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Hagitude: Reimagining the Second Half of Life

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Which is why I liked in the book, providing the templates if you like, over so many different archetypes. To the podcast where we believe that another world is still possible and that together we can make it happen. And as someone who never particularly wanted the nice guy to come along and rescue me, am I seeing this through a particularly warped lens? She suggests we live with the force and essence of life as our culture tries to persuade us that ageing is to be shunned. And yet, that kind of… And she’d been told all of this… The person, a figure who in fact rescued her from the well was a wise old woman, a sort of a Baba Yaga kind of a figure.

But I was struck over and over again by the heteronormativity of it, but also the the way women in particular from the young girls onwards, were defined by seeking a husband or how they worked. For many years I was a crofter, both in the far north-west Highlands of Scotland and in the Outer Hebrides, sandwiched between mountains and sea in one of the wildest and most remote places in the country. Through my own process of going through lymphoma, I felt as if, okay, I have to invite death in and give her a glass of wine and just find a way to not just to tolerate that presence, but to see what it has to offer us in the midst of life. And what was more astonishing, is the way which I also describe very briefly in the book, that they were all associated with the geology of the places that they came from. You know, where your periods stop and then literally a year later, I think it is, menopause is officially said to have occurred.As much as I thought this would be an interesting feminist book about empowerment in your older age, this author does not seem at all connected to my same reality.

The Dangerous Old Woman” is chapter 9, and this archetype, Blackie insists, represents those who are “carriers of the fire. She is the author of the word of mouth ecofeminist bestseller If Women Rose Rooted, and The Enchanted Life and Foxfire, Wolfskin and Other Stories of Shapeshifting Women.And the bit that you might think of as the mattress had completely gone and all that was left was an empty alcove. And, you know, Ireland is a place where I have always found it easy to have my imagination stimulated. Just say a little bit towards the end about the wonder of Granny Weatherwax and what kind of a role model she could be.

She knows her archetypes, knows her Jung, knows her fairy tales and knows her neuroscience, and is sick of being patronised by men who don’t. And it was somewhere I wanted to get to, because you’ve said to me in private and you say in the book that given the chance, you wouldn’t not have the physical bomb that you said took over your life. Sharon Blackie weaves a rich tableau of what a life full of wonder and authentic connection might look like, supplying practical ways to approach ancient wisdom.The early chapters where the author discusses elder archetypes, reclaiming the wise woman archetype and no longer accepting the modern patriarchal attempts to invalidate and dehumanize women past child bearing years, especially those women who never gave birth to children, were great. Hagitude takes readers through the “house of elders” – an extraordinary cast of figures including fairy godmothers, wise women, tricksters and creators, offering bewitching role models for women in their later years. Sharon: Well, when I moved to the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, there was a great residue of stories about the Cailleach there. Not the creator and shaper of the world, because we don’t unfortunately have a creation myth left to us, but the creator and shaper of the land, and particularly in the rocky and wild places.

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