Pour soul over the bones

In honor of the upcoming summer Solstice, I’m featuring dolls that embody this energy. This Solstice Elder is one of 4 dolls birthed over the 2024 summer Solstice.

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The old woman sings over the bones, and as she sings, the bones flesh out. We too "become" as we pour soul over the bones we have found. As we pour our yearning and our heartbreaks over the bones of what we used to be when we were young, of what we used to be in the centuries past, and over the quickening we sense in the future, we stand on all fours, four-square. As we pour soul, we are revivified. We are no longer a thin solution, a dissolving frail thing. No, we are in the "becoming" stage of transformation.

— Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Ph.D.