I'm a bit behind on the emails so forgive me! What you write is always of interest but this one really resonated. I'm 50, menopausal, I'm English and despite Ireland having been my home for over 30 years I don't always feel completely at home - and neither do I feel completely home in England it should be said- and coincidentally I'm researching Irish goddesses (including the Cailleach for my second novel). The information you provided, the thoughts, insight - wonderful. Here's to embracing womanhood and old age, to looking forward to our next chapters in life rather than mourning what has gone. I'm off to wash put the hair dye 😄
the only thing I'm not sure about it is... they compared danu to anu. It could be. but 'a' in Greek stands for without. so danu could be without anu?? BTW, dunno. if you sent me anything never got it. guessing I left you speechless.
I really love that you include these little quick videos in your articles. They help emphasize those points. I love that you clearly do a huge amount of research to organize your articles in a meaningful and authentic way.
Hi Deirdre... yes, I will be 56 next month, how the time flies, right? I guess from your comment that you and I are going through much the same experiences right now. I'm so glad this post resonated with you, and even more glad to make a connection and know that I am not going through this alone. Thank you gor your comment. 💕
This is amazing. We must be the same age? I’m 56 now. I read the first section with interest but then the second section - full of honesty and personal details. Fantastic. Every single word resonated with me. I was almost shouting as I read this. Thank you. Loved this. Inspiring and rooted in the wisdom of thousands of years of women gone before us. 💚💚💚
I love the catalogue of Hag and Cailleach stories you have woven into this and then moving on to personal experiences and opinion to maybe apply your interpretation of these stories. For me it’s tempting to have a conversation about one after the other, but that would be ridiculous in a comment section. Overall, I just love the passion and vision put into this plus enabling us viewers to easily read, absorb, and take in.
The ‘disposable’ woman has been quite a leading conversation with me on social media these past few days, especially for those passed child bearning age and maybe with an empty nest. When we had the Labyrinth Gardens using the Labyrinths, especially Tree Labyrinth was focused on this. I suppose a man facilitating this was weird, but I received many women’s groups as I loathe talented women going to ‘waste’.
You talk of getting away from the linear thinking concepts of beginnings and ends and into visions of orbitals. I love all that because I believe, thinking of the foundations of Christianity, most people seem to get stuck at the Crucifixion. Certainly men seem to. I suppose there is more potential control there. But few people seem to move on to the Resurrection bit that, to me, moves everything into timelessness and continuity.
One thought, as I was reading your amazing work here, is how matured women who have been through their mother life, are able to teach and guide their daughters through birth and be there as a recharge boost through their daughter’s motherhood. Former mothers become teachers of mothers. Likewise, mothers teach their daughters how to become women as people, not objects. Lets move on from that dividing and wasteful culture.
I love how you also recommend women to be pride of their maturity, and be as distinguished in their grey. Among celebrities its amzing how many women became more beautiful as they became older. The late Diana Rigg certainly was one, Jane Seymour, Jennifer Saunders, and Judi Dench the queen of them all.
Yes, this is a very ‘wow!’ article. Way beyond giving it wolf whistles.
First, a huge ‘Wow!’ With this one Ali. First thought was how did you get all that into one Substack post? That’s like five or six Substacks there. I will be going back to read this a few times.
Timely for myself and probably other as I was taken back by the early news that Sanna had lost the vote for leadership in Finland, too quickly after Nicola handed her’s in for Scotland, and Lucinda in New Zealand. For some reason I cannot count in Liz Truss into this. With Sanna, Nicola, and Lucinda to seemed to be all about serving the people, and the economics will sort itself out. New Zealand even got more rights for it’s river’s too. Three women very much at service to their countries replaced by men that seem to be more into spreadsheets and balances than also supporting a council of empathy too. Government seems to need both to function.
I'm a bit behind on the emails so forgive me! What you write is always of interest but this one really resonated. I'm 50, menopausal, I'm English and despite Ireland having been my home for over 30 years I don't always feel completely at home - and neither do I feel completely home in England it should be said- and coincidentally I'm researching Irish goddesses (including the Cailleach for my second novel). The information you provided, the thoughts, insight - wonderful. Here's to embracing womanhood and old age, to looking forward to our next chapters in life rather than mourning what has gone. I'm off to wash put the hair dye 😄
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Ali, thought you might be interested in this article. https://mythopedia.com/topics/danu
the only thing I'm not sure about it is... they compared danu to anu. It could be. but 'a' in Greek stands for without. so danu could be without anu?? BTW, dunno. if you sent me anything never got it. guessing I left you speechless.
I really love that you include these little quick videos in your articles. They help emphasize those points. I love that you clearly do a huge amount of research to organize your articles in a meaningful and authentic way.
Hi Ali, I used to be able to write you an email, (we've swapped a few) but i don't see my emails going through. How can I reach you? Merry (moisele)
Hi Deirdre... yes, I will be 56 next month, how the time flies, right? I guess from your comment that you and I are going through much the same experiences right now. I'm so glad this post resonated with you, and even more glad to make a connection and know that I am not going through this alone. Thank you gor your comment. 💕
This is amazing. We must be the same age? I’m 56 now. I read the first section with interest but then the second section - full of honesty and personal details. Fantastic. Every single word resonated with me. I was almost shouting as I read this. Thank you. Loved this. Inspiring and rooted in the wisdom of thousands of years of women gone before us. 💚💚💚
I love the catalogue of Hag and Cailleach stories you have woven into this and then moving on to personal experiences and opinion to maybe apply your interpretation of these stories. For me it’s tempting to have a conversation about one after the other, but that would be ridiculous in a comment section. Overall, I just love the passion and vision put into this plus enabling us viewers to easily read, absorb, and take in.
The ‘disposable’ woman has been quite a leading conversation with me on social media these past few days, especially for those passed child bearning age and maybe with an empty nest. When we had the Labyrinth Gardens using the Labyrinths, especially Tree Labyrinth was focused on this. I suppose a man facilitating this was weird, but I received many women’s groups as I loathe talented women going to ‘waste’.
You talk of getting away from the linear thinking concepts of beginnings and ends and into visions of orbitals. I love all that because I believe, thinking of the foundations of Christianity, most people seem to get stuck at the Crucifixion. Certainly men seem to. I suppose there is more potential control there. But few people seem to move on to the Resurrection bit that, to me, moves everything into timelessness and continuity.
One thought, as I was reading your amazing work here, is how matured women who have been through their mother life, are able to teach and guide their daughters through birth and be there as a recharge boost through their daughter’s motherhood. Former mothers become teachers of mothers. Likewise, mothers teach their daughters how to become women as people, not objects. Lets move on from that dividing and wasteful culture.
I love how you also recommend women to be pride of their maturity, and be as distinguished in their grey. Among celebrities its amzing how many women became more beautiful as they became older. The late Diana Rigg certainly was one, Jane Seymour, Jennifer Saunders, and Judi Dench the queen of them all.
Yes, this is a very ‘wow!’ article. Way beyond giving it wolf whistles.
First, a huge ‘Wow!’ With this one Ali. First thought was how did you get all that into one Substack post? That’s like five or six Substacks there. I will be going back to read this a few times.
Timely for myself and probably other as I was taken back by the early news that Sanna had lost the vote for leadership in Finland, too quickly after Nicola handed her’s in for Scotland, and Lucinda in New Zealand. For some reason I cannot count in Liz Truss into this. With Sanna, Nicola, and Lucinda to seemed to be all about serving the people, and the economics will sort itself out. New Zealand even got more rights for it’s river’s too. Three women very much at service to their countries replaced by men that seem to be more into spreadsheets and balances than also supporting a council of empathy too. Government seems to need both to function.