It’s trendy to choose a word that represents the energy you wish to see, or develop in the year ahead, I fully embrace this practice and have for quite a few years. So once again, let me introduce to you, the Crone’s word of the year for 2024.
Usually around November, I start auditioning words that might work for the year ahead. One or two might rise up as possible contenders and I will vacillate between the two until my intuition declares a winner, but not this year. This year there was only one choice.
Last year I chose the word perseverance as my word of the year. With the uncertainty of the previous Covid years, I had felt the urge to buckle down and get back into my life. A life that felt interrupted by the restrictions and fear of a pandemic. I was determined to get back on tract and begin my life once again.
Sure, I got things done and put myself out into the world more but what actually happened is I found that the old path, the one that had been interrupted by a pandemic, didn’t hold the same draw as it had before. In fact, I spent a lot of the year in mild guilt for not achieving what I thought I should be achieving. I found that I was in a liminal space. A space between what was, and what would be next, and there was no helping it but to wait it out until a new image of my future appeared.
Thankfully, a rough picture of what I want to do, and who I am choosing to become, began to form in autumn. The surprising thing is that I recognized this image instantly because what was really happening is that I have come full circle back to the old Diana.
Okay, not really the old Diana because too much water has flowed under the bridge of life and I can never go back to what was, but perhaps a new, wiser, more confident version of the old Diana, a one who creates, was emerging. A version who wakes up excited with new ideas to try out in her craft studio bouncing around in her head. A version who looks forward to learning new techniques, even scary tech stuff (because computer stuff was scary to the old Diana).
But what was most surprising to me was the realization the I no longer feel the need to write this blog. I have come to the realization that I’ve said all I want, and need to say on this platform, and I’m at peace with that. I’ll go further into that in a minute but let’s get to the word of the year.
So there I was, November 2023, thinking about what my word of the year would be for 2024 and it just downloaded – destiny. Now that’s a big word with a lot of weight behind it, but it just settled into my soul and felt right.
Destiny
– a predetermined course of events often held to be an irresistible power or agency.
I have the intuition that for 2024, destiny, not just for me but for everyone, is bound to play a role in our lives. I sense 2024 is a tipping point year. Like after the year is over we will look back and all say, even in some small way, that we have been forever changed. Ominous yes, but it doesn’t have to be. We still have free will after all, it’s within our power to choose well.
Destiny is a vehicle, it moves us along the path of life to get us where we need to be. Sometimes it’s a rough ride and the road is rife with potholes. Sometimes, the trip is instantaneous and in the blink of an eye, we are on a distant shore, far far from where we once were. Sometimes, destiny brings us back around to an old path, one that feels like home but with a new appreciation brought on from the odyssey of years being on another path. It always amazes me how life weaves and interweaves around itself.
Do you feel it? That sense that life is shifting. That time is speeding up and changes are coming at a more frequent pace. Maybe you feel like you are trapped in the centre of a storm – the eye of a hurricane, and life is swirling wildly around you. Perhaps it is. But it is my sense, my prediction, that by the end of 2024, destiny will have placed us into another reality. I can not say if it will be good or bad, only that it will be where we will need to be on this journey of continual evolution, and as a humanity.
As for me, I too am moving forward towards my own destiny in 2024. This will be my last blog post for Crone Confidence. For 10 years I have written about my own version of everyday wisdom and now, it just feels done. The site will stay active for the next 6 months, it’s paid up until then, but after that, Crone Confidence will be closed down. It’s time, destiny is calling and I have to answer.
My Facebook page will remain. There is a wonderful group of women who follow me there and I still feel compelled to contribute on that platform. My Instagram account, @croneconfidence will be shut down in the new year and I will still continue to offer Intuitive Tarot card readings, both in person and online. You can reach out to me through my Facebook account- Crone Confidence or my email: dfrajman@shaw.ca should you wish to contact me to book a reading or to just say hello. out
Blessings in 2024 to everyone who has been a part of the Crone Confidence community over the past decade. I have met the most amazing people who have shared their own kind of wisdom with me through this website. A true, and amazing gift to be sure.