How often do you see grown men climbing trees in a park? How often do you see old women dancing in the street? It might sound silly, but play is essential to spiritual health.
We need to unlearn this tameness and embrace ourselves as free, passionate people.
It's part of the work we can do on Underworld Journeys, calling forth our inner children, our shadows, and our lost pieces of soul.
I'll be honest, if I don't get out into the forest to go camping or do outdoor ritual or attend a festival at least once a year, I suffer for it. If I don't get to listen to the critters in the hush of the night, if I don't get to lay in the grass, if I don't get to name the shapes in the clouds, if I don't get to feel the sun warming my bare body, if I don't get to howl at the full moon, if I don't get to eat something that I have picked from the earth, fresh, if I don't get to smell someone's natural body odours when I hug them tight and then gush that their scent is intoxicating, if I don't get to dance in the rain.... without these things, my soul becomes crushed. Too much moderation and I am lost. But it's more than that. There are layers of systems and structures set up against wildness.
1. So ask yourself first of all, what do you do to express your wildness? What raw, primal ways do you feed your spirit? What are you passionate about? What excites you? The things that you are attracted to are yours, not because you own them, but because you are for each other, you are part of them, too.
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