the wild woman

To me the Norwegian creative singer AURORA confidently embodies the spirit of the Wild Woman in her music and overall expression of her self (take a look and listen to her in the video beneath to get a visual idea). When I think of the Wild Woman I often think of her. Deeply connected to nature, intuitively creative, confidently wild, and unwilling to be tamed by societal constructs of how she is supposed to look and behave. She does not shy away from the difficult, the painful, or the sad. She embraces darkness as a friend that she brings into the light through her music, and to me that is the embodiment of the integrated Wild Woman.

This archetype which is represented by various characters in history, famous stories, and myths is often misunderstood and therefore portrayed as an outcast. The witch. The hag. The rebellious woman. In reality, in her fullness the Wild Woman is the healer. The medicine woman. The awakening of a woman’s soul that refuses to be caged in a small, confined box society wants to fit her in. She is not afraid of the darkness — the discomfort hidden in her shadow — but rather she faces it with boldness, capable of feeling the entire range of emotions. She is a warrior, fearlessly staring death in the eyes knowing life follows after it. She is our intuition — the inner knowing that many of us have forgotten how to trust or even recognize. She is in fact a great gift, but when shunned into the inner shadow she manifests in many women as pain, shame, guilt, and internal identity conflicts.

The Wild Woman is the very encouragement to dive into the shadow aspects of our psyche. She is the force that gives you courage to face it head on and embrace big and difficult emotions, to transmute the pain into your most powerful gifts. When reading about the shadow of our psyche it is often an automatic to think of it as something bad, but if we dig further we discover that the shadow serves as the catalysts for growth and a deeper connection to oneself. It is beneath the cold dirt that we find precious treasures. The same is true of us. What the Wild Woman wants to show us is that death, destruction, chaos and discomfort are all needed to find life through re-birth, peace, and inner alignment. Your purpose is found exactly there.

The stone I chose to represent the Wild Woman is the crystal called Green Jade, I will venture further into what the stone symbolises and teaches us once the collection is launched. Needless to say, the dark green tones of this stone is exactly how I imagine the Wild Woman, and the Earth element that this stone represents is where she longs to run free.

The welcoming of my inner Wild Woman is the reason I do what I do today — the desire to bring medicine to the world through the gifts God has given me. It has always been there, that calling, that deep desire… but I never knew how to offer it. It can only be born from a deep inner truth and connection to our true self, and that is hidden under the layers the Wild Woman is ready to peel off. It was after the death of my old persona I had created as a form of protection (think a mask you put on for the world) that my authentic self was finally free to emerge from the deep chambers I had locked her within. It took an inner death through discomfort and pain — courageously facing my inner darkness. That is where I found my true self, that is where my purpose was waiting for me. That is the calling of the Wild Woman.

With love,
Miranda Maria.