Crone's Cairn - Never a Daughter

The Fifth Stone Turned in the Crone’s Cairn series | A poem drawn from the 'Archetype' stones

Crone Stone Name: Daughter

Date drawn: 22 December 2023

Cycle: Mother

Journey: Dismemberment / Descent

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Author’s Notes

… bringing recognition to the individuality of the soul

As much as I rebelled in my youth, I remained compliant to the ways of the mother … my mother—not a goddess. This is a stone I had hoped not to draw, but it completes the cairn.

The Daughter is the beginner. And we all begin as virgins in life. Carol Lee Campbell, creator of the Crone Stones, reminds us that the virgin was historically viewed as “the one who belongs to herself.”

This stone is about figuring out the individual you have become.

Never a Daughter is my response to walking without a guide, finding the way on my own.

Never a Daughter

Never a daughter
born a mother
made a mother
maid.
From silver bow
did arrows flow
But never found
their way.

How sad to think 
a mother
a daughter 
never knew.
Maga came
and went without
a rising crone
in view.

You say begin
with daughter
though mother’s
what I gave.
Now in the 
fading autumn
I long to learn
to play.

Slowed time 
quickens winter
and I have
an empty quill
a non-expectant mother
and a daughter
standing still.

~jlynn

Drawing the Daughter stone is a bid to your inner child.
Do you allow your inner child to come out and play?
Do you have an inner child?

A gentle invitation to discover. Share—if you’d like—I am always listening.