Cultivation of the Wild woman
By Rachel Prehn
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Cultivation of the Wild womanFeb 11, 2020
The Art Spirit Book Study Episode 02
In this episode we discuss the purpose of both making and witnessing art. Details relating to the whole and much more.
Four Artists Paint a Tree: youtu.be/9Dg8w6gk4cE
Jess Karp:
youtu.be/8-xEk5rPMJY
The Art Spirit Book Study Episode 01
Book Study Update
The first book study was Women Who Run with the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estés, next is The Art Spirit by Robert Henri.
Here's an update of the podcasts direction and vision with Ben and Rachel.
Insta: @cultivationofthewildwoman
Go out to the woods, go out
Announcements: Giveaway Winners and Book Study of the Art Spirit
Wild Woman Book Study Announcement Season 3
Chapter 16: Wild Woman Book Study: Ep.12 Season 2
In this episode we will be exploring:
CHAPTER 16: The Wolfs Eyelash
-The 2 year anniversary of Cultivation of the Wild Woman Podcast
-The Last Chapter of Women Who Run with the Wolves
Topics/Themes:
- Story as medicine
-A poem from 1970
-"If you don't go out in the woods, nothing will ever happen and your life will never begin"
-"Go out in in the woods, go out.
Go out in in the woods, go out.
Go out in in the woods, go out"
-Thank you Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés for putting your heart and soul into this book. Thank you for sharing the stories of our ancestors. Thank you for Women Who Run with the Wolves!
Chapter 15: Wild Woman Book Study: Ep.11 Season 2
In this episode we will be exploring:
CHAPTER 15. Shadowing: Canto Hondo, The Deep Song
-Recorded on the Harvest Blue Moon on Halloween night!
-The Second to last Chapter of Women Who Run with the Wolves
Topics/Themes:
-“Shadowing means to have such a light touch, such a light tread, that One can move freely through the forest, observing without being observed. A wolf shadows anyone or anything that passes through her territory. It is her way of gathering information. It is the equivalent of manifesting and then becoming like smoke, and then manifesting again”
-Know thy self. The external world is a representation of the internal world
-Turning your weaknesses into strengths
-Hindsight is 2020, Visions, Faith, allowing the story to unfold
-Brain: brain stem, prefrontal cortex, Serotonin, Dopamine, Neurochemistry
-Channeling- the subconscious equipment, Drawing from the Masters Book by Robbert Beverly Hale, Drawing Skills
-Addiction and Art
-Finding the labor that you enjoy: Vocation
-Motivation and caffeine, Sugar as an antidepressant
-Attitude
-Healers, Seers, Visionary
-Generational Trauma
-“The wild feminine is not only sustainable in all worlds; it sustains all worlds”
-“If there is to be change, we are it We carry La Que Sabe, the One Who Knows. If there is to be inner change, individual woman must do it. If there is to be world change, we women have our own way of helping to achieve it”
-“Use your love and good instincts to know when to growl, to pounce, to take a swipe, when to kill, when to retreat, when to bay till dawn”
-“She must shake out her pelt, strut the old pathways, assert her instinctual knowledge. We can all assert membership in the ancient scar clan, proudly bear the battle scars of our time, write our secrets on walls, refuse to be ashamed, lead the way through and out. Let us not overspend on anger. Instead let us be empowered by it. Most of all let us be cunning and use our feminine wits.
Let us keep in mind that the best cannot and must not hide. Meditation, education, all the dream analysis, all the knowledge of God's green acre is of no value if one keeps it all to oneself or one’s chosen few. So come out, come out wherever you are. Leave deep footprints because you can. Be the old woman in the rocking chair who rocks the idea until it becomes young again”
-GENERAL WOLF RULES FOR LIFE
1. Eat
2. Rest
3. Rove in between
4. Render loyalty
5. Love the children
6. Cavil in moonlight
7. Tune your ears
8. Attend to the bones
9. Make love
10. Howl often
Chapter 14, Pt.3: Wild Woman Book Study: Ep.10 Season 2
Chapter 14: La Selva Subterranea: Initiation in the Underground Forest
Story:
The Handless Maiden
Topics/Themes:
The Fifth Stage- The Harrowing of the soul -
Pregnancy, Birth, New life
The devil changing messages
Cultural traditions the devil has mutilated
Veils: Using a mask to empower rather than muzzle the wild self
“This symbol is about keeping private, keeping to oneself, not giving one’s mysterious nature away. It is about preserving the eros and mysterium of the wild nature”.
The Sixth Stage - Realm of the Wild Woman - The queen staying at the inn for 7 years.
The ages are not meant to be hierarchical, but simply belong to women’s consciousness and to the increase of their soul-lives. Each age represents a change in attitude, a change in tasking, and a change in values.
0-7 age of the body and dreaming/socialization, yet retaining imagination 7-14 age of separating yet weaving together reason and the imaginal
14-21 age of new body/young maidenhood/unfurling yet protecting sensuality 21-28 age of new world/new life/exploring the worlds
28-35 age of the mother/leaming to mother others and self
35-42 age of the seeker/leaming to mother self-seeking the self
42-49 age of early crone/finding the far encampment/giving courage to others 49-56 age of the
underworld/leaming the words and rites
56-63 age of choice/choosing one’s worid’and the work yet to be done
63-70 age of becoming watchwoman/recasting all one has learrned
70-77 age of re-youthanization/more cronedom
77-84 age of the mist beings/finding more big in the small
84-91 age of weaving with the scarlet thread/understanding the weaving of life 91-98 age of the ethereal/less to saying, more to being
98-105 age of pneuma, the breath
105+ age of timelessness
Encouraging you to share your voice
“Share your progress because it’ll either be a stepping stone for others or it’ll be a stone to avoid” - The Art Spirit
The Seventh Stage - The Wild Bride and Bridegroom - The second wedding
“The endurance of soul has been tested and met. A woman goes through this cycle once every seven years…”
“Once we have been through the cycle, we can choose any or all tasks to renew our lives at any time and for any reason. Here are some:
- to leave the old parents of the psyche, descend to the psychic land unknown, while depending on the goodwill of whomever we meet along the way
- to bind the wounds inflicted by the poor bargain we made somewhere in our lives
- to wander psychically hungry and trust nature to feed us
- to find the Wild Mother and her succor
- to make contact with the sheltering animus of the underworld
- to converse with the psychopomp (the magician)
- to behold the ancient orchards (energic forms) of the feminine
- to incubate and give birth to the spiritual childSelf
- to bear being misunderstood, to be severed again and again from love
- to be made sooty, muddy, dirty
- to stay in the realm of the woodspeople for seven years till the child is the age
of reason
- to wait
- to regenerate the inner sight, inner knowing, inner healing of the hands
- to continue onward even though one has lost all, save the spiritual child
- to re-trace and grasp her childhood, girlhood, and womanhood
- to re-form her animus as a wild and native force; to love him; and he, her
- to consummate the wild marriage in the presences of the old Wild Mother and the new child Self”
“The Handless Maiden” is a real-life story about us as real women. It is not about one part of our lives, but about the phases of an entire lifetime. It teaches, in essence, that for women the work is to wander into the forest over and over again. Our psyches and souls are specifically suited to this so that we can traverse the psychic underland, stopping here and here and here, listening to the voice of the old Wild Mother, being fed by the fruits of spirit, and be
Chapter 14, Pt.2: Wild Woman Book Study: Ep.9 Season 2
Chapter 14, Pt.2: Wild Woman Book Study: Ep.9 Season 2
In this episode we will be exploring:
Chapter 14: La Selva Subterranea: Initiation in the Underground Forest
Stories:
The Handless Maiden
Topics/Themes:
-Individuation, Twice Born, Selfhood
-Archetypes, Roles, Context, holistic perspective:
- The Maiden - the warrior
- The Spirit in White - the guide
- The Gardner - the regenerator
- The King - stoic stability
- The Magician - the ability to transform
- The Queen Mother/ Crone - seer
- The Devil - the predator
- “How does one live in the topside world and the underworld at the same time and on a day-to-day basis? What does one have to do to come down into the underworld on one’s own? What circumstances in life help women with the descent? Do we have a choice about going or staying? What spontaneous help have you received from the instinctive nature during such a time?”
Chapter 14: Wild Woman Book Study: Ep.8 Season 2
Chapter 14: Wild Woman Book Study: Ep.8 Season 2
In this episode we will be exploring:
Chapter 14: La Selva Subterranea: Initiation in the Underground Forest
Stories:
The Handless Maiden
Topics/Themes:
-Individuation - Twice Born - Selfhood
-“In a very real way, we are imprinted with knowing just by listening to the tale. Among Jungians this is called “participation mystique”- a term borrowed from anthropologist Levy-Bruhl- and it is used to mean a relationship wherein “a person cannot distinguish themselves as separate from the object or thing they behold”
-Art and Fear
-The Handless Maiden, Phases of an entire lifetime
-The Devil
-Loss and Betrayal
-Family Trauma
-Stages of Life
-Symbols of Transformation
-“If we listen to dream voices, to images, to stories- specially those from our own lives, and to our art, to those who have gone before, and to each other, something will be handed out to us, even several somethings that are ritual, personal psychological rites, these serving to steady this stage of the process”
-Tears making us conscious; “It does not cure the dilemma, but it enables the process to continue instead of collapsing”
-“the remarkable idiom of the story is that during the darkest times the feminine unconscious, the uterine unconscious, Nature, feeds a woman’s soul”
Chapter 13: Wild Woman Book Study: Ep.7 Season 2
In this episode we will be exploring:
Chapter 13:Battle Scars: Membership in the Scar Clan
Story:
The Woman With Hair of Gold
Topics/Themes:
The Death Cult of Secrets
-“The keeping of secrets cuts woman off from those who would give her love, succor, and protection”
-Jung said, keeping secrets cuts us off from the unconscious”
-“But part of the miracle of the wild psyche is that no matter how badly a woman is “killed” no matter how injured, her psychic life continues…”
-Sharing and expressing secrets: finding a compassionate friend who can receive your secret
-The Scapecoat: documenting our battle scars
-“A scapecoat is a coat that details in painting, writing, and with all manner of things pinned and stitched to it all the name-calling a woman has endured in her life, all the insults, all the slurs, all the traumas, all the wounds, all the scars. It is her statement of her experience of being scapegoated”
-“It is also a good idea for women to count their ages, not by years, but by battle scars”
-“This additional threat, as well as the secret shame itself, causes a woman to carry not one burden but two”
-“They allow us to leave the death cult of secrets behind. We can grieve and grieve hard, and come out of it tear-stained, rather than shame-stained. We can come out deepened, fully acknowledged, and filled with new life”
Chapter 6, pt.1: Wild Woman Book Study: Ep.9 Season 1
In this episode we will be exploring:
Chapter 6: Finding One’s Pack: Belonging as blessing
Story:
The Ugly Duckling
Topics/Themes:
-Belonging- community, tribe, value systems
-Finding Nourishment and peace; thriving
-Kinds of mothers, internal personal and , outer external
-The most destructive cultural conditions for a woman to be born into and to live under are those that insist on obedience without consultation with one’s soul”
Intro Song:
Double Drift by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Source: incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100254
Artist: incompetech.com/
Chapter 12: Wild Woman Book Study: Ep.6 Season 2
Chapter 12: Wild Woman Book Study: Ep.6 Season 2
In this episode we will be exploring:
Chapter 12: Marking Territory: The Boundaries of Rage and Forgiveness
Stories:
The Crescent Moon Bear
The Withered Trees
Topics/Themes:
-The Virtue of Patience
-Bear Symbolism: Resurrection, Loyalty, Wisdom, Strength
-The joinery is more important than the destination
-“Remember what one has learned”
-“Thank you, Illusion”
-becoming willing to learn from rage; transforming and dispersing its energy
-Rage corrodes hope
-Using solitude to connect to your higher self
-Righteous Rage; knowing when to release anger
Ritual of Forgiveness:
Descansos (p.364) - Marking big and little deaths in ones life
-Finding Compassion and Forgiveness
-The Four stages of Forgiveness (p.370):
To forego, to forbear, to forget, and to forgive
-“Forgiveness is an act of creation”
-“The important part of forgiveness is to begin and continue
Chapter 11: Wild Woman Book Study: Ep.5 Season 2
Chapter 11: Wild Woman Book Study: Ep.5 Season 2
In this episode we will be exploring:
Chapter 11: Heat: Retreving A Sacred Sexuality
Stories:
-Baubo: The Belly Goddess
-Coyote Dick
-A Trip to Rwanda
Topics/Themes:
-Sacred Sexuality, healing, cultivating
-Laughter, play, light heartedness, not taking things too seriously
-Transcending low frequencies, Replacing gossip with laughter
-Standing in your power while setting boundaries
-Being Free and Fierce
Chapter 10: Wild Woman Book Study: Ep.4 Season 2
Chapter 10: Wild Woman Book Study: Ep.4 Season 2
In this episode we will be exploring:
Chapter 10: Clear Water: Nourishing the Creative Life
Stories:
La Llorona
The Little Match Girl
The Three Gold Hairs
Topics/Themes:
-Nourishing the Creative Life
-Individuation, know thy self, Maturity, Pregnancy, Fertility
-Focus, Intention
-Death, Aging, Isolation, Distraction
-Fantasy, Phantasmagoria
-Life, focusing on solutions, flowing, the present moment, unity, family.
Chapter 9: Wild Woman Book Study: Ep.3 Season 2
Chapter 9: Wild Woman Book Study: Ep.3 Season 2
In this episode we will be exploring:
Chapter 9: Homing: Returning to OneSelf
Story:
Sealskin, Soulskin
Topics/Themes:
-Coming home, turning inward
-Using Ritual to Reset, Renew, and Reconnect
-Wild Woman's Nature Embodied in a Child
-The Unconscious Waters, the ocean or sea
-Relationships with ancient ancestors
-Empathizing with hard decisions
-Returning to what makes you Thrive
Chapter 8: Wild Woman Book Study: Ep.2 Season 2
Chapter 8: Wild Woman Book Study: Ep.2 Season 2
In this episode we will be exploring:
Chapter 8. Self-preservation: Identifying Leg Traps, Cages, and Poisoned Bait
Story:
The Red Shoes
Topics/Themes:
-Self-preservation, identifying leg traps, cages, and poisoned bait
-Identifying the devils tricks, how do we give up our power
-Wild Women in hiding, not dancing enough
-How can we take our power back, and reclaim power through responsibility?
-Cultivating Kundalini, chi, prana, life force energy through practices
-Dopamine vs. serotonin
-Using the head to live with the heart
-“He who cannot howl, will not find his pack”
-Project the vibe to attract your tribe!
Intro Song:
Double Drift by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100254
Artist: http://incompetech.com/
Chapter 7: Wild Woman Book Study: Ep.1 Season 2
Chapter 7: Wild Woman Book Study: Ep.1 Season 2
In this episode we will be exploring:
Chapter 7: Joyous Body: The Wild Flesh
Story:
La Mariposa, Butterfly Woman
Topics/Themes:
-Spiritual Placenta
-Spiritual Pollen
-The Warrior and embodiment
-Dancing, Jump-roping, Hula hooping
circus: menagerie
-Mariposa, Wild Woman Personified
Intro Song:
Double Drift by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100254
Artist: http://incompetech.com/
Chapter 6, pt.2: Wild Woman Book Study: Ep.10 Season 1
Chapter 6, pt.2: Wild Woman Book Study: Ep.10 Season 1
In this episode we will be exploring:
Chapter 6: Finding One’s Pack: Belonging as blessing
Story:
The Mistaken Zygote
Topics/Themes:
Book Study of “Women Who Run with the Wolves” Chapter 6 Pt.2 Season 2 :
In this episode well explore:
-Seeking to understand, rather than to be understood
-Embodiment of the Queen, Wild Woman
-The three archetypes; Warrior, Artist, Lover
-“Thriving is what was meant for us on this earth. Thriving, not just surviving, is our birthright as women”
Intro Song:
Double Drift by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100254
Artist: http://incompetech.com/
Chapter 5, pt.2: Wild Woman Book Study: Ep.8 Season 1
Chapter 5, pt.2: Wild Woman Book Study: Ep.8 Season 1
In this episode we will be exploring:
Chapter 5: Hunting: When the Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Topics/Themes:
-Rituals- Check Points- Sacred moments- flow state
- Coming back to who you are- returning to yourself- connecting to your inner child
- Left brain, Right brain
- Learning to trust the Life/Death/Life nature- “the Life/Death/Life nature in its most wildish form is as simple as a graceful exhalation (ending) and inhalation (beginning)”
- “He becomes his own healer; he is no longer lonely for the deeper Self”
- Love, Marriage
- letting your heart break—not break down, but break open
- Chakras, Kandilini
- -Howl- What kind of metaphors do you use to understand the Wild Feminine, the Sacred Feminine?
Intro Song:
Double Drift by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100254
Artist: http://incompetech.com/
Chapter 5, pt.1: Wild Woman Book Study: Ep.7 Season 1
Chapter 5, pt.1: Wild Woman Book Study: Ep.7 Season 1
In this episode we will be exploring:
Chapter 5: Hunting: When the Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Story:
Skeleton Woman
Topics/Themes:
-““So often we entertain the fantasy of being fed from the deep nature, through a love affair, a job, or by money, and we hope these feedings will last for a long time. We would like not to do any further work. In truth, there are even times when we would like to be fed without doing much work at all. In reality, we know nothing of value ever develops this way. But we wish it anyway”
-Skeleton Woman Story, we learn about the seven tasks.
- Love and Lovers:
-“the ability to sense and learn new ways, the tenacity to ride a rough road, and the patience to learn deep love over time”
-“If lovers cannot stand these Life/Death/Life processes, they cannot love one another over and beyond hormonal aspirations”
-“The union of two beings is seen as angakok magic in itself, as a relationship through which “the powers that be” become known to both individuals”
Intro Song:
Double Drift by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100254
Artist: http://incompetech.com/
Chapter 4: Wild Woman Book Study: Ep.6 Season 1
Chapter 4: Wild Woman Book Study: Ep.6 Season 1
In this episode we will be exploring:
Chapter 4: The Mate: Union with the Other
Topics/Themes:
In this episode well explore:
-Duality: Loyalty & love
-Meditation & Manifestation
-Falling in love with your destiny
-…”to know a person’s true name means to know the life path and the soul attributes of that person”
Intro Song:
Double Drift by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100254
Artist: http://incompetech.com/
Chapter 3, pt.2: Wild Woman Book Study: Ep.5 Season 1
Chapter 3, pt.2: Wild Woman Book Study: Ep.5 Season 1
In this episode we will be exploring:
Chapter 3:Nosing Out the Facts: The Retrieval of Intuition as Initiation
Topics/Themes:
In this episode well explore:
-The persona: “The persona is not simply a mask to hide behind, but rather a presence which eclipses the mundane personality”
-Going Inward in order to individuate (Self Exploration)
-Western Logic balanced with Eastern Intuition
- Treating people as if they are a means to an end, when in reality they are an end in themselves.
- Deepening the individuation process by honing the skills of the Yaga (Wild Woman & the doll (intuition).
Intro Song:
Double Drift by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100254
Artist: http://incompetech.com/
Chapter 3, pt.1: Wild Woman Book Study: Ep.4 Season 1
Chapter 3, pt.1: Wild Woman Book Study: Ep.4 Season 1
In this episode we will be exploring:
Chapter 3:Nosing Out the Facts: The Retrieval of Intuition as Initiation
Story:
The doll in Her Pocket: Vasalisa the Wise
Topics/Themes:
In this episode well explore:
-Blessing of a doll
-Witch=Wise
-“the Yaga Self, the enigmatic and intense power of the Life/Death/Life Mother”
-Diving into experiences and not knowing what will happen next to retrieve our intuitive natures
-“A woman must be able to stand in the face of power, because ultimately some part of that power will become hers”
Intro Song:
Double Drift by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100254
Artist: http://incompetech.com/
Chapter 2, pt.2: Wild Woman Book Study: Ep.3 Season 1
Chapter 2, pt.2: Wild Woman Book Study: Ep.3 Season 1
In this episode we will be exploring:
Chapter 2: Stalking the Intruder: The beginning Initiation
Topics/Themes:
Rousing the internal energy
Life/Death/Life cycle
The Dark Man in Women’s Dreams
-“The Bluebeard story is medicine”
Intro Song:
Double Drift by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100254
Artist: http://incompetech.com/
Chapter 2 pt.1: Wild Woman Book Study: Ep.2 Season 1
Chapter 2 pt.1: Wild Woman Book Study: Ep.2 Season 1
In this episode we will be exploring:
Chapter 2: Stalking the Intruder: The beginning Initiation
Story:
Bluebeard
Topics/Themes:
How to awaken into consciousness Germination of conscious awareness Understanding the process of individuation "Consciousness is the only way out of the box, the way out of the torture”
Intro Song: Double Drift by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100254 Artist: http://incompetech.com/
Chapter 1: Wild Woman Book Study: Ep.1 Season 1
Chapter 1: Wild Woman Book Study: Ep.1 Season 1
In this episode we will be exploring:
Chapter 1: The Howl: Resurrection of the Wild Woman
Stories:
The La Loba Stroy
The Four Rabbinim Story
Topics/Themes:
“Her psychic advice is sometimes harsh or difficult to put into practice, but always transformative and restorative”
Intro Song:
Double Drift by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100254
Artist: http://incompetech.com/
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Book Study of Women Who Run with the Wolves Chapter 2:
In this episode we'll explore:
How to awaken into consciousness
Germination of conscious awareness
Understanding the process of individuation
"Consciousness is the only way out of the box, the way out of the torture”
Intro Song:
Double Drift by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100254
Artist: http://incompetech.com/