Welcome, at long last to Crone Season on a A Year & A Day! To the new moon in Sagittarius and the threshold of the Winter Solstice… or Summer Solstice for you in the southern hemisphere.
If you’ve been journeying with us these many months exploring the seasons of women’s lives through storytelling & emergent collaborations honoring the Maiden, Mother and the Magah phases - thank you for your precious attention here. Thank you for your bright listening!
If you are new here, welcome and looking back since last spring (2025) here’s where we’ve been.
As we move into full-on winter here in the north & middle of America, the cold bite and dynamic silence of Crone is alive. She is the foundational weaver of life and cultures throughout time have bowed to her power and her unapologetic truths. In some culture she IS the land. Her names are many, including; the Morrigan, the Cailleach, Skuld, Baba Yaga, Dhumavati, Kali, Yamauba, Hecate, Nyx and Baubo.
She embodies lived wisdom born of the tender culmination of one’s life experience and the robust maturation of the magic of the Mage/Magah phase. The Crone’s initiating experience is death, in the way that menarche/first blood is to the Maiden, birth is to the Mother, and Menopause is to the Magah.
Her season offers us rest, contemplation and if we are willing sweet releasing of the material and the worldly. The Crone can open us into greater connection with spirit and the delicious dreaming of winter. The veil between this world and the next thins for the Crone, and for us in Crone season, if you are willing to soften and slow down. She is Mighty, Mighty!
Wherever you are in your cyclical journey, what might leaning into the gifts of the Crone feel and look like for you now?
Joining me on this new moon in yummy, big vibe Sagittarius is my dear friend, and healing guide Cielle Backstrom. I listened back to our recording I’m blown open in awe of the richness that rises up from this emergent collaboration. Cielle’s wise gifts truly opened the field of her Crone’s unwavering presence..
More below about Cielle, and also a link to Jackie Singer’s gorgeous new musical offering, Songhold, which launched earlier this month. Jackie joined me at last month’s new moon pod!
Thank you for your bright listening and every blessing to you in this Solstice season.
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Deep bowing to our winter dreaming,
Tracy
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Cielle Backstrom lives in Fairfield, Iowa, and supports folks on the path of embodied awakening. Her awakening in 2003 opened multiple inner doorways revealing just how “whole” life is and the huge range that it includes. This led her to study several tools which she uses as aids to assist her students on their path of awakening. These tools include compassionate listening, Focusing, Breathwork and energy healing.
https://www.ciellebackstrom.com/
And, for more deep wisdom about this new moon portal connect with Dr. Mindy Nettifee’s new moon post.
Image by Elena Ray. _/\_
