MYTHOLOGY • JUNG • DIVINE FEMININE

The Crone

Remembering what we were taught to forget.

A living inquiry into elder feminine authority, mythic memory, aging, power, discernment, and what disappears from a culture when the wise old woman is stripped of meaning.

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FLAGSHIP RESEARCH

Recrowning the Crone

My doctoral work asks what the absence and distortion of the Crone archetype does to feminine identity, cultural memory, and the process of individuation. It gathers mythology, depth psychology, feminist criticism, performance, embodied inquiry, and creative practice into one field of investigation.

The Crone here is not simply an old woman or a final life stage. She is a figure of consequence, memory, refusal, discernment, and authority.

The Crone cannot be bought.

THE CENTRAL QUESTION

What becomes possible when the elder feminine is restored to the story?

Rather than treating the Crone as a relic, monster, or warning, this work asks what she knows about entropy, survival, consequence, cultural continuity, and the limits of conquest.

PATHS THROUGH THE RESEARCH

Divine Feminine

Inanna, Hekate & the Triple Goddess

Comparative mythic inquiry into descent, liminality, sovereignty and feminine transformation.

Depth Psychology

Jung & the Missing Archetype

What happens in the collective unconscious when a mature feminine image of authority is unavailable?

Feminist Myth Criticism

Who Told the Story?

Examining how inherited narratives encode power and how forgotten stories persist beneath official culture.

Performance

Embodied Myth

Using theatre, ritual and audience participation as ways of knowing rather than merely illustrating theory.

Creative Praxis

The Crone Speaks

Essays, scripts, monologues and public work that move scholarship back into cultural circulation.

Speaking

Bring the Crone Into the Room

Lectures and workshops for universities, artists, communities and organizations.

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