Looking around me this weekend just past, there certainly is no doubt that spring is well and truly making its presence known. The volume of blossom, right down to the two stunning cherry trees outside my window, seems to be greater each year. This always seems to be one of the most widely celebrated of the Sovereignty Celebrations, with Mayday parades and events happening all over the country as we celebrate the final transition from winter to summer.

In the Sovereignty series, the Beltane Goddess is Guinevere, the Flower Queen. In the flow of love and beauty, the turning of the year creates a unique doorway to explore how extremes affect the relationships in our lives. Being deeply healing, this energy can remove the dross that stops out creativity and growth. It also helps to release the visionary skills of the artist, bringing the finest levels of energy into physical manifestation for all to admire.

In working with the Sovereignty series as developed by Sue and Simon Lilly, we are engaging in a process that combines many different elements.

The visual key and audio essence that we use in the process of the meditation combine the energies of a number of elements to create a symphony of patterns to help with healing and connection to the land. These help for energy to be shifted for healing and repair, especially where there is damage to subtle emotional levels of being. Helps the highest spiritual energy enter our material world. Brings practical solutions to problems and increases our awareness of our surroundings. For effective use of personal power, self-worth, self-motivation. It helps us find awareness of karmic connections in our personal relationships and a deep mindfulness of the subtle realms. It supports those with soul isolation or lack of spiritual connection to others and aids in releasing negative thought patterns. We can connect to true compassion and find acceptance so that we can change and release what is worn out. This can bring stability to the emotions through both giving and receiving and in stabilising the subtle layers of the body.

All of this is combined at the time of the year when we celebrate the renewal of nature. The fertility of the earth is reaffirmed and so this is a perfect time to re-link to the forces of nature and the universe.

The Archetype of Beltane is of Guinevere, goddess of flowers. She is perhaps the best but most misunderstood archetype of the goddess. She is linked to the flower queen and represents, these days, the vision that most men expect of their women upon marriage. It also reflects the idea that this image can also be used by young women to manipulate the men in their lives. In Arthurian legends, Guinevere is seen as the person who, through her adultery with Lancelot, causes the downfall of the round table. But on closer view the situation is more complex, suggesting that people's disregard for the preciousness of and reverence for the Grail is the real problem.

So the archetype is one associated with the correct relationships of the people and the Land. Our primary relationship is with ourselves and how that functions and spreads outwards. To bring our creativity and our love we need to ensure that harmony and equality exist within us.

Our mediation will be combining the elements above through a guided visualisation which is supported through relevant visual keys, audio essences, chalice crystal essences and the turning of the year it self.

All are welcome and no experience is necessary. The event is charged by donation and begins at 7pm at the Centre for Integral Health. If you have any question please comment through the blog or email me on ben@bencalder.co.uk

We look forward to seeing you.

Many thanks to Sue and Simon Lilly for allowing the use of their material both in this blog and on the event night. You can find out more about their work atwww.greenmantrees.