on gender & inclusivity

Bloom Healing is focused on Feminine Embodied Wisdom. However offerings are available for all people because I see the Feminine more as an archetypal energy that exists within every human being.

To elucidate this, I share an excerpt from an interview with Clarissa Pinkola Estés, author of The Women Who Run With Wolves.

Q: What is your opinion on "the wild woman" for people who are transgender, agender, fluid-gender, or male - can they still find or be a "wild woman" (obviously with a different term needed) even if they do not identify as woman, or if they do identify as woman but are not biological females? 

A: Wild woman archetype is within the psychic reach of all persons... just as is the archetype of Creation, or the Self. My sense of transgender, as you say, agender, fluid-gender souls, is that each is a creation, made from divine and mundane ingredients available to us all.

I don’t find a ‘one size fits all’ in the beautiful creation of self.

I find as in nature, utter stunning variation and variegation. As each soul sees fit, in ways that are useful, helpful, strengthening, heart filled, caring, merciful, fierce and kind, and more. Our good instincts are basic I think to all, as are the talents/charisms of insights — and the way we put those together with our life experiences is a customised endeavour. 

Who is to say what is the final edition of anyone? 

I say with levity, now in my seventies, I am still waiting to see how/if I 'turn out.' Too narrow a carapace does not allow the being to grow beyond the walls the over culture seems intent to squash souls into inordinately small shapes when in fact the soul is wild and oceanic. There is not, as far as I know, and I have over my lifetime consulted with myriad crones, hobbits, faeries, gnomes and leprechauns, any final saying so about what is a woman, what is a man, what is an androgyny, what is whatever our newest words are to try to speak about the sacredness of each life. 

It is an ongoing work, and you are its Creatrix.