3 Crones Podcast

Tamara, Virginia and Susan chat about retreat...what IS retreat and why is it essential for women?  Having led our first destination retreat since the before Covid days, we reflect on our own experiences and the bonding of the group (mostly "strangers" this time around) in sacred space and time.

We wing it this go round...beginning our second season as podcasters the way we began the whole shebang...sitting around having a talk about things that matter to us.  We hope you enjoy listening and feel inspired to wing something new in your life...on purpose!

Retreat with the 3 Crones!
Stay Wild, The Great Rite in the Greening Time   
May 4-7, 2023 on the Chesapeake
You are welcome to join us for our next retreat in the Spring of 2023...
Only 3 spaces remain...all details HERE.

Susan swears that the very BEST ritual bath bombs are at Witch Baby Soap, and there's no sponsorship compelling her to say so! 

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For Susan's sanctuary in Chester County, PA:
http:/oceanearthwindfire.com

Editing by Tessa Hall.
Cover art by Siobhan Bedford.

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Editing by Tessa Hall.
Cover art by Siobhan Bedford.

We're three Crones, sharing our real-life experiences and insights to encourage all women to step into their truth and agency...no easy feat in a chaotic world; but essential nonetheless.  Join our virtual circle for inspiration, en-COURAGE-ment and some much needed laughter.

As promised from day one, we three end our first year of podcasting talking about DEATH.  And the bewitching and often difficult task of "living while we're alive", because holy hell, who knows what comes next?!

The Crones share intimate tales about sitting vigil at the deathbeds, near-death experiences, living day-to-day with the knife-edge of death looming near, and the ways in which we can practice surrender to the unknown during this season of dark mystery and all things which go bump in the night.

Susan warns at the opening, that this episode may be "triggering" for some, but honestly?...our frank and loving talk feels warm and natural and ended up being full of laughter.  After all, we're not dead yet, right?  Listen in.  I know you'll feel renewed by doing so.

When Death Comes by Mary Oliver

So Many Gifts by Hafiz

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Editing by Tessa Hall.
Cover art by Siobhan Bedford.

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For Susan's sanctuary in Chester County, PA:
http:/oceanearthwindfire.com

Editing by Tessa Hall.
Cover art by Siobhan Bedford.

We're three Crones, sharing our real-life experiences and insights to encourage all women to step into their truth and agency...no easy feat in a chaotic world; but essential nonetheless.  Join our virtual circle for inspiration, en-COURAGE-ment and some much needed laughter.

It was all Susan's idea, so you know where to place the blame...we veered away from any whiff of wisdom and avoided the quest for answers completely. 

We've been away from our 3 Crones posts for a month now...because...LIFE!  It felt like time to truth-tell and let it all hang out...a "venting" episode you might call it.  Heartfelt, emotional, open, vulnerable.  True confessions that even I might field as "whining" if I were standing in a different more upbeat energy and taking into consideration the vast and painful catastrophic suffering humans endure everywhere.

But humans need connection and to be able to spill it all out to someone who will simply be there and listen; and so we thought we'd spill and listen.  We hope it touches an authentic soft place in our listeners, and maybe we can collectively normalize spilling and listening.

The Thing Is
by Ellen Bass

How Do We Write Now?  Patricia Lockwood

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Cover art by Siobhan Bedford.

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For Susan's sanctuary in Chester County, PA:
http:/oceanearthwindfire.com

Editing by Tessa Hall.
Cover art by Siobhan Bedford.

We're three Crones, sharing our real-life experiences and insights to encourage all women to step into their truth and agency...no easy feat in a chaotic world; but essential nonetheless.  Join our virtual circle for inspiration, en-COURAGE-ment and some much needed laughter.

Our first interview episode with soul-sister guest Sherry Sidoti-Rego, teacher, mentor & author who "happened" to rock Susan's world a decade ago. 

You're going to love diving deep with this authenticity powerhouse as we talk about loss and brokenness and the ways in which healing and growth accumulate over time...how our transition to Crone offers ease and comfort and the capacity to bring beauty to life from the fragments of dark and dire moments.

Sherry's moving essay Mosaic will be published this month in an anthology entitled
Art in the Time of Unbearable Crisis, Women Writers Respond to the Call
and her memoir is forthcoming in the fall of 2023.

Learn more about Sherry at sherrysidoti.com and follow her on Insta HERE!

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For Susan's sanctuary in Chester County, PA:
http:/oceanearthwindfire.com

Editing by Tessa Hall.
Cover art by Siobhan Bedford.

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For the podcast instagram page and to contact us:
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For Virginia, Tamara & Susan on insta:
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http:/instagram.com/sheentamara
http:/instagram.com/susanleemadden

For Susan's sanctuary in Chester County, PA:
http:/oceanearthwindfire.com

Editing by Tessa Hall.
Cover art by Siobhan Bedford.

We're three Crones, sharing our real-life experiences and insights to encourage all women to step into their truth and agency...no easy feat in a chaotic world; but essential nonetheless.  Join our virtual circle for inspiration, en-COURAGE-ment and some much needed laughter.

Do you know the word Sangha? 
Are you a member of an uplifting community? 
Who holds space for you? 
Are you connected intentionally with others?

Virginia, Tamara and Susan talk about community, circles, bees, fairies and re-member-ing to open to love and a little wild! 
It's a good way for May...come play with us.

Aware, Glimpses of Consciousness on Netflix & Prime

Goddesses in Older Women, Jean Shinoda Bolen

Camphill Association

Sangha

Teach me what I cannot learn alone. Let us share what we know, and what we cannot fathom. Speak to me of mysteries, and let us never lie to one another.

May our fierce and tender longing fuel the fire in our souls. When we stand side by side, let us dare to focus our desire on the truth. May we be reminders, each for the other, that the path of transformation passes through the flames.

To take one step is courageous; to stay on the path day after day, choosing the unknown, and facing yet another fear, that is nothing short of grace.  ~Danna Faulds

Rudolf Steiner, Biodynamic Agriculture

The Still, Peter Owen Jones

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For Susan's sanctuary in Chester County, PA:
http:/oceanearthwindfire.com

Editing by Tessa Hall.
Cover art by Siobhan Bedford.

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http:/instagram.com/sheentamara
http:/instagram.com/susanleemadden

For Susan's sanctuary in Chester County, PA:
http:/oceanearthwindfire.com

Editing by Tessa Hall.
Cover art by Siobhan Bedford.

We're three Crones, sharing our real-life experiences and insights to encourage all women to step into their truth and agency...no easy feat in a chaotic world; but essential nonetheless.  Join our virtual circle for inspiration, en-COURAGE-ment and some much needed laughter.

A listener asked us to keep delving deeper into our personal relationships with the Earth.  If we care for (or harm) ourselves in the same ways that we care for (or harm) our Great Mother...then where might the questions and discussion lead us in terms of reciprocity and reverence...our love of Gaia...HOW exactly do we love the planet?

"What would happen if you brought that tiny cauldron outside, burned your list of all that doesn't serve you in broad Moonlight. What would happen if you nestled your intentions in the earth? Sprinkled rain, water prayed. What more have we to say about tending to the great mother and ourselves?"  1-855-POEMRX2

Virginia, Tamara and Susan talk about mundane practices, archetypal inspirations & prayer..."load-bearing structures" of healing and growth...both personal and in terms of the environment and natural world.

We bring you new authors, ancient stories, poetry and silliness.
We bring you gratitude.

The Ecosattva Vows, Joanna Macy
Joanna Macy

Earth Acupuncture, Gail Reichstein Rex
 
Sacred Symbols Oracle Deck, Marcella Kroll

IGTV Prayer with Nadia Bolz-Weber & Jennifer Garner

Wild Mercy, Mirabai Starr

Excerpt from Sometimes
Mary Oliver

4.

Instructions for living a life:
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it.

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For Susan's sanctuary in Chester County, PA:
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Cover art by

Support the show

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For Virginia, Tamara & Susan on insta:
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http:/instagram.com/sheentamara
http:/instagram.com/susanleemadden

For Susan's sanctuary in Chester County, PA:
http:/oceanearthwindfire.com

Editing by Tessa Hall.
Cover art by Siobhan Bedford.

We're three Crones, sharing our real-life experiences and insights to encourage all women to step into their truth and agency...no easy feat in a chaotic world; but essential nonetheless.  Join our virtual circle for inspiration, en-COURAGE-ment and some much needed laughter.

Virginia guides our trio through an exploration of Gaia theory, and of course we wander and stray "off" topic only to end up precisely where the essence and truth of our Great Mother would have us BE.

We wend our way through the passages of personal struggles with death, war and physical and emotional pain to meet our unending capacities for healing, presence and compassion.  And if we can practice integration and balance for ourselves, we know that we can (and will) transform pain and suffering for the collective.  Is this so?  How does "as above, so below" hit home for you?

Will join us in listening to the Earth herself, our Goddess Gaia,  to embody what is longed for and needed most?

The Daughter of Gaia, Marko Pogačnik

Wage Peace, Judyth Hill

The Great Turning by Christine Fry

I Was Thinking of My Mother, Retrograde, by Natasha Dahlberg

Clarissa Pinkola Estes ALL the good things and inspiration...

I Want to Be Alive With You, Toko-pa Turner

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For Susan's sanctuary in Chester County, PA:
http:/oceanearthwindfire.com

Editing by Tessa Hall.
Cover art by Siobhan Bedford.

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http:/instagram.com/sheentamara
http:/instagram.com/susanleemadden

For Susan's sanctuary in Chester County, PA:
http:/oceanearthwindfire.com

Editing by Tessa Hall.
Cover art by Siobhan Bedford.

We're three Crones, sharing our real-life experiences and insights to encourage all women to step into their truth and agency...no easy feat in a chaotic world; but essential nonetheless.  Join our virtual circle for inspiration, en-COURAGE-ment and some much needed laughter.

This month you can play the "how many times does Susan say yeah, I love that" game!  Maybe she could diversify her praises, but they are heartfelt nonetheless!  February is the month of love, so our trio shares love poems while testing the foundation bricks of how they feel the podcast matches their mission at the half-year mark.

Please do engage by sending us your questions, topic wish lists, mindfires and reviews!  We would so appreciate it if you would take a moment to rate our show on your listening platform! 

Circles of women, small and large, are a source of power.  We endeavor to create an audio circle for all of you, that will spread the love and engender a new vibrational reality for generations to come.

For the podcast instagram page and to contact us:
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For Virginia, Tamara & Susan on insta:
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http:/instagram.com/susanleemadden

For Susan's sanctuary in Chester County, PA:
http:/oceanearthwindfire.com

Editing by Tessa Hall.
Cover art by Siobhan Bedford.

Buy us a coffee!

3 Crones Podcast is the endeavor of a magical trio of women dedicated to living essentially, aligned with guidance of their birthright b

Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/3cronespodcast)

Support the show

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For Virginia, Tamara & Susan on insta:
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http:/instagram.com/sheentamara
http:/instagram.com/susanleemadden

For Susan's sanctuary in Chester County, PA:
http:/oceanearthwindfire.com

Editing by Tessa Hall.
Cover art by Siobhan Bedford.

We're three Crones, sharing our real-life experiences and insights to encourage all women to step into their truth and agency...no easy feat in a chaotic world; but essential nonetheless.  Join our virtual circle for inspiration, en-COURAGE-ment and some much needed laughter.

How else would we begin again in a new year, but with the essential Step ONE...self care.  This is a topic to return to over and over throughout a lifetime. 

How can we hold ourselves AS WE ARE in devotion, acceptance, respect and loving kindness so that we can live fully and vitally into our relationships, days and experiences? 

Because without prioritizing this question, we will likely be diminished and deflated with the demands of a misguided overculture and our own critical inner voices.

So listen as Virginia, Tamara and Susan come at the possibility of prioritizing our self love and compassion from as many angles as we could cram into a short podcast format!  We promise to circle back around often.

In addition, a listener, Siobhan Bedford (the stunning artist responsible for our cover art) requested that we read poetry to you every month and so we have come with Yeats and Oliver and cummings, but also 3 lesser-known Crone poets.  wink. 

Let us know what reliable and effective actions and choices are at the top of your self-care list!  We want to hear from you! 

Please download to listen and, if you would be so kind, review and rate us on your listening app of choice. 

Nearly halfway through our first year...whew!

An NPR interview with Andee Tagle:  Try strategic underachievement, or "choosing in advance what to fail at," says Oliver Burkeman, author of Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals.

For My Body Lent

For my body lent, one of a kind
from the library of forms
For this one, with
failing eyes and graceful legs
vulnerable vertebrae, deep hearing ears
This body, its age and streaming
The dreaming this body does
For this bonesack of a billion dancing
reactions
I bow in gratitude.
For being fed this day
by the elements that make me
For being lifted by the wind
like the white pine singing
outside my window
For last light caressing the shore
For five loons gliding by in a line
For the heron's whoop to its lifemate
For the scent of the peach in a bowl on
my table
For the material dearness of today
deep, deep thanks
For my son's first word
For the taste of my lover's tongue
For longing and rapture and loss
For finding my place in the family
I am fiercely grateful.            ~Sue Silvermarie 2001

Four Sigmatic Mushroom Yumminess Tamara mentio

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http:/instagram.com/susanleemadden

For Susan's sanctuary in Chester County, PA:
http:/oceanearthwindfire.com

Editing by Tessa Hall.
Cover art by Siobhan Bedford.

We're three Crones, sharing our real-life experiences and insights to encourage all women to step into their truth and agency...no easy feat in a chaotic world; but essential nonetheless.  Join our virtual circle for inspiration, en-COURAGE-ment and some much needed laughter.

Tamara sings us awake into the essence of the season.  However you celebrate at this time, we have come together once again to ponder wonder and share our ponderings with you!

As always, we want to hear from you!  Send us your traditions and fun, send us your worries and truth, send us questions and comments (if they're loving;)

To go in the dark with a light is to know the light.

To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight,

and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings,

and is traveled by dark feet and dark wings.       –Wendell Berry

Be sure to download each episode for your listening pleasure and let us know what you want to talk about!  Please rate and review too!

The Shortest Day, Susan Cooper

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For Susan's sanctuary in Chester County, PA:
http:/oceanearthwindfire.com

Production credits to Tessa Hall.
Cover art by Siobhan Bedford.

3 Crones Podcast is the endeavor of a magical trio of women dedicated to living essentially, aligned with guidance of their birthright bone wisdom.  May our grown-ass-woman talk inspire women of all ages to be themselves...loudly.

Support the show

Please rate, review and share our podcast!  We love our listeners so!

For the podcast instagram page and to contact us:
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For Virginia, Tamara & Susan on insta:
http:/instagram.com/virginiamckinnie
http:/instagram.com/sheentamara
http:/instagram.com/susanleemadden

For Susan's sanctuary in Chester County, PA:
http:/oceanearthwindfire.com

Editing by Tessa Hall.
Cover art by Siobhan Bedford.

We're three Crones, sharing our real-life experiences and insights to encourage all women to step into their truth and agency...no easy feat in a chaotic world; but essential nonetheless.  Join our virtual circle for inspiration, en-COURAGE-ment and some much needed laughter.