March 6, 2022

Elders ask questions that bring clarity
Seek cooperation and sacred unity

We are all watching the news of what’s unfolding in Ukraine and around the globe. I find myself navigating between those stories of both horror and solidarity, and prayer. For I am praying throughout the day for the Ukrainian people. I can’t open our home to the refugees but I can open my heart.

As we watch the news, it is filled with answers. Answers about how the Ukrainian people are going to survive. Answers about how the Russian people are going to survive the sanctions. Answers about how this horror will end. The information is, as would be expected, constantly changing and the answers are elusive.

But are those answers to the right questions? The most important questions?

As an elders, as Crones, we are called to give less agency to the answers than the questions. Answers can be like opinions, everyone has one and they tend to lead us to a contest of which is the ‘right one’. But questions, carefully considered and crafted, hold much more possibility. They call us to engage. They dance through our imagination. They hold the power to lead us to cooperation and unity.

We know the value of the long view and the cosmic perspective. There is clarity here that reflects wisdom of the past and offers wisdom for the future. This is the cauldron of the Crone question. As so from that cauldron, what are the questions for this time?

What are the questions that will inspire a shift in how we are, as a global community, in right relationship with the sacred, the Earth, each other? What are the questions that will inspire harmony and peace within and without? What are the questions that will inspire cooperation and sacred unity?

Blessings of Crone Wisdom,
Judith