Vision Midwifery as Threshold Work
The word midwife comes from the idea of being with womb or being with woman in the experience of birth, transition, or death.
Yet, we know from our shared histories, written and unwritten, that the role of the midwife is not inherently gendered nor is it limited to just the corporeal experiences of death and birth. Midwives have been assisting humanity, the unseen realm, and the natural world in the liminal transition between states of being (or unbeing) for many thousands of years.
In many ways, the concept of Vision Midwifery is not new. It is ancient. It is wildgrown. And it is remembered.
If the idea of this challenges you, that’s okay, but let’s just ask a few questions.
What if a midwife does not only walk with woman but also walks with womb? And not just the physical “womb”, but the primordial, pre-cognitive womb—the womb of the imaginal, the womb of psycho-spiritual death and rebirth, and the womb of the Void itself?
It’s in this way that Vision Midwifery, as a concept, is an exploration of what it means to walk with that womb — to be with the womb of the imagination, the void of the Goddess, and the soil of the subconscious where all expressions and experiences of our lives begin.
Because regardless of gender or biology, we each carry a womb in this way. We each carry an imaginal, incubative capacity. This part of us is the bridge between what has been and what longs to be. This womb is not necessarily only a complex biological organ. It is also functional capacity of the living dream we are each in and acts as a portal that stands between the physical experience of being in body and how the soul-persons who inhabit these bodies first begin creating in the unseen realm.
To be a Vision Midwife is to be with these thresholds of becoming and unbecoming, materialization and dematerialization from form.
It is to stand at the edge where life stirs and to listen, to tend, to make space for what is asking to emerge. Vision Midwives exist to guide the creative rites of passage from the void of potential into embodied, tangible form.
This role is one of deep attunement and one that requires presence, patience, and the willingness to hold what is not yet fully known. It is not about control or force, but about listening to what is ready, tending to what is gestating, and creating the conditions for a vital emergence to take place.
A Vision Midwife does not impose a timeline on the unfolding. They do not demand certainty where mystery still reigns. Instead, they offer structure, support, capacity, and foresight to move with the rhythms of the creative process, recognizing that every vision has its own timing, its own needs, its own way of coming into being.
This role is both ancient and emergent.
As Vision Midwives, we have been woven through our history as caretakers of our futures, of life and possibility. It is a role that has been carried in many forms by those who have tended the births of children, the birthing of stories, the birthing of futures and those who have also tended the deaths of these. And now, in a time of great transition, we are being called to remember this role and to develop (us each) our own individuated praxis of vision midwifery that holds the creative potential of humanity in relationship with Earth as sacred.
To be a Vision Midwife is to stand at the threshold of what has been and what longs to be and calling on the wisdom of both.
It is to recognize that visioning is not just an act of fleeting imagination, but it is an embodied, relational process.
A conversation between self, soul, soil, and world. A dance between the seen and the unseen, the personal and the planetary, and the already has been and not yet.
To be a Vision Midwife is to walk with and become initimate and devoted to Void and to recognize that the void-space, a primordial threshold, is not something to be feared but is the fertile ground of creation itself.
