#crone

[cronehoney]

✨🌲🩷🌲✨ by Julia Tar

[rosieandthemoon]

Ernst Fuchs, 1953

[artofmaquenda]

An old crone

She holds roses and a pomegranate: symbols of youth, sex, fertility. They are withering. The things women are told give them value do not last.

This is how aging women are often seen: fading, invisible.

But she is not fading. She is instinct, memory, wisdom.

The petals fall. She remains.

[downtothemarrow]

“The Crone has been missing from our culture for so long that many women, particularly young girls, know nothing of her tutelage. Young girls in our society are not initiated by older women into womanhood with its accompanying dignity and power. Instead, for their models, they look to fashion magazines, where they see the kinds of bodies and faces that they themselves can never have. Paradoxically, these are the ideals that are held up for them if they want to be successful, particularly with men. A recent national survey of teenage girls in North America showed that "while 13-year-old girls are nearly as confident as 13-year old boys, by age 16 the females' sense of self worth has plummeted."

With no inner Wisdom figure to guide them, and no outward model to help them set boundaries and be their own person, young women often fall victim to false and superficial ideals, such as pleasing others. Ironically, they achieve their greatest success at the cost of their own emerging sense of self.”

—Marion Woodman, Dancing in the Flames

[zmiyina]

Mokosh, the Crone

We sometimes fall into the trap of keeping our gods pretty, conventionally attractive. But Mokosh is not only a buxom young woman in a vast field - she is old as earth, disheveled and aged Friday, the Back Madonna, the Harvester, and a strict teacher.

[saintrabouin]

Some more Witcher fan art

[darkmoongwen]