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Are the guys who used to hit on you starting to call you ma’am? Have the storekeepers quit carding you, and strangers quit thinking your child is your sibling?

I remember when that happened to me, and it wasn’t easy. Time was marching on and in its wake a quiet threat arrived.

More difficult still was menopause. Being body-related it was harder to miss, but thankfully, easier to attune to. I decided it was time to make peace with the cycles of my life.

Here’s an empowering idea that helped me through; not only intact, but enriched.

The Life Cycle of the Goddess

In Vedic astrology (based on the Vedas, or Indian scripture), superimposed on the 12-sign zodiac we’re all familiar with is a set of 27 smaller constellations.

They are called the lunar mansions because Chandra, the Moon God, travels through approximately one per day, honoring and bedding each one’s Goddess. (They are his brides, after all.)

To reveal the cycle of the Goddess best, let’s turn the clock back to 3000 BC when the mansion of Rohini, the Red Goddess (Taurus’s red star Aldebaran), rose with the vernal equinox sun.

1) Vernal Equinox: Rohini, the Maiden

Rohini, whose shakti or power is growth, is the creative principle. In Tantra, the creative force is said to be sexual in nature, and Rohini is the Goddess as erotic nymph.

She creates the year itself at springtime. She is the dancing girl who charmed the Moon God who often lingered too long at her mansion, as she was his favorite. She rides in a cart filled with spring flowers.

There are several Hindu goddesses who are forms of the Maiden, including the ever-popular Lakshmi, Goddess of love and good fortune.

2) Summer Solstice: The Phalguni Mansions, the Wife and Mother

The Goddess has grown up and transformed into a bride. Just as we have reached the time of greatest brightness when the earth is ripe with all its bounty, the Goddess is also bountiful and ready to manifest as both wife and mother.

Marriage and family are the cornerstones of meaning for both of the Phalguni mansions and the gods who rule them.

The raw energy of the Maiden is now integrated into the circle of life. She becomes a member of the social order. Her erotic energy is harnessed and directed into the cycle of life; into the world.

3) Autumnal Equinox: Jyestha, the Wisdom Crone

Just as at vernal equinox, the days and nights are of equal length, but this time it’s darkness that’s about to increase. Jyestha is the Wisdom Crone, and here we honor the dark wisdom that comes with age and experience, including hardships and challenges.

Like Rohini, Jyestha is also a red star (Antares in Scorpio), but otherwise, she is everything that Rohini is not. They are opposite in the sky and diametrically opposed aspects of the Goddess.

At the same time, she is a liberator. The wild Goddess Rohini was constrained when she became part of ordinary human life, but now her wildness is set free again.

In Vedic astrology, there’s an important concept called sandhi, which is a juncture point. There are many types and one occurs at the equinox, when day and night are equal length. Like at dawn and dusk, neither light nor dark predominates. This is an in-between time when sorcerers and wizards work their magic and is a time of great power.

Jyestha is the ultimate “betweener”. She liberates us and initiates us into our own wild magic.

If you’re like me, the time has come to welcome this Goddess as a part of who you are. It’s now your time to play the role of wizard and shaman and to step up to the plate as the Wise Crone that you are.

Gone are the days when your primary purpose was to participate in mundane activities and learn your lessons. Let them go, if you dare.

Now it’s time to share what you’ve learned; to offer what you’ve gathered; to step forward as a fully-formed woman with all the wisdom your years have given you.

Acknowledge that you have unique gifts to offer and a unique way of expressing them. To declare this requires both courage and generosity but you’ll find it rewarding, for the world needs you now.

So claim your wisdom; you’ve earned it! Embody this wild Goddess as your natural way of being. You are no longer the student, but the teacher.

Now is the time to step into your power.

[For more information about the cycle of the Goddess, I highly recommend the fascinating book Mansions of the Moon, The Lost Zodiac of the Goddess by mythologist and astrologer Kenneth Johnson.]

Patti Foy is embracing her Wisdom Crone as a Vedic astrologer, intuitive, and energy & consciousness worker. You can find her at her blog Lightspirited Being where she offers her services along with helpful information about applying metaphysics for insight, guidance, and transformation.

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Comments

1. RYCJ says:

   April 7, 2011 at 12:27 pm

   ~ great bits of wisdom I learned from my grandmothers, three of them to be exact, who exhibited strength, wisdom, and sensuality to a flawless default.

   I’m tremendously indebted to them for selling me on loving myself and MOST IMPORTANTLY, enjoying my youth, instead of listening to my parents who didn’t seem to appreciate my grandmother’s wisdom… who thought I should’ve been head down in the books, studying hard, working for this future… basically running myself raggedy turning older before I needed to!

   Makes it much easier to enjoy this wonderful post!
2. Patti Foy | Lightspirited Being says:

   April 7, 2011 at 3:24 pm

   First, thanks, Eliza! I enjoyed writing this post and appreciate having it posted here in your enriching magazine. I also love the opportunity to interact with your readers.

   Hi RYCJ, thanks for that comment. Makes me think your grandmother must have been pretty comfortable in her wisdom and lucky you that you got to be close enough to her that you could absorb it.

   I know that as a parent I did things a lot differently than I would now that I “know better”. Sounds like it’s the way the world goes ’round… gotta love the cycles.

   Thanks for reading and for sharing your observations.
3. Eliza says:

   April 7, 2011 at 7:52 pm

   @RYCJ – I too have fond memories of my grandmothers. Both enjoyed their lives and the people in them. Interestingly, in very different ways, but that means I came away with well rounded wisdom.
4. Eliza says:

   April 7, 2011 at 7:54 pm

   @Patti – thank you so much for participating at Silver & Grace! I too would parent differently now than I did back then. That’s why I look forward to being a grandmother someday. I get to apply all my lessons learned
5. RYCJ says:

   April 8, 2011 at 12:16 am

   @ Patty, @ Eliza after reading my spill dumped in there about the studying and whatnot… I had to laugh, ‘now wait a minute, I didn’t mean it like that!’ Rushed and excited all at once, and before I got a good cup of coffee in me, I wasn’t in a space to take my time to respond.

   Yes, 1 grandmother exhibited the wisdom, the other the strength, and the third the sex appeal. I took from all three, which pulling all 3 in one person, I say is wisdom beyond wisdom! Can’t begin to explain it all in one space, (I did in another post, and as well in one of my books), but these women did and achieved so much working with so little, which was where I really wanted to go. Wisdom is an invaluable asset, actually the greatest education one can receive.

   At any rate, I planned to blog on this area again and wanted to link to this post.
6. Patti Foy | Lightspirited Being says:

   April 8, 2011 at 1:10 pm

   Ahhh, now I get it! That’s especially cool, actually!

   And I saw this a little bit ago but seeing your comment about not having had your coffee the first time, I waited til I’d had mine. Now THAT’s wisdom!

   Thank you!

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