On the Horizon
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We meet weekly in Circles, Workshops, Practices to keep our wild spirits lit!
Upcoming Weekly Gatherings:
Join us for an hour-long New Moon Meditation Adventure on May 7th!
Online, from anywhere.
Using a dynamic meditation journey, we will tune into the New Moon, to your own Inner Guidance, synced up with wild-hearted women from around the world. This offering will include music, storytelling, meditation, journaling prompts & intention-setting.
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We have Wild Woman Project-trained Circle facilitators is 26 countries, and 44 out of the 50 United States.
Chris Maddox is the founder of The Wild Woman Project where she teaches women how to utilize the gifts of the Wild Woman Archetype in their everyday lives & how to lead women’s circles in their local communities. She is the organizer & facilitator of the beloved annual WILD WOMAN FEST, a women’s retreat-festival hybrid which fosters a deep connection to nature, a direct experience of the divine feminine & profound spiritual sisterhood among the women in attendance.
An ever student of the great mysteries of existence and nature itself, Chris believes women are holding innate gifts & tools that society at large needs – now more than ever. She is committed to helping women remember their special magic and to bring it forward into every corner of their lives, for the greater good of the planet.
I posed just this question at my full moon circle this week. We pondered on what has come to the light in our own small worlds and in the world at large…the micro and the macro.
Personally what has come to light for me is that simple living is best, I’m much more traditional than I ever knew, and that there is an amplification of my femininity as I move through my days on the homestead as mother and wife.
On the macro what has become plain as day is that far fewer folks have clear minds than I ever could have guessed. That the majority of our species chooses to follow rather than lead, and that at some points in history the dark outweighs the light.
It is well illuminated that there is much work to do for the future generations and that community is key.
Thank you for the inquiry and the space 🙏🏽
Feel all of this so much, Nina. Thanks for sharing. Always appreciate hearing your perspective.
I like to call it wildly domesticated or domesticatedly wild 🙂
What has come to light for me on a personal level has been my divine connection back to Mother Nature and my intended mission and path on this planet. For the past last 2 years and more intensely leading you to today, I have felt more awakened and connected my myself, my intuition, my environment and in turn to the planet than ever before. People, places and things have been placed in my path and I am paying attention. My eyes, heart and mind are wide open and I cannot wait to explore this new journey and what lies ahead.
Beautiful, Jessica! Thanks so much for sharing!
What has come to light for me is knowing that I am safe within the Sister circle and having a secret covering..
What a good idea to reflect back on where I was and where I am now ~ so far! In the last 2 years, I found the Divine Feminine! WOW! I painted some of her many eminations, I prayed to her and with her, and realized that she is me and I am her, and that she keeps revealing herself to me. I found the WWP and took Circle Leader training and I sit in a circle of women and listen and share and dance and sing and howl. I learned that gratitude can help get me out of a funk. And it’s a little easier to remember to see the divine in other people. No doubt, I still struggle with fear, and I fall back into old habits that do not serve me. But I feel like I now have a greater sense that the universe loves me as I am (so far!), and when I forget, somehow she reminds me, and I am grateful.
Yes, Eileen! So happy to read all of this! Thank you for sharing.
What a beautiful question. I think what has changed most for me is living my values. Pre-pandemic, I was mostly living other people’s values, not my own. I could hear that inner voice whispering what I was meant to do and what lit my soul up (travel! live abroad! slow down! connect with nature! find community! live simply! swim, dance, read, write, create, cook, be WILD! and travel some more!) but I kept trying to reason with it. I thought it was easier to build a life that resembled “the American Dream”, that this would lead to acceptance, love, some kind of peace.
Now, I let that inner voice lead. The pandemic was the catalyst that finally pushed me to live from my heart and soul. My life has changed drastically the last two years – my therapist calls it a “dark night of the soul” and I don’t think I’m the only who has been experiencing this shift! A lot of shedding has happened (relationships, limiting beliefs, unhelpful habits, physical stuff/clutter) and it’s been HARD. But I also feel more ME than ever.
I still don’t have a firm grasp on where I’m headed, but the unknown doesn’t scare me as much as it used to. The pandemic has taught me that life itself is a complete unknown, it was just easier to tell ourselves otherwise before. I often think of one of my favorite lines from Mary Oliver these days – “Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
And one thing I’m most proud of: my inner voice no longer whispers. She roars. And so I have a much better idea of what I will do with this one wild and precious life.
I have come through self-doubt, death, fear, and despair over these last few years to find the freedom and courage to be who I really am and declare it to the world outside my trusted inner circle. I own the names of witch, artist, garden goddess, bee whisperer, and Wild Woman, and I wear them proudly.