Hagitude: Reimagining the Second Half of Life
RADICALLY REIMAGINE THE SECOND HALF OF LIFE

“There can be a certain perverse pleasure, as well as a sense of rightness and beauty, in insisting on flowering just when the world expects you to become quiet and diminish.”
— from the book

For any woman over fifty who has ever asked “What now? Who do I want to be?” comes a life-changing book showing how your next phase of life may be your most dynamic yet. As mythologist and psychologist Sharon Blackie describes it, midlife is the threshold to decades of opportunity and profound transformation, a time to learn, flourish, and claim the desires and identities that are often limited during earlier life stages. This is a time for gaining new perspectives, challenging and evolving belief systems, exploring callings, uncovering meaning, and ultimately finding healing for accumulated wounds.

Western folklore and mythology are rife with brilliantly creative, fulfilled, feisty, and furious role models for aging women, despite our culture’s focus on youthfulness. Blackie explores these archetypes in Hagitude, presenting them in a way sure to appeal to contemporary women. Drawing inspiration from these examples as well as modern mentors, you can reclaim midlife as a liberating, alchemical moment rich with possibility and your elder years as a path to feminine power.
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Hagitude: Reimagining the Second Half of Life
RADICALLY REIMAGINE THE SECOND HALF OF LIFE

“There can be a certain perverse pleasure, as well as a sense of rightness and beauty, in insisting on flowering just when the world expects you to become quiet and diminish.”
— from the book

For any woman over fifty who has ever asked “What now? Who do I want to be?” comes a life-changing book showing how your next phase of life may be your most dynamic yet. As mythologist and psychologist Sharon Blackie describes it, midlife is the threshold to decades of opportunity and profound transformation, a time to learn, flourish, and claim the desires and identities that are often limited during earlier life stages. This is a time for gaining new perspectives, challenging and evolving belief systems, exploring callings, uncovering meaning, and ultimately finding healing for accumulated wounds.

Western folklore and mythology are rife with brilliantly creative, fulfilled, feisty, and furious role models for aging women, despite our culture’s focus on youthfulness. Blackie explores these archetypes in Hagitude, presenting them in a way sure to appeal to contemporary women. Drawing inspiration from these examples as well as modern mentors, you can reclaim midlife as a liberating, alchemical moment rich with possibility and your elder years as a path to feminine power.
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Hagitude: Reimagining the Second Half of Life

Hagitude: Reimagining the Second Half of Life

by Sharon Blackie
Hagitude: Reimagining the Second Half of Life

Hagitude: Reimagining the Second Half of Life

by Sharon Blackie

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RADICALLY REIMAGINE THE SECOND HALF OF LIFE

“There can be a certain perverse pleasure, as well as a sense of rightness and beauty, in insisting on flowering just when the world expects you to become quiet and diminish.”
— from the book

For any woman over fifty who has ever asked “What now? Who do I want to be?” comes a life-changing book showing how your next phase of life may be your most dynamic yet. As mythologist and psychologist Sharon Blackie describes it, midlife is the threshold to decades of opportunity and profound transformation, a time to learn, flourish, and claim the desires and identities that are often limited during earlier life stages. This is a time for gaining new perspectives, challenging and evolving belief systems, exploring callings, uncovering meaning, and ultimately finding healing for accumulated wounds.

Western folklore and mythology are rife with brilliantly creative, fulfilled, feisty, and furious role models for aging women, despite our culture’s focus on youthfulness. Blackie explores these archetypes in Hagitude, presenting them in a way sure to appeal to contemporary women. Drawing inspiration from these examples as well as modern mentors, you can reclaim midlife as a liberating, alchemical moment rich with possibility and your elder years as a path to feminine power.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781608688432
Publisher: New World Library
Publication date: 10/11/2022
Pages: 320
Sales rank: 57,153
Product dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Sharon Blackie, PhD, is an award-winning writer of fiction and nonfiction and a psychologist who has specialized in neuroscience, narrative, mythology, and Celtic studies. Her work has been published extensively in professional journals and consumer media, and she offers workshops and seminars worldwide and online. She lives in Wales, UK.

www.sharonblackie.net

Table of Contents

The Hag's Call ix

How the Journey Begins 1

Standing on the Threshold 11

1 The Alchemy of Menopause: The Fire and the Furies 13

2 Someday Your Witch Will Come: The Medial Woman 57

3 A Radical Beauty: Kissing the Hag 103

The House of Elders 127

4 The Creatrix: Old Women Weaving the World 137

5 A Force of Nature: Guardians and Protectors of the Land 155

6 Fairy Godmothers, and Purveyors of Old Wives' Tales 175

7 Tricksters and Truth-Tellers: Holding the Culture to Account 191

8 The Wise Woman: Deep Vision 219

9 The Dangerous Old Woman? Carriers of the Fire 241

Leaving through the Hole in the Side of the House 253

10 The Valley of the Shadow of Death 255

Acknowledgments 301

References 303

About the Author 309

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