She may feel she will die if she does not dance naked in a thunderstorm, sit in perfect silence, return home ink-stained, paint-stained, tear-stained, moon-stained. A new self is on the way. Our inner

We’ll learn how to meet and call on the Mother through practicing rituals and by strengthening our intuition. We will explore true internal beauty and restore the grace in becoming wise, older women. Many women have gone down this path before us, and we will also call on their guidance and wisdom to direct us as we proceed. We will offer compassion

She holds a map of our potential, or what the great Jungian analyst Marie Louise von Franz calls the, “timeless, pre-existent, cosmic plan.”⁠

So what kind of a world might it have been when we were in touch through our bodies with the universal currents? What might a kinship with the animals, the moon, and the stars have felt like, as we bled and birthed with other women in the community in a sacred way? What if, like the Cherokee today, you were able to know and believe that you came fr