Hagitude: Reimagining the Second Half of Life

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Sharon: Not that either of us have done that, but a lot of women, of course, do to get to a fair, ripe old age. And you again, in the book, you have a real affinity to crows and hooded crows and the other corvids the magpies. Today we’re looking at “Hagitude: Reimagining the Second Half of Life” by Sharon Blackie and “Witch Wisdom for Magical Aging: Finding Your Power through the Changing Seasons” by Cait Johnson.

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But the physical symptoms, such as hot flashes, and emotional symptoms of menopause may disrupt your sleep, lower your energy or affect emotional health. Because that whole idea of, you know, you put on a pair of shoes and then the shoes end up dancing you. On a Facebook post that I made about Hagitude over the weekend, who said, A lot of people who are younger don’t realise that when you get into your seventies or whatever age it might be for you, for some people it’s very much older. And so you’re absolutely right to to raise that question: how do we provide a different kind of map? Was to train younger women to be very hard working, polish the floors, do all of the spinning and all of the knitting and all of that good stuff.

And I suppose I had a little bit of a feel for that walking through the valley of the shadow of death, as I think of it, for a number of months while I was undergoing treatment. But even now, the conversation seemed to be more on well-being and health and staying young-looking and beautiful during menopause and elder hood, and not on inspirations for actually going through it, doing it fully, and maybe actually finding yourself transformed in a positive way by the experience. And so I think for the first time I saw a fictional rather than a mythological figure, where somebody had taken that idea and actually given it flesh.And we landed in Donegal, where for centuries there had been a strong trading relationship with particularly the southwest of Scotland and the islands, because of the sea route, which was very, very easy and actually very short. It depends what stories we tell, she explains, and most of the images we hold of aging women today are not healthy. And particularly in our fairly toxic, fairly damaged, it has to be said Western culture, where growing old feels – and you say this somewhere in the book – as if it’s it’s a penance and a punishment. Hormone replacement therapy isn’t for everyone going through the menopause, there are those who choose not to or are unable to take it.