July 1, 2023

It was twenty years ago when I returned from Ireland with otherworld encounters I could not fathom. I had no spiritual tradition and no spiritual context to help me navigate these experiences. A friend mentioned that there was a woman who could give me a card reading. With my limited spiritual understanding this landed as something of a parlor game, but I booked a session.

My session, the first of many, with Lelelewa, eagle shaman, would launch my spiritual journey. The following year as I was getting ready to return to Ireland, she told me that an ancestor had information, a transmission to share with me. I needed to prepare myself.

“Pay attention!” she said, her eagle eyes dancing. “The transmission could come through at any time. It could land while you are peeing behind a bush. Pay attention!!!”  

Well, there was no peeing behind bushes on that trip. But the transmissions landed almost every day as I walked the land, sat by the ocean, and spent time at sacred sites. It was like drinking out of a fire hose, potent and powerful. I was paying attention. And I’ve not stopped paying attention. 

A sacred sister just emailed a birthday greeting. “Who would have thought at arriving at the age of 72 we would be in the midst of the biggest transformation of our lives?” 

In the last couple of years my spiritual journeys in Ireland have evolved to include a circle of sisters. Ann is part of this. We have shared years of ever deepening encounters with otherworld energies, ancestors, and the Light that emanates from this sacred land. The transmissions and transformations continue to arrive, ever amplified. 

Indeed. We wouldn’t have thought and couldn’t have imagined this. Yet here we are. And I believe being 72 has something to do with it. I believe it’s about both paying attention and setting the intention. In our Crone years, our elder years, we have the gracious space for both. 

So. We set our intentions. We pay attention. And we welcome the transmissions that arrive. For this is a landscape of Crone power and wisdom…and deep joy.

Blessings of Crone Wisdom,
Judith