4.8
May 17, 2015

To All of the Wild Women.

Waterhouse_-_Magic_Circle witch wild woman

Can this really be?

For centuries and more they hunted you down, used you and punished you for your beauty, truth and your magical mystery.

Suddenly, they seem to simply ask for it.

They don’t fear you. They beg and plead for you to help them.

They once called you a witch, chained you down, burnt you and tossed you down a cliff to see if you would fly.

Now you do and there they are, watching you in awe as you rise like a phoenix from the ashes of their primeval cursed fires. All along they blamed you for witchcraft and black magic when all along it was them who used the dark forces to torture your bright soul.

Your body and mind may have died over and over but your spirit persisted and here you are again, blooming, as bright as ever. The courage you have had over lifetimes is ineffable, beyond grasping and spectacularly baffling. You have withstood so much and yet you have kept coming back.

You have trusted defeat to be the beginning of victory and therefor you have been resilient.

Your strength is unlike many.

The memories of your past battles stretching far back in history of mankind are imprinted in your body and today you can honor them. Today you can reveal yourself and give thanks to the courage you have showed lifetimes again and again.

You have fought long and hard and beginning to see that you can finally put your sword down knowing that you mustn’t always be on guard.

You have made it safely to this point in time and space and here you can finally reside in peace. You were a warrior, a princess with a blade sharpened by love. You were a healer, a goddess with hands of light. You were a speaker with a quick tongue perfected for wisdoms of the heart. Now you are all those things you ever were, just not chased and imprisoned for it.

Now you are a free bird, wings spreading high and wide.

For long your roots have carved their way deep into the soil of this earth and finally the flower is in full bloom with no end in sight. Honor the wars of the past and rejoice in the peace of today. You are deserving of the goodness that is given to you at this present time, for you have fought heroically and ceaselessly.

These are times of laughter, but unlike previous times these laughs will not slit you throat.

As you laugh today all the wounds of your past battles are healing and finding their peace inside your everlasting soul. Like a soldier home from war, it is sometimes hard to understand that the combat is truly over. But it is time you see that you are in fact coming home and that everyone who ever saw your light and laid a hand upon you is now cheering you on, welcoming you to rest in happiness and develop freely from now on.

No one is here to hold you back anymore, and even if that is a good thing it can be a terrifying thought for one whose wings were cut by countless hateful hands. But don’t be alarmed. There is really nothing to fear and such is the truth today. It wasn’t always so but today it is and so you must accept that, just as you once accepted to fight your way through the storms. Today you have clear blue skies and a light breeze pushing you forward on your journey.

The sun shines bright upon your face and the moon pulls you wherever you need to be. She, the moon, has watched you in your darkest hours and seen you swivel your sword and stain your hands with the blood of those whom once tried to stop you. But she has also seen your grace and your caring ways when no one else could see. She, the moon, asks you to forgive yourself just as she has long ago.

Him, the sun, shows you the brightness of your being and asks you not to hold it back.

Rains have watered the earth and your feet have danced upon it with grace no matter what. You are the one you’ve always been, whom you’ve been punished and feared for, worshiped and loved for and whom you are now free to be. In this life you are truly unlimited.

In this life you are free.

 

 

 

 

Relephant Reads: 

Ode To The Wild Woman

Wild Woman: 5 Ways to Un-domesticate.

 

 

 

Author: Antonia Rothschild

Editor: Renée Picard

Image: Wikimedia Commons 

Read 5 Comments and Reply
X

Read 5 comments and reply

Top Contributors Latest

Antonia Rothschild