Nine Divine Days: Day 4. The Queen

The Goddesses that will help guide us through the Queen Archetype are Inanna (Sumerian) & Freya (Norse). Your Divine Task: Identify an area in your life you wish to grow and reflect on what practices you can put into place to nurture each of the qualities you have identified that would support your growth in this area i.e. courage, self-love, patience. What can you do on a daily, weekly and monthly basis, to encourage these qualities to shine in full force in your life?

Transcript

Greetings,

Friends.

In today's meditation,

We will explore the divine feminine archetype of the Queen.

The archetype of the Queen reminds us that as women,

We deserve to be cherished,

Worshipped and respected as sovereignty.

As queens of our domain,

We are worshipped and respected.

But also we have to make challenging decisions,

Whether it be for the good of our family,

Our work team or tribe of any kind.

With the power of the Queen comes responsibility,

As well as an acceptance that not everyone may agree with you or your decisions,

But you must have faith in yourself.

The two goddesses I will introduce you to today to illustrate the qualities of the Queen archetype are Sumerian goddess Inanna.

She is the Queen of Heaven and associated with all things from war and politics to love,

Fertility and procreation.

Like many queens,

She has to be many things to different people.

Inanna was often represented as standing amongst lions to represent her courage and fearlessness.

Offerings were often made to Inanna in the form of grains and honey.

These offerings were also something used for our second goddess.

We'll look at Freya,

The Norse goddess of war and battle,

But also the goddess of love and fertility.

Both Freya and Inanna take these dual roles as queens.

So Freya is the powerful Norse goddess.

People often made offerings to her as well with honey,

Mead and grains.

Freya was the goddess and queen of a realm called Folkvang.

Like Odin and Valhalla,

Freya was the queen of this domain.

It was said that the souls who died in battle,

Half would go to Valhalla and Odin and half would go to Folkvang and Freya.

So she was the queen of this realm of slain warriors.

Freya was also a witch.

She was skilled with magic and had an aptitude for healing,

Which she shared with others.

Often in myth and legend Freya is depicted not always in a positive light.

She was also depicted as cruel and power hungry.

But as with all women in power,

People can paint their own pictures.

People can see the powerful feminine as both a good and a bad thing.

But ultimately both Freya and Inanna were powerful and compassionate queens.

Rulers who were secure in their own power and accepting of the gifts and offerings from their disciples.

So embracing this idea of the queen,

This archetype of the queen,

We'll get ready for our guided meditation today.

So as always,

Take your time to get comfortable.

Take your time to be warm and time to relax.

If you wish,

You may want to take some nice deep inhales and some exhales as we settle ourselves into the earth and allow ourselves to settle,

Relax and soften.

Allow the body to become soft.

Allow yourself to let go of tension or tightness.

And as we settle into relaxation,

Our guided meditation today will be about creating a life we love with the power of our queen archetype.

Drawing on an understanding that loving ourselves is the most essential pre-requisite to living our best life.

When we feel good and powerful about who we are,

We radiate energy.

When we are kind,

Generous and respectful towards others,

We naturally make good choices because we feel deserving of our best lives,

Our lives as queens.

And as we settle into our meditation,

Give yourself permission to connect with your deepest desires.

Allow a vision of yourself at your highest and happiest to form within your mind.

Perhaps bring to mind the area of your life that you most want to improve or transform.

This may be an area of your life that has caused you struggle or where you're seeking fulfilment.

This area may be relationships,

Career,

Finances,

Family.

Just allow yourself to acknowledge for now just one area with which you wish to transform,

To attend to,

To nurture and nourish with your attention.

Allow yourself to create an intention,

A vision for this part of your life.

Allow yourself to visualise this area of your life exactly as you wish it to be.

Invisage yourself experiencing this element of your life.

You might envisage what you're wearing or where you are,

The emotions you're feeling,

Your interactions with others.

Allow yourself to visualise this life,

This area exactly as you wish it to be.

And now as we hold this vision in our mind of this ideal life,

This ideal area of our lives and thinking about the emotions we feel when we are living our best life,

We may feel joy,

We may feel empowered,

We may simply feel free of stress.

Now allow yourself to think of when you have previously experienced or displayed these qualities.

If confidence and joy is something you wish to bring into this area of your life,

Recall a time in your life when you have expressed confidence or joyfulness.

Imagine a circumstance under which you have felt confident.

And allow yourself to feel how these qualities that you know you want to develop already exist within you.

You are already capable of finding joy,

Of finding confidence.

All you need in order to flourish is to feed your attention and intention to these qualities.

Now look again at that ideal life,

That ideal area.

Can you bring the qualities that you have shown in the past to this time?

Can you bring the strength you have displayed in the past to create your ideal life?

Can you bring the love,

The patience,

The confidence,

The joy?

Can you bring it to the here and now and apply it to this new idea,

This new journey towards developing within the area you wish to grow?

And now we will just allow ourselves to see how this area of your life is.

This area of our lives may be different if we embrace full access to the qualities we possess whenever we want them.

Imagine perhaps how you would feel or what you would plan to accomplish,

How people around you would respond to you.

And we will just breathe into that.

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So just when you feel ready,

You may wish to gently wiggle fingers and toes as we gently begin to leave our meditation and leave our visualizations today.

As always you may wish to just sit here with your thoughts and reflect on this meditation or you may wish to take up your notepad and pen and if you do wish to write after this meditation we're going to reflect on how we can allow ourselves to put into place and nurture the qualities you identify to help you on your journey to live your best life or grow in this area of your life.

Maybe think on what you can do daily,

Weekly or monthly to encourage these qualities to shine in full force in your life.

For example if you identified courage as something that would enable you to create your vision,

What can you do on a daily basis to nurture and foster courage within you?

Take your time to reflect on the qualities you've identified and take your time to reflect on how you can nurture or nourish these qualities so that you can be the Queen you were born to be.

As always take as long as you wished you to write,

To scribble,

To draw or to simply rest with your thoughts.

As always thank you for joining me and I hope to see you again soon.

Until next time Goddesses.

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