Articulating My Gift of Precision
The Gift of my Attraction Gene Key is Precision. I live my Keys, I live this transmission. Then I craft words and worlds that catch people in their golden net.
When Intellect is a Shadow
The Shadow of Intellect desires to know everything, to accumulate knowledge. I think that if I know enough, then I am going to be able to control my external world.
Gifts in Love and a Love Story to Myself
I have an affinity for myth-telling. I have walked far. I have found, not the darkness of the void, but the rich black loam where my roots can grow strong.
Contemplating the Mythos of My Attraction Sphere
We get to create our inner world. We get to be whomever we want to be in that inner world.
Why not make it mythic?! Why not be the hero?
All the Answers are Already Inside
I already feel as if I am in the embrace of my Attraction Sphere, but before I start to share the treasures it is revealing to me, I want to share one final piece about my Purpose Gene Key here in the Venus Sequence. It’s important, this sphere. It’s the root of not only my Venus stream, but of my entire chart, so it is only right that I share this third part of the trinity … the Siddhi of Wisdom (Gene Key 48).
Life in Technicolour – The Gift of Resourcefulness
The next essay in my journey with my Purpose Gene Key, 48.3, in the Venus Sequence … “The Gift of your Purpose in relationships shifts your whole life onto another higher plane. When our relationships feel good, our whole life tends to move effortlessly.”
The Shadow of Inadequacy and the Fear of Not Having Enough
For almost a month now, I’ve been working with the Purpose Sphere in the Sage’s Golden Path Retreat. This is deep work. The Venus Sequence of your Gene Keys chart, of which the Purpose is the first Sphere, is the deepest, probably the most important, work you will ever do on yourself. I want to share some of my insights with you now. Starting with this essay about my Shadow of Inadequacy (Gene Key 48).
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?!!
An Odyssey to Mine Gold
I do like the notion that my Siddhi of Wisdom (Gene Key 48) is an emanation of the earth itself! The earth has innate Wisdom; she knows when to grow and when to lie dormant. She knows when water is needed, and when fire is needed. She has her rhythms and her own resonant heartbeat. She has her times of harvest and her fallow times. She has her new spring growth and her winter die-back.
The Siddhi of Purpose
I just love the idea of my Siddhi of Wisdom being a gift from the gods. I am not a religious person, I don’t believe in just one god. But I rather like this notion of a whole pantheon of gods (or fairy godmothers, or goddesses, or fae spirits!) bestowing gifts upon me to bring to earth with me. I rather like this notion that, of all the people on earth, I am part of a special cadre chosen to bring Wisdom!
The Shadow of the Purpose Sphere
When one thinks of Shadow work, “beautiful” is not always the first adjective that springs to mind! “Dark”, “scary”, “difficult”, these would have been my chosen descriptions before I came to this Gene Keys work; “something to be fixed” would also have been how I thought of my Shadows.
But in the Sage, Richard says something that entirely changed the way I thought about this Purpose Shadow … Your higher Purpose is in your beautiful ordinariness.
What Deeply Fulfils Me
What Deeply Fulfils You … It’s not a question, it’s a statement. It’s an invitation to open yourself up to this Purpose Gene Key. All of the Gene Keys in your chart play important roles in your life. If you’ve read any of my other essays or articles, you may have already realised that Gene Key 48 is my favourite Gene Key. It’s the deepest, it’s the well of Wisdom. It holds everything!! What’s not to love about that?!!
Looking at the Sage Acupuncture Points
There were some things that Richard Rudd said right at the opening of the Radiance sphere, that I came back to right at the end of that month, as I waited for the Purpose month to open. He often speaks about the Sage words and lines as being like acupuncture needles, that get straight to the heart of the matter, and it felt important to look at all three of these together, and now it feels right to share them with you.
Discovering the Truth and the Mythos of My Purpose
I am so glad that the way the Sage’s Golden Path Retreat has been structured means that now we’re in the Purpose sphere, we actually get to be here for two whole months! This Purpose sphere is huge! And the Gene Key I have here (48.3) is deeeeeeep!! It is, after all, the Void, the well, the black hole at my centre!
So, what is “Purpose” in the Gene Keys lexicon?
The Contemplation of my Purpose Sage Line
The Contemplation of my Purpose Gene Key of 48.3, invites the light of Wisdom, which is the Siddhi, to become deep, empathic, compassionate action.
The Sage teaching tells me that this place in my chart, with this Sage Line, is a powerful “moment of recovery”, and it has the power to reorient my whole life.
When Pain Outshines Poetry
For the first few days of being in our Purpose sphere inside the Sage ‘s Golden Path Retreat, my journaling and my contemplation were focused on the Sage Word and Line (check out this article for more about that … Affinity and Beyond … and then on the Sutra that goes along with my Purpose Gene Key of 48.3.
And I absolutely adore the Sage Sutra! It is so typical of Richard Rudd … poetic and right on the button!!
Affinity and Beyond – Exploring my Purpose Sage Line
We are moving into our Purpose sphere as part of the Sage’s Golden Path Retreat, and I am already in love with my Sage word and Line for Gene Key 48.3, which I have in this pivotal place in my chart.
We often ask ourselves, “What is my purpose?”. What I am asking myself is, “How does this new Sage word and Line fit with how I see my Purpose in the world”?
The Siddhi of Valour
“The Siddhi of your Radiance is an emanation that breaks through from the essence of your being … Beyond your Gifts lies the realm of the Siddhis, which we might refer to as Divine Gifts.”
“Divine Gifts” … isn’t this what all of this Gene Keys work is leading towards? Am I not trying to tap into perfection and oneness, unity and presence, timelessness and truth?
The Gift of My Radiance – Authority
Oh, the freedom and liberation there is in having the Gift of Authority in my Radiance Sphere … I get to be the author of my own life. I get to write the story of the life I want to live. I get to slow down and savour this story of mine.
The Shadow of My Radiance – Control
Let me tell you, when I first came to this Radiance Shadow of Control, I didn’t like it! I didn’t even like that the word was in my chart. I’m on my fourth journey through the Activation Sequence, and “Control” is still a thorny subject, or a thorn in my side!
A Book of Heroic Mistakes
In the Mythos for my Gene Key 21.3, which I have in my Radiance sphere, Richard Rudd talks about “heroic mistakes”. I had to laugh when I read that. I’m not sure how many of my mistakes could be considered “heroic”, but some were certainly of monumental, and “heroic” magnitude.
My Evolution Shadow – A Lesson in Allowing
I am coming to the end of my month in my Evolution sphere, within the Sage’s Golden Path Retreat with Richard Rudd and Team64. My Evolution key is 38.1, with the Shadow of Struggle. Richard talks about this Gene Key as an “energy of stubborn persistence against the flow of life”.
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.
Wizardly Words on Wednesdays: Up Levelling Creativity
My beautiful friend, Meghan, did a fabulous Wizardly Words on Wednesdays post a couple of weeks ago, about “Up Levelling”. Yes, we know that “up levelling” isn’t a Gene Keys word, and you would be right in thinking that the main point of our Wizardly Words was to give you our take on, and our personal definitions of some of the words in the Gene Keys lexicon.
In so many of the Gene Keys, as you listen to Richard Rudd’s audios, you will hear him say, in one way or another, “you do this through creativity”, or “you access this gift through creativity”.
Mine is a Serious Business
We have now moved into our Evolution sphere in the Gene Keys Sage’s Golden Path Retreat, and once again, Richard Rudd has gifted me with the most perfect word and line to encapsulate my Gene Key 38.1 … the Shadow of Struggle, the Gift of Perseverance, the Siddhi of Honour.
And the word he has chosen for 38.1 is “sincerity”.
My Life’s Work and My Inner Genius
In the Gene Keys teachings, genius is defined as “the natural manifestation of a human life when it is allowed to expand without force.”
When you are working with your Life’s Work, this first Gene Key in your Golden Path points to how your inner genius wants to express itself.
In this essay, I explore my inner genius for Dynamism.
My Piece of the Collective Puzzle
Ever since I first heard my guide, Hayley, talk about the concept that we all come into this life to play our piece in the great collective puzzle of life, the idea has intrigued and, frankly, terrified me!
What even is my piece? Will I ever find it? Will it be good enough?
How will I know if I’m playing my piece “right”?
The Beginning of the Journey
The Sage’s Journey has begun. This is the beginning of a new chapter for me. This is a return to the beginning of my inner journey. But that does not mean it is a backwards step. Oh no. This is a spiral path that I am walking as I do this inner work.
Why I Am Celebrating 2025
It has been a tradition of mine for almost 30 years to sit with my journal at the end of the year and look back to see what I had done, or what had happened, during that year that I could celebrate.
This has always been the time where I find the nuggets of gold in the year, the moments of joy, the achievements.
My Sage’s Journey Journals
Starting in January 2026, I am embarking upon a 16-month journey through my Gene Keys Golden Path … The Sage’s Journey with Richard Rudd.
The deeper I have gone into my own Gene Keys profile … then the deeper I want to go.
And the Sage’s Journey is the next step for me.
Getting to the End of the Year and Realising … Shit! My Words Were Spot On!
Every year, I choose one or two words for the year, words that embody the energy that I want to bring to the coming year … here I am, two weeks from the end of 2025, and in this morning’s journaling session, I realised that I actually HAVE been living in the energy of these words this year.
The Entire Point of this Spiritual Path
You may be wondering if A Cauldron of Crones is meant for you, especially if you are younger than your crone years, and indeed you may struggle to identify with the archetype of the Crone at all.
So, I thought I would tell you about why it is important for me to share this inner work with the world, and what sort of women might benefit from embarking on their own inner journeys.
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.
Tiny Transformations: The Artist’s Way
A tiny step, like accepting the gift of a book and daring to think that maybe, possibly, hopefully, I could actually do it, I could actually write every single day for 12 weeks, led me here, to this creative cauldron, to all this transformation that has occurred in my life over the last few years (decades!).
Wizardly Words on Wednesdays: Trust
This week’s Wizardly Word focuses on a theme which runs through my contemplations like a thread of gold through this enormous tapestry of life I am weaving … the theme of TRUST.
How I Practice The Art of Contemplation
There are so many ways to practice The Art of Contemplation. There are probably as many different ways as there are people practicing it! Here are some of the ways Lizzie contemplates.