An illustration inspired by the Russian folk tale Vasilisa, depicting the moment she lifts a skull to light her path with the fire from its eye sockets while simultaneously realizing its destructive power. “The wild woman is a courageous woman; she creates and destroys herself. She is the primal inventive soul behind all creative acts. Learning intuition may be easy, but preserving it consciously allowing what must live to live and what must die to die — is far more difficult, yet deeply transformative.” — Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run with the Wolves