THE INTENTIONAL EMBODIMENT OF YOUR WILD RHYTHM IS INTEGRAL TO YOUR SPIRITUALITY BECAUSE IT GROUNDS YOU FIRMLY IN THIS WORLD; IT CREATES OPPORTUNITY FOR CONTINUAL AFFIRMATION OF YOUR SEXUALITY AND CREATIVITY AS HALLMARKS OF YOUR VERY NATURE.
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THE INTENTIONAL EMBODIMENT OF YOUR WILD RHYTHM IS INTEGRAL TO YOUR SPIRITUALITY BECAUSE IT GROUNDS YOU FIRMLY IN THIS WORLD; IT CREATES OPPORTUNITY FOR CONTINUAL AFFIRMATION OF YOUR SEXUALITY AND CREATIVITY AS HALLMARKS OF YOUR VERY NATURE.
The recollection of your embodied cycles is the key to the broom closet’ s first lock; without this, your Witch consciousness remains dormant.
The intentional embodiment of your wild rhythm is integral to your spirituality because it grounds you firmly in this world; it creates opportunity for continual affirmation of your sexuality and creativity as hallmarks of your very nature. There is no great chasm between your enduring spirit and your holy, sensual self. The rhythms of the wild world are proof of your holistic being. Your sex and your spirit were forced into a divorce long ago, but now, now let these two parts of you be reunited under red satin sheets. The first pillar of wild woman spirituality is the marriage between the Witch’ s whole being— that is, her soul, body, mind, and spirit— and the cycles of the world around her. You are not merely in the world, my love; you are of the world.
When a woman’ s life becomes isolated from the cycles of nature’ s magick, she not only experiences a starvation of soul and spirit; she begins to question her sanity. The psyches and bodies of women are meant to wax and wane, swelling and thinning out with much majestic variability. The feminine is neither even-keeled nor easily predicted. We are changeable creatures. We women experience spiritual winters during which there is a divinely fallowed time when we care not for prayer or ritual. So, too, a woman experiences these sacred voids in terms of love and relationship, body and health, creative work, and every aspect of her way of being in the world. When compared directly and unknowingly to a high-fire inner summer, when deep, purposeful, and fertile transformation is being birthed over and over again, these inner winters can weigh heavily on a woman. She sinks low into a depression made far worse by a rejection of this time’ s validity as a dark-moon psychic state during which a woman craves solitude and emptiness.
The rhythms of the Holy Wild give us permission to have our own cyclical nature; we need only frame these highs and lows as part of our bodily and psychic home. We are the living feminine, Sister, and we have a cosmically sanctioned right to check in and check out in accordance with our inner resources. Our energetic wells can only source so much work, so much play, so much nurturing, and so much devotion before they become depleted. Consider the solar and lunar cycles as more predictable metaphors for your own rhythms. We are not meant to be constantly turned on, and
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