Hagitude: Reimagining the Second Half of Life

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And the fact that that’s survived two millennia of patriarchal Christianity is quite amazing, I guess, and it would have to be hidden quite, quite deep in the structures of these things. And maybe some people will come to it younger and some people will come to it later, but I don’t think it’s something you find in your twenties. And this was a name that was given by Toni Wolffe, who was both Carl Jung’s lover and his student, to what she conceived of as being the four key elements of womanhood. And rather than suffer the wrath of her stepmother, she throws herself into the well, because that’s obviously a wise thing to do and then has a series of visions, which, as far as I could tell, if you boil them down were: be a very good little girl, do exactly what you’re told. Sharon: I would say that it is easier to work in that context, particularly in psychotherapy, with fairy tales and folktales rather than myths.

And it comes as it feels like, if we were to look at it in retrospect, a very obvious continuation after If Women Rose Rooted and Foxfire and the others. Particularly if you happen not to identify as a woman, your inner hag is going to be really different.

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And if any book and concept and the course that you run from it, is ever able to rid our society of its fear of age and death and look up to the wise people who have gone through the alchemical process and come out the other side. Can you give us a little bit of the sense of how the world feels walking in the shadow of the valley of death, as you said? Not more than as a transition point that made them face their own mortality and thus an intro into the next elder woman archetype. And I know so few people who really enjoy mid-winter, and I wonder you don’t have to tell us when your birthday is, but were you a winter birthday person?But I think until you have been through the testing pot of life over and over again, you don’t necessarily know exactly what it is that you are made of and what survives when everything else is stripped away.

This cookie is used to a profile based on user's interest and display personalized ads to the users. Sharon: I think I was asking myself not only what kind of an elder I was going to become, but where my work would be while I was an elder. Through my own process of going through lymphoma, I felt as if, okay, I have to invite death in and give her a glass of wine and just find a way to not just to tolerate that presence, but to see what it has to offer us in the midst of life.I remember working with Carolyn Hillier for a little while and she had worked with some forensic linguists in Oxford. So this brings up a lot of questions that again, probably reflect my ignorance of mythology and the past. Our old women are the dark heart of the forest, the stone womb of the mountain, immanent in the living land itself. A master of her craft, Blackie weaves beautiful threads of folklore, psychology, history, philosophy, and much more into this remarkable work, reminding the reader of the magic inherent in all of our lives. Because it seems to me that some ways of marking that, and of course you can mark menopause if you have the kind of menopause which is kind of neat and tidy.