Welcome to Morrigan Thursdays!

These past few weeks I have been slowly travelling with the sovereign goddess Macha as a part of my Morrigan priestess training.

We have been learning about sovereignty through her myths. It’s not something I’ve ever done before and it’s been really interesting taking the ancient myths of the goddess and finding ways to apply them to my own life. Before I didn’t see how can an old story from thousands of years ago could have any relevance at all to my modern life, with all it’s computers and dance training and self-employed-ness, but it does! I know I am surprised.

Through this method I really feel like I have busted some myths on what a sovereign is and how they act – they are not the perfect, self-sacrificing, boring mega-grownup I thought She would be.

I have learnt that a sovereign does what she has to do, and sometimes that means she does stuff she doesn’t want to do, and sometimes she has to do stuff that really scares her, but she will still get it done. This was an incredible breakthrough for me – in my self-employed life, there are a hella lot of things to do that are boring and scare the crap out of me. Often I take this to mean that I’m not meant to be doing what I’m doing – if I was, I’d enjoy every second and never be scared ever, right? Wrong! Even a sovereign has to knuckle down and plough through the shit sometimes. She doesn’t want to, but I think what makes a sovereign is her willingness to ignore the resistance and just get it done.

I also learnt that one of the biggest traits of a sovereign is focus. Focus focus focus. Macha clearly sees and decides upon where she wants to go or what she wants to do, then commits 100% to that decision. She knows exactly what her goal is and what she’s going to do, so she refuses to bother with all the what-if’s and regrets and worrying if she made the right decision and doom thinking. She is just laser focused. A weird outcome of this laser focus is a sense of calmness and clarity that just seems to run through her whole vibe.

Through this I have also picked up that she is mega economical with her brain power, in that she doesn’t hold regrets, or resentments, or self-hatred, or give much of a crap of what other people thinks about her, because she knows where she’s going and she’s gotta get stuff done. All that self-sabotage stuff is a waste of her Queenly time, and is gonna distract her from her laser focusing. So it’s simply eliminated.

This has been a really huge and interesting lesson for me, and it’s been incredible seeing how everyone going through the priestess journey is picking up different things from these myths – the things that they need for where they are and what they are up to right now. Amazing.

(This week I have also learned I cannot spell sovereign without spellcheck.)