In ancient Women’s Mystery Schools, Hekate, the Wise Old Woman, represented Mother Nature‘s fall-winter aspect. In this season Nature’s Giving Forth is temporarily halted while She takes back into Her close-and-holy dark Womb (Inner Earth) all of the spent life forms She birthed and nourished earlier in the year.

Fall-winter becomes a time for endings that are normal and healthy, like putting an end to things that need to die in our lives – worn-out relationships, apprenticeships, victim habits… Fall is a period of reflection, a time for going inward to figure out what needs to end, what needs to be renewed, and what needs to be reinvigorated. Fall–winter is also a time of gestation, the time to expect Transformation …and to prepare for ReBirth.

Crones, the wise old women of antiquity, knew how to utilize the blessings and healing properties of fall–winter. They revered Mother Nature’s dying season as a miraculous

occasion, an opportunity for Inwardness, a chance to “ride the broom of Transformation” into Newness.

This workshop provides an opportunity for women:

• to rekindle the ways of ancient mother-centered societies who experienced each of Nature’s ever–renewing cycles as healing and full of Potential,
  
  
• to attend to the cycling patterns of Nature and to the cycles of our own bodies, looking for ever–renewing patterns in ourselves that foster wholeness, joy and Possibility.

In this Retreat we will create a safe, exciting, insight-full space in which to sing, dance, laugh, write in journals, and explore “crone consciousness.” We will let Mother Hekate (Nature herself) show us how to allow our Self to dissolve, change, grow and become.