In this follow-up to her classic Goddesses in Everywoman, Jungian analyst Jean Shinoda Bolen turns to the years after fifty, naming four “crone” archetypes — Metis, Sophia, Hecate, and Hestia — that embody different faces of wisdom, intuition, and spiritual depth. She reframes growing older as a rich third act rather than a decline, and closes by encouraging older women to gather in circles and become a force for change. A thoughtful companion for any woman looking for meaning and power in her later decades.