We need to reinvent the Triple Goddess to reflect the current reality of women in their 50's and 60's – who're running the world (behind the scenes of course). With great thanks to Ursula Le Guin.
I LOVE this notion of quadruple goddess and adding a new, full stage of "Queen". I'm a 62 year-old woman and I feel like I'm just now coming into my full power, full potency, and clarity about who I am and what I'm here to be, and do.
Question: Christians, did you come up with the idea of "Queen?" Or did you get it from somewhere else. I want to give appropriate credit as I share this concept with my women friends.
I'm so glad the new life stage of Queen works for you! I've heard many other women refer to elder women as queens but I've never heard of anyone speaking directly to the need to acknowledge this new reality - that for many women, this time period (post-menopause and child rearing and pre-Crone), is the most productive of our lives, when a synchronicity of power, wisdom and radicalness, innocence and tenderness and eros collides within us. If you do come across someone else who is speaking of this please let me know. We need all of us to be speaking to it from our own unique experience. So important for us not to be erasing ourselves...
Your essay is the first time I've come across the idea of Queen, and it feels like a massive cloudbreak, like I'm coming out of a dense fog and seeing clearly something I've been sensing but had no words for. I'm on fire. The Queen seamlessly brings together my spiritual and emotional maturation, decades of environmental work, and reclamation of the feminine.
I appreciate you clearly identifying this as a need: the need to directly acknowledge this new Queen reality (possibility/ developmental necessity).
I totally agree that we must break free from the cultural erasure process, re-instate the Divine Feminine on her long-awaiting throne, and reclaim and embody the potency of our Queen years.
BTW, I also love your discernment between Queen and Crone, super helpful, thank you!
Yes, of course, I'd be happy to let you know if I come across the "call to the Queen" elsewhere.
I LOVE this notion of quadruple goddess and adding a new, full stage of "Queen". I'm a 62 year-old woman and I feel like I'm just now coming into my full power, full potency, and clarity about who I am and what I'm here to be, and do.
Question: Christians, did you come up with the idea of "Queen?" Or did you get it from somewhere else. I want to give appropriate credit as I share this concept with my women friends.
much gratitude!
I'm so glad the new life stage of Queen works for you! I've heard many other women refer to elder women as queens but I've never heard of anyone speaking directly to the need to acknowledge this new reality - that for many women, this time period (post-menopause and child rearing and pre-Crone), is the most productive of our lives, when a synchronicity of power, wisdom and radicalness, innocence and tenderness and eros collides within us. If you do come across someone else who is speaking of this please let me know. We need all of us to be speaking to it from our own unique experience. So important for us not to be erasing ourselves...
Thanks Christiane!
Your essay is the first time I've come across the idea of Queen, and it feels like a massive cloudbreak, like I'm coming out of a dense fog and seeing clearly something I've been sensing but had no words for. I'm on fire. The Queen seamlessly brings together my spiritual and emotional maturation, decades of environmental work, and reclamation of the feminine.
I appreciate you clearly identifying this as a need: the need to directly acknowledge this new Queen reality (possibility/ developmental necessity).
I totally agree that we must break free from the cultural erasure process, re-instate the Divine Feminine on her long-awaiting throne, and reclaim and embody the potency of our Queen years.
BTW, I also love your discernment between Queen and Crone, super helpful, thank you!
Yes, of course, I'd be happy to let you know if I come across the "call to the Queen" elsewhere.