Into the woods…

I love the metaphor of the deep dark woods - the wild woods from fairytales that is stepping into the unknown. Who knows what we’ll find in there?

Into the woods…

In the woods, you can’t see the forest for the trees. Can’t see anything for the trees, and that’s kind of the point - when you journey into the woods, you’re leaving certainty at the door. Check in any inkling that you might know what happens next - you can collect that again when we return. If we return. If you want it back.

In the woods, you lose all sense of time and all sense of direction. Here we’re in a liminal space and the normal rules don’t apply. Here, we speak a different language - we lean into symbols and dreams, archetype and myth, and everything is rich and shining with meaning.In the woods, everything is new again. Your wishes and your longings take on a bright fresh intensity and everything you look at comes alive under your gaze. No matter how many times you return each time here is the first time, and wonder is your constant companion.

In the woods, you meet yourself in many different guises. Your power and your potential, your insecurity and angst. Every mask you wear. Yourself as a wise woman, a wild woman, a witch. Yourself as a lover, as a daughter, as a sister, a mother, a friend. The face you see in the mirror. The face you wear in your dreams.

In the woods, you are tested and you grow. There is darkness here. There are shadows and fear. You are offered choices - to walk towards or to walk away. There is no judgement except your own - you get to pick your battles, and you get to say how it goes. You get to follow the golden threads of your own curiosity and you get to pause and say ‘enough’.

In the woods, you come to know yourself and you come into your own. You find your own direction, clarity and purpose. You hold your own clear boundaries and there is no shame in how you claim the things that you desire. 

And when you choose to leave the woods, they leave their mark on you - it’s clear in the way you carry yourself, in the light in your eyes, the steadiness in the way you’ve learned to navigate uncertainty, in the way you’ve learned to flow through change with grace.

Are you ready? Let’s go into the woods and see what we shall see.

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