Fall Season of my Body

Lunablossom shared with us her musings of her moving from Mother to Crone with the surgical change of her body.  It is appropriate she has done this now as I have been thinking and in fact struggling with my own changes.  I also had to have a surgical transition from Mother to Crone a few years ago and at first I pondered at how I did not feel any differently.  I reasoned, at the time, that it was because I still have a  child at home. 

Now as my daughter, the last still in the nest, moves from the child to the Maiden I find myself mourning the loss of my young, hungry and nubile body of Venus.  I look in the mirror and don't recognize the woman I see there.  I wonder if other strong women feel the same loss with this transition from Mother to Crone. 

I have supposed I should try to become more familiar with the Crone Goddess.  Maybe with this added understanding I would be better able to emotionally embrace the softer curves of myself.