This blog was created primarily as a source for women’s spirituality and constructive self-empowerment, to restore the pre-patriarchal role of women as spiritual leaders, teachers, guides, healers, and mystics. It was not a blog for women only, brothers in spirit have always been welcome here. Men need to be part of the healing process too! :)
Although Romancing the Crone is retired from active service, I’m reposting our power song that represents RTC beautifully. I still love listening to it, and abandoning my soul to the powerful emotions it stirs in me.
This song is a gift and contribution to the healing dialogue from my Goddess Sister, Lillith Mother, in dedication to the previous post, The Collective Trauma of Womenkind. Goodness and Goddess bless you Lillith Mother!
We, the women speaking out and standing our ground with what we know from the deepest recesses of our soul, we are shakin’ the tree. I got your back Warrior Princesses. If you just decided to join us in shakin’ the tree, welcome! It doesn’t matter where you’ve been. It only matters where you’re going. Come on board. Shake it down, break it down with us. We embrace you. If you’re joining us, let your voice be heard. Let us know you’re here shakin’ it.
Let there be a whole lotta shakin’ going on!
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Peter Gabriel and Youssou N’dour
Souma Yergon, Sou Nou Yergon, We are shakin’ the tree
Souma Yergon, Sou Nou Yergon, We are shakin’ the tree
Waiting your time, dreaming of a better life
Waiting your time, you’re so much more than just a wife
You don’t want to do what your mother has done
She has done
This is your life, this new life has begun
It’s your day - a woman’s day
It’s your day - a woman’s day
Turning the tide, you are on the incoming wave
Turning the tide, you know you are nobody’s slave
Find your brothers and sisters
Who can hear all the truth in what you say
They can support you when you’re on your way
It’s your day - a woman’s day
It’s your day - a woman’s day
Souma Yergon, Sou Nou Yergon, We are shakin’ the tree
Souma Yergon, Sou Nou Yergon, We are shakin’ the tree
Souma Yergon, Sou Nou Yergon, We are shakin’ the tree
{extra lyrics from the 1989 remix} There’s nothing to gain when there’s nothing to be lost
There’s nothing to gain if you stay behind and count the cost
Make the decision that you can be who you can be
You can be
Tasting the fruit come to the Liberty Tree
It’s your day - a woman’s day
It’s your day - a woman’s day
Changing your ways, changing those surrounding you
Changing your ways, more than any man can do
Open your heart, show him the anger and pain, so you heal
Maybe he’s looking for his womanly side, let him feel
You had to be so strong
And you do nothing wrong
Nothing wrong at all
We’re gonna to break it down
We have to shake it down
Shake it all around
Souma Yergon, Sou Nou Yergon, We are shakin’ the tree
Souma Yergon, Sou Nou Yergon, We are shakin’ the tree
Souma Yergon, Sou Nou Yergon, We are shakin’ the tree
I have developed a picture of what a human being living humanely is like. She is a person who is real and is willing to take risks, to be creative, to manifest competence, to change when the situation calls for it, to find ways to accommodate to what is new and different, keeping that part of the old that is still useful and discarding what is not. Virginia Satir
When women open the doors of their own lives and survey the carnage there in those out-of-the-way places, they most often find they have been allowing summary assassinations of their most crucial dreams, goals, and hopes. Clarissa Pinkola Estes
See Yourself As Goddess. Affirm yourself daily with delicious words including "magical, mystical, sparkling, juicy, ethereal, beauty, intuitive, divine." When you see yourself as Goddess, this is the gorgeous energy you radiate and hence, you begin to attract similarly gorgeous people into your life. Anita Ryan-Revel
"For millennia women’s wisdom was honored; crones were revered. Today women are reclaiming the identity and status of the ancient crone. We are coming of age, accessing our wisdom and acting upon it. Croning is the process of becoming active wise women. Croning can begin at any age and is particularly relevant for women 45 and older.” Croning.org
Croning II
"Crone symbolizes the wisdom present in a woman of any age, but which usually becomes stronger as she grows older. The patriarchal culture's valuation of the female is based on the youthful beauty of her bodily appearance, her "image." By this measure, the older a woman becomes, the less she is valued. Rather than accepting our culture's devaluation of women as they age, the Crone Chronicles was founded to transform our way of understanding the aging process altogether."
Crone Sexuality
Sexually, the Crone Stage is a potentially powerful one. It is the stage of sexual mastery. Today, many Crone women are seeking sexual pleasure more assertively than ever before. Crone sexual response has all the potential power that comes from the will of the fully conscious, self-reliant, experienced, sexual self-knowing, wise women. If she chooses, she can use her sexuality to serve a higher purpose by receiving Divine inspiration and connecting to the Source. "Reclaiming Goddess Sexuality: The Power of the Feminine Way"
