Wild Woman:Wild Woman:

Feminine SoulFeminine Soul

How do you know if are not in touch

with your wild woman?

How do you know if are not in touch

with your wild woman?

SignsSigns

Feeling / Thinking / Acting:- Powerless- No Voice- Invisible- Chained or Trapped- Afraid or Angry all the time

Feeling / Thinking / Acting:- Powerless- No Voice- Invisible- Chained or Trapped- Afraid or Angry all the time

SignsSigns

Feeling / Thinking / Acting:- Fragmented- Dry or Dried Up- Perennially Tired- Depressed for no reason- Not Depressed but Not Happy

Feeling / Thinking / Acting:- Fragmented- Dry or Dried Up- Perennially Tired- Depressed for no reason- Not Depressed but Not Happy

SignsSigns

Feeling / Thinking / Acting:- Running around like a

‘headless chicken’- Living a fake life- Have to convince yourself to

be content with your life or mate or friends

Feeling / Thinking / Acting:- Running around like a

‘headless chicken’- Living a fake life- Have to convince yourself to

be content with your life or mate or friends

Wild WomanWild Woman

Lives close to her

nature and inner rhythms

Lives close to her

nature and inner rhythms

How did we lose our

wild woman?

How did we lose our

wild woman?

Red ShoesRed Shoes

From: Women Who Run With The Wolves by Clarissa Estes

From: Women Who Run With The Wolves by Clarissa Estes

Red ShoesRed Shoes

OrphanedChild

OrphanedChild

Handmade Red Shoes

Handmade Red Shoes

Shoes - protects what we stand on

Feet - carries our weight, provides mobility and freedom

Red - life and sacrificeProblems arise when much is

sacrificed but no life or not enough life is forthcoming

Shoes - protects what we stand on

Feet - carries our weight, provides mobility and freedom

Red - life and sacrificeProblems arise when much is

sacrificed but no life or not enough life is forthcoming

TrapsTraps

Gilded Carriage

Transportation

Supposedly offers something comfortable, less stressful but may end up as capture instead

Gilded Carriage

Transportation

Supposedly offers something comfortable, less stressful but may end up as capture instead

TrapsTraps

Dry Old Woman

Values of the old woman begins to drive the psyche

Old woman - symbol of rigid keeper of collective tradition, and enforcer of unquestioned status quo

Dry Old Woman

Values of the old woman begins to drive the psyche

Old woman - symbol of rigid keeper of collective tradition, and enforcer of unquestioned status quo

TrapsTraps

Injury To Basic Instincts

Senses are numbed (3 monkeys) resulting in over-domestication

Damage to instinct of self-preservation

Results in difficulty recognizing own needs or danger, don’t know how or when to stop or ask for help

Injury To Basic Instincts

Senses are numbed (3 monkeys) resulting in over-domestication

Damage to instinct of self-preservation

Results in difficulty recognizing own needs or danger, don’t know how or when to stop or ask for help

TrapsTraps

Starved Soul

Living a ‘pretend life’

A starved soul will look for food whether it be good or bad

Starved Soul

Living a ‘pretend life’

A starved soul will look for food whether it be good or bad

Executioner’s HouseExecutioner’s House

Trying to take off shoes too late

Need to cut off what is slowly killing you

Trying to take off shoes too late

Need to cut off what is slowly killing you

Wild WomanWild Woman

Ability to discern their inner and outer need at any given moment

Ability to discern their inner and outer need at any given moment

Wild WomanWild Woman

Understands the Life-Death-Life cycle

Understands the Life-Death-Life cycle

HECATE: Goddess of Crossroads

HECATE: Goddess of Crossroads

from: Goddesses In Older Women by Jean Shinoda Bolen

from: Goddesses In Older Women by Jean Shinoda Bolen

HecateHecate

Ability to see past, present, future

Holds dominion over life, death, rebirth

Ability to see past, present, future

Holds dominion over life, death, rebirth

HecateHecate

Torch to see in the dark

Knife to cut through delusions

Rope is the umbilical cord of rebirth

Key to unlock the mysteries of afterlife

Torch to see in the dark

Knife to cut through delusions

Rope is the umbilical cord of rebirth

Key to unlock the mysteries of afterlife

HecateHecate

Always at the threshold of major transition Wisdom learned from experience / living

Always at the threshold of major transition Wisdom learned from experience / living

HecateHecate

Truth Seeker seek the truth rather than stay ignorant or in denial

speak / live the truth

Truth Seeker seek the truth rather than stay ignorant or in denial

speak / live the truth

HecateHecate

Helps us let go of what are ready to die outmoded attitudes outgrown roles elements that are no longer life-affirming

Helps us let go of what are ready to die outmoded attitudes outgrown roles elements that are no longer life-affirming

HecateHecate

Inner midwife who aids us birth new aspects of ourselves

Inner midwife who aids us birth new aspects of ourselves

Wild WomanWild Woman

Lives a creativelife: the ability tocreate a life thatis congruent withour evolving self.

Lives a creativelife: the ability tocreate a life thatis congruent withour evolving self.