12/10/2024
Journeying with Women Who Run With the Wolves provides deep initiations. Its raw wisdom calls to the wild soul within us, guiding us. This year, I turned to it once again, with a group of women, and found myself moving deeper into the spiral of life, this time, bringing me to even more profound truths.
I wandered the desert with La Loba, gathering the scattered bones of myself, those pieces I buried to make others comfortable, the instincts I abandoned. Piece by piece, I reclaimed them. The howl of wolves urged me forward, reminding me that these bones hold my truth, my freedom, my soul’s longing.
Then came Baba Yaga. After gathering the bones, I sorted seeds, each one representing a choice, a commitment to the life I wish to cultivate. It required patience, discernment, and the courage to let go of what was not mine to nurture.
And when the chrysalis called, I stepped into the liminal space, the in-between, where the old dissolves and the new emerges. It’s here that I asked myself: “Are you ready to live from the truth of your soul?” This year, I felt the deepest grief and the deepest love, teaching me that honouring my sorrow opens the door to more love and joy.
Emerging from the chrysalis was not an arrival but a rebirth, fragile, raw, tender. The desert held me as I learned to stretch my wings. It wasn’t until the ocean’s pull carried me into its depths that I truly understood what I was seeking. There, I reconnected with my sealskin, my soulskin, and I was returned to myself in a way that could not be ignored.
Reconnected to my soul and my truth, I sang life back into the parts of me that once stayed silent. Wolves taught me to honour my instincts, to trust my wild knowing, and to walk with integrity, unwavering, even when the world resists my becoming.
This is not a path of selfishness but of alignment, where each step is measured with care. I now tend to my creative river, cleansing it and allowing its flow to return, unburdened and alive.
As the year closes and December invites reflection, I pause to honour all I have learned. And so,te I carry this wild knowing forward, into the next spiral of becoming.
