King Crone and the Empty Nest is a Must Read Poetry Book About the Trans Experience — Columbia Community Connection News Mid-Columbia Region

Coming into one’s King Crone-hood is a rite of passage.

It is the embodiment of both the masculine and feminine aspects of stepping into wisdom, self-knowledge, and a call to leadership and community service that comes with growing older.. 

“Croning is also a time to shift attention from caretaking into a time of tending to your own inspired vision. It’s a time for looking within and discovering what that calling is deep inside and asking, what did I really come here to do? What is my spirit asking for? How can I nourish my creativity and come to a service that might have a wider reach? And the Crone is also related to learning to say no, and cultivating compassionate fierceness.”

“There’s often some element of spending more time alone in our older years and really getting to know ourselves and valuing that solitude; it’s often a call to a bigger community service and holding space for those who are now walking in the steps that we walked in,” says Keath.

“For me, the King is an elder man who is really stepping into his wisdom, who is fierce for justice, for protection, and has a healthy divine masculine energy that supports and provides and nourishes. He is honoring his calling. And he may be tapping into his more intuitive side,” says Keath.

While the book is titled King Crone and reflects on Keath’s wisdom gained from the trans experience, his book is not just for older trans people. Anyone can pick up his book and find a window into the trans experience. 

It is also a book for young trans people. 

For in this book, Keath steps into his role as King Crone, to light a lantern of hope for today’s trans youth, letting them know that there are trans elders in the world that stand beside them in their fight for their futures.