The wild woman and the sacredness of our bodies.
Even though our power as women is deeply tied to attuning to the unseen world, we cannot do this without attuning to our physical being.
We are not living in a body — we are a body. This is the wisdom of the Wild Woman.
The Wild Woman’s medicine is rooted in sensuality, embodiment, and presence. Her medicine is rooted in her being fully alive and present in her physical sensual experience of this life. She trusts her bodily instincts. This is how her intuitive wisdom guides her and speaks to her. Her instincts are visceral, and this is where her presence lies. This is what frees her from her head, her stories, the past, and the future. The spiritual often shames the physical deeming our bodies a sin — the Wild Woman beckons us to see through the lies that severe us from our holy wholeness.
We can have all the epiphanies, and breakthroughs that we want, but if we don’t integrate through our felt sense beneath our thoughts — they mean nothing.
It’s one thing to intellectually understand something as opposed to the visceral aliveness of truth in our bodies, deep in our bones. Feeling truth, feeling our wisdom, and feeling the resonance of our knowing is different than intellectually understanding or dissecting something.
Our bodies house our spirits, and our spirits enliven our bodies. Our souls may be eternal while our bodies are mortal but that does not mean one overrides the other— they make one another whole. They make one another exist. We are a physical being just as much as we are spirit.
Feminine wisdom is often associated with women’s ability to intuit the unseen, but it is through the body that we translate our intuition. It's through the body that we translate the unseen world. It's through the body that we translate are unconscious and find where there is emotion, healing, wounds, and blockages. It is through the body that we intuit our yes’s and no’s, our passions, fears, and boundaries.
Our body is what's translating our consciousness.
Every intuitive hit we have can only be translated by us through a language that is nurtured between our consciousness and our body. Our inner knowing comes from either a sensation, our inner eyes, our inner ears, through our taste or smell — all of these things signify yes, no, this way, that way, stop, run, don’t trust, trust.
Our intuitive wisdom whether clairvoyant, clairaudient, or clairsentient are all forms of intuitive wisdom that are made possible due to our senses. Our intelligence that is deeper than logic, greater than statistics, and more valid than anything someone else can tell us — is all physically felt in some way or another, even if it’s feeling energy.
It's through the body that we translate the unseen world. This is the wisdom of the wild woman — her body is her altar.
The medicine of the Wild Woman is rooted in sensuality, embodiment, and presence. Her medicine is rooted in her being fully alive and present in her physical sensual experience of this life. Pleasure is her prayer. It's her greatest offering of gratitude for her existence. It's her greatest celebration of being alive. She has a heightened awareness through her senses because she sees them for what they are worth with reverence. She sees through the sexualization of her body, sensuality, pleasure, and eroticism, and knows their holy wisdom. She knows that they are hers and are not about anybody else.
Being present in the sensual experience of being a woman, moment by moment is our feminine intelligence. This is our feminine wisdom. This is how we know when we know.
The Wild Woman beckons us into our bodies.
The Wild Woman Beckons us into our bodies, and she beckons us to reclaim our sensuality beneath the sexualization and shame that has tainted it. She beckons us to reclaim pleasure as a revolutionary act. She begs us to listen to our bodies, to stop running ourselves thin, to tell the crazed amount of busyness off, and to drop into ourselves. She begs us to drop into that felt sense wisdom that is our greatest protector, greatest beacon of light, and our greatest joy.
Our felt sense wisdom is our compass. Our heart and womb, speak through the body. Our cyclical nature is physiological. Just like the weather, just like the seasons, and just like the moon, and the cosmos — the shapeshifting nature of the universe is the weaving of the seen and unseen, of the physical and energetic — this is the divinity of Life.
Such a big part of woman’s power is her wisdom that is accessed through the unseen. She doesn’t need to understand, she doesn’t need to know why, she doesn’t need to explain — she just knows. She knows through the dance that happens between her body temple and her spirit.
Communing with the sensations that dance through our bodies, movement, breath, sound, and touch are all what merry our spirits and beings whole. Claiming ourselves as a body just as much as we are spirit, and claiming our lives as fleeting just as much as they are mysterious and infinite is the only way to orient ourselves into the magnitude, potential, and beauty of what is.
Our spirits cannot experience this world, in this exact way, without our physicality. Even if our spirits live on — they don't get to live on in this exact way, in our relationships, or in relation to this earth after our bodies are no longer.
Even as divine beings, our life is still ephemeral, and this is what the Wild Woman is aching for us to awaken to.
In some ways, our spirituality is our physicality. It’s being immersed in this beautiful world taking in the sensory experience all around us, that is seen and unseen.
Even though wild, in essence, can be animal-like and primal, somewhat fierce or abrasive energy, wild also means lounging in the sun, sleeping, and resting abundantly. Sometimes wild is being predatory in our protection, or in forging our path, but wild is also completely letting go and trust falling into the current that courts us. As much as wild can mean fiery, passionate, or active, it’s also light, receptive, playful, and not pining beyond our needs. It’s not seeking happiness beyond the moment.
Wild more than anything means being present and listening to our animal bodies. We are all programmed, tamed, and domesticated to some extent, and we all still have the wild within us. This is the dance of the Wild Woman, or maybe more accurately this is the dance of being human. It’s our instinctual impulses between the seen and unseen, and the tangible and intangible. This is the dance between worlds.
Humanity has come to deny our physical body just as much as the innocence of the undefinable great mystery. We’ve gotten so wrapped up in defining everything and stabilizing and accentuating the future. We've gotten so wrapped up in an external focus of achieving, doing, and becoming that when it comes to our bodies — for the most part, we are not really in them. We have been coerced out of them, and this is because our bodies are our spirits. They are our access to power.
Claiming the sacredness of our bodies is one of the most powerful things we could ever do. Everything outside of us, everything we pine for, everything we strive for, or think about in repetitive loops — create distance. They all drown out the blaring truth that is aching for us to listen.
The Wild Woman is here to bring us home.
With Marigold love,
Abby
