of deep beauty in the world and in humans come to consciousness...one can see past the bad action to the good heart, one can espy the sweet spirit crushed beneath the hatred, one can understand much instead of being perplexed only."

"Whatever can happen to a garden can happen to soul and psyche - too much water, too little water, infestations, heat, flood, storm, invasion, miracles, dying back, coming back, boon, healing, blossoming, bounty, beauty."

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