12/01/09

Clymela 12/0/09

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I'm an old woman and there are only a few things that I know for sure: Grounding is important. Kindness is seldom wasted. Photosynthesis is the highest good. Keep your house clean, your papers in order, some money set aside. Don't tell the Man much about yourself. Sisters make it all much better. As above, so below; as inside, so without. The moment when monkey mind most wants to take over, when fears are most intense, when you have the most reasons to turn back -- that's the moment when magic can happen. Hecate will be there for me, at the end. And, Starhawk is right. There is no substitute for human beings putting our bodies in the way of the operations of injustice. I have been glad every time that I did that, and I regret every time that I lost an opportunity to do so. I'm old, but I know this for sure

This wonderful woman has been calling to me for several days now-since I discovered her last year I think but the past two days she has written about getting through winter and her advice is something that I can carry with me and actually put into "practice".
I am especially drawn to her her words "I am an old woman". I am working with this myself.
I only watch politics and an occasional old movie and NCIS on television-because I am absolutely not interested in what the children and grandchildren are watching and I realize this is because I grew up on totally different images.
When I go shopping the women for the most part are no longer my peers, there is the occasional "old woman" but the mostly the women are at least 20 years younger. The people serving the customers are at least twenty years younger and of course much,much younger.
Yesterday Hecate suggested determining the things we like,staying with those and letting the others go. Good advice for winter the season of the year and also for that season of our lives.
I am only at the beginning of the Crone stage but this time of winter (menopause is now 10 years past and I have forgotten the passion of that passage) and I feel the passion of the shift.
When the shift first became apparent to me I was taken aback: i said why am I thinking that I am old and then I noticed that I was "out there" as far as the daily life goes. The music doesn't sound like music,the raves that my grand daughter loves do not appeal to me, the reality shows on television bore me to tears and so I would rather read,cook,garden,walk