Reconnecting with the Wild Woman Archetype
Within every woman lives a powerful force filled with good instincts, passionate creativity, and ageless knowing: the Wild Woman archetype. For centuries, this instinctive nature has been plundered and mismanaged, much like the wildlands of the earth. When women lose touch with this inner wilderness, they feel dry, weary, and silenced, pressured to be all things to all people while their own souls starve. The relationship between women and the wild is not accidental. Healthy wolves and healthy women share psychic characteristics: keen sensing, a playful spirit, and a deep capacity for devotion. Both are relational, intuitive, and possess great endurance, yet both have been harassed by those who misunderstand them.
This recovery is not about losing control, but about establishing territory, finding one's pack, and being in one's body with certainty and pride. To restore a woman's flagging vitality, one must perform a psychic-archaeological dig into the ruins of the female underworld to recover the natural, instinctive psyche. This process of returning to a natural life, where a woman has innate integrity and healthy boundaries, is illustrated by the story of La Loba, the Bone Woman. She collects the bones of creatures, especially wolves, and sings over them until they flesh out and come back to life. The resurrected wolf then transforms into a laughing woman who runs free. This tale serves as a miracle for the soul; we all begin as a bundle of bones lost in a desert, and it is our work to recover the indestructible life force of our wild selves. Singing over the bones means using the soul-voice to speak the truth of one's power and need. This solitary labor restores the "soul-footing" that allows a woman to know when things must die and when they must live.
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