BOUDICCA: “She Who Refuses to Live in Fear Can Never Be Enslaved” by Gayle Goldwin

BOUDICCA

“She Who Refuses to Live in Fear Can Never Be Enslaved”

Boudicca was a 1st century Celtic queen who led her people in an uprising that nearly succeeded in driving Roman occupiers from the shores of the British Isles. Though the High Priestess-Queen of the Iceni could not know it at the time, historians would later credit her with preventing the extermination of Celtic culture in Britain.

The Iceni were initially overpowered by Rome’s treachery and brute aggression. Their lands were seized and many citizens enslaved to pay labor “taxes” to the Emperor. When Boudicca protested, she was stripped, bound and flogged while her young daughters were gang-raped before her eyes.

Injured, but energized by her outrage, Boudicca rallied her people and called her neighbors to arms. She united the usually squabbling kingdoms of what is now southeastern England into a ragtag army of 100,000 warriors. Poorly armed, but driven by fury and determination, they annihilated Rome’s prestigious Ninth Regiment and destroyed Roman strongholds across East Anglia, sending the Empire’s most elite generals fleeing in disgrace. 

Much of her remarkable success was due to her awareness of the spiritual Reality that underlies all outer appearances. Boudicca was not queen of her people because she married a king; she was queen because she was the Iceni’s High Priestess (who, by Celtic tradition, made the man she married a king). Her powerful personal presence and ability to inspire, unite and energize her newly recruited army was due to her profound awareness of what she was as spirit. She knew her purpose for coming to life and inspired her people to remember theirs. 

Death cannot touch your spirit. You live on!

If we win, we live in Peace; if we die, we but return to Heaven. There is no way to lose!

For the soul, there was—and is—no way to lose while fighting for its freedom. Boudicca’s unlikely army of men and women warriors successfully resisted the strongest military power on the planet for two and a half years before being slaughtered by reinforced Roman legions. Though wounded and sick, Boudicca remained defiant in the midst of defeat, choosing to take poison rather than allow the Romans the pleasure of her capture.

Her message remains as true for women today as it was in ancient times: Banish your fear by remembering Who you are!

©2007 Gayle Goldwin. Excerpted from WomanSpirit Oracles: Wisdom of the Ancients, Solutions for Today, a modern-day divinatory tool of Feminine Empowerment published by Boudicca Publications.  To get a FREE online Oracle Card reading, send a FREE Oracle eGreeting Card, or read more excerpts and channeled messages, visit http://www.WomanSpiritOracles.com