The Entregreeneur

The crone is the most powerful, yet most sublimated and suppressed of the female archetypes. The crone is the older woman, no longer of child bearing age, who has ceased menstruation but has come into her greatest power of wisdom, intellect, spiritual maturity and insightful analysis of societal structures.

The crone sees through pretense, cuts away the fabrications of patriarchal dominance, strips away the pretensions of male mastery and lays bare the underlying truths that are waiting there for all to see. Men cannot pretend that theirs is the right to dominate and control social structures. That is the way of dysfunction and madness, oppression of minorities, warmongering and spiritual mutation.

The crone parts the mists of collective societal hallucination to engage us directly in the questions that are sure to be uncomfortable, but only because they duly expose pretense, disperse smoke and smash mirrors.

The crone and her revered sisters, the hag and the witch were burned, stoned, staked, hung, drawn and quartered systematically with comprehensive destructive thoroughness by the patriarchal dominator power structure of the Catholic Church of the Middle Ages. The Inquisition accomplished its intended purpose of suppressing the power of the feminine almost in totality, of sublimating and in many cases perverting it.

The success of the Inquisition in its intended purpose has been quite staggering. Young women even of today in the 21st century speaking with contempt of their sisters who attempt to assert their rights to equaltiy. Just yesterday I read that feminism is dead, that young women are contemptuous of the hairy vegan ‘man haters’ who are attempting to somehow upset the accepted way of things, that here in Australia, its sport, beer and cars and good times for all as long as you play the male dominated corporate power game.

Some powerful women are tolerated, as there has to be a few to provide camoflage to support the illusion that we are living in a society that upholds equality of the sexes. Gail Kelly is commonly held up and lauded by generally male business media commentators as the standard example of the career woman CEO, mother and wife who has it all. Her commitment to her professional life and her achievements in the corporate realm are truly outstanding, but that is only one dimension of her life. What else do you know of her - her aspirations, passions for her children, for humanity? Also, ask yourself this; why is she so comprehensivly outnumbered, possibily the only top 100 woman CEO in Australia to be at the helm of a public company in the executive capacity?

We have built our culture and society on a dysfunctional model of oppression and sublimation of the natural order of things. The nurturing, wise counsel of the sacred feminine is essential to our future success as human beings if we are to have a world that works for everyone.

I say, that we must remember the crone. The time of her sublimated slumber is drawing to a close. Crones are awakening, stirring, stretching, standing up and speaking out. They are telling it like it is and they are not afraid to take on the women who have suppressed their true natures and made power pacts with the patriachal system.

Crones, I commend you all and call on you to stand proud and strong in your determination to make a powerful contribution towards a world that works for everyone!

Herewith for your further elucidation, the definition of crone, quoted from Crones Counsel:

“Crones Counsel uses the term crone to reference, and to reclaim, the name of the wisewoman of ancient times. The concept of crone existed tens of thousands of years ago when women’s life patterns were conceptualized in three stages — Maiden, Mother, and Crone. The Maiden was the youthful, independent woman. The Mother was a woman who guided others–as a biological mother or as a teacher. The Crone was the postmenopausal woman who enjoyed a special, revered status. The elder woman was viewed as a fount of wisdom, law, healing skills, and moral leadership; her presence and leadership were treasured at every significant tribal ceremony and each personal occasion from birth to death. In that light, Crones Counsel consistently focuses on the empowerment and well-being of older women and claims the honored status of the ancient crone for contemporary women. ”