Fire and Water: Purifying the Fledgling Crone

Fàlki
4 min readOct 24, 2022

While I’ve been playing around in peri-menopause for a while now, I hadn’t been particularly bothered by hot flashes or night sweats. I’d get a little heat rash under my breasts that would move up to my face and be gone almost as quickly as it came on. I had one or two night sweats that ended in shivering. I thought I’d gotten off easy. I mean, sure, I was still having periods, but they were getting more and…

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Fàlki

Heathen wildflower. Healer/teacher. Tiny, mobile space dweller. Artist. I write what I know, what I dream, what I learn.