Mermaids and the Wild Feminine: Myths, Magic, and Moonlight
- Naima Namaste
- 2 days ago
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There is something ancient and untamed about mermaids and to me they are the embodiment of the wild feminine: fluid, emotional, mysterious, and powerful.
They remind us of parts of ourselves we may have silenced in the deep of our soul... the parts that crave freedom, sensuality, softness, and spiritual depth. They are a return to the body, the water, the moon.
To what we instinctively know, but have been taught to forget.
The Mythical Origins: A Mirror of the Feminine Soul
Mermaids appear across cultures and centuries, always carrying layers of meaning:
In Greek myth, the sirens sang sailors into forgetting the rules of the world.
In African lore, Mami Wata is a goddess of water, healing, and feminine beauty.
In Celtic stories, selkies transformed between seal and woman, echoing the dance between freedom and intimacy.
These stories aren’t just old tales. They’re mirrors. They speak to a woman’s cyclical nature...her intuition, her depth, her power to create, destroy, and transform.
Mermaids, in their wild grace, reclaim what the world often represses: sensuality, softness, emotion, instinct, and voice.
Painting the Siren Within: My Mermaid Artworks
My mermaid paintings came to life when I began reclaiming pieces of myself I had lost: the wild, intuitive woman who had learned to hide her softness. These sirens are not just mythical figures on canvas.
My Mermaids paintings are self-portraits of the Feminine soul: expressions of feminine energy rising from the deep. - Naïma Namaste
“Grace” oil painting
Bathed in moonlight, she floats between worlds. Surrounded but the blue water, lotus flowers emerging from the dark, she symbolizes rebirth, intuition, softness, and surrender. The moon by her side, a reminder of the cycles we move through of renewal and reflection.
“Au Clair de Lune, By the Moonlight” oil painting
Like all of my paintings, this beautiful siren was born from intuition, but also from inspiration. I’ve long been captivated by the way John William Waterhouse painted his siren, and as a deep admirer of the Pre-Raphaelite movement, I felt called to create my own version: one that carried my voice, my vision, and the feminine energy I see in her.
Au Clair de Lune painting is a mermaid that is connected to herself, her body, the ocean and mother Earth. She is an invitation to return to yourself, your truth, your emotional waters.
She holds the essence of freedom, emotional depth, and sacred voice.- Naïma Namaste
These paintings are portals. They speak to the woman who feels too much, dreams too deeply, or longs to reconnect with her sensual and spiritual nature.
Mermaids, Magic, and the Moon
There’s a reason mermaids are often linked to the moon.
Both rule the tides. Both are cyclical, mysterious, and feminine.
To follow the call of the mermaid is to follow the call of your own inner moon: your wild wisdom, your longing, your healing waters. - Naïma Namaste
The wild feminine sometimes comes softly... in tears, in dreams, in the urge to create, in the longing for beauty and inner peace.
Dive In
If you feel the ocean inside you…If you are moved by moonlight, by myth, by the magic of the feminine…These paintings were created for you.
They are for the wild dreamers. The soft-hearted. The ocean souls. The ones who remember.
With love from south west of France,
Naïma✨
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