The Wise Woman: The Evolution Into Wisdom - Free To Be She Chapter Eight Excerpt

The Wise Woman is the golden petal of the feminine flower. She is the one who has gathered, metabolized, and alchemized every stage of her journey into embodied knowing. No longer seeking to prove, please, or perform, she lives from the calm authority of her own soul essence, rooted in her body and radiant in her truth. This chapter invites a deep initiation into her frequency, a reclamation of the power, wisdom, and grace that naturally arise through cycles of death and rebirth; through letting go and luminous maturity.

From her shadows of invisibility, bitterness, fatigue, or control, the Wise Woman awakens into surrendered leadership, Divine trust, and soulful magnetism. She becomes a living oracle of the Mother, no longer needing to mother others from depletion or rescue, but instead emanating nourishment through her very presence.

The Wise Woman arises as the final flowering in the great feminine arc; as the natural evolution of the Maiden’s wonder, the Mother’s devotion, the Priestess’ service and the Queen’s sovereignty. She is not separate from these other expressions but rather their ripened essence, distilled through the many seasons of living, loving, and letting go. Her wisdom has not been granted by time alone and life experience…but has been forged through cycles of initiation, loss, surrender, and rebirth.

Where the Queen held sovereignty, the Wise Woman now holds surrender. Where the Priestess served through devotion, the Wise Woman serves through being. She is the sum of all She has ever been and the freedom beyond all of it.”

She has walked through the fires of transformation again and again…not through bypassing pain, not through transcending shadow, but through meeting both as sacred teachers. Every heartbreak, every unraveling, every death of identity has become part of her medicine. She no longer seeks to rise above the human experience but to dwell within it as its compassionate witness, its Elder Priestess.

The Wise Woman understands that true maturation comes through embodiment and through feeling and integrating the full range of life’s textures rather than escaping them. Her grace is not polished perfection; it is the soft strength that comes from having fallen to her knees and still chosen to be embodied love.

She invites us to recognize aging not as diminishment but as alchemical transformation. The lines on her face are etchings of devotion, the slowing of her rhythms a doorway into deeper presence. Menopause, for those who experience it, becomes one of her most profound initiations…a sacred threshold where creation turns inward, where the fire once used to give life outwardly now illuminates the inner temple.

Through this passage, she learns the art of surrender to her body’s wisdom, to her soul’s timing, and to the Divine unfolding of her becoming. The Wise Woman embodies the grace of cycles completed, yet her story is not an ending. It is the beginning of radiance unbound by youth, a wisdom rooted in love that has lived many lifetimes and is still becoming.

Love,

Jelelle Awen This is an excerpt from Chapter Eight of Free To Be She: The Wise Woman. I have been sharing a daily passage from each chapter of this book, my sixth book about awakening, spirituality, parts work, sacred union, and quantum soul reconciliation. Its release is on January 1, 2026…when it will be available to purchase in E-book, PDF, and print editions (and eventually an audiobook version in my voice).

This book is more like a transmission than conceptual or intellectual, more like a love letter from and with Divine Mother to all women and the men who love them. Long in the gestation, inspiration, and now..finally…the birthing and offering phases. I will also offer weekly meditation videos inspired by each chapter starting in January. You can take in all the chapter excerpts and videos plus links to purchase the book here.