The Wise Crone's Cottage in the Woods: Upcoming Workshoop on the Wise Old Woman/Crone Archetype

Cronnie Wisdom

Crone is "a phase in which you can be more authentic, more capable of making a difference in your family and in the greater world. Life gives you experience, and when you draw from it, that's true wisdom. By the time a woman is in her crone years, she is in an amazing position to be an influence. To change things for the better, to bring what she knows into a situation, to be able to say, 'Enough is enough.' You don't have to just go along with things, which is often a part of the middle years. You're often something of a loose cannon."
Jean Shinoda Bolen

Sunday, October 3, 2021

Upcoming Workshoop on the Wise Old Woman/Crone Archetype

This Thursday (10/7), I'm giving a (live online) 2 hour class on the Wise Old Woman Crone archetype at SoulatPlay. Hope you can join us!

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About the Crone

Kathy Shimpock is a storyteller, artist, and transpersonal practitione. She has an MA in Celtic Studies and teaches the art of storytelling at South Mountain Community College's Storytelling Institute and hypnosis at the Southwest Institute of Healing Arts. Kathy has a deep interest in transpersonal studies including personal growth, folktales, mythology and Jungian psychology. Her company, Symbols of Soul, helps clients discover and explore their own health, wellness, creativity and intuition. The tools she uses include: transpersonal hypnotherapy & guided imagery, Reiki and other energy work, spiritual guidance mentoring, depth coaching, storytelling, expressive art, ceremony and ritual. She is also an approved facilitator for SoulCollage and for IONS Conscious Aging.

About the Crone's Cottage

Let’s pretend you are lost in the woods. (Those of you who love metaphor know exactly what I mean.) You’re certainly going to get hungry. You definitely will be thirsty. As the night begins to fall, you might even find yourself feeling lonely and afraid. If this was a fairy tale, just as you are about to lose hope, a cottage appears – right in the middle of the woods. The cottage is the home of the crone, a wise woman, who can appear as friend or foe depending upon your need or worth. If you have found yourself at this blog, know that you are worthy of the quest before you. Listen with an open heart and the crone may yet show you favor and assist you on your journey.

In the world of Jungian psychology, the forest has a strong association with the unconscious mind. It is a place of initiation and rebirth and symbolizes the feminine principle or the Great Mother. J.C. Cooper in An Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Traditional Symbols writes, “Entering the Dark Forest or the Enchanted Forest is a threshold symbol; the soul entering the perils of the unknown; the realm of death; the secrets of nature, or the spiritual world which man must penetrate to find the meaning.”

The Crone’s Cottage is a spot where the heart is opened and the spirit renewed. Together we’ll explore the ancient world of myth, legend and folklore. We’ll also look at contemporary films and stories that continue this tradition of fantasy and we’ll discuss the theories of Carl Jung and Joseph Campbell.

Know that it is when your journey is difficult and the path dark and unclear, that the Crone offers you a helping hand. She may leave you enriched by your visit; giving you food, shelter and a clue as to how best to proceed. Sometimes she may haunt you with an unanswered question that lead you deeper into the forest of yourself. But this is true only if you choose to accept her help. You must see beyond her visage. You must see beyond the fear of the unknown. For when you do so, you are proven worthy and her magic takes you home.

Cronnie Wisdom

Sunday, October 3, 2021

Upcoming Workshoop on the Wise Old Woman/Crone Archetype

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