Reader’s Essay | The Way of the Wild Feminine

By Marilyn Steele, Ph.D.

‘The wild feminine is not only sustainable in all worlds, it sustains all worlds.’
– Clarissa Pinkola Estes

The map of the psyche and the map of the world are drawn from the same story: The deeply rooted myth of a separate, independent, and autonomous self. The 5,000 year old story we live by is a story of fragmentation, estrangement, alienation from each other, from Nature and from the vast mystery and beauty of our own wild souls. It is a patriarchal story, too narrow, sterile, shallow for any of us to thrive.