We as woman have forgotten the Ancient Rites of Passage – the rites of the celebration of life in all its
form.
In a society which worships the teenager and youth – in form and
being, it is
worshipping but a minute
timeframe of life, which is but a
puff in the wind. As
teenager, you have not even moved past the first
threshold of life (as much as they might protest otherwise and think
they know it all).
True maturity in astrological term only comes at the age of 60! When
an astrologer once told me this, I had one of those AHA! Moments, and I
looked back on my life and
the I thought: “Yes, the rest of life is but
the university, the training ground, for the true LOVE, POWER, AND
WISDOM which comes when one has reached that blossoming maturity, which
has experienced it all, and at last has found that inner peace,
contentment and basic KNOWING, which spans time and space.”
There has a lot been written about women in later life, and what is
called “mid-like crises” or the menopausal state. I remember my mom
saying to me, that she never had time for all the nonsense, because she
never had time to feel sorry for herself. Later on I researched this
topic for someone and then found an interesting article by a woman
doctor, where she reckoned that menopause, since it was labeled, has
become a psychological label and something that the pharmaceutical
companies have honed into.