Musings
Welcome to the Renaissance

By Mystic Trish

           

Women of the Baby Boomer Generation, it is time to start our Renaissance. I’m done with the dark Middle Ages; I’m ready for the Renaissance of my life as I am sure many of you are.

If 50 is the youth of our old age and 40 is the old age of our youth we need to start planning for the future now. The medical world just announced that most of us are going to live to be about 90 and it is time we get our second wind. If we look at our progression of years like European history we will see how we move through time as women.

First comes the Dark ages, (around 35-40) when we are no longer so young and now must work at maintenance. Then comes the Middle Ages  (around 40-49) we are now well into parenthood and careers and peri-menopause. Ah! So much drudgery and work. Then comes the Renaissance (around 50 and beyond).

It was the flowering of Europe after everyone decided not to sit around feeling sorry for themselves in the Middle Ages. After all, the entire world didn’t come to an end in 1000 C.E. as was predicted. It was just another paradigm shift in our perceptions of how this world would keep on going.

As women we go through different phases in our life. We are all born knowing who we are and what we came here to do. You can still see the light of heaven in babies’ eyes; they are still connected to the source. By the time we start school other forces are shaping us including parents and religion. This is when we start to forget who we are and what we have come to do. We start losing our authentic self. But there is another phase that starts a few years later when we girls are about 15.

This is when we get hi-jacked by our hormones, and for the next thirty years or so we will have this as our driving force. We are hard-wired this way; it is our biology, and this is how we make sure we keep our species going. We have just gotten diverted by our hormones, from what was our personal spiritual path for the bigger human species path. Our spiritual path, the path we chose before we were born is now set aside. We have spiritual amnesia.

So what do we do when the hormones calm down? We start getting restless. We start having these sometimes not so vague notions that something is missing and where is the rest of my life? Yes; “MY LIFE!” not the part of you that is a wife or mother or daughter. Your personal path in this life. That thing you came here to do this time around on planet Earth.

Your hormones just returned you from where ever that place is that they hi-jacked you from 30 to 40 years ago.
Yes, this is called menopause or middle age.

I prefer to call it “THE RENAISSANCE,” a time of revival or renewed interest in your life. It is neither a midlife crisis nor menopausal histrionics needing  to be quietly ignored or sedated. It is a “Renaissance.” One of the best ways to find your authentic self again is to imagine what your perfect 5-year-old self would want to do. She knows, she remembers.

Most of us are outliving our grandmothers’ generation by decades. Our grandmothers were considered middle aged at 30. At the turn of the 19th century the average life span was fifty years. So we must adjust our thinking, our new middle age is 50. We have so much more time now to have our “Renaissance” and find our path of true fulfillment once again. It’s time to bring your authentic self back to you.

We have to Renaissance our middle age! If 50 is the new 30 then retirement can’t be at 65.

We have several more decades to go. As middle-aged women we are a driving force that is changing the world. We now have enough time to make it into something we want to leave to our grandchildren. We may even live long enough to see the changes.

So be the Renaissance, be the flower and grow into your beautiful true, authentic self. It is time to replant your garden and make it grow into what you want it to be.

This article is dedicated to a very dear friend of mine who passed away in October. Tammy Sims, a true Renaissance Woman, age 51 when she went to the Summer Country. She grew her garden, painted her pictures, raised her children, and loved her husband. She was also an Engineer, an Aquarian and had to have all the new electronic gadgets that came on the market. She was always taking photos and took the photo you all see of me.

Trisha Howe is a born intuitive who started psychic training at age 15. She has over 30 years’ experience in Intuitive Counseling, Crystal Healing, Tarot, Mediumship and Clairvoyance. Contact her at Mystictrish@cox.net or at (949)-493-0705.