Enact your Dreams with the New Vulva Pendant
Honoring Women’s Day with a message
from Maria Souza
Women’s Day is an important time for global awareness of women’s rights and the search for gender equity. When Julie invited me to write the Women’s Day piece for Okra, among so many important topics that intersect with women, I kept coming back to the archetypal force of the feminine.
For me, the feminine is about ancestry, flexibility, intuition, empowerment, depth, care, wisdom, connection with nature, and, most of all, creation.
One of women’s immense power is to create. We have the privilege of creating children, but also of creating dreams. And, enacting our dreams in the world might be the biggest gift we can give to ourselves and others. Might even be the only way out of this messy system that unjustly holds women back.
Ruth Asawa / Sculptor
One of my wishes for this Women’s Day is to see women assuming their true size in the world. I want to live in a more caring and feminine-orientated world, and for that, I work so that we, women, have the courage to create lives that fulfill us.
Maya Angelou
American poet, and civil rights activist
When a woman allows herself to plant her feet on the ground, open her chest, lift her chin and say: “This is my passion, my dream” or “This is who I am” and moves in that direction, something shifts in the world.
Frida Khalo / Mexican Painter
Creating can be dangerous sometimes, we need to dismantle a lot in our personal and collective world as we build our dreams. So a woman who truly dreams and acts in communion with it is a revolutionary. A woman who works with her creative, curative, artistic, and authorial work is creating a new world.
Niki de Saint Phalle
French Artist & Sculptor
But for this female revolution to happen, we need to occupy our spaces in the world. We need to know ourselves better and understand our talents and strengths. We need to listen to the forces that go beyond reasoning, we need to follow the gifts of the feminine: our intuition, our senses, and our bodies.
Geogia Okeeffe / Artist
Introducing our new talisman
The Vulva Pendant
In mythology, the vulva holds the symbol of the prima materia, the most primal and honest level of truth. It is a symbol of the depths and the potential of women’s creation. This is the archetypal force we must listen and follow. The wisdom of our bodies.
Symbolically, the vulva is responsive to the stimulus of the senses: music, movement, food, peace, quiet and beauty. It is related to passion and to the nutritive cycles of women. It is from where our fertile energy stems.
This Women’s Day, I invite you to connect with this creative energy. Simply remember (because parts of you already know)
what is the unique dream that you must give life to?
In my book Wild Daughters, I wrote:
“I hope the hints found here give you a sense of power, the knowing that you can bring forth what you dream up.
Not just anything or everything, but the peculiar things only you can conjure.
I hope life bewilders you, and you forever remember to become life-giving.”
This Women’s Day I wish the Okra community exactly that:
May we have the courage, and tools, to bring forth what only we can create: our dreams.
May we never forget that it is our birthright to be life-giving.
And may we speak from the depth of ourselves.
Let us celebrate this new world women are building. One that is gentle, fierce, beautiful, compassionate, and caring towards Self and others.
