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Dive into the Wisdom of the Wild Woman Archetype

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Women of Wild Woman Sisterhood gathered around a tree in the forest, hands on the trunk and arms around each other
Many women's hands reaching toward each other in a circle around orange flowers.

Sisterhood, a Sacred bond between women

Words by Tara Isis Gerris

Sisterhood is the Sacred bond that only Women know and share.

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A grey wolf with amber eyes looking upward, in dark forest earth and fallen leaves.

Clarissa Pinkola Estés and the Wolf in Every Woman

Words by Tara Isis Gerris

Before there was Wild Woman Sisterhood, there was a woman listening.

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A silver-haired woman in a terracotta dress sitting in meditation on a wooden floor

Medicine Women

Words by Diana Beaulieu

She is the wise woman, the visionary, the seer, the intuitive, the healer, the sexual priestess, and truth-holder — and she is returning.

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A smiling woman with long braids and layered necklaces outdoors

Wild-Hearted Woman

If you find a woman with a Wild Heart, do not try to tame her. You must adore her recklessly, the way she is meant to be Loved.

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A woman dancing, seen from behind in soft warm light, her white dress catching the glow

We have come to Be Danced

Words by Jewel Mathieson

Not the pretty dance, not the pretty pretty, pick me, pick me dance — but the claw our way back into the belly of the Sacred, Sensual Animal dance.

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Photo art by Niiv Photography: a woman lying curled on the bare earth within a spiral of stones, seen from above in warm sepia tones

I feel the heartbeat of the earth

Words by Sophia Jan

I feel the Heartbeat of the Earth deep within — I surrender into the life force of Creation, and I am the Sacred Breath of All Wild Women.

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Three overlapping images of a woman with long blonde hair in a white dress, moving through a snowy winter forest

Wild Woman Poem

Words by Tara Isis Gerris

I was not tamed. I was interrupted, and I came back anyway.

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A hand holding a smouldering bundle of dried white sage, bound with coloured thread

The Smudging Ceremony: Remove Bad Energy with Sage Smoke

How to perform a cleansing ceremony with the use of burning sage, also known as 'smudging'.

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Collage of Wild Woman Sisterhood community photographs: women laughing together, hands holding orange flowers, and women in red dresses dancing on the dunes.

Wild Woman Sisterhood, So Far

Words by Tara Isis Gerris

The first thing sisterhood took from me was the illusion that romantic love would be the most important relationship of my life.

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Women in red dresses sitting in a circle with frame drums among ancient stone ruins.

The Sacred Circle

Words by Tara Isis Gerris

Imagine there is a place where, the moment you enter, softness meets you at the door.

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A grey-haired woman in a red embroidered dress plays a hand drum at a crowded gathering.

When the Women Were Drummers

Words by Tara Isis Gerris

Before you had ears, there was rhythm.

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A grey wolf walking straight toward the viewer along a narrow path through dark forest grass and nettles.

Women Who Run With the Wolves

Words by Tara Isis Gerris

There are books you keep on a shelf, and there are books that became my Bible.

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The phases of the moon in a row against a black sky, ending in a red blood moon.

Listening to Our Menstrual Cycle

Words by Tara Isis Gerris

A month carries more than one cycle.

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Women with their arms around each other, raising their hands toward a sunlit green forest.

Sisterhood Manifesto

Words by Tara Isis Gerris

We are the women who were taught that friendship between women would always come with rivalry, jealousy and division. We chose differently.

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Two women with windswept grey hair stand face to face between grassy dunes.

The Empowered Woman

Words by Sonny Carroll

Her once reckless Spirit now tempered by Wisdom.

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A grey wolf with amber eyes blending into the face of a dark-haired woman with the same golden gaze.

Run Free and Wild Like the Wolf

Words by Tara Isis Gerris

Clarissa Pinkola Estés on telling what beckons from what calls from the soul, and why staying wild starts with asking what you want.

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A woman in a forest holding a fern leaf in front of her face.

A Wild Woman Guide to Radical Self-Love

Words by Tara Isis Gerris

There comes a point when what you are here to give begins asking more of you than endurance.

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