When Rattlesnake Entered My House
A vivid dream of a rattlesnake in the house becomes a personal reflection on fear, feminine knowing, initiation, and the medicine hidden inside a dream.
A Side Quest with Toad
Right in the middle of my Venus preparation, I consulted the Dream Arc Oracle on a question that I was contemplating – my fear of ageing and death.
Now I am travelling with Toad. Join me on this side quest!
Bite-Sized Bravery: Adventure
This month we are leaning into Adventure as our theme. And YOU are going to pick the adventure you want to go on. There are five images for you to choose from and each leads you on a different inner adventure. Have fun!
Beginning Gentle Purpose, Bright Wing
Gentle Purpose, Bright Wing began as something smaller and quickly opened into a much fuller path. In this first reflection, I’m sharing how it began, how the Parrot changed it, and what this opening week has already started to show me.
2.9: Dream Arc Adventures with Special Guest Esther Vis
In this episode of CWACOC we were delighted to welcome our very good friend, Esther Vis, to join us as our special guest.
Esther, like us, has a deep passion for the Gene Keys. She is a Gene Keys Guide and has travelled her Golden Path several times. Also like us, she is currently travelling the Sage’s journey. Esther has a passion and a gift for working with the Dream Arc*, and that’s what we talk about in this episode.
Tiny Transformations: How I Learned to Create More Time
When we first embarked upon DEVOTED with Hayley, she chose some Dream Arc creatures to accompany us on the journey, to support us in our inner work. One of these was the Vision creature associated with the Siddhi of Gene Key 35, the Siddhi of Boundlessness. It is the Quetzal which is really the most beautiful bird and so perfect for this Siddhi of Boundlessness. Oh, and isn’t “Boundlessness” just the most wonderful word?!!
Letting Go of an Idea that Didn’t Work
At the beginning of 2026 I thought it would be fun and interesting to work with one animal from each Dream Arc category for the whole year. I had done it with great success for my 40 day spiritual journey in late 2025. Why not I thought? But the energy has turned static and needs to change.
Bite-Sized Bravery: Restraint
We are offering you a question today to set you up for the month to come with Bite-Sized invitations towards transformation. The subject for March is Restraint. Think of restraint as a way to tune your inner radio station to a calmer, less stressful station. Hayley Curtis defines restraint as coming into alignment with cosmic timing, with the understanding that it is safe to take your time.
The Path of the Inner Warrior
For those of you not familiar with the Gene Keys, they are 64 archetypes of being a human. And each of the 64 Gene Keys has 6 lines, akin to the 6 lines of the I-Ching, which give a particular flavour and nuance to the archetype in question. For the Sage’s Golden Path Retreat, Richard has expanded the teachings, and has created a word and sutra, a contemplation and a mythos for every line of every key.
In my Evolution sphere, I have Gene Key 38.1, the Shadow of Struggle, the Gift of Perseverance, and the Siddhi of Honour. This GK38 is all about Warrior energy.
Dedicated Focus and Embracing My Own Weakness
“Dedicated intention and focus
that embraces and works with weakness”
These are words that go along with “sincerity” as the Sage wisdom for my Evolution Gene Key of 38.1 (the Shadow of Provocation, the Gift of Perseverance, and the Siddhi of Honour).
“Dedicated intention and focus” are most definitely what my inner work is all about. I could not have continued, for so many years, to return again and again to my interior world, were I not 100% dedicated to this work.
Alchemical Art Adventures
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.
Wizardly Words on Wednesdays: Up Leveling
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.
Playful Puffin Adventures
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.
Bringing 12 Dream Arc Animals into 2026
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.
Bite-Sized Bravery: The Power of Words
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.
Setting the Energy for 2026
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?
2.1: The Power of Words
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.
Learning to Orient Myself in my Everyday Life
I have just completed a full year of journeying through the Gene Keys Golden Path with a small group of women from all over the world (including Lizzie) in the retreat style container Hayley Curtis calls Devoted. Lizzie and I are writing companion articles about our experiences as a way of saying goodbye to the most life changing experience either of us has ever had (besides maybe childbirth ;)).
My 40 Day Journey is at an End
My 40 Day Spiritual Journey came to an end on Christmas Day. Honestly, I still feel very caterpillar-like … quite squishy and unformed inside. And I know that that is merely a place I am at in my inner transformation and I honor and respect it. Come along with me in my video as I do my best to share some of what these 40 days have meant to me.
15: Celebrating 2025
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: Siddhi
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.
40 Days and 12 Dream Arc Animals
I began a 40 day spiritual journey when I was in my Culture GK in Devoted (late October/November). The Robin is the vision bird for my Gene Key 40 in my Culture Sphere. I decided to heed the call of the Robin and emulate an awakened being for 40 days. I began on Nov 16 […]
Wizardly Words on Wednesdays: Gift
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.
The Robin Invites Me Into My Interior Castle
I have been called by the Dream Arc bird, the Robin, to take a spiritual journey imagining myself as a ‘great one.’ I have chosen to emulate Teresa of Ávila. I invite you to watch my video as I share how this invitation to adventure came about.
Wizardly Words on Wednesdays: Shadow
We decided it would be really good to go back to basics and give you our definitions of the building blocks of the Gene Keys themselves … the Shadow, the Gift and the Siddhi.
In this article, Meghan will be weaving in the magical essence of the Dream Arc, and I will be telling you the story of how I interpret the Shadow.
The Practicalities of Walking the Pathway of Initiative
“The Pathway of Initiative challenges you to do something with all the transformational insight you are gaining from your journey along the Golden Path.” Our website is exactly this … taking this work that we are doing and turning it into words, images, videos and treasure maps, so that other people can start their own journeys.
Why Is Our Baby’s Birthday Equilibrium?
Why we chose to launch A Cauldron of Crones on the 24th of October 2025 … it’s all about balance, it’s all about harmony, it’s all about our vision … oh, and it’s also all about mischief and fun and laughter and general trickster behaviour!
My Celestial Journey with Crane
In late April, 2025, I began traveling with Crane as one of my Dream Arc quests. Crane, representing the Vision of Mythical Presence (GK 20 my Evolution Sphere), is taking me on a journey to visit and commune with all the vision birds in my Gene Keys chart through an artistic project. Join me as […]
Visual Spell Casting
I am not much of a journaler, but I am an artist. I process inner transformation through my eyes, hands and voice using creativity. I think of this eye-hand part as Visual Spell Casting. Often you will find me doing this through the medium of Art Journaling.
08: The Epic Tale of the SQ & Puzzle Pieces
Where we talk about the Epic Tale of the SQ Gene Key and go on an exploration of Puzzle Pieces.
06: We Explore How to Bring Playfulness into the Inner Work
Where we explore what it means to us to bring playfulness into the inner work.
Wizardly Words on Wednesdays: Patience
I am learning patience, as I learn more about myself. The patience is being born out of my trust in life and my trust in myself. It’s taken a long time and a hard road to get right here, right now, and it was worth it.
Whom Do I Serve?
From a bee sting and a beautiful illustration by Elisabeth Elvira Alba (on Patreon) I, Meghan, put together this page while contemplating the message from Bee in The Dream Arc “Only when one sacrifices one’s attachment to identity does one enter into the higher mystery that lies beyond the human ego.” Last night as I […]
I Celebrate
Meghan here with an art process video from a year or so ago. With the full moon in Aquarius yesterday I celebrated my completion of The Golden Path with Hayley Curtis as well as the ending of another round through all The Dream Arc quests. The celebrations were personal with inward revelation thanks to the […]
03: The Gene Keys We Wish Were in Our Charts
Where we talk about the Gene Keys we wish were in our charts!
02: Our Favorite Gene Keys & Other Stories
Where we talk about our favourite Gene Keys and about the Art of Contemplation.