The Journey
I had been looking forward to my 56th birthday and intended to use it as an opportunity to welcome my Third Age. I had dreams of a ceremony with my women friends, something to signify that I had crossed a big threshold. But that wasn’t to be. As the date drew nearer, I knew I wasn’t ready.
In the I Ching, hexagram number 56 is the Sojourning/Quest, Lu, with the keyword of The Stranger, and is symbolic of exile. Perhaps I should have taken note of that — that I needed to find my way home before I could legitimately call myself a Crone.
Ceremonies are outward celebrations, being a Crone entails much more.
There was so much that needed to be addressed, my life-long anger for a start. There was no way I could progress, or be able to accept my current circumstances and age, or to entertain any positive ideas for the future until I had faced the real truth inside myself.
I resolved to take the Heroine’s Journey.
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