Steampunk Paper Doll Journal - Spread 8 - The Craft of Stories

"Intuition is the treasure of a woman's psyche.  It is like a diving instrument and like a crystal through which one can see with uncanny interior vision. It is like a wise old woman who is with you always, who tells you exactly what the matter is, tells you exactly whether you need to go left or right.  It is a form of The One who Knows, old La Que Sabe, the Wild Woman...

She instructs the ordering of the house of the soul. She imbues an alternate order to the ego, one where magic can happen, joy can be done, appetite is intact, things are accomplished with gusto.  She is the model for being true to the Self.  She teaches both death and renewal.  She is the primitive and inventing soul that makes all creative acts and arts possible.

The craft of questions, the craft of stories, the craft of hands - all these are the making of SOUL."
- Clarissa Pinkola Estes