On Sovereignty
My four-year-old ran out of the family photo. The caption I posted on Facebook was simple: “He is done with family photos.” Because he was. And honestly, I didn’t push him to retake it.
He is teaching me something about sovereignty.
Self-Sovereignty is the right to have authority over your own body, life, and decisions. It is the ability to think your own thoughts, feel your own feelings, and act in alignment with your own values. It is trusting your own reasoning, intuition, and experience. It is remaining grounded in who you are when the world - or the people closest to you - push back.
Our sovereignty is tested most in relationship. When those we love don’t share our beliefs. When we are emotionally or financially dependent on others. When someone tries to convince us that what we know to be true isn’t real.
Over the past year I have been doing this work in earnest - bringing my soul-level awareness into my everyday life. At first it required deliberate effort. Connecting with my higher self each morning. Using symbols to clear and ground my energy. A year in, something has shifted. I can feel when something is off. I can recognize a projection and gently set it aside. I no longer accept blame that isn’t mine to carry.
Last summer I went to meditate by the river. In my meditation I found myself at the steps of Mont St. Michel in France. My sister was standing at the top. I climbed to meet her, and when I reached her, she placed a key around my neck. I saw the words “David’s key” in my mind’s eye - our father’s name was David.
When I got home, I opened Instagram and saw a woman speaking about David’s key. In the story of David and Goliath, David chose faith over fear to face a seemingly impossible opponent. He didn’t win because he was stronger. He won because he was sovereign within himself.
That is the invitation. Not to fight anything outside of us, but to claim what is already within. To know ourselves so fully that we cannot be moved from that knowing.
When we each claim our own crown, something shifts - in our families, in our relationships, in the energy we bring to every room we enter.
Sovereignty begins inside. And it ripples outward from there.
