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The Coronation Awaits‏

19 Tuesday Jun 2012

Posted by Haloquin in Reflections

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When you begin the patterns of your heart become clear…

A Queen must hold her power firmly

Must choose the course of her realm

Her realm is her self is her life.

A Queen must be responsible for her choices

Must take each action knowing it is hers

Her self the cause the consequence.

A Queen must strive for wisdom in all things

Must learn to rule her life with understanding

Her life the lesson the power.

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It has been a strange month. A strange year, if truth be told. For years the title ‘Queen’ has been proffered to me but only now does it feel like I might be fit to take it on. Not Queen of anyone else, purely Queen of my own life, my own path. For so much of my life I have looked for others to walk the path I travel beside me. I’ve made friends, I’ve learnt a great deal and yet I still I often found myself waiting alone for others to travel with me.

The Faery-hearted path has been the exception.

I found my feet and, while still wishing for others to join me, I couldn’t wait.

Stumbling, sometimes losing my focus, sometimes dancing in the starlit mists, I’ve discovered that my primary path is solitary, but not lonely. A path of faeries, healing, creativity and pondering life. 

Queenship means to rule over one’s life. To take responsibility for the shape of your own world. To act on your dreams and protect your boundaries. Those that fall under your domain are yours to protect while they reside within it but each person is capable of ruling over their own life and should be encouraged to do so! In an ideal world, we are each sovereign in our own lives. Until everyone recognises that they are ruler of their own life and responsible for their actions – and how that affects neighbouring realms – this will be a rarer role than it should be.

This month I declared myself legally a self-employed artist. My art-making is directed by the magic that I follow and so each act of art is an act of faery magic… an enchantment. I’ve made painting a priority and have begun to find places where I can sell my artwork in the physical world, sharing it with a wider audience. I’ve shifted gears again, taking myself a step closer to my dream life. And opportunities have followed… opportunities for collaboration, for teaching and for connecting. Inspiration fills my days and other parts of my life have shifted too. Health problems are coming to the fore and demanding attention. This is good since it means a time of healing is here. In order to rule my life I must be healthy… and so I take a firm step towards sovereignty. I learn what it means to me to be Queen.

I wonder: What would it mean to you to be sovereign in your life?

A Pilgrimage to The Well and Waves

15 Friday Jun 2012

Posted by Haloquin in Creative Process, Following Delight, Magic

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I was called to travel with my friends on a pilgrimage, in search of my direction, my crown?

On the South West coast of Wales stands a cathedral where a flame of peace was to be lit, at a shrine behind which stood the Mother of Saint David, St. Non.

The Mother blesses those who ask it…

The cathedral was filled with light and pretty things, but empty for us. No magic danced in the colours which streamed from the windows. No nourishment in the food that lunchtime. This was not a place for us, though others were clearly blessed. 

From the hidden icon of the Mother, however, peace and love flowed.

We travelled further towards the sea, to St. Non’s Chapel, her Well, her Ruins, upon the windswept cliffs of Wales.

The sea rises into the air…

Processing down the slope, greeted by the Well and a choice. Do you choose the chapel, or the ruins? Civilisation or the wilds of the wind and waves?

We each presented ourselves to the well, blessed by her healing waters.

Here she lives…

We chose the sea path.

Passing through the stone circle of the ruins we separated, lead by the magic to where we belonged. I found myself above the waves, breathing the sea-mist, buffeted by winds.

I asked; what must I do to reach my dreams? How do I do what you have asked me to?

A seal appeared, carrying the song of the sea…

The Mother held me, rocked me, washed me clean until I walked, entranced, along the cliff to the chapel where I was crowned, unasked for, in buttercups.

A candle lit, a prayer spoken, respects paid. We explored the ruins. A place of power. And then, we returned, passing the Well with thanks. Washed clean and each transformed into more of who we are.

I wonder; what pilgrimage are you making, or would you choose to make, this year?

Musings on Queenship

12 Tuesday Jun 2012

Posted by Haloquin in Faery, Following Delight, Magic, Philosophy, Queenship, Reflections

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Beginnings, challenge, Commitment, creativity, Determination, Faery, Faery Queen, Feyhearted path, Heart, inspirations, Journalling, Journey, musings, Queenship, Strangeness of Life

I was challenged, given a quest, to become Queen of my life. First I want to know what that means… so I asked. What does it mean to be queen? A Queen, but not to hold power over other people… to be sovereign in one’s own life, I suppose…

My studio. My temple. My Throne? Where I make magic, where life is understood, where change begins. Art allows me to be fully myself. When I paint, I come home. If being Queen is having sovereignty over one’s life, then this must be the heart of my realm.

What would it mean to be Queen?

Queen of my life? My heart, my art?

A Queen rules her realm

My realm is my self

A self, a realm, a life.

To rule

To lead

To protect

To hold within all that belongs to one…

I rule my self.

Queen of my life, my heart, my art.

There is space for what I love

And I am responsible for making what I wish come true.

No waiting for another.

I am Queen of my life.

Whatever I wish

I must command it so.

No other may

No other can

In my realm

I am the sun, the moon, the stars

And each who I encounter is sovereign in their realm,

As I am in mine.

I rule my self.

Queen of my life, my heart, my art.

I hold the power of my realm

Only I

I choose

I cause

I create

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