Cover of We’Moon, Mother Tongue Ink, 2026: Grandmother Water, copyright Leah Marie Dorian, 2011

About ReClaiming the Sacred Feminine:

Experience a year of 13 moons: 75 minute closed, live virtual circles, 1-2 a month, reclaiming the Sacred Feminine within.
Learn about and create safe space to experience and explore a few basic archetypal expressions of the female Self: the Great Mother, Sacred Child or Puella, and Death Mother or Sennex, through deep, guided visualization. Subscribe to wildwomenwisdom.substack.com Pricing at bottom of page.

Depth, Archetypal concepts that may be helpful to familiarize yourself:

Anima Mundi: latin for World Soul, a timeless philosophical principle…“regarded by some as animating the universe much as the human soul animates man’s body…” (from Encyclopedia.com)
Mytho-Poetic: “We create the story as we are living it; writing the narrative at the same time as we are reading it to ourselves and the world. Creating a vision while seeing; an imaginative vision about what is and what can be. A mythopoetic inquiry has its own logic but also needs to connect to reality. Art making (and other creative activities), can be a bridge between imagination and reality; letting the art tell the story from that liminal place between the conscious and unconscious…” (from: Ruebsaat, Susanna, What Does a Mythopoetic Inquiry look like?, SFU Educational Review 6, 2013. )
Sacred Imaginal: Carl Jung’s concept of “the reality and worth of non-material things… the realms of myth and mystery” (Jung, G Carl, Collected Works V12: Psychology and Alchemy, para 13, 1953.)
Shadow: “the shadow as a concept comprises everything the conscious personality experiences as negative….” (from: https://pacifica.libguides.com/Jung/shadow)
Swamplands: “Guilt Grief Loss Betrayal Doubt Loneliness Depression Despair Obsessions Addictions Anger…” (Hollis, James, Swamplands of the Soul, 1996. https://jameshollis.net/hollisBooks/swamplands.htm)

Restorative experiences to familiarize yourself:

Curiosity
Wonder
Whim
Awe
Joy

To learn more about Female Wisdom Keepers I admire go to the bottom of the page, here.

First circle is a free offering on Thursday Sept 24, 7pm EDT. Getting Grounded: Sacred Habitats, Meeting the Ancestral. Subscribe for free.

Preparation for circles, at home practice: 

Find a place or time that is an edge space. A corner in the city by opposing crosstown traffic. A creekside. Twilight. Dawn. A wetland. The quiet stacks of Poetry in the corner of the library. A particular doorway. Where sea meets sand. A forest edge.

Visit this place a few times and simply pay attention to what you see. What draws your attention? What senses are engaged? What do you notice? What surprises you?  What stays with you?

If you are able, in the days before and after circles, make time to visit an edge space and pay attention. 
If you are able, record or express the experience using mark makers and other instruments of expression.

Preparation for circles, what to bring: 

Bring to circle your mark makers and other instruments of expression of choice: crayons, paints, pens, pencils, drums, rattles, guitars, synths, paper, scissors, stickers, ribbons, found objects in nature, glue etc  

Minimum suggestion: please plan to bring two pens or pencils and a blank piece of paper to each circle.  Bring eye cover or mask, hydration, snacks or whatever you need to feel supported, wear comfy clothes.

Dates are through Winter Solstice, 2026. Dates for 2027 TBA. 

Thursday Sept 24, 7pm EDT.  Sacred Habitats, Meeting the Ancestral

Thursday Oct 22, 7pm EDT Finding Paradise, Experiencing Great Mother

Sunday Nov 8 7pm EDT Meeting the Void, Encountering Death Mother

Tuesday, Nov 24 7pm EDT Nutritive Rest, Working with Allies in the Dark

Thursday, Dec 22 7pm EDT Stoking the Flame, Tending the Sacred Child

Subscribe for free for first circle and add the platform name to your address book and you will get a reminder emails for our first circle, Thursday, September 24, Fall Equinox. Sign up by subscribing to www.WildWomenWisdom.substack.com

$7/month or $56/year for 13 moons. Kick off circle for founding subscribers: Thursday, October 22, Finding Paradise, Experiencing the Great Mother on the final harvest moon.

All proceeds directly benefit The Delmarva Free School and our Pay it Forward mission to bring trauma-informed restorative recovery to our rural community by the sea.