Every day I had to travel as fast as I could against the wind and upon these waters to reach this Amethyst cave. Inside this cave were hundreds of beautiful crystals, conch shells, fossils from Morocco and 2 gentle fairies. They all made it feel like I belonged there, but with each day this old and mean spirit became uglier and uglier until the waters turned to smoke. All along this Amethyst cave was an illusion. I had romanticized the nature around me until realizing I wasn’t called here for beauty but for a life lesson.
I wondered how such an enchanting cave could lead me to such ugliness. The deepest scars of my childhood were touched by the old witch until I could no longer bear it. The next day, on her first attempt to scare me, my voice came out loud, furious and crystal clear! The Voice of the Goddess of Purity was born.
Spirits such as the old witch are sent to challenge us to the core and release tremendous power. My meeting with Baba Yaga gifted me a new level of my voice I hadn’t known before.
Photographed by Fran Collin @francollinphoto1 | Designs by Elaine Unzicker @theunzicker Model & Story by Marie-Pier Tremblay
The Voice of The Goddess of Purity
The Voice of The Goddess of Purity was born in 2024 as I ventured in the waters of Santa Barbara and found myself in an Amethyst cave. Over the ocean and inside this Amethyst cave, I was shaken to the core by an ancient and wise spirit, a spirit that still walks this Earth, The Spirit of Baba Yaga. Right away she revealed the gift that I will earn from her, she said; “you have a voice, use it.”
She first saw me as a naive young woman and her wild unconscious could sense this traumatic life I had once lived, as if my bones were outside my body with all of my poetry. The innocent and vulnerable voice upon my purity of heart, repulsed her deeply.
Like in the story of Cinderella and Vasilisa, as a child I was also separated from my mother and had to live with a step-mother figure who made me sleep in the basement and do all the tasks of the house. For the intuition of a young woman to be developed, the meeting of a scary spirit is often necessary and there is no better teacher than Baba Yaga to reclaim the full potential of the intuition.
At the beginning of entering these deep waters, a book of ancient tales came to me; Women Who Run With The Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estès. By the end of the first 3 chapters my dream world had completely shifted. The tales made me feel in such a way that I was taken back in time and was left living in a strange twilight zone. As if the book and my waking life had merged as one. As I began to read about the tale of Baba Yaga, I realized she had manifested in my own life.
A voice that is honest and brutal, always loving, but will cut like a sword any bullshit without trying to justify what it knows to be true.
In the end, The Voice of The Goddess of Purity marries herself as a reminder that no one and no situation will ever take away her voice and purity of heart.