At summers end we celebrate the various quests, journeys and wisdom accumulated before the harvest and the Winter Queen comes again. The crone is the embodiment of life experience and knowledge. She carries the stories, lessons, and insights of her journey through life. The Crone is deeply connected to her intuition and spirituality. Through a lifetime of experiences and challenges, she has honed her inner knowing and developed a strong sense of discernment. This is the wisdom, inner power of Baba Yaga and other Grandmothers around the world.

Working with Linden as a mother tree, protective, caring - everything about her is feminine, nurturing, loving. Linden trees are very healing for the nectar they provide for the bees, the flowers, and inner bark, charcoal and leaves are used in folk medicine for a wide variety of conditions.

“According to folklore, Mary, mother of Jesus, blessed the Linden tree with all these virtues. One day Jesus was wandering the earth feeling tired and ill. He lay down to rest under a Linden tree and fell asleep. Protectively the Linden tree spread her branches over the sick man. Some time later Mary, who had followed him, came by and found her son under the tree. Alas, when he woke up he was cured and restored. Mary, grateful to the tree for having so lovingly cared for her son, blessed it with healing and protective virtues, of which it has given generously ever since.”

This circle includes walking the spiral, the old ones rite, connecting to the witch mother and honouring our stories, journeys and challanges,