Oh my goodness! (Or Oh My Goddess as you would say!) I love this so. much, Tereza, and will have to revisit it when I have more time to savor your words. Thank you for including me...I am honored to be featured among the Crones. Surely you have read Clarissa Pinkola Estes' "The Power of the Crone." It was from her that I first learned what the word really meant. With each passing year, I love using it more and more.
We Crones are also in the Vata time of life, according to Ayurveda. That's another discussion, but so interesting to me. So many women dread getting older, and that makes me sad. There can be so much wonder and WOO and powerful creation if we only learn to embrace these sacred years.
Happy Happy solar return, Tereza! I have a Taurus Moon and Rising and have been doing a deep dive into those signs, which I've been woefully unaware of forever, focusing more on my Sag Sun. I always wondered why I love HOME so much. Beauty. Nature. Stillness. Makes so much sense now! XOXO Crone Barbara 👑💚
Thank you for that kind and enthusiastic response, Barbara! I have not read The Power of the Crone and will correct that pronto.
The Crone seems to be as endangered a breed as the Housewife, both of which I'd like to rehabilitate. You and Kathleen are quite the inspirations, with your intimate relationships with trees, rocks, mountains. Did I tell you I'm reading Nan Shepherd on The Living Mountain? A crone extraordinaire.
I've read what you've written before about the Vata in Ayurveda, and am intrigued. I feel like my age keeps trying to catch up to me, and I keep dancing away ;-)
Yes, you have the perfect crone home, nestled in nature. Ready for a new fairy tale!
That's so kind of you, Mark! With all the important things you're doing to bring attention to our common causes, I'm touched that you found a little pocket of time from which to pull out this gift for me ;-)
Thanks for the mention. That meme fit perfectly, glad to have helped.
Serious question, where did you source this information? "...J represents I in Hebrew..."
I would like to read more about that.
On the subject of the word woo as pejorative, it is not surprising, seeing as how every major institution focused on power has suppressed the feminine, out of fear, since recorded history began.
You can find out with a basic AI question that Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek had no J in their alphabets. Hebrew also has no vowels. That why the name Jesus is a cipher--the name wouldn't exist in the language. Modern scholars try to say it was Yeshua, but that would translate to Joshua, which is a Biblical name different than Jesus.
The word Jew is also a cipher, not appearing until the 18th c. I explore that more in this episode: https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/p/what-is-a-jew. In my book, I was just writing more about looking at the origins of the word Jew:
"Jew more logically corresponds to Ju Patr or the cult of Jupiter, a name that was inscribed as Iuuntus. It also is the beginning of the name of the Aryan-Egyptian goddess Iusasset, pictured with a scarab beetle on her head. While being the consort of the creator god Atum/ Adam, she is not the mother of creation. She’s merely the hand he uses to masturbate the world into existence. The Goddess Baat is split into the masculine Baal and the barren Iusasset whose only function is to facilitate the creator’s orgasm.
"Atum and Iusasset’s city was Iwnw/ Iunu, the Greek Heliopolis. The Roman goddess Juno was the wife of Jupiter, corresponding to the Greek Hera/ Zeus. She is ‘jealous’ because Jupiter births Minerva out of his head, as Zeus births Athena, goddess of wisdom. So she’s given an herb by Flora and births Mars/ Ares, warlord of the Aryans. The Iuvenes was the army. She is the protector of the state and its enforced subservience of women. Her name was thought to derive from Iove/ Jove, and that connection to submission to the male should be obvious. The word love also relates to Luvians/ Levites as the feeling subservients should have for their earthly Lords."
And yes! They call it his-story for a reason. It's erased all evidence of the feminine in all of the existing records. Although I'm still hopeful for what will be found under the left paw of Mehit, aka the Sphinx.
I'm a bit late to the celebration (had some busy travel stuff going with not much internet access) but I hope your birthday was a good one.
I've been calling myself a "geezer" lately (turning 71 next week). I'm not sure that's a male equivalent to "crone" because women can geeze too.
This sentence caught my attention: "When she divorces and is alone, she stops being lonely." I can relate to that, too. But I also now understand the difference between being alone and being lonely; I didn't get that when I was young.
Rather chuffed to have found a place in your enlightening Cronology (the now self-evident link between taurus and torah caught me off guard) and very much looking forward to signing up to the complete Goddess 101 course in the imminent future!
I love the multiple meanings of the word revolution. I hope that this time we're not going around in circles but instead are spiraling into control--of our own time and spaces.
Oh my goodness! (Or Oh My Goddess as you would say!) I love this so. much, Tereza, and will have to revisit it when I have more time to savor your words. Thank you for including me...I am honored to be featured among the Crones. Surely you have read Clarissa Pinkola Estes' "The Power of the Crone." It was from her that I first learned what the word really meant. With each passing year, I love using it more and more.
We Crones are also in the Vata time of life, according to Ayurveda. That's another discussion, but so interesting to me. So many women dread getting older, and that makes me sad. There can be so much wonder and WOO and powerful creation if we only learn to embrace these sacred years.
Happy Happy solar return, Tereza! I have a Taurus Moon and Rising and have been doing a deep dive into those signs, which I've been woefully unaware of forever, focusing more on my Sag Sun. I always wondered why I love HOME so much. Beauty. Nature. Stillness. Makes so much sense now! XOXO Crone Barbara 👑💚
Thank you for that kind and enthusiastic response, Barbara! I have not read The Power of the Crone and will correct that pronto.
The Crone seems to be as endangered a breed as the Housewife, both of which I'd like to rehabilitate. You and Kathleen are quite the inspirations, with your intimate relationships with trees, rocks, mountains. Did I tell you I'm reading Nan Shepherd on The Living Mountain? A crone extraordinaire.
I've read what you've written before about the Vata in Ayurveda, and am intrigued. I feel like my age keeps trying to catch up to me, and I keep dancing away ;-)
Yes, you have the perfect crone home, nestled in nature. Ready for a new fairy tale!
Dear Tereza
Have a joyous and Happy Birthday.
May this year be filled with happiness, health, love, and wondrous times.
Birthday (2:43)
by The Beatles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhdOPhTHeoE
Love Is The Answer
Mark R. Elsis
That's so kind of you, Mark! With all the important things you're doing to bring attention to our common causes, I'm touched that you found a little pocket of time from which to pull out this gift for me ;-)
Bless you, my dear, and Happy 69th...
Thanks for the mention. That meme fit perfectly, glad to have helped.
Serious question, where did you source this information? "...J represents I in Hebrew..."
I would like to read more about that.
On the subject of the word woo as pejorative, it is not surprising, seeing as how every major institution focused on power has suppressed the feminine, out of fear, since recorded history began.
I appreciate your existence
It did fit perfectly, thank you for that!
You can find out with a basic AI question that Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek had no J in their alphabets. Hebrew also has no vowels. That why the name Jesus is a cipher--the name wouldn't exist in the language. Modern scholars try to say it was Yeshua, but that would translate to Joshua, which is a Biblical name different than Jesus.
The word Jew is also a cipher, not appearing until the 18th c. I explore that more in this episode: https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/p/what-is-a-jew. In my book, I was just writing more about looking at the origins of the word Jew:
"Jew more logically corresponds to Ju Patr or the cult of Jupiter, a name that was inscribed as Iuuntus. It also is the beginning of the name of the Aryan-Egyptian goddess Iusasset, pictured with a scarab beetle on her head. While being the consort of the creator god Atum/ Adam, she is not the mother of creation. She’s merely the hand he uses to masturbate the world into existence. The Goddess Baat is split into the masculine Baal and the barren Iusasset whose only function is to facilitate the creator’s orgasm.
"Atum and Iusasset’s city was Iwnw/ Iunu, the Greek Heliopolis. The Roman goddess Juno was the wife of Jupiter, corresponding to the Greek Hera/ Zeus. She is ‘jealous’ because Jupiter births Minerva out of his head, as Zeus births Athena, goddess of wisdom. So she’s given an herb by Flora and births Mars/ Ares, warlord of the Aryans. The Iuvenes was the army. She is the protector of the state and its enforced subservience of women. Her name was thought to derive from Iove/ Jove, and that connection to submission to the male should be obvious. The word love also relates to Luvians/ Levites as the feeling subservients should have for their earthly Lords."
And yes! They call it his-story for a reason. It's erased all evidence of the feminine in all of the existing records. Although I'm still hopeful for what will be found under the left paw of Mehit, aka the Sphinx.
I'm a bit late to the celebration (had some busy travel stuff going with not much internet access) but I hope your birthday was a good one.
I've been calling myself a "geezer" lately (turning 71 next week). I'm not sure that's a male equivalent to "crone" because women can geeze too.
This sentence caught my attention: "When she divorces and is alone, she stops being lonely." I can relate to that, too. But I also now understand the difference between being alone and being lonely; I didn't get that when I was young.
Ditto that. Thanks for reading, Mark.
Rather chuffed to have found a place in your enlightening Cronology (the now self-evident link between taurus and torah caught me off guard) and very much looking forward to signing up to the complete Goddess 101 course in the imminent future!
The chuff is mutual, if that grammar holds ;-)
This is helpful. Same revolutions for me! Authenticity to self and good will to mankind.
I love the multiple meanings of the word revolution. I hope that this time we're not going around in circles but instead are spiraling into control--of our own time and spaces.
Thanks for reading and responding, Kathryn!