06/29/2021
Copied from another defiant Crone. Her words are strong and true.
Crone. Sage. A title earned, not a Right. Man or Woman, Crone is a descriptor of Lore, not age, unconnected with fertility or lack thereof....
Witchcraft taken lightly is dangerous, and I for one tolerate nobody who believes in the fantasy over the reality, for they are the Cold Ones, the Lost, the ones who have no sense of the danger they put others in.
There are no soft sweet witches, who love, who offer only healings, and nothing more...
Witches are FIERCE. Witches are Lore Keepers and in danger of dying out, of being pushed aside in a world that no longer believes in protection...direction...deflection.
Again. Crone or Sage is earned by understanding that Lore which must be kept and passed on to the Ones who come seeking. Crone or Sage is not earned by grey hairs in your head or beard, or the loss of reproductive ability.
Crone, Sage, is hearing the Wind where there is none and understanding what it whispers.....
Our fertility now lies within Earth, and the seeds in Darkness are our children which we tend with no less devotion, and roots grow strong with a drop of our blood creating hunger in new ways long lost to most.
We are the strangers you warned your children about when the chill of our gaze brushed you like a hand. Ironic, for those same children were drawn to us, to our stories told as our hands sat knotted in our laps...
Do you study the Folklore? Or only the things that pique your curiosity, like Tarot, Ouija, and Crystal orbs...Where is your understanding of Spirit? Where are your Swamps? Your tales of bones found not bought, of monsters that were your saving grace, and people who were not.....
Everything means something. From the direction of storms to the way flowers close in the rain and THIS is what you study before the stones dug by another and tumbled for your collection...
Know that the cure grows near the poison, both in the forest and your heart....
Crone. Sage. Be welcome. Everybody has a place in solitude. Know yours.