Will You Go?
Reclaim the sacred within the revelatory natural world through guided practices and seasonal retreats.
Recall the meant-for interconnection within and between all of creation through curated essays and articles.
Retune familiar landscapes and far-off places into allies that heal and renew the spirit through specialized consulting services.
Rewild your sense of wonder and rediscover how nature provides sacred guidance through life's circular and seasonal journey. Rewildling retreats & pilgrimages are a response to the longing to deeply connect with the sacred, surrounding and within the wild world.
Weaving words that reconnect and deepen one to nature, Mary writes from within the wisdom of creation spirituality and the peregrination tradition, both which invite ways of being that bring humanity into a deep sense of belonging to the world and one another.
All of us need guidance at some point in the Journey. Waymarkers comes alongside individuals and groups who long to experience personal transformation through soulful travel, and those who desire to participate in the cultivation of the culture of a place.
“Mary DeJong is the next Wendell Berry; however instead of writing from a farm, her voice is rooted in an urban forest.”
![These past weeks I’ve been daily dipping into the wisdom of Clarissa Pinkola Estes as this month’s Rewilding Wheel accompaniment community is going deeper into the role of the mythopoetic in our lives, and the wondrous shapes and wild forms of the transformational Underworld Journey. The ancient interconnection between the wild (be they landscape or animal) and the woman is clarified and giving clear vision by Pinkola Estes. It is no wonder that our current cultural crisis is bearing witness to the containment of women’s [reproductive] rights, and the continual abuse and killing of the more than human world. Just this past Friday, the last four members of an embattled wolf pack were killed in Washington State, just hours before the court order that could have saved them was issued. •
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Earlier this week as I sat in the shadows of these archetypal energies that run through both myth and our contemporary political realities, I found myself taking time and space to rest in the storied lap of a local library (shout out to one of the remaining community contexts that require no financial transaction to be safe and warm in its space). My daughter brought to me a book to read aloud, an enchanting tale called The Magic Nesting Doll by Jacqueline Ogburn. This is a mythic story about a valiant young peasant girl whose grief ultimate gifts her with access to her ancestral powers…wait for it…that are embodied in the wild forms of a bear and wolf. These are the sort of synchronicities to which a deeper hearing of myth attune us. •
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We can continue to cut off the wild from our existence and perpetuate the violence that is rendering the more than human world endangered and extinct, and the fear that attempts to extinguish the sacred feminine. Or, we can remember the old knowing that the bear, the wolf, is inside us, awaiting us to release and reconnect to the flourishing that occurs when we tap into our wild wholeness —that we are apart of the pack much more than we are separate from them. This is a return to the Sacred Wild that resides within us as well as surrounds us with the holy chorus of howls and growls.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595f30ec6a49637313291b9f/1566420285269-6PR50POIZP10S8S4C61C/ke17ZwdGBToddI8pDm48kF17mnF78HYigFaTuYrmr0VZw-zPPgdn4jUwVcJE1ZvWQUxwkmyExglNqGp0IvTJZUJFbgE-7XRK3dMEBRBhUpz9zQDsXxlD7hn8iQtarJu03toZWtHxnvI1svtiv9XkDW9_dAamvK_gWb7HWkdyPdY/image-asset.jpeg)
