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! ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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? ...

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 ;)) ...

This is how I spent my final week of my glorious Devoted journey ... I sat with my journal for five days, for many hours, and I moved through each sphere and pathway that I have dug so deeply into, over the last year. But me being me (and indeed, who else can I be?), I wrote a lot more than “a few sentences”!! This is a very long long-form article!! You might need a pot of tea for this one ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 deeper I go on this inner journey, the more trust I am finding within myself, even when I find that my Gifts are hidden breath layers of self-doubt, beneath layers of inadequacy. My Gifts are scary, because what if it turns out that I am not good enough to live up to these Gifts … Dynamism, Perseverance, Authority, and this 48th Gift of Resourcefulness? What if I’m just not bloody good enough? ...

I have come to see that there are two sister themes that run through my entire chart, indeed, through my entire life … Love and Trust. I have a sneaking suspicion that these run through everyone’s charts, like golden threads that hold the tapestries of our lives together … love and trust ... these are our greatest treasures ...

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 ...

I am working with the Pathway of Initiative at the moment. My friend and guide, Hayley Curtis, talks about how the energy of the Pearl Sequence “stretches you to the edges of your evolution”. Without the stretch, we don't grow. ...

"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 ...

The Pearl Sequence, for me, is about learning a new relationship to money, and to adopting a new attitude towards prosperity, and to redefining what I mean by “success” ...

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!) ...

In late 2010 a young friend of mine asked me if I would like to do a creative project with her ... for the whole year of 2011! At that time I had been a widow for four+ years and sole support of my youngest son who was in high school. Saying yes was a small decision that changed my life! ...

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 ...

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 ...

I share with you two digital art pieces that combine words and images to help me tune my vibrational frequency daily and I narrate how they came about and how they help me ...

Getting playful with our Gene Keys, we both wrote children's stories to illustrate one of keys in our charts. Meghan chose GK 36, Lizzie chose GK 48 ...

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 ...

When Lizzie and I were moving through our Evolution sphere early in 2025, we were inspired to find our very own superhero personas based on our Gene Keys. Come meet them! ...

In the article, we look into the heart of each Gift in our charts and see the Gift of our Core Wound Gene Keys beating in time with it. We ask ourselves ... “How does my Core Wound Gift make this Gift bloom?” ...

Here we explore the concept that our Core Wound Gene Key is actually also the CORE of every other Gene Key in our charts! In this first article of a pair, we look at our shadows ...

In late April, 2025, I began traveling with Crane as one of my Dream Arc quests. Crane, representing the Vision of Mythical ...

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 ...

Meghan here with a short art journal process video. As part of healing from a stubborn illness, I turned to making art ...

From a bee sting and a beautiful illustration by Elisabeth Elvira Alba (on Patreon) I, Meghan, put together this page while contemplating ...

Meghan here with an art process video from a year or so ago. With the full moon in Aquarius yesterday I celebrated ...

Meghan as The Artistic Mystic here! This is a process video of my creation of an art journal page, narrated by me… ...

I think it’s fair to say that I am an entirely different person to the one who started this journey. But I am still the same, because this strong, loving, trusting woman is the real me ...

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 ...