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Wise Woman is the oldest tradition of healing, embracing flexibility, openness to change, availability to transformation, groundedness. Nourishing rather than fixing, curing, or balancing. Focus on wholism, holographic imagery, unified field physics. Spiral is the symbol--there are no hard and fast rules, but each individual is accepted as a unique being.
Susun Weed taps into the poetry of ancient female wisdom:
“The wise Woman Tradition is the oldest tradition of healing known on our planet, yet one that is rarely identified, rarely written or talked about. It is an invisible tradition. . .
Flexible and common, claiming no healers, having no universities, no institutions, the wise woman tradition is hard to see. I feel it is an invisible thread humming with wholeness, ancient and vibrant, stitched through my life, stitched through the lives of all who went before and all who come after me. An invisible, tenacious thread.
The reasons for the invisibility of the wise woman tradition are manifold:
Nourishing is an invisible process.
Mothers are invisible.
Women, especially women of color, are invisible to white men and white male society.
A woman making dinner is invisible.
Spoken words are invisible.
There's no visible structure in the wise woman tradition.
Uniqueness is invisible.
Commonness is invisible.
Prevention is invisible.
One of the powers of the wise woman is invisibility.
Susun Weed discusses the Wise Woman tradition and philosophy, compares it with other traditions, and lets six “green allies” speak to you about their many healing properties and uses. Burdock, Chickweed, Dandelion, Nettle, Outstraw, and Seaweeds are all common plants; some are considered “weeds" that we pull out of our gardens. She opens up a whole new world of meaning in these plants that will have you looking at them with different eyes!
See her vast website for lots of information on Wise Woman tradition, uses as remedies of these herbs and many more, and instructions for making infusions, poultices, decoctions and tinctures, uses of herbs as foods, forums to find answers to questions, on-site and mailorder classes. This is a unique and valuable approach to be aware of even if you don’t want to be an Earth goddess. It might connect you with a certain wisdom that you have forgotten you own. Her point of view argues with preconceptions about health and medicine that we may not even realize we have accepted as truths.
Weed offers a huge amount of information which can be confusing to the newbie and harder to incorporate into your life than changing your diet or taking vitamins. If you are intrigued by her approach, you may want to find a local herbalist who leads herbal walks, take one of her on-site or mail order classes, or attend an herbal conference. For inspiration and help from other women with herbal remedies, visit her forums: http://www.susunweed.com/wisewomanforum.htm
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Susun Weed, Herbalist