7 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 Article‘Midlife Crisis’ Can Become ‘Midlife Opportunity’
'Midlife Crisis' Can Become 'Midlife Opportunity' By Maggie Lamond Simone "What do you want to do with your life?" It's a question I ask my college students this time of year to help them define...
View ArticleAuntie Gravity – Part 1
Auntie Gravity – Part 1 An Antic Cronish Goddess by Barbara Ardinger, Ph.D. Here is a goddess for mid-life. Sisters, do certain parts of your anatomy that used to stand right up and salute, now...
View ArticleA Senior (I Should Be So Brilliant) Moment
A Senior (I Should Be So Brilliant) Moment This is the Letter of the Year from The Times of London: An elderly lady actually wrote this letter to her bank. The bank manager thought it amusing enough...
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 ArticleAnswer Only to Your Self
I Don’t Really Care What You Think Today, we see many women in public life, ranging the gamut from Hillary Clinton to Sharon Osborne, who have stepped out of the shadows of their husbands and families...
View ArticleSovereignty is Hard!
Coming from the tough love school of spiritual counseling as I do, I feel that it is only fair to warn you — There are no 10 Easy Steps to Sovereignty. The roads leading to Queendom are diverse and...
View ArticleBalanced Empowerment
Empowerment Several time ago I asked the question “What does power mean to you?” This piece about the empowerment of women was sent to me by Kali Fyre, a sister Queen and reader of The Queen of My...
View ArticleLet Your Power Out!
Many of you have, I am sure, come across this fabulous writing many times. It speaks to the heart of the matter of women’s dysfunctional relationship to our own power. In my spiritual counseling as...
View ArticleWhat is Power?
With the question of power — its uses and abuses — on my mind, I reached out to the Facebook fans of The Queen of My Self to see what power means to other Queens of Themselves. Q. What does power mean...
View ArticleThe Laughter Of Women
by Lisel Mueller The laughter of women sets fire to the Halls of Injustice and the false evidence burns to a beautiful white lightness It rattles the Chambers of Congress and forces the windows wide...
View ArticlePraise the Queen of the Sun
Praise to the Goddess Sun — Our Lady For She has been born From out the Womb of Self Her Mother And She has danced and played Amongst the flowers And She has grown to bleed And fertilize the Earth And...
View ArticleLoving Our Bodies
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 ArticleYou’re Never Too Old!
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 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 ArticleThe Queen: A Model for Midlife Empowerment
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 daughter, wife, mother, lover? What exactly is our...
View ArticleNow It’s Your Turn!
During the decades of our Maiden and Motherhood, women grow to meet all of our many demanding responsibilities. Lithe moon that can’t keep getting fuller and fuller with no retreat, we can take on only...
View ArticleBecoming the Queen of Your Self
The idea that we might be Queens is intoxicating. Ever since I first started introducing The Queen as a helpful archetype for midlife women in my workshops and articles some eight years ago, I have...
View ArticleAn Archetype for Us
What is an archetype? The literal definition of archetype is “the original pattern or model from which all things of a similar kind are copied or on which they are based; a model or first form; a...
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