07/23/2026
The outlawed feminine does not disappear. She finds another way to speak.
She may arrive as resentment that has outlived its explanation. A creative life gone quiet. Desire displaced into fantasy. Anger turned against the body. The exhaustion of maintaining relationships, roles, and identities that require her continued self-abandonment.
What the conscious personality refuses, the unconscious carries 🌀
This is why reclaiming these energies asks for more than permission to be angry, sexual, disagreeable, ruthless, or ambitious. Reclamation brings us into conscious relationship with their intelligence—so anger can discern, desire can direct, ruthlessness can complete, and authority can become embodied choice.
Inanna descends to the realm where these powers have been living without her. She meets Ereshkigal, her sister and Queen of the Underworld, on her own ground and returns altered by the encounter.
This myth forms the initiatory spine of Wild Dare: six days of depth-psychological, embodied, creative, and ritual work devoted to reclaiming the courage and creative power held in the dark. And yes, Lisa Marchiano, LCSW 📖 Vital Spark is on the reading list😉
WILD DARE
August 30–September 4 at Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, New York.
Registration is open. If you feel the pull and want to speak with me before deciding, you’re welcome to book a discovery call with me. Just send me a dm and I’ll send you the booking link 🖤