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Loved this, thanks. I am just at that age and am blessed to have the time and freedom to transform.

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Freedom to Transform, sounds like the beginning of a great adventure. Who will you become I wonder?

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Beautifully written!

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Thank you Kathy. 🙂

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I have just given up my home at 82 years old and moved into a Senior Residence. The transition is accepted but challenging. Thank you for this message.

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Hi Sheila, how hard to have to leave a long time home. Acceptance of what is less than desired is a courageous work which it seems you are tackling and winning. That’s a powerful and positive attitude. I wish you speed and comfort settling into your new residence. May it become “home” more than you thought it would be.

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Thank you for responding💓

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Once again, I want to tell you how much I enjoyed your essay. I am well into the stage of being a crone and, despite some serious problems, I am enjoying exploring the lovely benefits of my crone time. Thank you for you excellent writing.

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Thank for your kind words Susan. I’m glad to hear that your overcoming challenges and find loveliness and joy in your cronehood.

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Thanks once again for your valuable insights. I am always inspired by your writings. I appreciate the reminders to embrace this crone stage and to open to transformation. I am definitely focusing more on the unseen and rejoicing for what has been and for what will be.

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Thank you, Marta. It’s so good to hear that you find value in my writing . Having been a visual artist for most of my life expanding into writing has been a bit scary.

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You’re a natural born writer!

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This turning of the great Wheel brings so much and takes so much. My mother transitioned over just a few weeks ago. I feel loss and sadness but like the seasons I know that change is inevitable. She is where she needs to be in her next phase of this journey. As I grow older I feel that instead of becoming stagnant I have more to offer now in the way of knowing than I ever had before. As a Master Naturalist I’m attuned to these seasonal changes but as a Crone it brings me more in balance with the Mother Earth when I embrace these changes that the turning of the Wheel brings. Life and death and life again. 🩵

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Hi Rebecca, so sorry to hear of your mother’s passing. I’m glad you sense she is where she needs to be for her continued journey. Losing your mother is difficult for everyone but I have noticed that when a woman loses her mother she is radically changed and often propelled into the Crone energy even if she is still quite young. Somehow that experience seems to ignite a deep kind of knowing around life and death, something Mother Nature is always teaching us about.

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Thank you Jan. I am definitely finding this. ❤️

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Oh, a Chiron Return, that is an auspicious time ripe with opportunities. Find what supports you through this time and be open to what arrives.

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