Woman Most Wild. Danielle Dulsky

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      Look to the waning moon, Wild One, as a great organizer. The energy of Mother Moon ebbing toward darkness is much like that of the destructive Goddesses, such as Kali in the Hindu tradition or the Cailleach in Celtic wisdom; She clears the fields to make space for what will come. Swallow the changes lit by the waning moon as necessary progressions toward your soul’s destiny. Use this time to learn how to see in the dark, and open your third eye wide.

      Women are taught to resist these phases of letting go and the empty void. In a culture that fervently emphasizes productivity over nonaction, we are socialized to dig our metaphoric fangs deeply into anything that is in the process of leaving us. We want it all, but we deserve space as much as we deserve the abundance of having. What if we are always letting go of something in order to make space for the new? What if, in the balance, we are perfectly supported by the great swell and the great purge at any given point in our lives?

      Women need and deserve the fallow time. Go into the dark regularly and fearlessly, holding steadfast in the knowledge that you are not meant to be the ever-generative Creatrix-Mother at all times. Permit yourself to be reborn in the dark; relinquish roles, practices, and relationships that no longer serve. Embrace sweet solitude as a means of evaluation. We see ourselves far more clearly in the dark than we do in the light, Sister, and you know this to be true.

       The Witch in the Dark: Psychic Shielding for Wild Women

      The waning lunar phase is a pivotal time for psychic development and honing your subtle-energy sight. As close to midnight as possible, and in a room where you will not be disturbed, sit quietly in the shadowy silence, with your eyes wide open. Draw a slow spiral in both of your palms with a fingertip, and feel your palm chakras open wide. Now, psychic Witch, place your hands together in front of you, slowly moving them away from one another and then back toward each other until you feel just the smallest bit of resistance between your palms. Look at your hands with soft vision, a sacred gaze, a drishti. Do you see it? A foggy blue-white glow emanates from your hands now; you are seeing your body’s very life-force. You are witnessing your own prana in action, your electricity, the very juice of your aura.

      You have been told, dear Witch, from the time you were young, that such subtle energies are not real, and you have unlearned seeing them out of social necessity. Not wanting to be ostracized, you unconsciously denied that this sea of energy exists all around us. Here, in this soft, glowing soup, you can learn to see angels, guides, and spirits. Here you will break down the patterns of vision you have learned, dismantling years of conditioning. Here you will truly begin to see in the dark.

      Close your eyes now, my Sister-Witch. Become aware of that same glowing energy field you witnessed around your hands. Know it now as vibrating all around you, extending away from you several feet in all directions. Envision this now: On the outermost edge of this aura of yours is a hard, quartz-crystal shell. This shield is permeable only in one direction; you can send energy out, if you wish, but nothing can enter your aura from the outside. Nest in the safety of your psychic shield now, great armored Priestess, and use this protective skill whenever you are feeling vulnerable to psychic or emotional attack. Strong boundaries are a Witch’s best friend, and you will learn to use them well, my love.

      Psychic shielding is a practice that will support you not only in your Craft but also in day-to-day living. Many women are awakening to the burden of the empath in our society. Empathy, on the one hand, is a much needed quality of the Wild Healer Archetype, with feelings being absorbed and assimilated by one human from another. Anodea Judith defines empathy in The Global Heart Awakens as the “building block of compassion. . . .Here we drop all judgment and preoccupation with our own dramas.” On the other hand, overly empathic individuals of all genders may feel regularly consumed by the emotional energies of others, much to their own psychological confusion and physiological depletion. When you hone your skills in boundary creation, you do yourself a formidable service in protecting your sacred self against both malicious and unwitting trespassers. A woman who nurtures herself so nurtures every woman in the world. So may it be for you, and so may it be for every one of us.

THE DARK MOON AND NESTING IN NOTHINGNESS

      Closely associated with the aspects of the feminine that have been most feared, most condemned throughout time, the dark moon phase is marked by a lunar void. This phase, my brave Witch, is your lunar winter. Here you are a seed resting in the deep soil, waiting for the spark of life to ignite an inevitable stir in your heart. The dark of the moon is a time of seeming finality and death, and it is associated with your inner Wise Woman, an all-knowing Witch consciousness that lives in quiet solitude and perfect stillness.

      At the dark of the moon, my love, it is best to work no manifestation magick unless you feel called loudly to work. Now is the time for clear seeing, divine reception, and surrender. Rituals and self-designed ceremonies marking transitions, validating cyclical conclusions, or supporting feminine intuition are ideal for this psychically fertile phase of the moon. Sink into the void with all that you are, and relish this time of thick, psychic energy and nourishing rest. Take time to be alone during those nights when the moon seems to be abandoning the world. Consider what you may be grieving for. Ask yourself: What has been released from your life during this past lunar month? Have you truly accepted this change?

      The Witch of the Dark Moon embodies a subtle reverence for nothingness and stillness. She looks neither ahead nor behind her. She resists the urge to plan and perfect, and, in that empty space, she becomes a receptor for tiny pinpoints of light, divine nudges, and infinitesimal hints that she collects in a psychic knapsack. She does not try to order this information or make too much sense of it; she simply gathers, giving herself permission to feel her way through the dark by the power of her keenest senses.

       The Nine of Swords: A Dark Moon Ritual

      The levels of grief are both complex and personal. As women we are often taught to suppress our emotions for fear of being perceived as weak, and depression, we learn, is unforgivable. Women’s deep dive into periods of sadness, lethargy, and complete surrender is often a necessary time of respite. Something is not working in your life, be it physically, emotionally, or spiritually, and depression groundswells from your feminine roots in an effort to pull you down into urgently needed contemplation. Here, in your dark night of the Witch’s soul, you give yourself permission to feel it all. You will weep and let the tears have their way with you.

      The nine of swords in a Tarot deck marks a woman in pain; very often she is affected by quintessential wounds of the feminine. Ponder this, love: If you were asked to be the creatrix of a ritual, a self-designed ceremony of letting go, what would you dedicate this ritual to? In the darkness of this moon, design a sacred ceremony of release and transition that will give you time and space both to acknowledge loss and to welcome transformation.

      Light a white candle and burn sage and sweetgrass. Whisper now the intention for this ritual: Tonight, I am marking the end/death/release/conclusion of ___________. I offer gratitude for how I was served by this powerful force when it was in my life, but now I am letting it go. I accept this change and give myself permission to feel the emotions deep in my womb. Let these feelings bloom and bubble from within you in whatever way seems fitting, for as long as you have. You will know when the ritual is complete, my love, for you will feel a tingle of rebirth; you will find a small bit of space into which you can nestle, one that was not there at the ceremony’s inception.

      Snuff out the candle and sink into an unburdened sleep, waking just as the new moon dawns. Do not try too hard to label your emotions, positive or negative, for our language very often has no words for the complexity of our feelings. In this dark moon space, simply acknowledge that a change has occurred, feel supported by the gift of ground beneath СКАЧАТЬ