Healing and Re-Imagining Eldership

with The Way of the Willow

We gather in November to listen as the decaying allows us to listen deeply to the memories within bones of Mother Earth.

Since Willow Warbler sang his song earlier this year, I have been sitting with Grandmother Willow here more deeply than in the 18 years I have known her as being the Heart of this land.

I am being asked to put my plans for the apprenticeship to one side for now and draw my energy here, towards the Heart of Eldership and the pulsing weave of Maiden, Mother, Crone.

I have long been questioning the lack of understanding Eldership within contemporary spiritual communities - those who like me search, find it at the feet of the Indigenous with unbroken lineages. Their whole communities serve as Elder communities for ours.

And the land … the land remembers. For the bones of our original Cosmic Elder, the Divine Crone - Tiamet formed her.

And this has been my work with the land these past few years, the convergence, her Restoration and our Re-creation … and it is time.

Time to heal our Elder Wounding, beyond that of the Divine Feminine and the Divine Mother. We need to heal our relationship with the choices that our Cosmic Elder made.

I spoke about this in my poem Dragon King.

I have been saying that my next Poetry Portal will be Tiamet and the Violet Flame, all the while wondering how The Way of the Willow would fit … only to find they are not separate at all, they have become intricately woven - along with being the continuation of the course Powering up from Within.

This will be a year long commitment. It will be irregular - there will be 6 times of gathering and plenty of times for wandering … visiting will be encouraged.

The details are still forming.

If this calls, let me know.

with much Love,
from my Heart to yours,

Tania Aurora White Crow.