The Native American Indian, Hopi, Prophecy states. “When the Grandmothers speak the earth will be healed.”

when i turned 50, i came very close to hosting my own croning. just too much going on, couldn’t pull it off. i realize that many men consider a crone to be a very unattractive word/idea/woman, my ex-husband told me so and i have heard it since. women see it differently.

once a woman no longer has value to the tribe because she is past child-bearing, she may take on value based on her life experience and judgment. depends upon what tribe you belong to. there is a kind of personal power that comes with that change in status.

When our elders step across the threshold of the Grandmother Lodge, leaving their bleeding behind them, they become the Keepers of the Law. No longer is their attention consumed with the creation and rearing of their own family… Thus their attention turns to the children of all Our Relations: not just their own children, or the children of their friends, their clan or tribe, but the children of all the hoops: the Two-Leggeds, the Four-Leggeds, the Wingeds, the Finned, the Green-Growing Ones, and all others. Our relationship with this great circle of Life rests ultimately in their hands. They must give away this responsibility by modeling, teaching, and sharing the living of this law — in everyday life — to men, women, children — that all might come into balance.
~~ Brooke Medicine Eagle, Women Of The 14th Moon