The
Queen
“Therefore,
I am sure that this, my coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor
that are gone but a declaration of our hopes for the future, and for the years
I may, with God’s Grace and Mercy, be given to reign and serve you as your
queen.”
Queen
Elizabeth II
And thus
began the seventy-year reign of Elizabeth, Queen of England. I remember seeing her
coronation when I was only 6 years old. It seemed like a fairytale—which is because
of the archetypal pattern that Elizabeth so competently embodied. There has
never been another woman who gave life to the Queen archetype as completely as Elizabeth
II.
I
watched a video by Caroline Myss this morning in which she spoke about Queen
Elizabeth, and about the cosmic consequences of her death. Myss pointed out
that when an archetypal energy pattern enters or leaves the world, the effects are
global and long-lasting. The last of these archetypal shifts we experienced was
when Trump, archetype of the trickster, was elected president. He came on the scene
as a total outsider, whom many people thought was a joke, and against all odds,
became president. His style of leadership shook up the entire world and continues
to spiral outward like the rings made by a rock thrown into a pond.
Elizabeth,
as queen, was the opposite of Trump’s trickster. She was a rock standing in the
fast-moving current of modern-day life. She grounded her people and elevated
them. When she entered the room, everyone bowed to her as the recognized embodiment
of the Monarch. When someone anywhere in the world said, “The
Queen” everyone knew that they were speaking of Elizabeth, and no other. This
has been called “whitewashing the colonial oppressors,” but in some important
way, Elizabeth stood apart from that unfortunate history. In her devotion to
her people, and in her ever-present, ever-dutiful day-to-day existence, she was Queen in the truest sense of the word.
Now,
for the foreseeable future, the United Kingdom will have Kings rather than
Queens. It’s hard to imagine that Charles, whose foibles have been frequent and
public, will have the same positive impact as Elizabeth. Given that he went
from global playboy to the philandering husband, who broke the heart of his
wife, the beloved Princess Diana, he comes to the throne with more baggage than
a Missouri mule. It will be interesting to see if the archetypal energy of “the
King” can change him from frog into royalty. At least this frog is
environmentally conscious and may be just what is needed to usher the UK into
the 21st century.
Elizabeth’s
passing will be felt for a long, long time, even for the people of this country
and much of the world. She constellated the archetype of royalty, and as a true
believer in being anointed by God to lead, she never waivered in seventy years
from the duties and responsibilities of Monarch. May she rest in peace beside
the love of her life, Prince Philip. My prayers are with the people of the
United Kingdom as they bid their Queen goodbye and go through this transition
of power.
In
the Spirit,
Jane
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