There are seven-year phases in a woman's life according to Clarissa Pinkola Estes in Women Who Run with Wolves.
(I can read again, albeit for very short periods and only one-eyed.)
These definitely resonated for me, let me know if they do the same for you. They also made me realise that on the days I feel old, I'm only half-way through the journey below :)
She points out that these phases are not necessarily tied to chronological age, as some women at eighty are still in developmental young maidenhood and some at twenty are as battle scarred as long-lived crones (I know a couple of those) but each age represents a change in attitude, a change in tasking and a change in values.
0-7: age of the body and dreaming/socialisation, yet retaining imagination
7-14: age of separating yet weaving together reasoning and the imaginal
14-21: age of new body/ young maidenhood/unfurling yet protecting sensuality
21-28: age of new world/new life/exploring the worlds.
28-35: age of the mother/learning to mother others and self
35-42: age of the seeker/learning to mother self/seeking the self
42-49: age of early crone/finding the far encampment/giving courage to others
49-56: ages of the underworld/learning the words and rites
56-63: age of choice/choosing one's world and the work yet to be done (CANNOT WAIT TO GET TO THIS BIT!)
63-70: ages of becoming watchwoman/ recasting all one has learned
70-77: age of re-youthanisation/more cronedom
77-84: ages of the mist beings/ finding more big in the small
84-91: age of weaving wit the scarlet thread/understanding the weaving of life
91-98: ages of the etherial/less to saying, more to being
98-105: age of pneuma, the breath
105+: age of timelessness.
Can you see your journey here?
For me 35-42 was all about power-housing, ambition and drive (another way of saying seeking the self without realising that was what I was doing).
42-49 were my Little Peace of Mind years, giving courage to others.
49-56 -currently in the underworld - yep - totally.