The Gene Keys are a living wisdom. These are teachings to imbibe, contemplate and apply in your daily life. As you allow them to percolate inside you, one by one your troubles will begin to fall away, and you will find yourself inhabiting a new and brighter life.
Richard Rudd

Working with the Gene Keys
We have both been seekers for many years, both trying many different modalities to deepen our inner work and our personal growth. For both of us, working with the Gene Keys has fundamentally shifted our attitudes … to ourselves, to this inner work, and to the whole big, beautiful world.
“Working with the Gene Keys”, says Meghan, “means that I wake up every morning with a sense of deep fulfillment, because I am learning about me and I’m learning about how I interact with this world that is around me; how I draw in challenges in order to just grow me, and this world becomes beautiful, because every day I am finding adventure in knowing who I am and knowing how then to relate to other people and to bring that into my regular life.”
“I discovered that the Gene Keys have given me the perfect road map into myself,” says Lizzie. “I know that there is bloody magic in my profile, if I just trust … myself, the Gene Keys, the process, my inner compass. I know that this inner work is the most important thing I can do with my life. Everything else flows from this … my self-belief, my self-love, my relationships, my creativity.”
Travelling with the Gene Keys we have had some incredible breakthroughs; we have shifted massive obstacles and let go of some heavy shit. But the Gene Keys are not a quick-fix. You can’t just look at all of your Gene Keys once and hey presto! You’re a new woman! No, this is a life-long journey we are on.

Doing the Inner Work
Commitment and devotion energy are essential when journeying deeply into yourself. They are the essence of the inner work.
If we are not committed and devoted to going ever deeper and deeper, then we are not really doing the inner work. We are scratching the surface; and we’re not going to find any answers on the surface.
The inner work requires commitment because you need to keep coming back to that well and diving a little deeper each time; you need to keep showing up; you need to keep practicing your dives, or you’re always just going to be paddling at the surface, and you’re going to miss so much.
Devotion means that you keep showing up, but it means even more. Devotion is about love; Devotion is about surrendering yourself to the dive.
Devotion knows that you are safe to dive into these deep layers of self you are uncovering; Devotion knows that this is the only thing you CAN do … that is how it is for us.
We Crones are devoted to this inner work because we know it’s what we are meant to be doing. We are exactly where we’re meant to be … leaping into the void and knowing we are safe, and we are free. Will you leap with us? Will you join us on this inner quest to understand ourselves better? Will you live a life devoted to your inner work? If you answered yes, then you are in the right place!
Come see what we’re cooking up in our Cauldron.

Are You an Artist Who Dabbles in the Inner Work?
When we deny our desires and our need to be creative, we are denying our very essence. If you are a creative, an artist, then you know this to be true. When we combine our creativity with doing the inner work, then magic happens.
If we can accept that by simply being our natural self, then we are in fact fulfilling our purpose in life, which is always to play OUR piece in the collective puzzle of life.
And a glorious thing happens when you let go of all the doing and bring your focus to simply being … you find that a great space opens up inside you. Space where you can breathe without restriction, space where you can feel gratitude for simply being alive.
And that space is not empty nothingness. It is the fertile ground where your gifts can grow. It’s the field of pure potentiality where the person you were born to be can take root and grow and blossom. It’s the field of miracles and magic, where your creativity can flourish, where you can find out all these incredible things about yourself. Then, from this spaciousness, from this fertile earth, can grow purpose. It comes naturally, because it comes from deep inside you. It has sunk its roots deep into your fertile soil of being, so that your “doing” in the world blossoms like a flower, like the tiny blossom on the huge tree, it’s just one small part of who you are. Your purpose is to BE YOU. And from you will grow all manner of fruits and flowers in the world. You will become your own greatest work of art.
Whenever you find yourself moving through a difficult period in your life, one of the healthiest ways of working through it is to engage in a creative project. The creative process is a dance along the banks of the unknown; therefore it is a natural outlet for an unknown inner process that cannot be helped by thinking, or through any outer guidance. All works of genius emerge in spite of the mind, though they may be expressed through the mind. - Richard Rudd

Are You an Older Woman (or an Old Soul) Who is Simply Seeking More?
The story of who you are is an epic tale that you get to own, it’s a passionate story that has grown out of years of life experience and untapped potential.
And here’s the good news … You can never fail at being you! As long as you keep your heart and mind open, and come from a place of truth and authenticity, then you get to stand in your own power. You get to say, “It doesn’t matter what age I am, I am magnificently ME!“. You get to say, “I count. I am worthy. My creativity is of value!“
Come, join us in this space, where we celebrate the joy of being Crones … no matter what age you are!
We are both in our 60’s, but we wholeheartedly believe that you can embrace your inner Crone whatever chronological age you may be.

What if you aren’t into the Gene Keys?
Never fear! Yes, you will hear us talking Gene Keys in many of our offerings… and yes, we feel that it is one of the most effective transmissions on this planet today to transform our lives… and yes, we will name certain Gene Keys as we express ourselves.
However, if the Gene Keys are not part of your world, just let our naming of them fade away as you listen to the content and intent behind our writings and spoken word. The Gene Keys are the 64 archetypes of humanity and as such are universal touch points. You will be able to relate to our stories because they are stories built from common human experience. You will see yourself more in some of the stories and less in others and that’s as it should be. Please give our work a chance and don’t write it off just because we are talking “Gene Keys”… we are talking about the very nature of being human in this world, from the shadows to the gifts to the divine!
What is Most Definitely NOT Cooking in Our Cauldron

While we do use some AI Generated images as hooks to hold onto some of the breakthroughs we have in our inner work, and they are peppered throughout this Cauldron (you can spot them for their “fairy tale” feel! Think Hogwarts, think Middle Earth, think Brienne of Tarth on a quest🪄)
We do not know which artists or original artworks that the AI generators used to build these images, but please know that we are grateful. We will never sell our AI generated images as art … These are playthings that allow us to imagine ourselves in fantastical places. This is cosplay for two best friends who live over 5000 miles apart.
It is important to us that you know we NEVER use AI Generated text.
Every single word you read on this site will be crafted by one of us Crones. We are word wizards, we do not want machines putting words in our mouths or your ears.
This is a tenet we share with Richard Rudd and Team 64. In this short Instagram clip, you can hear Richard talk about “The human gift that no machine can match“.
And this site itself was created by us, not by a machine. This is all our own work. (Mostly Meghan, who is definitely a WordPress wizard!! 🧙🏻)
All of the photographs we use were taken by us; we don’t use any stock images, and we don’t use any AI in the creation of our photography.
All of the art you see, in either art journal spreads or Cyanotype prints, photographs or hand bound books, was created by us.