Integrating The Mother Authentically
“The Mother Archetype is not to be played with - she deserves real reverence, truth and respect.”
- Nicole Barton
✨💃 INTEGRATING THE MOTHER AUTHENTICALLY 💃 ✨
Some of the Archetypal Remedies that I transmit in this path are those that activate and heal the energy of the Mother. They are called the "Matridonals." And I see that, often, my women were born here to work with the Mother energy in one way or another.
And yet, one thing I'm clear on when I begin to initiate women into these Archetypal Remedies is that I've learned from my OWN initiation that the MOTHER isn't a part of the Feminine initiation path to be taken lightly. Because she's the closest to the Goddess.
💣 TRUTHBOMB: The Mother Archetype is not to be played with - she deserves real reverence, truth and respect.
🖤 And yet - I see women flounce around, so often, playing Goddess dress up - and then wonder why their lives are combusting. (I've been there, I'm not shaming you - I just speak from experience).
🔥 So, my invitation is: if you TRULY want to heal your blocks around the Mother wounds, let's have some reverence. These Archetypes are MAGICAL. They're not just something to play with - their spirits are real and want to be treated with love, respect and honour - which is really a reflection of how deeply we love, respect and honour ourselves. [You can trust me - I don't say this easily as honour, respect and grace haven't been easy for me to embody!]
Quite frankly, I've seen through my own initiation that if we aren't ready for Her, she will tear our lives apart.
To illustrate how seriously I take this, I have worked with Archetypes and Remedies for years and I wouldn't proclaim to be *embodied* in the ultimate Goddess - Empress tore my life apart enough, thank you very much. 💃
[SIDE NOTE: The ironic thing is, it'd be so easy for me to market my stuff as "Goddess" work - it'd be something everyone understood easily and flocked to. And yet, it would also make the journey inauthentic and attract those who weren't truly ready for the depth of it. Those who weren't consciously choosing the journey and ready for the depth of the real magical initiation.⚡]
Ultimately, this is why I guide women into healing the whole Feminine Lifecycle - from Maiden to Queen, to Lover, to Mother, to Crone - via our Archetypal Remedies.
I actually had a huge disagreement over this with my Soul Guide when I was teaching Mother via the Remedies about a year ago - because I was like "why can't I just teach the Mother?" And yet, she was right. Ironically, I accidentally prepared to teach Empress via the remedy of Platina (and realised before I actually served it). Slowly but surely, I began to see that even inadvertently calling in an energetic I wasn't ready to teach created HUGE transformation, but at a pace I had not been ready for, which felt like I'd been stomped on by a herd of wild beasts [and if you want that, crack on, but don't say I didn't warn you ].
I don't say this lightly or to be pedantic - it's because I have a deep respect for the real, truthful magic of Archetypes. Because, for how I guide women into working with them (from the lens of REAL magic), they *always* reveal things to us that have not wanted to be seen, but which offer us pure transformation healing.
One of my 1:1 clients (who is familiar with the path) said this week "I don't want to do this embodiment ritual because every time I more deeply devote to an Archetypal energy, everything goes wrong."
She's not wrong - because as we work with these energies, they will show up every little place where we are OUT OF ALIGNMENT with the new energy we are calling in (which is the power of working with Archetypes).
⚡ That's the point of them!
I say that they reveal our "Material for Liberation". Those experiences we have to go through to be able to expand past our edges and meet who we really are capable of being (ie the fullness of the Archetype we are working with).
✨ It's all part of the alchemy.
The real, deep work, is learning to work with Archetypes from an authentic and magical place - and that firstly requires us to learn to soften, open and begin to understand how to work Archetypally. If you're drawn to that, I'd recommend you learn to heal the parts of you that want to rush straight to Mother.
❌ The Mother will teach us unconditional love, but she will also show us everywhere that we don't already have that for ourselves. And for the most part, there's a LOT of places we have rejected and shamed ourselves.
So, let's begin gently, and work up to her. Let's create from integrity and embody this fully for ourselves before we dance around invoking the Goddess without any conscious choosing.
And, most importantly, let's do this in honour of our Ancestors and deep reverence to the wounds of theirs we carry that also want some loving tending.
Let's peel back the layers, softly. With the deepest of respect for the Great Mother.
Happy Mother's Day. 🌹💃 ✨
if you've any questions, send me an email.
Nicole x
