Why this website:

With permission: Claudia Olivos www.olivosartstudio.com

"In ancient Greece, at important junctures or major forks in the road, the traveler could find a statue of Hecate, goddess of the crossroads, a curious image with three faces . . . She could see the path that had brought you here, and looked down the two roads that you might take."

"If you choose a path with heart, it may be difficult, but there is joy along this path . . . If you choose a path out of fear, anxiety travels with you, and no matter how much power, prestige and possessions you acquire, you will be diminished by it."

(Crones Don't Whine, Jean Bolen p.47,45)
Age is a crossroads that beckons.

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Through this website, we hope to encourage other women to realize their power and worth and then to examine the crossroads being presented to them.

We hope it will support awareness of what our elder years CAN be and how we can contribute to the world.

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We’d certainly invite you to share experiences, questions, readings that you have found particularly helpful etc. so we can share these with other readers of this website. We are on an awareness and empowerment journey together! This is our time, as we stand at the emergence of a new paradigm on this planet!

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On Aging

Why does a date-palm lose its leaves in autumn?
Why does every beautiful face grow in old age
Wrinkled like the back of a Libyan lizard?
Why does a full head of hair get bald?
Why is the tall, straight figure
That divided the ranks like a spear
Now bent almost double?
Why is it that the
Lion strength weakens to nothing?
The wrestler who could hold anyone down
Is led out with two people supporting him,
Their shoulders under his arms?
God answers,
“They put on borrowed robes
And pretended they were theirs.
I take the beautiful clothes back,
So that you will learn the robe
Of appearance is only a loan.”
Your lamp was lit from another lamp.
All God wants is your gratitude for that.

Rumi     1207-1273

"When Women Come Together" by Donna Ashworth Artist: Autumn Skye With Permission

WHEN WOMEN COME TOGETHER

When women come together,
Something magical happens.
It’s science, the mystical kind,
And it’s an unstoppable force,
To be reckoned with.

When women come together,
They connect,
On a deeper level,
Both spiritually and cellularly.
Souls nodding in alignment, I see you.

Put women together for long enough
And their cycles will sync.
If that is not an example of the wonderous, connective majesty of
womanhood,
What is my friend, what is?

When women come together,
An unseen wall is fashioned,
built from the wisdom of the breaks,
we have all endured.
and the passion to scream louder,
so that those beneath us can hear,
and need not suffer the same.

When women come together,
and tell their stories,
the good and the bad,
the power created is a tsunami of strength and intuition.
Washing us all on to better things.
A wave of majesty, wisdom and connection.

When women come together,
we are, quite frankly, intimidating.

So watch out for those will keep us apart.
They are afraid.

We are not.

Donna Ashworth