Vasalisa - Retrieval of Intuition as Initiation

4 tasks

1st
--be on one's own, developing consciousness

^{Veldean's Onion Tub, drawing}

2nd
--experience directly one's own shadow nature
--best possible relationship with the worst parts of oneself
--old self dies, new intuitive self is born
--gifts from shadow material

3rd
--develop sensitivity to being in one's intuitive power
--learn way back home to Wild Mother
--feed intuition

4th
--face the Wildness without wavering
--become familiar with the arcane, odd "otherness" of the Wild
--become "odd"
--learn to face great power in others, and one's own power

^{Happy House, watercolor resist}

"This house is alive, bursting with enthusiasm, with joyous life. This is the main fundament of the psyche of Wild Woman, a joyous life force, where houses dance, where inanimates like mortars fly like birds, where the old woman can make magic, where nothing is what it seems, but for the most part is better than it seemed to begin with."

--Clarissa Pinkola Estes,
Women Who Run with the Wolves