Identifying Leg Traps, Cages, and Poisoned Bait
The Feral Woman
In Oxford English Dictionary the word feral derives from Latin fer... meaning "wild beast." In common usage, a feral creature is one who was once wild, then domesticated, and who has revered back to a natural or untamed state once again.
The feral woman is one who was once in a natural psychic state---that is, in her rightful wild mind---then later was captured by whatever turn of events, thereby becoming overly domesticated and deadened in proper instincts. When she has opportunity to return to her wildish nature, she too easily steps into all manner of traps and poisons. Because her cycles and protective systems have been tampered with she is at risk in what used to be her natural wild state. No longer wary or alert, she easily becomes prey.
There is a specific pattern to the loss of instinct. It is essential to study this pattern, to actually memorize it, so that we can guard the treasures of our basic natures and those of our daughters as well. In the psychic woods there are many leg traps made of rusted iron that lie just below the leafy green of the forest floor. Psychologically, the same is true of the greater world. There are various lures to which we are susceptible: relationships, people, and ventures that are tempting, but inside that good looking bait is something sharpened to a point, something that kills our spirit as soon as we bite into it.
Feral women of all ages, and especially the young, have a tremendous drive to compensate for long famines and exile. They are endangered by excessive and mindless striving toward people and goals that are not nurturant, substantive, or enduring. No matter where they live or in what time, there are cages waiting always, too-small lives into which women can be lured or pushed.
If you have ever been captured, if you have ever endured hambre del alma, a starvation of the soul, if you have ever been trapped, and especially if you have a drive to create, it is likely that you have been or are a feral woman. The feral woman is usually extremely hungry for something soulful, and often will take any poison disguised on a pointed stick, believing it to be the thing for which her soul hungers.
Though some feral women veer away from traps at the last moment with only minor losses of fur, far more stumble into them unwittingly, knocked temporarily senseless, while others are broken by them, and still others manage to disentangle themselves and drag themselves off to a cave to nurse their injuries alone.
In order to avoid these snares and enticements that are tripped by a woman's time spent in capture and famine, we must be able to see them in advance and sidestep them. We have to redevelop insight and caution. We have to learn to veer. To be able to see the right turns, we have to be able to see the wrong ones.
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Literature from "Women Who Run With the Wolves"
by Clarissa Rinkola Estes, Ph.D.
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