“By night and by day, as only we can.”
“What do you mean, you vicious old beast?
Who is your God? Tell me, at least.”
“The bark and the stone, the wind, and the fire.
The flesh and the bone, the grief and the ire,
The brook and the bird, their land hums my prayer.
So long have I heard the Holy Wild sung there.”
“Why did you bite me? Answer me that!
Was it only to spite me? To taste of my fat?”
“I bit you to wake you, my Priestess, my dear.
Lest a sweeter dream take you but tame you by fear.”
I opened my eyes, and I was alone.
Back in disguise and missing the Crone.
To hear her dare speak of the breeze, brook, and flame;
It’s the closest to prayer that I’ve ever came.
Contents
Foreword by Bayo Akomolafe, PhD
The Priestess of the Wild Earth Archetype: Meeting the Sovereign Maiden
Prayer of the Underworld Goddess Returned: My Muddy Wings Are Wide
Parable of Eden’s Lost Heroine: Revisioning Lilith
Blessed Be These Many Gardens: Where She Ripped Up Her Roots
Rebellion as Reclamation: The Forbidden Fruit of the Wild Feminine
Initiation in Sacred Solitude: Walking the Red Road
The Red Road: A Parable of Feminine Fortitude
Coming Home to the Wilds: Building the Living Altar
In This House, I Brew with Crone Magick
Hallowed Be Your Heathen Heart: Toward a More Soulful, Earthen Joy
Your Inner Earth Altar: A Ritual for the Everyday Warrioress
Blessing the Forbidden Fruit: A Ritual of Rebellious Nourishment
Repowering the Witch: A Ritual for Healing the Feminine Soul-Wound
The Road to Manifestation: A Ritual of Movement Alchemy
Priestess Rising from Ground: A Ritual of Self-Initiation
To Wed Sacred Solitude: A Soul-Marriage Ritual for the Too-Much Woman
Bedtime Incantations: A Ritual Prayer for the Pilgrim Priestess
The Lilith Mandala: A Magick Spell for Welcoming What Comes
Pathworking in the Underworld: Meeting the Goddess Below
Body Prayer of the Shadow: A Moving-Magick Practice of Integration
Pathworking and Forgiving the Maiden: Return to the Underworld-Garden
Earth Reflection and Final Prayer: Embracing the Between Times
Lost Verses of the Holy Feminine: I Will Not Be Lost
The Maiden of the Unbridled Sensual Archetype: Calling Home Our Authentic Joy
Tale of the Prodigal Temptress: Revisioning Salome
The Holiness of Our Desire: Honoring Our Most Soulful Wants
Come to the Waters, Priestess of the Holy Obscene: Psalm of Wild Longing
Our Wild Art and Unbridled Sensuality: Embodying the Crone-Mermaid
Freya’s Battle of the Beasts: Communing with the Artist’s Underwater Shadow
The Maiden’s Moon: Hope and Longing at the Water’s Edge
The Temple of the Maiden’s Body: Four Seasonal Rituals for Reclaiming Worth
Sacral Healing through Integration: Ritual Body Prayers for the Energetic Womb
