A seat at the table – Women too often dismissed

It’s easy to dismiss a woman who has traveled through the darkness over and over throughout a long life.

Mastering death and rebirth in order to survive, within a society that deems it terrifying.

What to do with women who have “remembered” who we are, quietly in the shadows?

As the maiden and mother step back to honor her in the autumn of her life.

We take our seat at a table with honor, embracing the wisdom garnered only through the Divine journey laid before us.

We plant the seeds and nourish the growth of the next generation, just as nature would do.

We wear our scars, wrinkles, saggy skin, gray and white hair with grace, dignity, and a knowing that we carry something within our beings that only we carry, and this world needs.

Wise women, you have earned your seat at the table.

Please take it.

-Mary Lane, excerpt from our anthology, The Crone Initiation

@Archaeology for the Woman’s Soul

Photo: Changing Woman by Drea Magic on Devian

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Author: GreatCosmicMothersUnited

I have joined with many parents affected with the surreal , yet accepted issue of child abuse via Pathogenic Parenting / Domestic abuse. As a survivor of Domestic Abuse, denial abounded that 3 sons were not affected. In my desire to be family to those who have found me lacking . As a survivor of psychiatric abuse, therapist who abused also and toxic prescribed medications took me to hell on earth with few moments of heaven. I will share my life, my experiences and my studies and research.. I will talk to small circles and I will council ; as targeted parents , grandparents , aunts , uncles etc. , are denied contact with a child for reasons that serve the abuser ...further abusing the child. I grasp the trauma and I have looked at the lost connection to a higher power.. I grasp when one is accustomed to privilege, equality can feel like discrimination.. Shame and affluence silences a lot of facts , truths that have been labeled "negative". It is about liberation of the soul from projections of a alienator , and abuser ..

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