From Camille Willemain-Green, "Lilith the Original Woman: Reclaiming the Wild Instinctual Nature of Woman":

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"There is an innate intelligence in the wild that can never be replicated no matter how many may have tried. It is life unconcerned with opinions, outcomes, projections, judgements, or any of the mental constructs that rule our world today...

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When a woman has remembered and reclaimed this inner wild… you feel it... You sense it in her aura. She carries a quality of unpredictability, and this wildness stirs both fear and awe. She is guided by a force so deep that it requires plunging into the darkest human fears to access, and there she has discovered the love that obliterates all fear in its truth.

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In ancient tantric traditions, this feminine essence is called Shakti, Goddess, the power that animates all of existence, and today many feminist storytellers have rewoven our original creation story to help us reclaim Her through an original woman who predates Eve: Lilith.

First appearing in Sumerian legends as a Goddess, and eventually a demon causing chaos, death, and evil in the world, Lilith embodies the darker nature of the feminine. As we as women are beginning to awaken to the power hidden within our dark nature, embracing our inner Lilith is essential on the path of becoming whole...

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Womb mystery schools describe these seeming polar energies within a woman as the red river and the white river. Our red river gifts us our passion, our deep pleasure, and our transformational powers. Our white river gifts us our purity, our innocence, and our surrender. We come into our wholeness as women when we equally embrace our white and red rivers, swirling them together into a pool of pink, the color of rose quartz, the feminine, and love.

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As we...are returning to the roots of The Mother and remembering how we live in harmony with the whole, Lilith offers us a powerful gateway back home to the wild.

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Lilith may leave the shackles of patriarchy and become depicted as a demon, but she also returns to offer her red thread back to Eve.

When Eve arrives in The Garden with Adam, representing the white thread of innocence, she is visited by a serpent. Many mythological tales describe this serpent to be Lilith herself, as the deep feminine has long been associated with the snake. In tantra this snake lives at the base of our spines, dormant, asleep, waiting to be activated through sexual desire so that it may rise up through our energy centers...and ultimately reuniting with Shiva, the masculine, at the crown of our heads.

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While the outer voice of authority, of 'God', tells Eve never to eat the forbidden fruit, the snake (the wild, Shakti, Goddess, She Who Is) encourages it. Life cannot flourish without our sexuality, and Eve eating the apple is a 'yes' to the wild creative dance of life that demands our primal participation.

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The Garden can also be seen here as the wild abundance of the flesh of the body, the forbidden fruit symbolic of the womb, and the snake as the inner voice of primal life tempting Eve to feast on the truth that God is within her, has never left her, and is her very source.

While we have been taught to seek and exploit power externally, embracing our inner Lilith, our inner Shakti, is the only true self-empowerment in existence. To truly let the feminine rise, we must dive deep into the source of our authentic power, the wild essence of pure life, and allow Her to empower all that we do." (Willemain-Green, 2020).