Meditation for the Fully Realized Woman
Blessings, one and all, for a New Year filled with promise. May you continue along your path to Self-sovereignty with purpose, passion, and power. With Queenly aplomb. May you live as a Fully...
View ArticleA Place Called “Home”
I have grown to love winter. It is a time of being home and laying low. A time of making soup and catching up on my ironing. A time of long, indulgent hot baths and slow starting mornings in bed with a...
View ArticleAutumn Equinox Ushers in the Season Of Ripe Maturity
The autumn ushers in the dark season. The season of diminished light. From now until the Vernal Equinox, six months hence, the nights are longer than the days. Shade and chill prevail. The year, the...
View ArticleCelebrate the Autumn Queen
The Autumn Queen, who is past Her reproductive years, has never been differentiated in legend from the old Winter Crone, although they are clearly not the same. The Queen, though not yet old, is quite...
View ArticleAccept Inevitable Aging
As we age, we naturally change. Change, after all, is the essential stuff of life. If we embrace it with magnanimous grace and good humor, as part and parcel of the ongoing mythic adventure of our...
View ArticleThe Midlife Queen
Who are we supposed to be at this stage of our life when we are less likely to be bound and identified by our kinship connection to someone else — as a daughter, a wife, a mother, a lover? What...
View ArticleSome Declarations of Queendom
I have taken this ongoing discussion about the definitions and descriptions of Queendom to The Queen of My Self Page on Facebook. Q. What does being a Queen mean to you ? A. As a little girl I...
View Article7 Myths About Aging You Need to Forget – Part 1
7 Myths About Aging You Need to Forget – Part 1 by Aleta Pippin When I was 18, I thought I'd know everything. In my 20's I thought I had to wear my hair above my jaw line to look younger. In my 30's I...
View ArticleMyths About Aging You Need to Forget – Part 2
Myths About Aging You Need to Forget – Part 2 by Aleta Pippin Myth #3 You Will Become Crabby and Self-absorbed Some people are just plain rude and as they get older, they use their age as an excuse to...
View ArticleAuntie Gravity – Part 2
Auntie Gravity – Part 2 An Antic Cronish Goddess by Barbara Ardinger, Ph.D. "An’ you jus’ start thinkin’ of them lines," She says, "as your Auntie Gravity’s rainbows, an’ remember all the colors of...
View ArticleEmbracing Age
As we age, we naturally change. Change, after all, is the essential stuff of life. If we embrace it with magnanimous grace and good humor, as part and parcel of the ongoing mythic adventure of our...
View ArticleThe Love of a Queen
Despite the rude awakenings, the unsettling physical and emotional chaos of midlife and all of its frightful, presumed ramifications, an amazing number of women find this stage to be the most...
View ArticleHot Women
It is summer, hot and horny, and I am on a roll. So I am going to continue this theme of beauty, attraction, seduction, sex, love and self-love until I run out of content — or steam, whichever comes...
View ArticleAffirmative Aging
As we age, we naturally change. Change, after all, is the essential stuff of life. If we embrace it with magnanimous grace and good humor, as part and parcel of the ongoing mythic adventure of our...
View ArticleOlder Ladies are Divine
by Donnalou Stevens Well, I ain’t 16, not a beauty queen. My eyes are baggin’ and my skin is saggin’, And if that’s the reason that you don’t love me, Then maybe that’s not love. Well I ain’t 20 either...
View ArticleSeasons of Beauty
By Madisyn Taylor As we cultivate our life, our beauty becomes as much about what we are creating and doing as it is about our appearance. We tend to associate youth with beauty, but the truth is that...
View ArticleTreading the Turbulent Midlife Waters – PART 2
The notion that 50 years of age could be considered a “halfway” mark is unprecedented in history. We are blessed with an inestimable gift of many more years of life than anyone who ever lived on Earth...
View ArticleLitany of Elegance
Blessed is the woman who affirms herself each day Blessed is the woman who believes that beauty comes from within. Blessed is the woman who challenges media stereotypes of aging. Blessed is the woman...
View ArticleThe Queen’s Clothes – Part 1
I am a clothes horse. I love clothes. I love dressing up. I love putting outfits together. I love the treasure hunt of shopping for treasures in thrift stores, which I do whenever I can and wherever I...
View ArticleThe Queen’s Clothes – Part 2
.....Continued from Wednesday's Post of Part 1.... When I was really young I made all the clothes for my paper dolls, eschewing the ready made ones that you were supposed to cut out. I also made...
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