Hello friends!
Welcome to Season 2 Episode 4 of Conversations With A Couple Of Crones (or CWACOC, as we call it, which always makes us giggle!!).
We started our Podcast with the question …
Where am I now?
We’ve just moved into the Radiance sphere in the Sage’s Golden Path retreat, so we both talked about that.
Meghan also shared some exciting news about a new art project she’s working on for Gene Keys Unleashed with Hayley Curtis. She’ll be offering a course withing GKU that combines art journaling techniques with the inquiry of the inner work … I’ve signed up already. If you’re a GKU member, keep your eyes peeled for Meghan’s Playful Pondering! (And if you’re not a member, I can highly recommend it!!)
You can choose to listen to this episode as a Podcast while you go about your day, or you can grab a cuppa and join us in our video as we chat – just click the film icon on the player below 🎞️
As part of “Where am I now?“, I talked about a big change that has occurred in my life. My son has left home, and I am in the transition from my Mother years to my Crone chapter!
This led perfectly onto the topic we chose to converse about this week …
Embracing Our Cronehood
I started us off with a definition from Clarissa Pinkola Estes. Clarissa suggests that “the word crone may derive from the word crown (or, la corona). While a crown is known as a circlet that goes around the head and establishes one’s authority as a leader, “before this understanding, the crown, la corona, was understood to mean the halo of light around a person’s body. La corona was considered to shine more brightly when a person was clear, filled with love and justice.” Thus, Estes suggests, the Crone is one who reflects this enhanced degree of clarity and in/sight.”
(Thank you to Wikipedia for that info! Don’t worry, I am a Wikipedia donor, so I think it’s okay for me to quote them!)
How We Embrace Our Cronehood
We had the most delicious conversation about what being a Crone means to both of us.
We talked about the rite of passage of moving from Mother to Crone.
We talked about body image and embracing our Crone bodies … wrinkles, curves and all!
We talked about the dangerous trend of glorifying extremely skinny bodies, that is once more prevalent in Western society.
We talked about how important doing the inner work has been in aiding our transition to this really juicy chapter of our lives.
We talked about how we no longer feel the need to explain our decisions or justify our actions or words.
We talked about acceptance.
We are embracing our creativity, we are trusting our intuition in ways that we never did as a younger women.
We talked about how we are happier than we have ever been, and how we have found the deepest, truest friendships of our lives in these post-60 years!
We feel stronger, we feel more authentic, we feel more US.
I really hope that you will love listening to the conversation as much as we loved having it! I really hope that, if you are younger than us, you will take heart from knowing how glorious your Crone years can be!
We’d love to hear from you in the comments!
Until next time!
Lizzie 🩵
The books we talked about in this conversation were …
Crones don’t Whine by Dr Jean Shinoda Bolen
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