🪷 You Were Never Meant to Bloom All Year

Crone Magic, Midlife Awakening & The Sacred Return to Cyclical Living

In a world that demands constant growth, endless productivity, and perpetual positivity, it's easy to forget one simple truth:

You are nature. And nothing in nature blooms all year.

The trees know when to shed. The moon knows when to dim. The Earth knows when to rest.

Yet, somewhere along the way, many of us were taught to ignore this rhythm — to live as if we are machines, not wild, living beings deeply connected to the cycles of life.

For women, this disconnection can feel especially profound. We are inherently cyclical creatures, but society has conditioned us to believe that slowing down, letting go, or changing is failure — when in fact, it’s wisdom.

🌿 The Forgotten Language of Cycles

Nature moves in rhythms — the ebb and flow of tides, the waxing and waning of the moon, the shifting of seasons. Our ancestors lived by these cycles, honoring times of action and times of stillness.

But modern life has stripped us of this connection. We've been funneled into a linear path:

• Produce.

• Achieve.

• Hustle.

• Repeat.

  
  

We’ve been told that value lies in doing, not being. That success means constant growth, without pause.

And yet, deep within, many of us feel the quiet knowing —that we are meant for something softer, wilder, more attuned to the natural world.

Nowhere is this knowing louder than in midlife — when the soul begins to rebel against the unnatural pace we've been forced to keep.

✨ The Triple Goddess: Maiden, Mother, Crone

To understand why midlife feels like both an unraveling and a homecoming, we can turn to the ancient wisdom of the Triple Goddess — a sacred archetype representing the three primary phases of a woman's life and energy:

🌸 The Maiden - The energy of youth, new beginnings, curiosity, freedom, and exploration. She is the springtime of life — full of potential and wonder.

🌕 The Mother - The creator, the nurturer, the sustainer. This is not solely about birthing children, but about birthing ideas, projects, communities. She embodies summer — growth, abundance, responsibility.

🌑 The Crone - The wise woman. The keeper of mysteries. The Crone represents autumn and winter — the time of harvesting wisdom, releasing what no longer serves, turning inward, and honoring deep truths.

🌸 The Maiden🌕 The Mother🌑 The Crone

While these archetypes often align with stages of life, it’s important to remember:

These are energies — not rules. You can embody Crone wisdom in your 30s. You might dance with Maiden curiosity in your 50s. The Mother’s nurturing energy can arise whether or not you’ve birthed children.

We carry all three within us — flowing in and out as we grow, evolve, and meet different chapters of our journey.

But for many women, midlife is when the Crone rises to the forefront — asking to be honored, heard, and embodied fully.

🌿 Crone Magic: The Midlife Rite of Passage

In today’s world, the Crone has been unfairly cast aside — misunderstood as irrelevant, invisible, or in decline.

But in truth, the Crone is the most potent phase of all.

She is the woman who no longer asks for permission. Who sees through illusions. Who understands that power isn’t in constant doing — but in knowing when to rest, when to release, and when to let things die so that something new can be reborn.

Midlife is not a crisis. It is the awakening of the Crone within — a sacred rite of passage where we shed the expectations placed upon us by society, family, and even ourselves.

It’s the moment we remember that we were never meant to bloom endlessly. We were meant to live in cycles.

🌙 The Sacred Return to Rhythmic Living

Reconnecting with cyclical living is an act of rebellion — and of remembrance.

It’s honoring that:

🌱 There are seasons to plant dreams.☀️ Seasons to shine and expand.🍂 Seasons to release, grieve, and let go.❄️ And seasons to rest, reflect, and simply be.

When we align with these rhythms — both in nature and within ourselves — life begins to soften. We stop fighting the flow and start trusting it.

For the midlife woman, embracing Crone Magic and cyclical living offers liberation:

• Permission to slow down without guilt

• Clarity about what truly matters

• The courage to let go of what no longer fits

• A deeper connection to intuition, spirit, and self

  
  

🌿 You Are Nature. Remember Her Ways.

If you’ve felt exhausted by the endless push to "keep up"...If you’ve sensed that you’re outgrowing the life you’ve been told to live...If you crave a slower, wilder, more meaningful way of being...

Know this:

You are not broken. You are awakening . You are being called back to the wisdom that lives in your bones — the wisdom of the Crone, of the earth, of the moon, of the seasons.

You were never meant to bloom all year. You were meant to ebb and flow, to rise and retreat, to live in harmony with the cycles that have guided women for centuries.

This is your invitation to remember.

Which season are you in right now — both in nature and within yourself?

Pause. Reflect. Notice where your energy is calling you… and trust that every phase holds its own magic.

Whispers from My Wild Soul

A blog series of soul remembering, healing, and transformation

These are the quiet truths that rise up when we slow down. Reflections from the threshold of midlife, where the old stories begin to fall away and the wild soul stirs awake. Here, I write from the heart—about crone wisdom, spiritual awakening, and the rituals that root me to the Earth and to myself. These whispers are an invitation to return home to your own wise, wild soul.