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Who Are The Crones? We are Meghan and Lizzie. We are two women in our 60s who have discovered the joy of finding friendship later in life. We are two women who are embracing our creative expression in a way we never have before. In our 60s we are remembering ... Read More
What To Expect
We have been seekers for many years, both trying many different modalities to deepen our ... Read More
Current Contemplations:
Moving Mountains with my Imagination
Life is certainly dishing me up a full helping of Confusion, but the first week in the EQ has seen me relishing and bathing in the Sage wisdom of GK64.5 ... Read More
2.13: The EQ and Riding the Winds of Change
We've moved into our EQ sphere in the Sage’s Retreat. We just had to talk about our Sage words, and about all the changes that are happening in our lives ... Read More
My Words are Flowers
I have been contemplating the Sutra for my EQ Gene Key, 64.5. It has settled into me with a feeling of both newness and of familiarity. My words are flowers ... Read More
When Gentle Purpose Entered the Body
A council of sixteen women leads me from inherited rules toward embodied possibility, as Bright Wing becomes an art journal of voice, relationship, creativity, humor, and homecoming ... Read More
My Body Is Becoming Home
A personal reflection on food, embodiment, and healing—discovering a gentler path where care and choice coexist, old patterns soften, and the body becomes a trusted home again ... Read More
The Seeds of Tomorrow
In my contemplations, I've moved into my EQ sphere. My Sage Word here is STARSEED! Starseed is the stuff of myth, she is my magical self ... Read More
Memory Came in Sideways
An EQ art-journaling journey through childhood memories, where the grounding work of cutting, sorting, taping, and making creates space for emotional patterns, humanity, and compassion to emerge ... Read More
Bite-Sized Bravery: Imagination
Imagination is our theme for September. "Imagination allows alchemy to occur inside your being". You are an alchemist of emotions! Come on an imaginative adventure with us this month ... Read More
The Ending I Had to Make with My Hands
How I finally completed Rowan’s fairytale—not by writing its missing chapters, but by transforming its lessons into a hand-bound book I could hold ... Read More
Falling in Love with my Inner Beloved
An exploration of my IQ Siddhi of Purity. In order to tap into the Universal Wisdom of the IQ, I must drop the barriers that my logical mind puts up ... Read More
A Note from the Crone: What Rowan Has Taught Me in the Quiet
Part of the continuing Rowan fairytale, this reflective pause lets the Crone consider what the story has revealed—and why Rowan’s remaining journey must return to the quiet ... Read More
Refining my IQ Gift of Discrimination
If the IQ Gene Key invites me into true, heart-centred intelligence, then I must follow my heart. I must trust my heart to make the right decisions ... Read More
Rowan at Eighteen—The Beautiful Hill and the Quiet Mist
Rowan leaves home for a beautiful theatre academy, finds her gifts at a noisy summer camp and returns to a familiar Hearth-house on unfamiliar ground ... Read More
The Sphere of the IQ and My Shadow of Vanity
My heart is wide open now. I can communicate on a heart level. I speak love. I respond with love. Love is a physical presence, inside me and around me ... Read More
Rowan at Seventeen—The Barn, the Veil and the Locked Cupboard
Rowan’s story continues through four episodes of creativity, recognition and struggle, as she learns to value her gifts while Spider and Vale shape new patterns around love, desire and control ... Read More
Rowan at Sixteen—The Bright School and the Road Away
In these next three episodes of my IQ Sphere fairytale, Rowan enters her sixteenth year, finding artistic recognition, complicated friendship and new freedom before choosing between the bright school that ... Read More
Advice from a Cronish Courtesan
I was rather taken by the idea of myself as a Courtesan Crone, bringing my wisdom and creativity, art and esoteric knowledge, my magic and my far-sightedness to my milieu ... Read More
2.12: Playing the Game of Life with Conviction
This week’s Conversation is one big “Where am I now?”, as we dive into our IQ in the Sage’s journey. We give you an insight into our ways of contemplating ... Read More
Episode Three—The Board Turns Back
In this continuation of Rowan’s story, the living board turns backward to reveal a stolen dog, lost belonging, her father’s exile, and Spider’s growing fear that standing out can endanger ... Read More
The Girl with Two Lights in One Heart
Written during a depressive episode, this Gene Key 41 fairytale emerged from my reflections on bipolar illness. Through Mara’s journey with two opposing lights, it explores healing, withdrawal, longing, and ... Read More
The Silver Thread – A Fairytale Journey Through the IQ Sphere
A gentle, episodic fairytale exploring my teenage years through the Gene Keys, where Rowan follows a silver thread into hidden patterns of belonging, fear, family, magic and healing ... Read More