When we follow the tracks of the Wild Woman Archetype, who is viscerally connected to the cycles of the Sun and Moon and intrinsically connected to the living world, we are over and over again faced with the presence of darkness. Eventually the Full Moon fades to Dark, just as the day fades into night.

To the modern woman, born with access to electricity, living in a culture whose relationship with darkness is avoidant at best and intolerant at worst, both the reality of physical darkness and the very human experience of darker emotions can spark a lot of fear. 

We may think, “It’s night, turn on a light” or “I feel a wave of sadness coming on, make it stop.” 

Just as we all have our favorite lights for night time, we also have our favorite ways to make our darker emotions stop – even if it’s just for a little while. 

We expend a great deal of energy & resources attempting to outrun our darker emotions, just as we spend copious amounts of energy and physical resources to make and power the tools that light up our nights.

When we brush up against the presence of the Wild Woman Archetype, one of the first qualities that stands out is her courage. She walks skillfully in the midnight forest. She does not let the darker caverns of her inner life deter from sitting still and listening in. Just as she has acquired knowledge and tools to navigate the night & the Winter, so has she gathered the tools and knowledge to give her rage, her grief, and her fear space to be heard, seen & felt. 

Instead of spending her finite amount of time on Earth trying to outrun her rage, her grief, her fear – for she knows it is futile and they will catch her eventually – she plants her feet, and breathes her way into full presence, as she allows the swell emotion to take its course. She has learned that every feeling, when fully experienced and carefully witnessed, will change and transform. She has seen again and again that when her stormier emotions are given some space to be, they can be great catalysts for learning & change.

She allows the darkness to embrace and nourish her like the soil does the seed. 

Life on Earth is a strange and wondrous experience – full of opposites: Winter & Summer, night & day, cold & hot, joy & sorrow. We need not be surprised or afraid when a dark night falls upon us or within us. It’s one of the most natural things in the world. (One that, incidentally, proceeds the return of light every single time.) 

We can call upon the Wild Woman Archetype to help us learn to navigate all manner of darkness which is as full of nourishment, mystery, growth, life & magic as the womb which was our first home here on Earth. 

She will ask us to gather our tools and knowledge. 

She will ask us to truly learn from our experiences. 

And she will remind us again and again: there is no singular superior way to walk in the dark, but rather a set of tools gathered & perspective honed that is right for each of us.

Deepest Solstice blessings from the caverns of my heart to yours. 

♥️ & Howls, 

Chris 

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