13: Walking the Pathway of Initiative

We are both on the Pathway of Initiative in our Golden Path journey.
This is the first pathway in the Pearl Sequence, and it joins the sphere of the Vocation and the sphere of the Culture. We spoke about how our website, A Cauldron of Crones, is us moving into this Pathway of Initiative, it is us taking our inner work out into the world!

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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.

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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!

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My Journaling Life … and How It Righted My Life!

Words saved my life.
Writing righted my life.
And now I don’t want to stop.
I know that I will never stop writing. My journal is where I can lay my burden down, my journal is where I can explore how I feel, where my fears are coming from.
My journal is the garden where I plant my seeds of ideas, my seeds of who I want to become.

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Wizardly Words on Wednesdays: Accept

This week’s Wizardly Word is “Accept”, the second stage in Breakthrough. “Acceptance occurs as we begin to get used to the discomfort”. Acceptance is NOT resignation to your fate. It’s so much deeper than that.

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Flowing with the Venus Stream – Part 2 of My Golden Path Saga

I’d like to tell you the story of my journey through the Venus Sequence. This has been life changing for me. Going through my Venus Sequence for a second time has been incredible; I have gone deeper than I ever have before; I have journeyed into the deep wounding of my childhood; I have held my relationships close and found such treasures in them.

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The Epic Tale of My Activation Sequence

This is the epic story of my Gene Keys Activation Sequence. We tell these stories and create these images so that we might remember, day after day, the breakthroughs and insights and epiphanies we are having as we do this inner work.

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Bite-Sized Bravery: Daring to Feel, Daring to Be

Lizzie and I are offering you two questions on a Monday to set you up for the month to come with Bite-Sized invitations towards transformation. How brave do you think you can be this month? Feel into each question and pick the one that holds an invitation for you.

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Playing with Our Core Wound Lines

Where we look at our Core Wound Lines through the lens of the all the other Line Gift states. Meghan had this glorious idea of asking how each of our Line Gifts would help our Core Wound’s Line Shadow as it seeks solace.

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Wizardly Words on Wednesdays: Allow

For those of you who have not spent much time in the magical world of the Gene Keys, I can hear you wondering why such a simple word as allow is one of our Wizardly Words this Week. Why would we need to define allow? It’s pretty basic right?

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Bite-Sized Bravery: An Intro to Tiny Transformations

Introducing Bite-Sized Bravery, a new offering to gently nudge our readers into self reflection. It will come out on Mondays as a way to inspire our upcoming month. We’ll offer you a question to bring into your consciousness for a bit. In this post we playfully explain the structure with a humorous example.

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Why we are Devoted to the Gene Keys

You have probably guessed by now that we both use the Gene Keys in our inner work. We have both been seekers for decades, looking for ways to understand ourselves more, and ways in which we can grow as human beings. The Gene Keys is the way we now choose to do this work.

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Wizardly Words on Wednesdays: Reverence

Graciousness is an attitude of deep reverence and gratitude for life, empowering one to live fully yet with deep respect and consideration for others’ feelings in every moment.
– Richard Rudd, GK 22
I’ve chosen the word Reverence to contemplate this week. What is Reverence? How can I embody Reverence? How does it fit in the holographic hologenetic expression of the being that is me? 

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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.

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How A Cauldron of Crones Came into Being

When Meghan suggested we write a blog together, I responded with a resounding YES! Our “blog” very quickly morphed into this website. Within a couple of days of the idea being hatched, we’d come up with the name, A Cauldron of Crones, Meghan had bought the domain name, and she had launched herself into creating this glorious space. A Cauldron of Crones is our home on the world wide web of women.

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Wizardly Words on Wednesdays: Contemplation

Meghan here, and this week I have the privilege of playing with the word Contemplation, one of the four foundational principles of the Gene Keys approach. I thought I would play with a diary format for this exploration of the term along with quotes from Richard Rudd about Contemplation.

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Wizardly Words on Wednesdays: Gentleness

Hello friends and welcome to the second installment of Wizardly Words (on Wednesdays), where Meghan and I are playing with a vocabulary exercise to utilise the incredible words Richard magicked together to create the Gene Keys written transmission. We’re starting off this first month bringing the four words that are the bedrock of the Gene […]

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