Dulsky - Woman most wild - three keys to liberating the witch within

Praise for Woman Most Wild

What and who is a witch? What if witch identifies resources of the human psyche actively suppressed by Western (and many other) cultures for millennia resources that are feminine, sacred, and utterly natural at their roots? What if these resources are essential for the wholeness of all humans and for all life-enhancing cultural transformation, especially at this time of global unrest? In this engaging, bold, and intimate book, Danielle Dulsky provides keys to unlock ancient portals behind which perilous and pivotal treasures await.

BILL PLOTKIN, author of Soulcraft: Crossing into the Mysteries of
Nature and Psyche and Wild Mind: A Field Guide to the Human Psyche

With all that modern women are facing from political activism to personal growth to motherhood its all too easy for us to lose our inner spark. More than ever, we need to reclaim the lost art of what Danielle Dulsky calls wild woman spirituality by calling forth the archetype of the witch. In Woman Most Wild, Dulsky shows us how to do just this, by schooling us in the art of what she calls She-Magick. Rich with rituals, stories, and invocations, Woman Most Wild offers every woman a whimsical handbook to reclaiming the lost art of feminine magic medicine that our world sorely needs.

SARA AVANT STOVER, author of The Way of the Happy Woman
and The Book of SHE

Just as other oppressed people have reclaimed the very words meant to oppress them, Danielle Dulsky is reclaiming perhaps the most powerful word used against women throughout history. The patriarchy has used this word to shame and silence women and even to burn them at the stake. The word is witch. And Dulsky has dared to reclaim it in this deeply alchemical and passionate book. Not only does she brave the word but she also restores the rich, embodied meanings and uses it inspires. Dulsky speaks from deep in her soul to deep in our souls. She speaks to a longing born of the feminines spiritual starvation and offers a fierce and sensual reclamation of the wild women we were born to be.

DEBORAH KAMPMEIER, Full Moon Films,
writer and director of Hounddog, Virgin, and SPLiT

Copyright 2017 by Danielle Dulsky

All rights reserved. This book may not be reproduced in whole or in part, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic, mechanical, or other without written permission from the publisher, except by a reviewer, who may quote brief passages in a review.

Text design by Tracy Cunningham

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Dulsky, Danielle, [date]author.

Title: Woman most wild : three keys to liberating the witch within / Danielle Dulsky.

Description: Novato, CA : New World Library, 2017. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016056192 (print) | LCCN 2017011028 (ebook) | ISBN 9781608684663 (alk. paper) | ISBN 9781608684670 (Ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Wicca. | Witchcraft.

Classification: LCC BP605.W53 D85 2017 (print) | LCC BP605.W53 (ebook) | DDC

220.8/13343dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016056192

First printing, May 2017

ISBN 978-1-60868-466-3

Ebook ISBN 978-1-60868-467-0

Printed in Canada on 100% postconsumer-waste recycled paper

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To my grandmother, Grace,
for growing my Maidens roots strong.

To my men, Bodhi, Sage, and Ryan,
for keeping my Mothers heart whole.

To my Council of Five
for keeping my Wise Womans spirit wild.

This Truth

Snuff out the candles! Make the room dark!

Ill cradle you close, star-shaped child.

Inside your hearts ripe, red center a spark!

When I speak of Her rhythm, this Woman Most Wild.

She lives in a hut made of soft guts and hard bones,

She crawls out of your mouth while you sleep.

In the forest, the desert, She sets up Her stones

Fore bare-breasted swimming in the salty blue deep.

When She comes back to your body, Her hearth and Her home,

Shes tired, and filthy, and fed.

She hopes that youll notice the sand, water, and loam

Shes painted all over your bed.

Peel off her hard mask, the woman so mild,

And drink of the succulent moon.

You, my sweet one, are the Woman Most Wild.

Youll swallow this truth whole and soon.

Contents

M y love, in these pages I will speak to you as my Sister, as if we were sipping rosehip tea and sharing stories of how we first found our magick so long ago, deep within the wild place. I will tell you of your part in the collective feminine awakening, and I will honor you as a high-level Priestess. I am neither above you nor below you; we sit at the same table. I, too, have felt the heart-centered ignition of a soul well nourished, and you already know what I am about to tell you. Woman, you have a Witchs soul buried deep within your busy psychic terrain, and that part of you yearns to live in alignment with the rhythms of nature, to mark transitions with ritual, and to be healed with the medicine of sisterhood. These are the keys to your Witchs liberation, and they are already yours. You, my Sister-Witch, already know of your birthright as a woman of this wild world, but I am calling on you to remember. You already know, but now, right this minute, I ask you to open your eyes wide to the Mystery and surrender to your inner alchemical wildness that is Witch.

A communal subterranean yearning for wild woman spirituality is drumming underneath our feet, and this longing has been born of the feminines spiritual starvation. Notably and understandably dissatisfied are we with our apparent limited options for divine connection. Facing a spiritual void, we are pushed too quickly toward prepackaged religious meals, sold to us in myriad forms. Left with famished souls, we dismiss any hope of finding true spiritual autonomy and commit to a path far more limiting than what we deserve. Wild One, we deserve it all. As women, we are the embodiment of the feminine divine and the very essence of the cosmic dance. Our spirits burn with star-stuff, and we were born to be spiritually empowered.