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.
In the Gene Keys teachings, genius is defined as “the natural manifestation of a human life when it is allowed to expand without force.”
When you are working with your Life’s Work, this first Gene Key in your Golden Path points to how your inner genius wants to express itself.
In this essay, I explore my inner genius for Dynamism ...
At the end of 2025 I felt the call to up level my creativity. I mean take it to heights I'd barely allowed myself to dream about. This call to challenge my art ability status quo put me on the path to learn a whole new way of making art. I want to learn to play in the realms of digital art on the iPad. In this pinned post I will be housing all the fun reels I make in this Alchemical Art Adventures offering ...
Ever since I first heard my guide, Hayley, talk about the concept that we all come into this life to play our piece in the great collective puzzle of life, the idea has intrigued and, frankly, terrified me!
What even is my piece? Will I ever find it? Will it be good enough?
How will I know if I’m playing my piece “right”? ...
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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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 ...
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 ...
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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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 ...
Welcome to the beginning of the second season of Conversations With A Couple Of Crones.
In this episode we have the most delicious conversation about the words we’ve chosen for 2026, the intention behind them, and how we will be grounding into that energy ...
It has been a tradition of Lizzie's for almost 30 years to sit with her journal at the end of the year and look back to see what she had done, or what had happened, during that year that she could celebrate, and we thought this would be a fun way to finish our podcasting year ...
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.
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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 ...
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 ...
Each Gene Key has three constituent parts ... The Shadow, The Gift and the Siddhi. For this article, the second of this latest series of collaborative Wizardly Words posts, Meghan and Lizzie talk about the Gift, as defined within the Gene Keys modality.
The Gift relates to human genius and open-heartedness ...
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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At this time of year, it is good to cast our minds forward to the year ahead, and to ask ourselves what energy we want to bring into our lives?
This is not about acquiring stuff, or getting a promotion, or going on holiday (although it's fine to be thinking about those things too!). No, this is more about what intentions you want to hold in your heart ...
This time of year, with the Christmas holidays on the way, can be really stressful for a lot of people. Yes, it's supposed to be a time of celebration and togetherness, but that doesn't mean it's easy, that doesn't mean that it's not messy and difficult.
In this month's Bite Sized Bravery, we offer you some ideas to help you trust the unfolding of the days in this, the busiest of months ...
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!) ...
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! ...
