Oh... and is it a surprise that the wild takes over to tell its tale? Good you heeded the call and did not stop writing :-)
In Arabic lore, it's believed that to each human (inss: sensed/visible) there is a double in the jinn realm (invisible/imaginal) - they call this twin a Qareen (partner - rooted in qarn- as in horn of an animal.) The jinn is made from fire, the inss from earth. Jinn also Geni-genius - source of inspiration unbound by time and space- when honoured is a muse and alley in navigating the ghaib-the unknown - can lead to treasure; but when suppressed an entity that can cause illness/possession. The split you mention b/w Apollo and Dionysis might just be the cause of many ills in our world. May we continue to integrate our wild twin - dancing with her/him barefoot in the forest, across deserts, and (even) on man-made roads.
Thank you for your wonderfully full, life-affirming post today. In the company of grandchildren this week, we are dancing with one another’s Wild Twins.
Oh what magic to transmit to them! I've just had an email from a woman going through menopause and comparing her experience to the last chapter in the life of female whales - how they are the only other mammals who experience menopause and whose role becomes the passing on of wisdom to the new generations. Your grandchildren are lucky to be danced by you!
There has been so much synchronicity and magic in my life with this post. Just a week before I read this when it first came out, I had been led to study the story of Jacob and Esau. There’s a wonderful YouTube video made by the late Israeli Jungian analyst Erel Shalit on Jacob and Esau that is well worth watching. But the David Whyte poem at the end has become one of my most favorite poems after first reading it here in your post. Almost exactly a year ago I had the most magical dream in which I was flying an ultralight aircraft over a riparian landscape and I was intensely studying the beautiful and magnificent way a large river was cutting through and sculpting the landscape. Then I noticed a second river in the landscape that ran almost parallel to the first one but with its own unique beauty and form. Sometimes the two rivers would come so close together that they would almost merge but then they would travel away from one another again. There’s more to the dream but my feeling about it was that it described my daughter and I and our relationship. She’s 17 and becoming her own person. In fact she decided to leave home early and live on her own which was very painful for me at first. But I’m learning to accept it and remembering my dream and reading this poem have been a healing balm for me. Also after reading this I got Martin Shaws book, Courting the Wild Twin, and absolutely loved it! Thank you!
Oh wow, thank you for sharing this all with me. There’s nothing quite like receiving rich, reflective messages like these in response to my articles. Your dreams are potent! And it sounds like there are so many synchronicities weaving around and through you. I hear a deep wisdom behind your words, and your approach to the journey your daughter is currently navigating, and I hope it gives you comfort when the going gets tough. More commonly, mothers try to hold back the necessary separation (which looks differently in every mother-daughter dynamic). Yours is quite a literal one, and I feel really moved to hear of it and the courage in your trust. Ultimately I think, sovereignty is the magical ingredient in this alchemical process. And it sounds like you’ve given it fully.
Oh... and is it a surprise that the wild takes over to tell its tale? Good you heeded the call and did not stop writing :-)
In Arabic lore, it's believed that to each human (inss: sensed/visible) there is a double in the jinn realm (invisible/imaginal) - they call this twin a Qareen (partner - rooted in qarn- as in horn of an animal.) The jinn is made from fire, the inss from earth. Jinn also Geni-genius - source of inspiration unbound by time and space- when honoured is a muse and alley in navigating the ghaib-the unknown - can lead to treasure; but when suppressed an entity that can cause illness/possession. The split you mention b/w Apollo and Dionysis might just be the cause of many ills in our world. May we continue to integrate our wild twin - dancing with her/him barefoot in the forest, across deserts, and (even) on man-made roads.
!!!!! آمين
Thank you for your wonderfully full, life-affirming post today. In the company of grandchildren this week, we are dancing with one another’s Wild Twins.
Oh what magic to transmit to them! I've just had an email from a woman going through menopause and comparing her experience to the last chapter in the life of female whales - how they are the only other mammals who experience menopause and whose role becomes the passing on of wisdom to the new generations. Your grandchildren are lucky to be danced by you!
There has been so much synchronicity and magic in my life with this post. Just a week before I read this when it first came out, I had been led to study the story of Jacob and Esau. There’s a wonderful YouTube video made by the late Israeli Jungian analyst Erel Shalit on Jacob and Esau that is well worth watching. But the David Whyte poem at the end has become one of my most favorite poems after first reading it here in your post. Almost exactly a year ago I had the most magical dream in which I was flying an ultralight aircraft over a riparian landscape and I was intensely studying the beautiful and magnificent way a large river was cutting through and sculpting the landscape. Then I noticed a second river in the landscape that ran almost parallel to the first one but with its own unique beauty and form. Sometimes the two rivers would come so close together that they would almost merge but then they would travel away from one another again. There’s more to the dream but my feeling about it was that it described my daughter and I and our relationship. She’s 17 and becoming her own person. In fact she decided to leave home early and live on her own which was very painful for me at first. But I’m learning to accept it and remembering my dream and reading this poem have been a healing balm for me. Also after reading this I got Martin Shaws book, Courting the Wild Twin, and absolutely loved it! Thank you!
Oh wow, thank you for sharing this all with me. There’s nothing quite like receiving rich, reflective messages like these in response to my articles. Your dreams are potent! And it sounds like there are so many synchronicities weaving around and through you. I hear a deep wisdom behind your words, and your approach to the journey your daughter is currently navigating, and I hope it gives you comfort when the going gets tough. More commonly, mothers try to hold back the necessary separation (which looks differently in every mother-daughter dynamic). Yours is quite a literal one, and I feel really moved to hear of it and the courage in your trust. Ultimately I think, sovereignty is the magical ingredient in this alchemical process. And it sounds like you’ve given it fully.