There is not really much crone imagery in popular culture. Did you ever notice that? What there is, is weirdly negative. Wicked witches, Cruella Deville and stuff like that. The other thing that is insane, is that women talk way more in real life than they do in movies and stuff. I once read a statistic that women speak an average of 40,000 words a day, while men only half that. So, the silence of women is very unlike reality to me. Impossible to relate to as a female. Communication is what we Do. If someone told me i have to stop talking or die, it is possible I’d say, just kill me now… I am, however, an excellent listener also. It is only here, as i write to you, that i can dominate a conversation. That my train of thought flows unaltered by new perspectives. In Real Life, That is not really, my style. I’m a collaborator. Not a dominator.
Even when i was younger, i thought this absence of the crone, was, not just odd, but a problem. A cultural imbalance that needed correcting, but why, was it so? I could not answer that question for a long time. I just knew that there was a latent part of me, that was very unwelcome. That part is beginning to emerge now. My connection to the magic of life, was unwelcome, so i hid it. I became very creative in stead. Yet the subtle energies all round would show themselves when i needed it. Now, i am unwilling to hide it any more. To be a woman, female is far more than being a portal for new lives. We are multidimensional beings.
This is so me. Who is this Kerri Dawn? She has skill with words about the crone, i wanted to share with you here. To help people get used to the crone again. I was impressed With such clarity of expression, and good choice of related concepts. Let us go on then. The mature woman has seen and survived, grown in ability to perceive clearly through the heart. She has learned by easy ways and hard, what is needed in the crucial moments of life. Fear, is an indicator of where more attention needs to be placed. Pain, too is a teacher. And will often leave once the lesson is learned.
Pain is part of existence, and not something to be feared, but learned from. It cannot last forever, and often is our most important teacher. Often, When the lesson is learned, the pain leaves. Light shines through the places where were are broken. Or like the great poet Rumi says, the light shines through the places we were once bleeding. A lot of people do not even learn at all without pain. Thick, or Tactile learners, you might say.
In us, our ancestors live. If we listened, they would whisper in our ears. Of all the subtle energies around us, It is possible, the ancestors are rooting for us the hardest. Since it is their lives that made yours possible. We are but the tip of a mighty spear of light. It moves through time/space/matter in and around us. We are learning together, with our ancestors. For our descendants. In epigenetic research it has been repeatedly shown, that if a parent worm, mouse or fungus, learns a particular maze, the offspring will learn that same in at least twice as fast. We are front loading problem solving skills into the future. How cool is that?
With the divine universe, always at play. We are far more than just portals, through which new life emerges. The truth we are seeking is US.
The wonderful mystery of the universe, makes poets of us all, if we let it.
“A woman's true beauty lies in the strength of her character and in the depths of her soul. Surface beauty fades, a powerful woman never, ever does. She is wrinkled, she is silver, she is wild, she is soft, she is fierce. She takes your hand, she holds your gaze, she stands in her power so you can find yours. Embrace the Crone.” - Kerri dawn.
We are star stuff, we are a quantum entangled being that is entangled with the divine. Our brain is just a receiver.
https://mindmatters.ai/2022/12/why-many-researchers-now-see-the-brain-as-a-quantum-system/ “The hypothesis is that the brain relies on quantum physics, not classical physics, to power thinking processes
DENYSE O'LEARY
DECEMBER 18, 2022
Astrophysicist and science writer Elizabeth Fernandez asks us to consider whether quantum processes might help us understand better how the brain works and shed light on consciousness:
Some scientists suspect that quantum processes, including entanglement, might help us explain the brain’s enormous power, and its ability to generate consciousness. Recently, scientists at Trinity College Dublin, using a technique to test for quantum gravity, suggested that entanglement may be at work within our brains. If their results are confirmed, they could be a big step toward understanding how our brain, including consciousness, works.
ELIZABETH FERNANDEZ, “BRAIN EXPERIMENT SUGGESTS THAT CONSCIOUSNESS RELIES ON QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT” AT BIG THINK (NOVEMBER 22, 2022) THE PAPER IS OPEN ACCESS.
Her thesis is that the brain relies for thinking on quantum processes, not classical physics:
If quantum processes are at work in the brain, it would be difficult to observe how they work and what they do. Indeed, not knowing exactly what we are looking for makes quantum processes very difficult to find. “If the brain uses quantum computation, then those quantum operators may be different from operators known from atomic systems,” Christian Kerskens, a neuroscience researcher at Trinity and one of the authors of the paper, told Big Think.
ELIZABETH FERNANDEZ, “BRAIN EXPERIMENT SUGGESTS THAT CONSCIOUSNESS RELIES ON QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT” AT BIG THINK (NOVEMBER 22, 2022)
The researchers scanned forty subjects with an MRI that can sense entanglement. Entanglement?:
When two particles, such as a pair of photons or electrons, become entangled, they remain connected even when separated by vast distances. In the same way that a ballet or tango emerges from individual dancers, entanglement arises from the connection between particles. It is what scientists call an emergent property. – CalTech Science Exchange”
A crone, has survived. And in so doing, provided she is still functional mentally, and she was able to keep her hormones somewhat balanced, she has learned about the flow of life energies all round. She cannot have missed them, in some cases. Birth, is a freaking miracle. For one example. Death, another. Love, and trust and Truth. Beauty. Grace. All connected in relationship with each other. After a while, maybe you can harness some of it. Because all of that is within you as well. I hope the shadow has been dealt with sufficiently at this point. Some women get very dark indeed, if they don’t do that. But, it does not have to go that way.
In this culture, it seemed to me that we were supposed to forget the crone. Forget that she existed. The surest compass of goodness should stay out of mental reach. Shame. Why would someone want this sort of imbalanced mental landscape? I guess there is always Misses Clause. She seems like a person i could hang out with. Superficial? Maybe. When i studied advertising, they taught us that everyone had an empty space inside. It was our job to convince them that our product would fill that space.
I cannot be filled by anything you buy tho. Experiences, and what you have made of yourself through determination and hard work, are the only real thing that can fill it. I am not supposed to tell you that though. Happy full moon!
The Crone energy is so important.... The Sages and the healers of the land... Cailleach (Calya or Kali) sweeps clean and uses the elements to help the planet prepare for the next seasons. I love your images and enjoy your writings. Cailleach in Ireland is also the ancient ancestral midwife.
Good people exist. Bless their hearts. The will to do good is so powerful in humanity in general , that it can be weaponized. The safeguard against this kind of manipulation is connection to the natural world and truth. Tell me, what misery is NOT caused by a Truth realized too late? Once you get this, your whole consciousness will seek truth as it should. That is your most important purpose. So you will find your true place in this life.
“The people who offend you with truth do Not hate you. The people who comfort you with Lies, Hate you. And if you prefer a comfortable lie over an offensive truth—-You hate yourself.” —Samuel Sey.
If we could stop using labels to distinguish ourselves we could see through to the actions, and those are really what echos into eternity. I care not how you are labeled. Though i may suspect you for a mental weakling for it. How you act will tell me the truth.