Marilyn Steele, Author at Dr. Marilyn

FALLING: FINDING YOUR WILD HEART IS THE KEY

FALLING: FINDING YOUR WILD HEART IS THE KEY

By Marilyn Steele|2017-06-12T20:29:46-05:00June 12th, 2017|Blog, DIVINE FEMININE, Dreamtime, Eco-feminism, Ecopsychology, Jungian psychology, Shamanic dreaming, Women and Leadership|

On Friday night we had a Full Rose Moon, or Strawberry Moon, named by the Algonquin tribes as the season to gather the ripened fruit. What are you harvesting at this time in your life? Is it sweet? Does it feed you? Sunset in the ethereal waves: I cannot tell if the day is ending, or the world, or if The secret of secrets is inside me again. Anna Akhmatova (trans Jane Kenyon) There is much to distract us, to disturb us, to distress us in the world today. Yet there are [...]

SEEING IN THE DARK: FINDING OUR WILD MEDICINE – PART II

SEEING IN THE DARK: FINDING OUR WILD MEDICINE – PART II

By Marilyn Steele|2017-04-16T21:28:43-05:00April 16th, 2017|Blog|

Last night I attended the inspiring talk Paul Hawken gave at Impact Hub, Oakland, on the pre-launch of his new book “Drawdown: The most comprehensive plan ever proposed to reverse global warming”. Although the book is grounded in models, maps, and math -all rigorously researched- it is much more a collection of human stories, a plan of hope. A lifetime activist, environmentalist, visionary author, Paul speaks with enormous passion and monumental humility. Listening to him, I believe it can be done. More truly, that it is being done. Throughout the world, with the [...]

SEEING IN THE DARK: FINDING OUR WILD MEDICINE ~ PART I

SEEING IN THE DARK: FINDING OUR WILD MEDICINE ~ PART I

By Marilyn Steele|2017-03-29T21:12:45-05:00March 29th, 2017|Blog, Dreamtime, Eco-feminism, Ecopsychology, Jungian psychology, spiritual ecology, Women and Leadership|

SEEING IN THE DARK: FINDING OUR WILD MEDICINE ~ PART I For all the devastation of these dark times -the attacks on women, children, the elderly, immigrants, the land, on the truth, international relationships, - T-rump’s essential role as the cruel Fool has catalyzed a fierce awakening. He has woken us up. If Hillary had won, we would be tempted to apathy – without suffering, without feeling. Now, we are engaged, we are concerned, our hearts are broken on a continual basis with the daily news of more devastation. Still, we rise. [...]

DREAM A NEW STORY. WALK IT INTO THE WORLD

DREAM A NEW STORY. WALK IT INTO THE WORLD

By Marilyn Steele|2017-01-23T22:13:23-06:00January 23rd, 2017|Blog, Eco-feminism, Ecopsychology, Jungian psychology, Shamanic dreaming, spiritual ecology, Women and Leadership|

Walking. I am listening to a deeper way. Suddenly all my ancestors are behind me. Be still, they say. Watch and listen. You are the result of the love of thousands. Linda Hogan Marching in Oakland, California on January 21 with thousands of other women, men, children of every age and ethnicity I felt the weight of the previous ten weeks finally lift. Recalling the marches of the 60’s against the war in Vietnam, this felt celebratory, hopeful, joyous. My three year old grandson danced to the music of a Dixieland band as [...]

MOTHERWORLD: THE WAY OF THE WILD FEMININE

MOTHERWORLD: THE WAY OF THE WILD FEMININE

By Marilyn Steele|2021-12-10T17:32:26-06:00September 27th, 2016|Eco-feminism, Ecopsychology, Jungian psychology, Shamanic dreaming, spiritual ecology, Women and Leadership|

On the morning of the introductory Webinar to an online course on “The Way of the Wild Feminine”, I drew this Tarot card for the group from the Motherpeace (Vicki Noble) deck: XX – Judgment. Healing the Earth. It felt like a blessing for our gathering, in the numinous way that synchronicities do. We wild souls, wise hearted women, are ready to celebrate our old stories and all that we have come through, done, failed to do, suffered, triumphed, gained and lost. Clearing the way to letting go, to dissolving the old [...]

The Grandmothers: Secrets of the Old Ones

The Grandmothers: Secrets of the Old Ones

By Marilyn Steele|2016-08-31T21:21:29-05:00August 31st, 2016|Dreamtime, Shamanic dreaming, Women and Leadership|

A few weeks ago I dreamed a group of us women went down to a pool where a herd of elephants was standing. It was very crowded. We squeezed in, skin to skin, with these giant animals who were so strong, so gentle. As we settled into the water up to our chests, the elephants began to rumble, to vibrate. We were there to learn how to tune into their vibrations, to sound with them, at the same level of 500 waves per second, or maybe minute. The attunement was the task. The [...]

ONCE IN A BLUE MOON

ONCE IN A BLUE MOON

By Marilyn Steele|2016-06-21T03:15:37-05:00June 21st, 2016|Blog|

This second full moon in Sagittarius in a month, and on the same day as the Summer Solstice, is a rare occurrence and powerful portal. The last time a Full Moon fell on the Solstice was 1967. The midst of the love revolution. This time around, with the powerful energies of Sagittarius, we are encouraged to shoot the moon. Do something we would do only once in a blue moon. Something special, beautiful, and bold. Something magical. Sagittarius asks: What is your deepest truth? What matters the most to you? Two nights ago [...]

ON HER WAY: WOMEN’S LEADERSHIP AND WILD MIND

By Marilyn Steele|2015-07-26T23:02:46-05:00July 26th, 2015|Blog|

ON HER WAY Another world is not only possible, She is on Her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing. Arundhati Roy Last week, walking on a dirt path along the Marina, lost in thought about my mother and her lost voice, her buried dreams, I almost stepped on a snake. Brown and rust red, it had slid half way out of the dry grasses and onto the path where I stopped just short, maybe a foot away. We were both startled, still for a moment, until the snake made [...]

FIRE UP YOUR DREAMS FOR MAY DAY!

By Marilyn Steele|2015-04-28T20:10:52-05:00April 28th, 2015|Women and Leadership|

In each moment the fire rages, it will burn away a hundred veils. And carry you a thousand steps toward your goal Rumi Many mornings this winter I was waking up between 3-5 a.m., with rushes of fear spreading across my collarbone and down the insides of my arms. I have hated it. And really resented being woken up so early, in the dark. I tried all the coping strategies I could think of: Prayer. Chants. Mantras. Swearing. Sometimes I would get up and read. Or [...]

A WILD AWAKENING: SOLAR ECLIPSE, SUPERMOON AND SPRING

By Marilyn Steele|2015-03-21T03:52:51-05:00March 21st, 2015|Blog|

A WILD AWAKENING: SOLAR ECLIPSE, SUPERMOON AND SPRING I sat in my car today under a fragrant plum blossom tree which showered the pavement with white celebratory confetti, listening to the Ira Glass radio program “This American Life” on women in science. March is Women’s History month, and so much of our amazing, accomplished history needs to be resurrected. In the radio interview, three authors of books and a documentary on several brilliant discoverers and explorers told of the woman who first mapped the ocean, an astronomer who found new galaxies, the first [...]

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