An artist friend told me that some women who viewed her paintings of the Maiden, Mother and Crone wanted a fourth woman. They weren't ready to be the crone, so she painted a fourth woman, the queen.
I don't see the crone as bad or ugly or old. It is the stage of life after maidenhood and motherhood. It is when your children leave the nest and make their own, when you stop your menses. The only reason that the crones of yore were women who had a short life-expectancy. They all aged early, but life is different now. It is not but a hundred or so years that we have increased the years and the quality of life after menopause. Crone is not a bad word, it is the stage of life you are in, where your spirit is, and it encompasses both the mother and the maiden; they were once us.
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