The Pathway of Initiative challenges you to do something with all the transformational insight you are gaining from your journey along the Golden Path. 
Richard Rudd

The challenge has been accepted! Our website is exactly this … Meghan and I taking this work that we are doing and turning it into words and images, videos and treasure maps, so that other people can start their own journeys.

Or, if they are already travelling these paths, we give them clues and signposts to show them that they are going in the right direction (or that other pathways and directions are possible, might even be intriguing or illuminating diversions they could take for a while.)

The Cauldron of Crones may be the vessel we use to hold our transformational stories, but it is also a multidimensional map that will unfold before people’s eyes, and show them roads and passageways that they might have missed on their own. We don’t tell people, “go this way”, we entice people with possibilities, we drop breadcrumbs, we sparkle amongst the trees like fireflies … how they use the map is entirely up to their own intuition.

Genius is Boldness

This may be the beginning of a new chapter in your life as your higher purpose begins a new cycle of manifestation in your life.
Richard Rudd, The Pearl Sequence

The seed of this boldness was planted in the SQ, and it was nurtured and tended through our Core Wound/Vocation Gene Keys of 31 and 22 … Leadership and Graciousness. It was watered by the tears of our Core Wound, warmed by the fire of our Vocation … until here, on the Pathway of Initiative, we boldly took our genius out into the world!

Just as a side note here, we naturally created the Holographic Profile for A Cauldron of Crones, with its birth time and place exactly at the moment Meghan hit the “launch” button. Here’s what it says about the Cauldron’s Life’s Work …

What I’m here to do · Gene Key 50 At a social level, you have enormous power and potential in life. Your gift is to bring harmony into any group that you are in — whether that be your family, a business, or your whole entourage. The key for you is to work with others, because it is through you that others can find a unified bond. This kind of work, whether official or hidden, is taking our world into a new future where humankind will one day realise its inherent oneness. You hold a vital aspect of this vision of integration. Wherever you are open and honest in your intentions, you will find that people immediately trust you. You can pull any group together. All groups or families have their differences that have to be ironed out and integrated, and you will find that you have a natural understanding of this process. If your vision is strong and you persevere in giving others the gift of your trustworthiness, remarkable things can occur around you.

Clarity of Vision

First of all, prosperity is felt inwardly before it then travels outwards into the world of form. It may open up many new bridges to new people, places and experiences. Allow yourself to feel once again the thrill and awe of life as you extend your life force out towards others in higher service and deeper interaction.
Richard Rudd, The Pearl Sequence

For the two months since its conception, Meghan and I have revelled and basked in the prosperity of creating this website. We love it!! We have had fun, we have experienced deep joy and pleasure, crafting the stories, curating our images; making layers of wisdom for people to uncover and discover.

All the time we were in this creation phase, we were deep in our own Golden Path journeys with our extraordinary guide, Hayley Curtis. The Core Wound and the Vocation spheres are deeply personal, but we travelled through them together; talking every day about our breakthroughs and insights, sharing tears and laughter and the transformations that were occurring within ourselves and in our external worlds.

And all the time, we were building our home here.

All the time, the work we were doing in our inner worlds was spilling out and informing and shaping the work we were doing here, in the Cauldron.

This is not just a website, holding our stories … which would be bloody awesome in and of itself … This is our work made real.

This is our breakthroughs and our truths and our healing, in words and form.

This is our vision made real.

After Realisation Comes Action

Contemplation is a continual self-remembering. The Pathway of Initiative … Genius is not imitative … It takes a huge leap within, to break new ground … when something is pouring out of the void through a clear mind, it’s enrapturing, it’s limitless.
Richard Rudd, The Pearl Sequence

Richard Rudd lists the qualities of Initiative as these …

When I heard Richard talk about these qualities of initiative, I was filled with such excitement. These are the qualities we want our Cauldron to engender.

Enrapturing

We want people to be Enraptured, to think, “This is like nothing I’ve ever seen before. It’s beautiful!” Aren’t all babies beautiful to their parents!! We want the Cauldron to be intriguing, to invite you in.

Limitless

For Meghan and me, it is Limitless. I look at what we’ve done in the two short months since conception and I am in awe at what we have achived. But as we keep saying to each other … this is only the beginning!!

We can go anywhere with this! It is our playground; it is our apothecary shop; it is our garden.

It is and can be anything we want it to be.

As soon as the ideas started flowing, new ideas were dropping in. Our joint Line 6 energy was coming up with new ideas all the time … and we have only just begun.

Magical

Oh! If there is one thing we DO want to make people feel when they visit, it’s the magic that lives here!

Our partnership is alchemical in nature. You weave our two Gene Keys charts together and you’ve got magical fireworks to rival Gandalf’s!

The magic we inspire in each other, gives birth to new ideas …

“Shall we have a bit of feminine mystery?”, asked Meghan. And Mining the Mysterious is created!

“Shall we have secret passwords to magical rooms?” And Bite Sized Bravery grows.

It’s been a magical process, this conjuring up of a website we love … finally, we got to go to Hogwarts together!!! 🧙🏻‍♀️🪄

Fresh

Well, we’ve never come across anything quite like this before, and we’re pretty sure no on else has. We didn’t want “standard”, we didn’t want “norms” or “ordinary”.

We wanted to create something entirely new.

We never even did that thing “they” tell you that you “should” do, and visit other websites we liked to get ideas. We didn’t want it to look like anyone else’s!

We wanted it to look like us! Messy, magical, Cronish!!!

Creative

Well, isn’t that the whole damn point?! We are both creative women. We create with words and images, colour and form, texture and depth. We create with our voices and our hands and our imaginations.

Weaving our creativity together has been the most exquisite experience.

Each of us sparks creativity in the other. Each of us is inspired by the other.

And wrapped up in our creativity are the qualities of Equilibrium and Harmony. There are no jarring notes, no divas … just two crones in perfect harmony, loving our own and each other’s creativity.

This website creation has felt like the most fluid dance.

Can you imagine how different the world would be, if every partnership was this creative, this in tune! Oh, the harmonies that would sing out around the world.

There is no competition between us, there is synergy. There is the creativity of two incredible flowers grafted onto one perfect root.

Simple

Nothing about creating this website has been hard. Meghan has brought her gracious ease to the whole process. She has kept it simple. So, even though this mansion of ours is vast and intricate and splendid, it is built upon simple foundations of friendship, trust, partnership; it is built upon strong foundations, with roots that go deep.

It is simple because it grew organically out of the seed of a shared vision.

It is simple because we haven’t forced it, or ourselves, to be anything we are not meant to be.

Easy is right.

Simplicity IS prosperity.

Elegant

Ah, now here I have to tip my metaphorical hat to Meghan, who has built this Cauldron with such elegance. Like a haut couture gown, it flows, it forms around us like a fine-fitting frock. It is, quite honestly, the most elegant garb I’ve ever dressed my creativity in.

I feel prosperous, wrapped in this fabric, woven with care from so many diaphanous threads.

I love it!

I feel like a proper grown up, wearing this cloak of many colours!

Expansive

As I wrote that word in my journal (all of my articles are born on the pages of my journal!), as I wrote “expansive”, I actually sat up straighter and opened my chest; I opened my heart and took a few deep breaths.

In the two months since we started working on it, this website has expanded from a “blog” idea to a mansion of many rooms.

But the expansive feeling is not just about the website itself.

It’s about what we can do with it.

At first, this was going to be a place for us to play, a place to get creative, to have fun. And did we have fun!!! And do we keep having fun every single day? Yes we do!!

But as we moved from Core Wound to Vocation, I realised this was more than just a creative space for Meghan and I. This was all connected to my service in the world.

You see, right from the very beginning of doing this work with the Gene Keys, back in the Spring of 2023, I was telling our guide, the inimitable Hayley Curtis, (now, there’s a woman who embodies ALL of these qualities of Initiative), that I didn’t know what my “service” in the world was .. but I knew it had to be something to do with the inner work.

In all honesty, I hadn’t spent any time in my life before then even contemplating the concept of “service”, the idea that we are all here to serve the whole. I had spent decades just trying to work out my own shit, battling with my own Shadows.

Believe me, when your Purpose Gene Key is the Shadow of Inadequacy, and you are deep in that Shadow, the very idea that you might be of service to another, to the “whole collective” no less, is inconceivable! It’s ludicrous, it’s so outlandish that you wouldn’t even dream such a thing could be true about you! Me?? Of service?! Are you fucking kidding me?! I can’t even sort my own shit out.

But it was there, the germ of a seed of an idea … this inner work that is literally transforming me and my life from the inside out, might actually be what I am meant to be doing in this world!

The seed germinated.

The tree began to grow, and as I travelled through my Golden Path for a second time this year in the company of Meghan, the tree has borne fruit.

I am not doing this inner work just for me. It has expanded; I have expanded. This is my service … to be expansive with this work. To throw my heart open here in our Cauldron, and to tell my stories … to chart my path from frightened, lonely, lost girl to expansive crone.

And it doesn’t stop!

The more expansive you become, the more you want to expand.

The deeper you go in this work, the deeper you want to go.

The more layers you peel back, the more layers you go looking for.

This work never stops. My expansion doesn’t stop. My desire to share all this so that others might feel encouraged to step onto the path of the inner work.

Let’s just think about that word “encourage” for a moment … I am not here, telling my stories just to cheer you on. I am here to say, “You can ENgender COURAGE within yourself. You can step onto the path that will lead you down into the depths of your being!”

And here’s the thing … I know there’s darkness there; we all carry darkness in our depths. But there is also so much light.

Here is the enigma of this helical path … as you travel down into yourself, you travel up, into the light, into your Gifts, into your higher self.

You become expansive.

Multidimensional

The final quality of Initiative that Richard talks about is the fact that this work is multidimensional.

We are multidimensional beings.

As Richard Rudd says, “The more you create, the more space arises inside for more to come through.”

You can’t force creativity, Richard says, but you can create the right environment.

This expansive, multidimensional Cauldron of Crones IS the right environment for Meghan and I to get creative.

It has grown out of our wounds and out of the work we have don on healing and loving ourselves back to wholeness.

Tenderness and Passion

Richard Rudd talks about how his creativity is born out of a combination of tenderness and passion. And that is exactly what Meghan and I have done here. We have held ourselves and each other so tenderly, as we have been creating this space.

We have nurtured the Cauldron, yes, but more importantly, we have nurtured ourselves and each other.

We have done all this that you see here in two months.

But we haven’t burnt ourselves out, or pushed ourselves to far, too fast.

Of course, there have been days where we’ve been tired, where things have frustrated our efforts (like vanishing posts … thanks Mr Raccoon!!). But we have held each other. We have tended to each other.

And the passion, oh my goodness, the passion that has flowed from us and between us.

I have Dynamism as my Life’s Work Gift, and that passionate Dynamism has been like fire coursing through me. What we have done here really excites me, it thrills me.

I am passionate about my own inner work.

I am passionate about sharing the power of doing the work on myself.

I am passionate about journaling.

I am passionate about the Gene Keys and how utterly perfect my hologenetic chart is (Richard Rudd is obviously a genuine mind reader, because he sure as hell read mine!).

And I am passionate about this Cauldron of ours, and I am passionate about the woman I am so happy to call my best friend.

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Combining Lizzie’s words and my art journaling/video was an experiment on our part. Let us know what you think. Did we complement each other? Let us know in the comments as we are playing with each other AND with you! And let us know ways you see the Pathway of Initiative playing out in your lives.

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I want to honor the artist who created the pears with the quote as well as the books in the first page and the Oct memo on the second, Brandi Kincaid. And the artist who created the black witchy cat and the lioness and her cubs is Elizabeth Alba. The magazines I use the most for my art journaling are Where Women Create and What Women Create.

Since publishing this article, we have also recorded a Podcast about this fiery Pathway of Initiative!
You can listen here.