Wild Woman Wednesday: Singing the Creation Hymn
“To sing means to use the soul-voice. It means to say on the breath the truth of one’s power and one’s need, to breathe soul over the thing that is ailing or in need of restoration. This is done by descending into the deepest mood of great love and feeling, till one’s desire for relationship with the wildish Self overflows, then to speak one’s soul from that frame of mind. That is singing over the bones…This womens’ labor of finding and singing the creation hymn is a solitary work, a work carried out in the desert of the psyche.”
Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Women Who Run with the Wolves