It is emotionally uplifting into the joyful realms to celebrate as many seasonal holidays as possible. And it's probably good to keep our collective minds off destruction. Not to be ignorant but to purposefully place our consciousness in emotional forward movement into the New Creation we want, as balance to the work we do. One way to do that is to recognize and celebrate spiritual holidays. I listened to Jean Shinoda Bolen on Karen Tate's "Voices of the Sacred Feminine" online radio show and she was talking about women finding  a sense of "assignment" to help the world. ... << MORE >>

 Mary, called Magdalene, is healed of demons and her story of the year's liturgical season begins. She feels herself as virginal and receptive to the magnetism of the sun, which we know in human symbolism as Jesus. The Earth receives her mate. A little bit of quickening is felt, a little bit of spark  from which will come new growth, new year, new life, new creativity.  In the calendar of Sacred Union  this is a holy time of initiation and joyful expectation. Soon there will be bunnies and colorful eggs and baskets of flowers left on the doorsteps. ... << MORE >>

It used to be called "sparking", didn't it? Maybe it was in my grandmother's generation, I'm not sure. It's a perfect word for feeling the life force energies between people. "Courting" doesn't quite convey the feeling. In the dreamworld there are often stories of meeting someone and feeling the spark of attraction, and it might not be with your current mate. Then we must do the work of understanding what our soul wants to do in "hooking you up" ... << MORE >>

Why bother with Brigit's Day, Candlemas, Presentation at the Temple?  Why bother musing about Mary Magdalene as our representation of this calendar phase of the year in the great pattern of Cyclic Renewal of the Goddess in Sacred Union ? It's to make a story connection between Heaven and Earth, it's to perceive the story of connection between Earth's life and Heaven's life as they meet in our own inner lives. We are the story of Heaven and Earth meeting, we all know that now. It's not lived somewhere else out in the cosmos. << MORE >>

A few more weeks and it'll be Candlemas and I've found myself thinking about what to put on my altar. The ancient  ceremony says to bring every single candle that will be used in the  seasonal year to church and bless them. M-m-m-mmm....lots of fire. Time to begin to chase away the darkness. It's a fire honoring time, a sun honoring time, an inner Light honoring time,  a hopeful time of encouraging the sun to bless the land with crop growing heat once again. Time to recognize what it is within ourselves that we want to nourish and ... << MORE >>

Would someone please Photoshop me a picture of Mary Magdalene with her jar-cauldron-vessel looking big enough to stir ? That's what I was longing for this week feeling the great dark energies of the deep winter Mother Godde making Her effort to find the Light one more time. Sometimes Mary Magdalene's alabaster jar feels smaller and sometimes bigger as she carries it through the year for us. Sometimes it's full of lovely smelling healing ointment that makes the men argue about her. And sometimes I want to see her standing next to a cauldron-sized alabaster jar, stirring the ... << MORE >>

One reason many women went away from Christianity was that the Virgin Mary wasn't "holding the archetype", she felt too small. Many women I know can't see her anymore as the only occupant of the manger scene. We know there is a Beloved Mother in there with the newborn Light, and we know that sometimes it is  Jesus' mother, but we also now think of Mary Magdalene as being a mother too. ... << MORE >>

The animals in the Christmas manger in the holy nights of solstice  are riviting. Especially the ox, who is sometimes a cow . They're bigger than the baby Jesus, aren't they? He needs their devotion. << MORE >>

 M-m-m-mmmmm....I feel expectant. It's dark and getting darker in the land. The animals have grown their shaggy coats, knowing to keep warm is harder when we're waiting for the great returning sun. There's something inside me that is waiting and I don't yet know what I'm waiting for . Expectant. Advent. It means that a desired guest is coming, to be welcomed into the house. ... << MORE >>

Spiritual stories create culture and guide the psychology of an era.. In the long, long span of time spiritual stories evolve to encompass the changing ideas of who we think we are in relation to the
sacred world. The spiritual stories of our time  have generally become too rigid and codified, grown into rule systems that have lost life. You know what I mean. At first the stories were
inspirational, moving people to improve themselves and their lives. Then the formality takes over. Maybe at that point people have learned all there is to learn from those particular ... << MORE >>