BEING WOLF, TRANSFORMATION AND THE WOLF MASK
The experience of telling two stories in my Wolf mask
is still full of emotion even after almost two weeks. This is because of the
stories I told. The second story, Medicine
Wolf, especially was full of raw emotion and need. Some part of me wanted
to clear the Wolf mask of the emotions of these stories. So I decided to write
a fictional piece in order to have another kind of experience with the mask.
Working in fiction allowed a full transformation and
allowed me to write in a mentor for the mask being.
So taking my fictional personna - Annie - I went into
story land wearing the Wolf mask. Here is the story of being Wolf in story
land.
ANNIE AND THE WOLF MASK
Annie put on Rita’s Wolf mask and went into story land.
She turned into a wolf as soon as she crossed the border. A fine white wolf she
was, walking over the rocky ground. The ocean came into sight, big waves
rolling into the shore.
Annie/wolf walked along the shore. By and by she came
to a little house. An old woman sat outside spinning wool on a drop spindle.
Annie/wolf approached her. “Good day grandmother,” she said,
“Can I have some food?”
The old woman looked at her but she did not answer.
Then Annie realized that what she had said sounded like barking. So she took
human form and asked again.
“Please grandmother can I have something to eat?”
“Come inside,” said the old woman.
So Annie walked into the house. Inside Annie saw a
magic thing. All the windows looked out on a different view. Annie saw the ocean
out one window, a city out another window, farm land out a third and a forest
out a fourth window.
“How can there be so many places outside your house?” asked
Annie.
“Well,” said the old woman, “That is because this house
is at the centre of the worlds.”
Annie sat down at a small table on a small chair. She
had a tiny cup of tea and a tiny biscuit. When she had finished she said, “I
had best be going now. Thank you for the tea and biscuit.” Then Annie went out
the door. She became a wolf again.
Outside was as it had been, the ocean tumbling by.
Annie/wolf walked along the shore to where she had come into story land. Then
she walked into the real world.
Now she was human again – wearing the world mask. She
walked into Rita’s studio. There she took off Rita’s Wolf mask and hung it on
the wall.
After that she sat on the small couch and thought about
the house at the centre of the world.
She wondered what would have happened if she had
climbed out one of the windows instead of going out of the door.
