Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype, Ballantine 1996, p. 468
What it is we are hungering for can never be fulfilled by a mate, a job, money, a new this or that. What we hunger for is of the other world, the world that sustains our lives as women. And this child-Self we are awaiting is brought forth by just this means - by waiting. As time passes in our lives and our work in the underworld, the child develops and will be born. In most cases, a woman’s nightdreams will presage the birth; women literally dream of a new baby, a new home, a new life.
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There are so many people in my life at the moment, including myself, who keep apologizing for not doing more. A part of us would like to be out trying to save the world, but instead we are laying low, spending a lot of quiet time preparing to give birth to something that cannot even be named yet. There are periods when we need to spend time underground, in a rich, loamy unknowing. We feel that something is growing and gathering force. We rest and care for ourselves, trusting that this feeling is real, that there are ways of being productive that cannot always be explained or understood until their fruit bursts forth.
Oh thank you for this reading, and Higher Power, please rest with me, revealing your next right step for me at the moment of your choosing, not mine. Hold my hand throughout this waiting time and let us love each other deeply. Help me to dwell in Your love productively, show me that You are enough.I surrender.
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