A Library of Wizardly Words

A Library of Wizardly Words

Where we follow the call to up-level our language in order to up-level our reality by exploring the vocabulary and lexicon of the Gene Keys.

Wizardly Words on Wednesdays

Our Podcast

Our Podcast

Lizzie and Meghan have bi-monthly podcast/video conversations about all things inner work and the Gene Keys. They play together, weaving the inner work into stories complete with much laughter and some tears.

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Redheadwondering Hand Bound Journals

Redheadwondering Hand Bound Journals

Lizzie creates hand bound journals, using traditional bookbinding techniques. She uses original Cyanotype prints for the covers, so each journal is unique. Truly Earth-friendly stationary, using recycled and sustainably sourced materials.

Folksy Shop

The Membership we Serve with Love & Delight

The Membership we Serve with Love & Delight

Hayley Curtis has an online membership for all things Gene Keys. It is a supportive place for anyone interested in diving deeper into their own Gene Keys to find guidance as well as a loving community.

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About Us

About Us

Learn about what it is to be a crone at any age, and something about each of us. We are Meghan and Lizzie, two women who are embracing our creative expression in ways we never have before.

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Lizzie's Photographs

Lizzie's Photographs

Lizzie is an avid photographer. She is enthralled by the glorious countryside of the West Country of England, & loves to share her images of Wiltshire and Devon, with their rolling landscapes and glorious seascapes. Visit her portfolio!

Flickr Site

Meghan's Art Journal Pages

Meghan's Art Journal Pages

Meghan has a gallery of her art journal pages on Instagram.

Artistic Mystic Meghan

Lizzie's Wise Words

Lizzie's Wise Words

Lizzie shares her words on Substack, where she writes about the inner work and about her Gene Keys journey. She also shares her love of bookbinding and Cyanotype printing.

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Meghan's Video Musings

Meghan's Video Musings

Meghan as The Artistic Mystic has a channel on YouTube. She makes videos of her own inner process of transformation through the Gene Keys. The videos are full of laughter and tears and great compassion for herself and others.

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The Gene Keys

The Gene Keys

We are on a deep inner journey using the living transmission of Richard Rudd called the Gene Keys.

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Travel Essays from the Sage’s Journey

Starting in January 2026, we are embarking upon a 16-month journey through our Gene Keys Golden Paths … The Sage’s Journey with Richard Rudd. This page is where we will be sharing our reflections on this delicious inner journey.

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The river Etive. The definition of "nostalgia" is "a sentimental longing or wistful affection for a period in the past". When I think about my childhood, the good bits of my childhood, then this is the place that fills my mind and my heart. My memories of Loch Etive, and of this river that feeds it, are just about as wistful as it's possible to get!
And so, my Travel Essays continue, with a deeper dive into my Radiance sphere. I have Gene Key 21.3 here … the Shadow of Control, the Gift of Authority, the Siddhi of Valour. I am absolutely loving The Contemplation within the Sage’s Journey … "Sometimes we have to change our direction and even go back the way we came." ...
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A photograph of the sun setting on Dartmoor in Devon. This shot shows the road from Soussons Down to Postbridge.
This week, we have moved into the Radiance sphere in the Sage’s Golden Path Retreat with Richard Rudd and Team64. I was excited to read what my Sage word and line would be. Reconsideration The power of re-examining our decisions and adjusting accordingly ...
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A black and white photograph of the old bridge and the older bridge over the East Dart River at Dartmeet. As the name suggests, Dartmeet is the meeting point of the two major tributaries of the River Dart: the East Dart and West Dart. The road bridge, built in 1792 spans the East Dart; just above it is an earlier, possibly medieval, clapper bridge, now partially collapsed. The actual confluence of the two rivers is just downstream of the bridge.
The Pathway of Breakthrough runs across the centre of your Gene Keys chart, from your Evolution Gene Key to your Radiance Gene Key, and it is of supreme importance in the whole journey of your Golden Path, because it is the Pathway that links your outer work in the world to your inner work. "One of the key conditions necessary for a breakthrough is an ability to dwell on our life as it is now, rather than what it has been or what it might be." ...
A sunlit pathway into a pine forest in summer with green grass and a sandy path. There is a cat sauntering in the foreground.
A Path into Meghan’s High Country Woodland (and her Cat Oliver)
My Favourite Place To Journal ... My Garden. An open journal lies on a garden table. There is a fountain pen and a pencil case. A Cup of coffee. An English country garden.
Lizzie’s Favourite Place To Journal … Her Garden

Essays/Articles

Musings and contemplations from the Crones, Where we explore the Gene Keys and all things inner work and outer prosperity.

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An art journal spread with images of puffins with lots of quotes, including "begin again".
As I journey on the Sage's Golden Path Retreat this year, I am beginning what I hope will be a consistent offering called Playful Puffin Adventures. My playful adventure is to make an art journal page and an art journal process reel to uplift myself and others ...
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Three AI generated images. The first is of a beaver in a wizard's outfit holding a torch. The second is an older woman with an emu. The third is a magpie writing on a chalkboard ... steal your empowerment back.
I had so much fun traveling with 12 animals, one from each category, during my 40 Day Spiritual Journey I decided to pick 12 animals to travel with me for the whole of 2026. Join me as I share my words for the year and why I chose each of the 12 animals allies ...
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An AI generated image with a wild Scottish river, a leaping salmon and a lion. The words Acceptance, Stillness and Creativity are overlaid on the image.
For years now, as I’ve approached the end of each year, I’ve cast my mind forward to the new year, which is about to begin, and I ask myself, usually in a journaling session, what words are going to be my compass, my lodestars, for the coming year. So, the question really is … What is it that I want to bring into my life in the coming year? ...

In our offerings in Mining the Mysterious we want to bring more of the Divine Feminine energy into our lives and our contemplations.

We invite you to join us as we gather around our hearth, and talk about our journeys with the Gene Keys and our personal transformations.

By sharing our stories (via podcast/video), we will help other women, and by the laws of reciprocity, our own healing will increase, because we are all part of a synergistic whole.

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2.4: Embracing Our Cronehood
In this episode of our Podcast, we had the most delicious conversation about what being a Crone means to both of us. We talked about this glorious rite of passage that we go through as we move from our Mother years to our Crone years. We talked about body image and embracing our Crone bodies … wrinkles, curves and all! We talked about acceptance, and creativity, and so many other juicy aspects of being a crone! ...
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2.3: Somatic Experiences with the Gene Keys
This was a really exciting episode for us to record, as it’s the first time we have had a special guest join us on the Podcast. We were delighted to welcome our fellow Gene Keys Unleashed Guide, Samantha Lee Vigliotti, onto the Podcast to talk about her wonderful gift with the EFT modality (Emotional Freedom Technique), and how she marries it with the Gene Keys ...
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A photograph of fireworks with a woman making a heart shape with her hands.
Welcome to Episode 2 of Season 2 of Conversations with a Couple of Crones. We started, as we always do, with our question to ourselves … “Where am I now?”. Where we are is a really exciting place, so this whole episode is basically answering that question! For we have just begun the Sage’s Journey, an online Gene Keys Golden Path retreat with Richard Rudd and the Gene Keys team ...

Wizardly Words on Wednesdays

Where we follow the call to up-level our language in order to up-level our reality by exploring the vocabulary and lexicon of the Gene Keys.

Recent Posts:
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A photograph of an open journal with my writing on my Life’s Work.
My beautiful friend, Meghan, did a fabulous Wizardly Words on Wednesdays post a couple of weeks ago, about “Up Levelling”. Yes, we know that “up levelling” isn’t a Gene Keys word, and you would be right in thinking that the main point of our Wizardly Words was to give you our take on, and our personal definitions of some of the words in the Gene Keys lexicon. In so many of the Gene Keys, as you listen to Richard Rudd’s audios, you will hear him say, in one way or another, “you do this through creativity”, or “you access this gift through creativity” ...
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Two AI generated images of a huntress with a bow and arrows. She has long silver hair..
What???? What kind of Wizardly Word is Up Leveling? I thought in this offering you and Lizzie were exploring the Gene Keys vocabulary, not some word that originates with Gaming, you might be saying to yourself. Come watch my video and find out what I'm talking about ...
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A sunrise photograph of the road from Froxfield to Rudge in Wiltshire. There are ploughed fields on either side of the road.
We have arrived at the last of this little series of Wizardly Words, where Meghan and I have been sharing our understandings of those great foundations of the Gene Keys … The Shadow, The Gift, and The Siddhi. And this one, the Siddhi, oh, it is the deepest concept, and, the hardest to define ...

Bite-Sized Bravery

Welcome to our monthly feature that delights you with simple questions to ponder about your life. This feature has four layers and you can choose how many layers to dive into throughout the month:

  • the Bite-Sized part is simply the question
  • then some journaling/contemplation prompts
  • followed by links to supporting sources or quotes on the subject
  • and finally the super secret fourth layer where we reveal the Gene Keys behind the bite-sized bravery questions (for our Gene Keys geeks – you need a password for this!)
  • > > > Here is the whimsical introductory example for Bite-Sized Bravery
  • Tiny Transformations is where Lizzie and I talk about our own bite-sized bravery by telling you stories from our pasts.
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Bite-Sized Bravery: Restraint
We are offering you a question today to set you up for the month to come with Bite-Sized invitations towards transformation. The subject for March is Restraint. Think of restraint as a way to tune your inner radio station to a calmer, less stressful station. Hayley Curtis defines restraint as coming into alignment with cosmic timing, with the understanding that it is safe to take your time ...
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A collage art piece featuring the works Self Tenderness Month and images of women's hands, roses, a bright childlike sun, a lion and a dog.
We are offering you a question today to set you up for the month to come with Bite-Sized invitations towards transformation. The subject for February is Tenderness to Self ...
A photograph of my desk. There is a copy of The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron, and one of my hand bound journals, with a blue cyanotype cover. There is a pencil case and several fountain pens.
A tiny step, like accepting the gift of a book and daring to think that maybe, possibly, hopefully, I could actually do it, I could actually write every single day for 12 weeks, led me here, to this creative cauldron, to all this transformation that has occurred in my life over the last few years (decades!) ...
Meghan in the car mirror, putting on lipstick.
In late 2010 a young friend of mine asked me if I would like to do a creative project with her ... for the whole year of 2011! At that time I had been a widow for four+ years and sole support of my youngest son who was in high school. Saying yes was a small decision that changed my life! ...