The Lover: Restoring Balance and Kissing the Earth

Enid, Creiddylach & Blodeuwedd: Mai Queens of Bloom and Bounty, Sovereignty through Relationships and the Evolution of Love

The embodied path to purpose and pleasure.

The blossoming of Beltane season and the summer half of year lead us from the descent to our inner realms, dream states and winter rest into external action. My students and me use the winter half of the year for shadow work and internal inquiry to descend with nature and tend to our roots. We do that so that we can ascend aligned with our core values and match our external expressions and actions in this world with what is true in our sovereign hearts instead of being led by old beliefs, conditioned societal norms and constant distraction and mind busyness.

Beltane, nowadays celebrated on the first of May is - as every four of the original Celtic lunar festivals - a season, not just one holiday. And so we look at nature around us and within us as something that unfurls in its own time, transitions through various thresholds and invites us to trust our own process.

The traditional season starts with the blossoming of hawthorn and finds its peak at Lunar Beltane TOMORROW on the full moon this May 12th.

We can work with these seasons as we do with archetypal patterns from many different angles.

Having embraced our sacred inner warrior last month, we are invited to recognise that our anger is in truth fuelled by a fire of love and passion. A passion for change, for justice, a love for humanity and the earth, and this love is now allowed to express itself not only in our struggles, but also in our joy and pleasure.

In this post, we welcome the blossoming, sensual season of Beltane within us, (re)connect with our innocent life force - and discover a rather unknown side of the May Queen: the Flower Bride. She is the one who grows into her sovereign power, chooses her equal and eventually leads us to the archetype of the Enchantress/Magician - on to the Mother and the established Queen: leader of herself and others.

The Warrior is the seed and the sacred ‘why’ that sets our path in motion.

The Flower Bride is the conception - born from the union of the inner masculine and feminine.

The Enchantress is the alchemist, the creator of magic as life matures in the womb.

The Mother is the one who gives birth to the new self and nurtures it - through her deep intimacy with death.

And the Queen is the one who steps out of her personal pleasure and the family circle to serve the community.

After this archetypal journey, you will meet the Healer who will lead you on to the Psychopomp - and finally back into the arms of the Great Goddess, and from there the year can begin anew with a newly ignited spark for the eternal cycle of life.

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Beltane, our archetype of this month and the accompanying zodiac sign Taurus (that we transition in now in the live sky) is associated with: LOVE.

Love in the physical flesh and union of sexes as symbolic representation of the fertility around us.

Passionate love, sensual love, caring love.

Love as creation force.

Love as motivation and drive.

Love of the earth and therefore love for our own body.

But Love, especially self love got separated from the love that is truly necessary for us to blossom into our sovereign power.

The archetype of the May Queen, the beautiful maiden who enters the Great Rite of Beltane as the Flower Bride to unite with the Green Man is an archetype we all carry within us but due to sexual suppression, separation and distorted societal standards we have been taught to only view this archetype as surface appearance. A shameful topic even. And to only love and value oneself as long as we are young, beautiful and fertile. When truly this goes so much deeper. But more about this further down. Let’s look at the topic of love in a truly transformational way:

“To live our lives based on the principles of a love ethic – showing care, respect, knowledge, integrity, and the will to cooperate – is to make love a lens through which we see the world. In this way, we end domination and oppression in all forms.
This is revolutionary love, not merely sentimental affection. It requires courage, the willingness to examine ourselves and challenge systems of domination that harm us and others.
Love is an action, never simply a feeling.
When we love, we are committed to transforming ourselves and our world.”

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When we love, we are committed to transforming ourselves and our world

This is what this month’s archetype and Avalonian characters are all about! The courageous, heart-led choices they made and the transformative consequences those brought with them.

We have arrived in Beltane Season, a festival incredible important to our Celtic ancestors and one of the four seasonal celebrations of the year that bears strong otherworldly qualities, embedded in mythology and still to this day honoured as a time when the veils between the realms are thin. It’s mirror image is Samhain in November which closes the abundant summer and prepares us for the descent into winter. Beltane however is the start of the Celtic summer year, the ascend of the flower bride from the underworld who is fought for by the two Lords of nature: Summer and Winter.

In her sovereign way of choosing the champion rule alongside her, she becomes the May Queen and in the Great Rite, also known as Sacred Union, the two enact the merging of man and woman and bless the land with their fertility, representing the nature blooming and opening in reception of the sun and the coming bounty of summer.

FROM FLOWER BRIDE TO MAY QUEEN

The archetype of the Flower Bride who becomes the High Queen, is one of innocence that becomes empowered by following her heart and her innate inner Sovereignty.¹

Blodeuwedd is the actual Flower Bride, made from flowers for one man, but bound by love to another.

Creiddylad is the maiden of desire and the decisive for the reign of summer or winter, having Gwynn and Gwythyr fight for her every May Day.

Enid is the lover, the one whose enchanting nature tempts the man to only tend to her, but he has to integrate his lover qualities from surface lust to devoted relationship and responsibilities.

Guinevere is the May Queen who marries King Arthur and therefore establishes the new ruler for land and people.

All of them are representations of the sovereignty goddesses. By their embodiment of nature and innate feminine creation force the make the journey from innocent maiden to decisive queen.

As we dive further into their stories I urge you to find that space within you that holds these archetypal aspects and observe what you reject, resist or on the other hand embody in abundance. Age, life phase and appearance do not matter when we engage in mythic characters, as they are all within us. By remembering (read: integrate them as members of your psyche instead of separating or suppressing them) these parts can we uncover long forgotten aspects of ourselves that help us step into our lives with clear vision, heart-led passion and find magic and love in our every day.

The Lover Archetype of Avalon: From Flower Bride to May Queen

What Creiddylad, Blodeuwedd and Enid teach us about embodying earth’s gifts, choosing love and discovering our sovereignty within relationship.