They were all there to begin with

In observing my last post on speech impediment, I was very aware of the absence of the calm that comes with clarity, compassion of crone. I was aware I was expressing the other characters. It dawned on me: maiden, mother and crone are all present in infancy. We just don't have the words. The stages of life are actually a conditioning of ourselves on how to communicate them. A baby, maiden, will cry (feel their truth), mother point out the problem (squirm, hit, poke, pull, kick), and then sing themselves to sleep (or rock or hum) to weave in inner understanding and comforting, make sense of it. For boys the stages are referred to as page/knight, prince and king. As much as I write more on the feminine aspects, I am aware of my intellect having the male developmental aspects of page/knight, prince and king as well as my son's journey through all of them. Come to think of it; there is also the "ancients" aspects/developmental stages. Sometimes called the sage or seer. Not only are the phases gaining words/expression of these aspects rather than a becoming instead or the incorporating of them together, as I I saw it; it's the physical cognitive and motor skill development of the mind and body's ability to embody them fully. It all leads to embodiment.
or some such. No doubt I'll wake to greater clarity in the morning.