The Wild Woman is on of the most misunderstood and enigmatic feminine archetypes.
Partially because very few in our modern world can grasp her in her entirety, and partially because it’s trendy on instagram to be Wild and Free™️. And who doesn’t want to be wild and free? I mean, that’s mostly what this whole newsletter is about… But the Wild Woman goes so much deeper than her aesthetic.
Some definitions that I find associated with her are: An instinctive woman living with the cycles of nature, a highly sexual woman that operates outside of societal norms, and even an independent warrior woman that protects her heart and honor.
But these definitions are all still interpreting the Wild Woman through the lens of humanity. Saying who she is, rather than what she is. These modern definitions are incomplete because they sever her from her essence as Nature, and they sever her from her overflowing and untamed Eros. And I am not talking about ‘erotic’ eros, I am talking about Eros as the raw expression of the feminine heart. Not just the yearning for a man, but the yearning to be filled- with passion, with joy, with pleasure, with desire. It’s the poetry deep in the pulsing womb of the earth. But she is not all love… in her womb lies the gateway between life and death, the beautiful and violent cycles of life.
Because the Wild Woman is not one with nature, She is Nature.
She is the soil, the seeds, the predator, and the prey. She is the raging fury of the wildfire and the nourishment of the rain. She is embodied in her womb, heart, and soul. She is living with the Old Ways.
But the Wild Woman is a rebel!! The women on the internet cry, and she is… but she is only a rebel because to embody this is our modern world is an act of war upon the structures that seek to keep us disconnected from remembering who we are. The Wild Woman is a sacred rebel, a warrior of the heart.
The Wild Woman is alive within all of us. She is the Priestess that holds Earth’s natural cycles, she is the Queen of the hives that pollinate the plants, she is the Lover seducing her mate in spring, she is the Warrior and the Mother who fiercely guards her young while she nurtures them, she is the Dark Crone who holds her secrets and emotions in the depths of the ocean, and she is the Chaotic woman, unpredictable in her weather patterns and wrath.
Every feminine archetype that is present within Nature is present with us.
Some questions to ask yourself to connect to your Wild Woman:
Do you feel yourself as Nature? Just as much the gentle breeze, as the howling wind?
Do you sense the ebb and flow of the ocean’s tides in your monthly cycle?
Are you living from your womb and heart?