If Women Rose Rooted : A Journey to Authenticity and Belonging

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well, the flip side of her is the Crazy Woman: depressed, unable to touch her power, tied, numb, self-medicating, addicted. Rather than a patriarchal mythology of the Greeks and Romans and the Judeo-Christian tradition of western civilization, she goes back to her roots, the mythology of the Celts. It is heartening to read a progressive view of the women’s movement and one that links with care for the Earth and all living beings. My first event in The Bone Cave, in December 2020, was a free live webinar based on If Women Rose Rooted. If you'd like to become a paid subscriber, you'll have access to exclusive articles, podcasts, chat and much more.

They will perhaps only be concerned with the stories’ surface meanings – but they will at least preserve them, and pass them down to their children. Reading the different mythologies and then hearing Blackie unpack the meanings and metaphors moved me to tears multiple times, and I found it hard to put the book down. I am a huge proponent of storytelling as a method of working through trauma, and for anyone who feels a connection to the Celtic nations, this is an excellent way to know yourself better. She boldly names the challenge: to reimagine women’s place in the world, and to rise up, firmly rooted in our own native landscapes and the powerful Celtic stories and wisdom which sprang from them. But if you're looking for intersectional feminism and a deeper dive into myth and the environment, look elsewhere and please report back when you find it because that's what I was looking for too.

Menopause is not a medical condition, it is an earthquake, shaking us to our deepest foundations, wiping out the edifices we've so carefully constructed on what we once imagined to be the solid ground of our life.

Most women experience major change in these middle years: physical change or professional; social or psychological; changes in our family and our relationships. The themes discussed here are worded in Irish/English/Scottish/Cornish/Welsh parlance, but are relevant to more than one part of the world alone. My biggest issue with this book is that there is no room for queerness in Blackie's feminism, to the point that it seems outright TERF-y.

I see someone desperately hanging on to the cliff-edge of control with bleeding, shredded fingernails and gritted teeth, wanting all the while to just let go and scream her tired heart out as she fell. Slowly, spending more and more time outside, focusing on the wisdom of my senses rather than on what was going on inside my head, I began to weave myself back into the fabric of the Earth. As a mythologist, I’d studied Joseph Campbells’ work, of course, on the Hero’s Journey, and as a woman, I found it most unsatisfying. the premise of a heroine's journey, in contrast to the hero's journey described by campbell, where women reconnect with the earth and get in touch with their gifts to heal the world, ok. I tend to like books that reference Clarissa Pinkola Estes, and her famous Women Who Run With the Wolves.

Somewhere along the line, she realised, she had lost herself - and so began her long journey back to authenticity, rootedness in place and belonging. She found the native wisdom she was seeking in the mythological tradition rooted in her own ancestry and place in the British isles. Rising high up on the heather-covered moorlands, seeping through our bogs, flowing down our streams and into our rivers and out onto the sandy strands of the rock-strewn Atlantic seaboard, are the old Celtic myths and stories … waiting to be reclaimed and re-visioned for the modern world.I couldn’t put this book down – Sharon Blackie puts into words things that I have felt for a long time but which I lacked the words to articulate. You are currently viewing the details page on Bookshelves for the book If Women Rose Rooted: The Power of the Celtic Woman by Sharon Blackie. All of these meditations are designed to help you to work with your deep imagination, engage with the imaginal world and develop resources for activating your mythic imagination. If I seem emotional in this review it’s because I’m so, so, so angry at what this book claimed to be and failed to achieve. Beautifully written, honest and moving, If Women Rose Rooted is a passionate song to a different kind of femininity, a rallying, feminist cry for the rewilding of womanhood; reclaiming our role as guardians of the land.