"Healthy wolves and healthy women share certain psychic characteristics: keen sensing, playful spirit, and a heightened capacity for devotion.
Women and wolves are relational by nature, inquiring, possessed of a great endurance and strength. They are deeply intuitive, intensely concerned with their young, their mate, and their pack. They are experienced in adapting to constantly changing circumstances; they are fiercely stalwart and very brave.
"Separation from this nature causes a woman's personality to become meager, thin, ghostly, spectral. We are not meant to be puny with frail hair and inability leap up, inability to chase, to birth, to create a life."
When women's lives are in stasis, ennui, it is always time for the feminine force to emerge; it is time for the creative function of the psyche to flood the delta.
"Our source of the feminine is the Life/Death/Life force, she is the incubator. She is intuition, she is far-seer, she is deep listener, she is fluent in the languages of dreams, passion, and poetry. She whispers from night dreams, she leaves behind on the terrain of a woman's soul a coarse hair and muddy footprints.
When women reassert their relationships with this instinctive part of themselves, they are gifted with a permanent watcher, a knower, a visionary, an oracle, an inspiratrice, an intuitive, maker, creator, inventor."
She has been lost and forgotten a long long time.
Above is partially quoted from the book called Women who Run with the Wolves, Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype.
by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ph D.
I've been on a mission to find my feminine force. my natural feminine.
I don't think I'm alone.
For this contest, I would like your entry to be about your search, or find of this great and nameless source. You DO NOT have to be female to be a part of this contest, but you should be an admirer of women, it'll help.
No rules, just please read the prompt and then THINK about what this lady is trying to say.
Reserves are acceptable, please finish.
That's it.
Love,
Jin
Contest is Over
- Contest was judged on January 18
- Rewards: Gold: 803, Silver: 419, Bronze: 257, Honorable mention: 2 people
- Final notes: Some late comers just had to stir things up a bit, and I am very glad to have them.
Thank you for taking the time to enter my contest, it meant alot to me.
Thank you also for displaying your talent here, every one of these writes were something special.
Congratulations to the winners, and thank you all.
Love,
jin
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by forethought 48 lines, 1 comment, on Dec 14 3:40 PM 2008• Commented on by judge.
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We do not grow with time.
Perhaps we age.• Commented on by judge.
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sissy you got this opened for pre writes.. wasn't sure just thought you might want to know. interesting contest I like it
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Whew, Im trying to condense this prompt down, but there's just so much information here.
Im going to write something for it myself, though I doubt I'll put it into the contest.
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Wow. Aren't your contests just the most interesting ones.
Superb prompt. I'd love to see what people come up with for this one. Good luck lovely mommy.
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I've read the book...it's good
well acquainted with the concepts and totally agree. Great idea for a contest. -
Gosh! Well, gee. I guess this contest isn't one for me to enter. After this one though you should ask for "real" men to write about what they think of powerful, fully expressed woman.
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good try Tom, but I did include this contest to the men too.
I hope you'll think of entering, this is probably the single most significant contest I've ever hostessed. I wouls sure love to read your take.
Love,
Jin
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My mom ADORES this book, and she's read me bits and pieces... Great contest idea, dear
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I have this book haven't really read all of it, some snippets. Seeing the contest now makes me want to open it
...This is inspiring. I hope I could come up with something... 
yeah...reading the comments above, I wonder what men think about these capabilibities that women possessed...
maybe another contest for their point of view is just apt and looking forward for both winners...maybe it's just me, but it sounds exciting
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well done !!!!good luck to all... thanks for sharing
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I'm not sure you re-opened this correctly, because it is only the 7th.
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I re-opened it for one week only.
that's all the time I think I should make the others wait, dont you?
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i have this book at home, if you like it, you should read "women and nature" by susan griffin. it would also help your self discovery as a womyn! -
I read that book a while back. It was a very interesting read, that I loved. I was quite inspired.
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Hi Jin, I posted the poem you mentioned. Glad it suites your contest...
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thank you for the Hm, though I wish I had time to write a proper piece for your contest. Maybe next time. Congrate to the others also
Erwin
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