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I’m heading out of town . . . to a CRONE AWAKENING WISDOM gathering

September 9, 2026

I head out tomorrow, for a four day adventure. Driving to North Carolina with my daughter-in-law, Sue Cudmore, who arrives here by plane today. When I told her about this gathering on the phone a month or so ago, wishing I could attend, but not wanting to drive 8.5 hours . . . she instantly responded: “I want to go too!”

WOW. So wonderful that my own daughter-in-law wants to go with me. I never would have thought to ask her!

https://croneawakeningwisdom.wildapricot.org/In-Person-Gatherings

 

For me, this will be like coming home, to a part of myself that erupted from within, via a numinous dream that startled me awake, back in July 1989. That’s 37 years ago! The dream: of an enormous raven, standing on my shoulders, cawing, WAKE UP! IT’S TIME!

I tend to see myself as the one who unearthed the Crone archetype from her burial, long ago, in the collective unconscious. But of course, I’m not the only one. As usual, with any event or timeline destined to be culturally significant, many others awakened at the same time. That’s just the way it works!  And I just happened to have the skills, time, and determination to ignite the crone movement. Via, at first, a magazine, Crone Chronicles: A Journal of Conscious Aging which ran for 12 years (one Jupiter cycle) and then, three years later, finding Shauna Adix, then director of the Women’s Center at the University of Utah, to begin the annual Crone Counsels, which ran for 30 years (one Saturn cycle). Now a new cohort is carrying on the tradition, with new energy, awakening us further to the wisdom that has been missing for so long. Notice, BTW: that this new beginning carries the Raven energy forward, thanks to the CAW initials for “Crone Awakening Wisdom”!

Two essays that give the flavor of my own Crone awakening:

Reworking Memory, Invoking Crone

THE CRONE CHRONICLES EXPERIMENT

What’s terrifically exciting to me is that Sue wanted to come! The mother of my grandchildren has now reached her own Crone stage; so good to be introducing another generation to this august Crone presence.

We leave tomorrow at 6 AM, hopefully to arrive by 2:30 PM. Back Sunday night. No posts here until Monday.

 

 

 

From Clancy-fied to Captivating

September 8, 2026

After three days of chewing on the ghastly Clancy drama (see this, this, and this), I was determined, today, to find some good news to share. However, meanwhile, these came into focus . . .

How can we NOT real-eyes we have been MK Ultra programmed?

 

I “woke up” at 26, and since then have never totally succumbed to the cultural programming. Though I did come close, especially during the second wave of “feminism” years and their aftermath.

What is, and has always been, my soul-ution: two full hours of “physical culture” wherein I get and remain grounded. Yoga, chikung, taichi, daily. Plus walk four  to five miles daily, all senses alive, absorbing and appreciating the birds, the bees, the trees, the breeze. Plus internally: notice my body as it moves through space, its long, purposeful, rhythmic stride.

So grateful!

GRATITUDE IS MY ATTITUDE!

No matter how instinctively paranoid (i.e., pattern-seeking) my busy brain, walking shifts me into pronoia.

For if paranoia is preparing for the worst (related to “anxiety”), pronoia is preparing for the best (“optimism”).

Yes. For decades now, the universe bends in the direction of my intent.

Here and now, in my little world. The only one I know. The one that counts.

 

Meanwhile, there are times, like today, when someone joins me on my walk. Usually I help that person work through whatever is up for them during this storied time. Appropriate work for an 83-year-old elder.

And I always say, to others, and to myself: “If you think you’ve got it bad, notice what the next person is going through!” Instant perspectival shifting! Our noticing is empathic. We recognize that none of us is immune to the pressure of suddenly emerging karmic lessons.

Please remember, re-member (put yourself back together again!) the larger context of whatever is the overton window frame through which you are perceiving. This context is always, always, infinitely expanding!

Neptune in Aries, since late January 2026, and for the next 14 years.

We begin again, by opening, truly opening, to Mystery as we DARE TO DO OUR THING.

https://valerietejeda.substack.com/p/the-last-time-neptune-moved-through

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