2026 • 2025

• June 14 * Liberate Yourself into Leadership (by Lizzie and Meghan)

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• June 14 * Liberate Yourself into Enrichment (by Lizzie and Meghan)

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• June 14 * Liberate Yourself into Precision (by Lizzie and Meghan)

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• June 14 * Liberate Yourself into Expansion (by Lizzie and Meghan)

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• June 14 * Liberate Yourself into Dynamism (by Lizzie and Meghan)

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• June 14 * Entering the Venus Stream (by Lizzie Dewey)

  And so I have begun the second stage of my Sage’s Golden Path Retreat. This is the beginning of a...
• June 4 * When Rattlesnake Entered My House (by Meghan Deinhard)

  A vivid dream of a rattlesnake in the house becomes a personal reflection on fear, feminine...
• June 2 * A Side Quest with Toad (by Lizzie Dewey)

  Right in the middle of my Venus preparation, I consulted the Dream Arc Oracle on a question that I...
• June 1 * Bite-Sized Bravery: Adventure (by Meghan Deinhard)

  This month we are leaning into Adventure as our theme. And YOU are going to pick the adventure you...
• June 1 * Beginning Gentle Purpose, Bright Wing (by Meghan Deinhard)

  Gentle Purpose, Bright Wing began as something smaller and quickly opened into a much fuller path....
• May 31 * 2.9: Dream Arc Adventures with Special Guest Esther Vis (by Lizzie and Meghan)

  In this episode of CWACOC we were delighted to welcome our very good friend, Esther Vis, to join us...
• May 26 * The Four Pillars of Me (by Lizzie Dewey)

  I have been in a deep pause for the last few weeks of simply being with all four of the Gene Keys...
• May 20 * The Siddhi of Wisdom (by Lizzie Dewey)

  I have been contemplating my Purpose Siddhi of Wisdom for weeks now, as I rest in the gap between...
• May 19 * Tiny Transformations: How I Learned to Create More Time (by Lizzie Dewey)

  When we first embarked upon DEVOTED with Hayley, she chose some Dream Arc creatures to accompany us...
• May 19 * Adventure into Restraint (by Lizzie and Meghan)

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• May 19 * Adventure into Synergy (by Lizzie and Meghan)

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• May 19 * Adventure into … Adventure (by Lizzie and Meghan)

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• May 19 * Adventure into Discrimination (by Lizzie and Meghan)

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• May 18 * Adventure into Magnetism (by Lizzie and Meghan)

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• May 17 * 2.8: Fractal Line Magic with Hayley Curtis (by Lizzie and Meghan)

  This was such an exciting Podcast for us to record. We’ve been doing these CWACOCs for just over...
• May 12 * An Odyssey to Mine Gold (by Lizzie Dewey)

  I do like the notion that my Siddhi of Wisdom (Gene Key 48) is an emanation of the earth itself!...
• May 8 * The Siddhi of Purpose (by Lizzie Dewey)

  I just love the idea of my Siddhi of Wisdom being a gift from the gods. I am not a religious...
• May 4 * Bite-Sized Bravery: Simplicity (by Lizzie and Meghan)

  We are offering you a question today to set you up for the month to come with Bite-Sized...
• May 4 * My Gift of Resourcefulness (by Lizzie Dewey)

  In this essay, I am diving into my Gift of Resourcefulness itself. When I first got my chart, over...
• May 2 * 2.7: Women with Purpose (by Lizzie and Meghan)

  In this episode, instead of beginning with our usual question … “Where am I now?” … we...
• April 27 * The Gift of the Purpose Sphere (by Lizzie Dewey)

  Your Purpose is your root; it is your anchor into the earth and into yourself. It is the Gene Key...
• April 23 * My Shadow of Inadequacy (by Lizzie Dewey)

  The Gene Keys teachings tell us that we are here to learn from the challenges of our Shadows. I am...
• April 21 * My Gene Key of Purpose, A Gift from the Gods (by Meghan Deinhard)

  In this video I play with my imagination in the realms of the timeless before I incarnated in this...
• April 20 * The Shadow of the Purpose Sphere (by Lizzie Dewey)

  When one thinks of Shadow work, “beautiful” is not always the first adjective that springs to...
• April 17 * The Activation Sequence, Jumanji Style (by Meghan Deinhard)

  On my inner quest I am on the Purpose Key, the last sphere of the Activation Sequence, and thought...
• April 16 * What Deeply Fulfils Me (by Lizzie Dewey)

  What Deeply Fulfils You ... It’s not a question, it’s a statement. It’s an invitation to open...
• April 13 * Looking at the Sage Acupuncture Points (by Lizzie Dewey)

  There were some things that Richard Rudd said right at the opening of the Radiance sphere, that I...
• April 10 * Discovering the Truth and the Mythos of My Purpose (by Lizzie Dewey)

  I am so glad that the way the Sage’s Golden Path Retreat has been structured means that now...
• April 6 * The Contemplation of my Purpose Sage Line (by Lizzie Dewey)

  The Contemplation of my Purpose Gene Key of 48.3, invites the light of Wisdom, which is the Siddhi,...
• April 5 * 2.6: Our Purpose Sphere Sage Lines (by Lizzie and Meghan)

  In this episode we dive headlong into our Purpose Sphere Sage Words, Lines and Sutras! Your Purpose...
• April 4 * When Pain Outshines Poetry (by Lizzie Dewey)

  For the first few days of being in our Purpose sphere inside the Sage ‘s Golden Path Retreat, my...
• April 2 * Affinity and Beyond – Exploring my Purpose Sage Line (by Lizzie Dewey)

  We are moving into our Purpose sphere as part of the Sage’s Golden Path Retreat, and I am already...
• March 30 * Bite-Sized Bravery: Acceptance (by Lizzie and Meghan)

  We are offering you a question today to set you up for the month to come with Bite-Sized...
• March 28 * The Siddhi of Valour (by Lizzie Dewey)

  "The Siddhi of your Radiance is an emanation that breaks through from the essence of your being ......
• March 27 * Super Secret Bite-Sized Bravery: Acceptance (by Lizzie and Meghan)

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• March 27 * The Gift of My Radiance – Authority (by Lizzie Dewey)

  Oh, the freedom and liberation there is in having the Gift of Authority in my Radiance Sphere ... I...
• March 25 * The Shadow of My Radiance – Control (by Lizzie Dewey)

  Let me tell you, when I first came to this Radiance Shadow of Control, I didn’t like it! I...
• March 24 * Letting Go of an Idea that Didn’t Work (by Meghan Deinhard)

  At the beginning of 2026 I thought it would be fun and interesting to work with one animal from...
• March 22 * Portraits as Portals, Playing Visually with my GK Sage Lines (by Meghan Deinhard)

  The other day I was watching a British detective drama called Bookish. It’s set in 1946 in...
• March 21 * 2.5: Acceptance (by Lizzie and Meghan)

  In this episode we answer a brilliant question from our community about working with our...
• March 18 * Wizardly Words on Wednesdays: Light (by Lizzie Dewey)

  I am working with my Radiance sphere right now, and I thought that this would be a really good time...
• March 15 * A Book of Heroic Mistakes (by Lizzie Dewey)

  In the Mythos for my Gene Key 21.3, which I have in my Radiance sphere, Richard Rudd talks about...
• March 10 * Changing Direction and Making Mistakes (by Lizzie Dewey)

  And so, my Travel Essays continue, with a deeper dive into my Radiance sphere. I have Gene Key 21.3...
• March 8 * 2.4: Embracing Our Cronehood (by Lizzie and Meghan)

  In this episode of our Podcast, we had the most delicious conversation about what being a Crone...
• March 7 * Opening to My Radiance (by Lizzie Dewey)

  This week, we have moved into the Radiance sphere in the Sage’s Golden Path Retreat with Richard...
• March 3 * The Pathway of Breakthrough (by Lizzie Dewey)

  The Pathway of Breakthrough runs across the centre of your Gene Keys chart, from your Evolution...
• March 2 * Bite-Sized Bravery: Restraint (by Lizzie and Meghan)

  We are offering you a question today to set you up for the month to come with Bite-Sized...
• March 1 * Super Secret Bite-Sized Bravery: Restraint (by Lizzie and Meghan)

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• February 28 * 2.3: Somatic Experiences with the Gene Keys (by Lizzie and Meghan)

  This was a really exciting episode for us to record, as it’s the first time we have had a special...
• February 27 * My Line 1 and the Somatic Nature of this Work (by Lizzie Dewey)

  Despite the fact that when I first entered the Evolution sphere in this iteration of the Golden...
• February 24 * My Evolution Shadow – A Lesson in Allowing (by Lizzie Dewey)

  I am coming to the end of my month in my Evolution sphere, within the Sage’s Golden Path Retreat...
• February 21 * Exploring External Validation (by Meghan Deinhard)

  I'm contemplating my Evolution Gene Key (20) while in the Pulse of Gene Key 55. I find it so...
• February 20 * The Path of the Inner Warrior (by Lizzie Dewey)

  For those of you not familiar with the Gene Keys, they are 64 archetypes of being a human. And each...
• February 16 * Dedicated Focus and Embracing My Own Weakness (by Lizzie Dewey)

  "Dedicated intention and focus that embraces and works with weakness" These are words that go along...
• February 13 * Attitude is Everything (by Lizzie Dewey)

  The concept that “attitude is everything” is woven through the whole ethos of the Gene Keys...
• February 11 * Wizardly Words on Wednesdays: Up Levelling Creativity (by Lizzie Dewey)

  My beautiful friend, Meghan, did a fabulous Wizardly Words on Wednesdays post a couple of weeks...
• February 7 * Mine is a Serious Business (by Lizzie Dewey)

  We have now moved into our Evolution sphere in the Gene Keys Sage’s Golden Path Retreat, and once...
• February 3 * My Sweet Siddhi of Liberation (by Lizzie Dewey)

  Every Gene Key is made up of three parts, three frequency bands … The Shadow, the Gift and the...
• February 1 * Bite-Sized Bravery: Self Tenderness (by Lizzie and Meghan)

  We are offering you a question today to set you up for the month to come with Bite-Sized...
• January 30 * Super Secret Bite-Sized Bravery: Self Tenderness (by Lizzie and Meghan)

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• January 27 * My Life’s Work and My Inner Genius (by Lizzie Dewey)

  In the Gene Keys teachings, genius is defined as “the natural manifestation of a human life when...
• January 25 * Alchemical Art Adventures (by Meghan Deinhard)

  At the end of 2025 I felt the call to up level my creativity. I mean take it to heights I'd barely...
• January 22 * My Piece of the Collective Puzzle (by Lizzie Dewey)

  Ever since I first heard my guide, Hayley, talk about the concept that we all come into this life...
• January 21 * Wizardly Words on Wednesdays: Up Leveling (by Meghan Deinhard)

  What???? What kind of Wizardly Word is Up Leveling? I thought in this offering you and Lizzie were...
• January 17 * 2.2: Our Sage’s Journey Begins (by Lizzie and Meghan)

  Welcome to Episode 2 of Season 2 of Conversations with a Couple of Crones. We started, as we always...
• January 13 * The Beginning of the Journey (by Lizzie Dewey)

  The Sage’s Journey has begun. This is the beginning of a new chapter for me. This is a return to...
• January 12 * Playful Puffin Adventures (by Meghan Deinhard)

  As I journey on the Sage's Golden Path Retreat this year, I am beginning what I hope will be a...
• January 11 * Bringing 12 Dream Arc Animals into 2026 (by Meghan Deinhard)

  I had so much fun traveling with 12 animals, one from each category, during my 40 Day Spiritual...
• January 5 * Bite-Sized Bravery: The Power of Words (by Lizzie and Meghan)

  At this time of year, it is good to cast our minds forward to the year ahead, and to ask ourselves...
• January 4 * Super Secret Bite-Sized Bravery: The Power of Words (by Lizzie and Meghan)

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• January 4 * Setting the Energy for 2026 (by Lizzie Dewey)

  For years now, as I’ve approached the end of each year, I’ve cast my mind forward to the new...
• January 3 * 2.1: The Power of Words (by Lizzie and Meghan)

  Welcome to the beginning of the second season of Conversations With A Couple Of Crones. In this...
• January 1 * Learning to Orient Myself in my Everyday Life (by Meghan Deinhard)

  I have just completed a full year of journeying through the Gene Keys Golden Path with a small...

• December 31 * Learning to Love My Everyday Life (by Lizzie Dewey)

  This is how I spent my final week of my glorious Devoted journey ... I sat with my journal for five...
• December 27 * My 40 Day Journey is at an End (by Meghan Deinhard)

  My 40 Day Spiritual Journey came to an end on Christmas Day. Honestly, I still feel very...
• December 26 * Why I Am Celebrating 2025 (by Lizzie Dewey)

  It has been a tradition of mine for almost 30 years to sit with my journal at the end of the year...
• December 24 * My Sage’s Journey Journals (by Lizzie Dewey)

  Starting in January 2026, I am embarking upon a 16-month journey through my Gene Keys Golden Path...
• December 18 * Getting to the End of the Year and Realising … Shit! My Words Were Spot On! (by Lizzie Dewey)

  Every year, I choose one or two words for the year, words that embody the energy that I want to...
• December 13 * 15: Celebrating 2025 (by Lizzie and Meghan)

  It has been a tradition of Lizzie's for almost 30 years to sit with her journal at the end of the...
• December 9 * Wizardly Words on Wednesdays: Siddhi (by Lizzie and Meghan)

  We have arrived at the last of this little series of Wizardly Words, where Meghan and I have been...
• December 6 * 40 Days and 12 Dream Arc Animals (by Meghan Deinhard)

  I began a 40 day spiritual journey when I was in my Culture GK in Devoted (late October/November)....
• November 30 * Bite-Sized Bravery: Trust (by Lizzie and Meghan)

  This time of year, with the Christmas holidays on the way, can be really stressful for a lot of...
• November 29 * Super Secret Bite-Sized Bravery: Trust (by Lizzie and Meghan)

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• November 29 * 14: Trust in Our Inner Work (by Lizzie and Meghan)

  Welcome to Episode 14 of Conversations With A Couple of Crones, where we have the juiciest...
• November 28 * Why Trust is So Important on This Inner Journey (by Lizzie Dewey)

  The deeper I go on this inner journey, the more trust I am finding within myself, even when I find...
• November 25 * Wizardly Words on Wednesdays: Gift (by Lizzie and Meghan)

  Each Gene Key has three constituent parts ... The Shadow, The Gift and the Siddhi. For this...
• November 24 * The Golden Thread of Trust That Runs Through My Life (by Lizzie Dewey)

  I have come to see that there are two sister themes that run through my entire chart, indeed,...
• November 17 * The Entire Point of this Spiritual Path (by Lizzie Dewey)

  You may be wondering if A Cauldron of Crones is meant for you, especially if you are younger than...
• November 15 * The Robin Invites Me Into My Interior Castle (by Meghan Deinhard)

  I have been called by the Dream Arc bird, the Robin, to take a spiritual journey imagining myself...
• November 13 * Meghan’s 40 Day Journey Creative Center (by Meghan Deinhard)

  This is where you can find all things relating to the 40 Day Journey I am taking with Teresa of...
• November 11 * Wizardly Words on Wednesdays: Shadow (by Lizzie and Meghan)

  We decided it would be really good to go back to basics and give you our definitions of the...
• November 6 * The Pathway of Initiative … When Fire is Feminine (by Lizzie Dewey)

  I am working with the Pathway of Initiative at the moment. My friend and guide, Hayley Curtis,...
• November 3 * Bite-Sized Bravery: Forgetting … and Remembering (by Lizzie and Meghan)

  Lizzie and I are offering you two questions on a Monday to set you up for the month to come with...
• November 2 * 13: Walking the Pathway of Initiative (by Lizzie and Meghan)

  We are both on the Pathway of Initiative in our Golden Path journey. This is the first pathway in...
• October 29 * The Practicalities of Walking the Pathway of Initiative (by Lizzie and Meghan)

  "The Pathway of Initiative challenges you to do something with all the transformational insight you...
• October 22 * Wizardly Words on Wednesdays: Embrace (by Meghan Deinhard)

  I come this week bearing the gift of the term Embrace. This completes the trio of words Lizzie and...
• October 19 * 12: A New Way to Define Prosperity (by Lizzie and Meghan)

  "Half the secret of prosperity is actually knowing what prosperity really means for you." Listen to...
• October 18 * Prosperity and My New Definition of Success (by Lizzie Dewey)

  The Pearl Sequence, for me, is about learning a new relationship to money, and to adopting a new...
• October 14 * Why Is Our Baby’s Birthday Equilibrium? (by Lizzie and Meghan)

  Why we chose to launch A Cauldron of Crones on the 24th of October 2025 ... it's all about balance,...
• October 11 * My Journaling Life … and How It Righted My Life! (by Lizzie Dewey)

  Words saved my life. Writing righted my life. And now I don’t want to stop. I know that I will...
• October 11 * Super Secret Bite-Sized Bravery: Forgetting … and Remembering (by Lizzie and Meghan)

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• October 9 * Tiny Transformations: The Artist’s Way (by Lizzie Dewey)

  A tiny step, like accepting the gift of a book and daring to think that maybe, possibly, hopefully,...
• October 8 * Wizardly Words on Wednesdays: Accept (by Lizzie Dewey)

  This week's Wizardly Word is "Accept", the second stage in Breakthrough. "Acceptance occurs as we...
• October 6 * Tiny Transformations: A Photo a Day 2011 (by Meghan Deinhard)

  In late 2010 a young friend of mine asked me if I would like to do a creative project with her ......
• October 5 * Flowing with the Venus Stream – Part 2 of My Golden Path Saga (by Lizzie Dewey)

  I’d like to tell you the story of my journey through the Venus Sequence. This has been life...
• October 5 * The Epic Tale of My Activation Sequence (by Lizzie Dewey)

  This is the epic story of my Gene Keys Activation Sequence. We tell these stories and create these...
• October 4 * 11: Remembering … and Forgetting (by Lizzie Dewey)

  Where we talk about remembering ... and forgetting and why we are devoted to a lifestyle to support...
• October 4 * The Art of Vibrational Frequency: A Visual Story (by Meghan Deinhard)

  I share with you two digital art pieces that combine words and images to help me tune my...
• September 30 * Getting Playful with Our Inner Work (by Lizzie and Meghan)

  Getting playful with our Gene Keys, we both wrote children's stories to illustrate one of keys in...
• September 29 * Bite-Sized Bravery: Daring to Feel, Daring to Be (by Lizzie and Meghan)

  Lizzie and I are offering you two questions on a Monday to set you up for the month to come with...
• September 27 * Playing with Our Core Wound Lines (by Lizzie and Meghan)

  Where we look at our Core Wound Lines through the lens of the all the other Line Gift states....
• September 26 * Discover Your Superhero Self with the Gene Keys (by Lizzie and Meghan)

  When Lizzie and I were moving through our Evolution sphere early in 2025, we were inspired to find...
• September 24 * Wizardly Words on Wednesdays: Allow (by Meghan Deinhard)

  For those of you who have not spent much time in the magical world of the Gene Keys, I can hear you...
• September 23 * Super Secret Bite-Sized Bravery: Daring to Feel, Daring to Be (by Lizzie and Meghan)

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• September 23 * Unlocking The Deep Essence of Our Core Wound (by Lizzie and Meghan)

  In the article, we look into the heart of each Gift in our charts and see the Gift of our Core...
• September 22 * Finding The Flavour Of The Shadow Of Our Core Wound Gene Key (by Lizzie and Meghan)

  Here we explore the concept that our Core Wound Gene Key is actually also the CORE of every other...
• September 21 * 10: Finding Our Core in Our Other Keys (by Meghan Deinhard)

  Where we talk about finding our Core Gene Key inside our other keys, and explore how the roots of...
• September 17 * Super Secret Bite-Sized Bravery: Intro (by Lizzie and Meghan)

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• September 17 * Bite-Sized Bravery: An Intro to Tiny Transformations (by Meghan Deinhard)

  Introducing Bite-Sized Bravery, a new offering to gently nudge our readers into self reflection. It...
• September 16 * Wizardly Words on Wednesdays: Trust (by Lizzie Dewey)

  This week’s Wizardly Word focuses on a theme which runs through my contemplations like a thread...
• September 12 * Why we are Devoted to the Gene Keys (by Lizzie and Meghan)

  You have probably guessed by now that we both use the Gene Keys in our inner work. We have both...
• September 7 * Wizardly Words on Wednesdays: Reverence (by Meghan Deinhard)

  Graciousness is an attitude of deep reverence and gratitude for life, empowering one to live...
• September 6 * My Celestial Journey with Crane (by Meghan Deinhard)

  In late April, 2025, I began traveling with Crane as one of my Dream Arc quests. Crane,...
• September 2 * Visual Spell Casting (by Meghan Deinhard)

  I am not much of a journaler, but I am an artist. I process inner transformation through my eyes,...
• September 1 * 09: Playing with our Favorite Gene Key Sphere (by Lizzie Dewey)

  Where we talk about our favourite sphere and how the Venus Sequence impacts our...
• September 1 * 08: The Epic Tale of the SQ & Puzzle Pieces (by Lizzie Dewey)

  Where we talk about the Epic Tale of the SQ Gene Key and go on an exploration of Puzzle...
• September 1 * 07: Soul Friends and Sharing the Journey (by Lizzie and Meghan)

  Where we talk about Soul Friends and Sharing the...
• September 1 * 06: We Explore How to Bring Playfulness into the Inner Work (by Lizzie Dewey)

  Where we explore what it means to us to bring playfulness into the inner...
• September 1 * 05: The One Where We Answer a Question from Hayley & Explore the Topic of Self-Love (by Lizzie Dewey)

  Where we answer a question from our Gene Keys Guide, Hayley, and we explore the topic of...
• August 30 * Wizardly Words on Wednesdays: Patience (by Lizzie Dewey)

  I am learning patience, as I learn more about myself. The patience is being born out of my trust in...
• August 29 * Moving Out of Illness (by Meghan Deinhard)

  Meghan here with a short art journal process video. As part of healing from a stubborn illness, I...
• August 29 * Whom Do I Serve? (by Meghan Deinhard)

  From a bee sting and a beautiful illustration by Elisabeth Elvira Alba (on Patreon) I, Meghan, put...
• August 28 * How A Cauldron of Crones Came into Being (by Lizzie Dewey)

  When Meghan suggested we write a blog together, I responded with a resounding YES! Our “blog”...
• August 27 * I Celebrate (by Meghan Deinhard)

  Meghan here with an art process video from a year or so ago. With the full moon in Aquarius...
• August 27 * A Little Blue (by Meghan Deinhard)

  Meghan as The Artistic Mystic here! This is a process video of my creation of an art journal page,...
• August 27 * How The Gene Keys Have Changed Me (by Lizzie Dewey)

  I think it’s fair to say that I am an entirely different person to the one who started this...
• August 26 * Wizardly Words on Wednesdays: Contemplation (by Meghan Deinhard)

  Meghan here, and this week I have the privilege of playing with the word Contemplation, one of the...
• August 26 * 04: A Convo about our Attraction Sphere & New Approaches to Relationships (by Lizzie Dewey)

  Where we talk about our Attraction Sphere and new approaches to...
• August 26 * 03: The Gene Keys We Wish Were in Our Charts (by Lizzie Dewey)

  Where we talk about the Gene Keys we wish were in our...
• August 26 * 02: Our Favorite Gene Keys & Other Stories (by Lizzie Dewey)

  Where we talk about our favourite Gene Keys and about the Art of...
• August 25 * 01: Introducing Conversations with a Couple of Crones (by Lizzie Dewey)

  The One About Who We Are (And How We Got...
• August 25 * Wizardly Words on Wednesdays: Gentleness (by Lizzie Dewey)

  Hello friends and welcome to the second installment of Wizardly Words (on Wednesdays), where Meghan...
• August 24 * How I Practice The Art of Contemplation (by Lizzie Dewey)

  There are so many ways to practice The Art of Contemplation. There are probably as many different...
• August 24 * Wizardly Words on Wednesdays: Inquiry (by Meghan Deinhard)

  Welcome to a new feature … the Wizardly Word of the Week (on Wednesdays). I am feeling the call...