The Warrior: Passionate Fighter for Justice and Peace

Sacred Rage, Battle Goddesses and Taking Aligned Action

A personal share of how I alchemised anger into sacred rage and how it served my work for sovereignty (free to read for all) followed by the archetype of the warrior, the battle goddess and the importance of sword AND scabbard. Alongside personal practices that help you to step out of victim mindset and into leadership to integrate this Archetype of Avalon post (for paid subscribers only)

Aries Season, Spring returning, our inner fire burning.

Of all archetypes the warrior used to be the most tricky one for me to relate to until so many pieces clicked into place when working with the battle goddess Morrígan, her many faces and service to sovereignty.

Especially in a war-torn world that fosters power-over dynamics I never felt comfortable to fight fire with fire.

However, there is an important distinction to make between trauma induced destruction resolving in hate and separation, greed and violence. And sacred rage: the inner fire that burns for justice, integrity and freedom. A fire that burns away illusions, limitations and alchemises shackles into sovereignty.

This inner fire is not abusing its force but ignites the flame in service to creation, connection and peace. This doesn’t mean that it always burns gently in the hearth, oh no. It equally brings destruction but with the intent to make space for the new. As you would cut off an old branch for the tree to bear fruit again or pick withered flowers of a plant for it to nourish its new buds to bloom.

The inevitable pain and death that comes with the warrior also initiates us into responsibility and let’s us face the consequence of our actions and that of others. It is not always in our power to prevent and sustain regenerative, reciprocal harmony but the way we relate to pain and death can transform suffering into self-reliance and a rite of passage.

In the last archetype post of the High Priestess I talked about her connection to divination and prophecy. Well, when you dive deeper into the warrior archetype, especially in connection to Celtic mythology and the Avalonian Tradition as I do here, you will soon find that the surface of the bloodthirsty fighter is actually a relatively modern projection in a patriarchal and exploitative culture of dominance. When really the origin of the battle goddess Morrígan is one of prophetic power.

And it only makes sense: No birth without death, no creation without destruction, no day without night.

Bring your rage fully to the table, because suppressing it will lead to a dangerous force that eventually takes over like wild fire. Instead channel your frustration into the life force it is, the energy that drives you forward, motivates you to change and takes action towards a world worth fighting for.

“Rage is not innately ugly. That which summons it, usually is.
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Rage places responsibility where it belongs. Rage recognizes what our part is in our suffering. Rage also recognizes when we are carrying the responsibility that belongs with someone else.”

Alison Nappi

Found whilst clearing out my email program this morning, within a longer quote that I sent to myself, in preparation for a ceremony in 2019

It reminds me of the frustration and anger I felt during my first pregnancy with Fynn River Eoin. I have been used to the german health care system and my long history with various hospitals and medical professionals due to a mystery disease that started when I was 13 and ended when I got rid of all medication when I was 23. I put trust and my body in the hands of others for a decade but landing in a system that claims to be caring and instead installs fear and outdated ways of interventions and risk management, I suddenly realised that my journey towards sovereignty really had just begun.

We have been conditioned to see pregnancy and birth as a disease and something that needs to be intervened with, usually through the hands of men that have never given birth themselves. When actually this whole world population exists because women give birth every minute and have done for thousands and thousands of years. How come that in a matter of a couple hundred years we started perceiving birth as dangerous? Because it requires responsibility and is a portal that mirrors the portal of death. Both are our mother. The one who creates us and the one that calls us back home when it is our time to return (and be reborn!?).

Back to the sacred rage: After I my belly got measured with a tape measure and the midwife and her assistant produced different results, ending up with confusion and their concerned faces of sending me to a third scan because my baby must have shrunk, I lost all faith in this so-called health care system and started to reclaim my sovereignty. I was furios at every text and call they gave me that had nothing to do with caring for my wellbeing, my desires, my (or babies) actual health. But all to do with assessing the risk for themselves. Because that is what induction, hospitalised birth, pain killers and cesarian come down to: A way to control the outcome that is the biggest mystery and wonder of life. Because should something painful happen (e.g. death or disease) they don’t want to be responsible for it (aka being sued).

Well, the unjust thing is that all their interference might establish the short term satisfaction for them to claim their importance of being the hero but eventually leads to longterm problems from birth trauma, stress, anxiety, to actual physical health consequences such as gut and immunity issues in the children and the mother’s inability to breastfeed or naturally nurture the newborn.

It outrages me that we are being led astray so far from our innate abilities, our own wisdom and our creative relating to life itself.

It outrages me that we are being conditioned to fear ourselves, to fear nature, to fear our bodies.

It outrages me that we think other people hold power over us and that we need to comply and suppress our own thoughts and words and knowing.

It outrages me that we are being fed lies and distortions.

And what really makes me angry is that these lies and distortions have been implemented so cleverly over long periods that they are now even believed by those who are employed by the system who should be able to peak through. Not even doctors and medical midwives know that interventions cause more harm and risk to mother and baby, they only know the fear and tell tales they have been fed. That is so dangerous. The systems developed their own stand alone power. Without anyone questioning them.

It outrages me.

This is how this newsletter, this Substack, called Sovereign with Laura Durban was born. The topic of self-sovereignty and remembrance is one of dear importance to me and has accompanied me for most of my life. From codependencies in relationships, health, finances, studies and social life. I wasn’t aware just how much this is a crucial topic not only for me personally but globally. And with this first pregnancy it got lifted out of my individual context into one that serves purpose for all that encounter my work.

Because of this outrage, this sacred rage, I found fuel for my inner fire, the fire of purpose, of service, of devotion.

This is the junction where High Pries†ess and Warrior meet.
Where the warrior goddess in her way performs the holy arts of divination and honouring life.

So much for the preface, now to the archetypal patterns and how we can utilise their strength and mythopoetic relevance for infusing our mundane life with the inherent sacredness we get to tend to day by day.

I will share more about the different facets of the Morrígan and her elusive (but very relevant) relation to Morgan le Fay, the connection between destruction, ecstasy and prophecy and the fights worth fighting for.

Which are always coming down to picking up our inner sword for creation instead of our own destruction.