Marion Woodman on receiving

These days as I approach my birthday, a day that is charged with lights and shadows, heavy in metaphors (some joyful,  some full of guilt, tasting bits of wisdom and bits of uncertainty) Marion Woodman speaks out and loud. Moreover, with a deep sense of the feminine force, full into that of being a woman, with the good and the bad, she pushes me to open up. Here..

"The fear of receiving resonates in the deepest levels of the psyche. To receive is to let life happen, to open to grief and loss, to open to love and delight."

Woodman, Marion; Mellick, Jill (2001) Coming Home to Myself: Reflections for Nurturing a Woman's Body and Soul (p. 31). RedWheelWeiser

Moon Snail Shell, painting  by Karen Margulis