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My Magdalene Feast Day Return

Years ago when I was in psychology graduate school Louise Hay came to talk to our class about healing and health. She told her own story of the discovery of healing her mind's thought processes which in turn brought her body to a better state of health. She talked about getting to know your own state of psychological/physical health by knowing the "clues" your body gives to indicate emotional depletion which will end up in sickness.  She told us ...<< MORE >>
Posted by Joan Norton at 6/27/2009 6:56 AM | View Comments (14) | Add Comment

Women of Wisdom book published today!

Women of Wisdom, Empowering the Dreams and Spirit of Women  is available today from Amazon and if you order it this week you'll be able to participate in a great big wonderful "give-away" by the roster of  authors of the book, and other "woman spirit" ...<< MORE >>
Posted by Joan Norton at 6/22/2009 6:55 AM | View Comments (5) | Add Comment

The Magdalene Rosary Signifies Return To Feminine Instincts

 It might seem an  unimportant choice to make to either pray the Marion devotional rosary or the Magdalene devotional rosary, but the more I research the bead's history the more I feel the horror  of what's been done to women in the good name of the Mother.   Mother Mary was said to have come in a vision to St. Dominic at his nunnery in Prouille in 1214. St. Dominic placed particular spiritual emphasis on "enclosing women" to save them from ...<< MORE >>
Posted by Joan Norton at 6/20/2009 7:27 AM | View Comments (10) | Add Comment

She Is Crowned "Queen of the Earth"

The last legendary Magdalene Mystery story is "At her death, Mary is assumed body and soul into heaven." I've heard Margaret Starbird say a number of times that the the stories of the Mother Mary were late editions, that the stories of Mary Magdalene were told first and earlier. That probably accounts for the confusion of symbolic imagery in the paintings in the category of "The Assumption of Mary". Not that it's only in the Assumption paintings that we find confused symbolism, it's throughout the Mary pictures. ...<< MORE >>
Posted by Joan Norton at 6/14/2009 6:32 AM | View Comments (8) | Add Comment

Mary Magdalene's Cave

"Dear Mary Magdalene, love incarnate, Sacred Vessel, Holy Grail, Chosen were you from all women, And blessed is your union with Jesus. Dearest Bride and Beloved of Christ, Show us the Way of the heart." Margaret Starbird wrote that prayer.
The "Legendary Mysteries of Mary Magdalene" tell us that after the three Marys and the princess Sarah came to Gaul, and after Mary's time of teaching and preaching in Marseilles, she lived in prayer and contemplation in a cave in the Sainte-Baume ...<< MORE >>
Posted by Joan Norton at 6/6/2009 1:56 PM | View Comments (4) | Add Comment

Mary Magdalene Preaches the Good News in Marseilles

She had gone her "night sea journey", she had made her "trip to the underworld" of death and personal devestation, she had "crossed the great waters", she had journeyed in a boat with no oars. She had escaped death,she had retreated under protection, she had birthed his child. They had together saved their family, the dear ones who knew him best, and now they had arrived at another great new unknown. . ...<< MORE >>
Posted by Joan Norton at 5/31/2009 4:53 AM | View Comments (6) | Add Comment

The Grail Family Lands in France Once More

"Mary's boat with no oars is swept ashore in Gaul" says the Magdalene Mystery of the Magdalene Rosary. We celebrate with great heart that the Grail family has endured the perilous sea voyage to an unknown new land and has arrived safely. The year is thought to be A.D. 42 and the legend is celebrated every year on May 24-25 in Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer on the Mediterranean coast of France. I wish we celebrated it here.
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Posted by Joan Norton at 5/22/2009 4:51 AM | View Comments (12) | Add Comment

A Few Upcoming Workshops

This is a new blog category called "Upcoming Workshops" where you can share in the growth of Magdalene Circles and see who's doing what. Please get in touch with me if you're thinking of starting a Magdalene Circle and want to talk about it.
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Posted by Joan Norton at 5/16/2009 6:05 PM | Add Comment

Mary Magdalene Lives in Santa Barbara, California

I found Mary Magdalene in my own backyard. She's disguised as the town of Santa Barbara and she lives just a little bit north of Los Angeles. The ocean carries her name as the Santa Barbara Channel, the islands there were originally called the Santa Barbara Islands, the mountains were earlier called the Santa Barbara Mountains, and of course, Saint Barbara is the "Queen of the Missions" and her likenesses are all over town. It was from Margaret Starbird's Woman With The Alabaster Jar that we learned that Saint Barbara was likely an early ...<< MORE >>
Posted by Joan Norton at 5/16/2009 5:05 AM | View Comments (6) | Add Comment

The Medicine of Sacred Union

I'm reading a book called How God Changes Your Brain, by Andrew Newberg, M.D. and Mark Waldman and it's satisfying my curiosity about why it feels so darn good to be involved with Mary Magdalene's Sacred Union spirituality. I've felt compelled in the happiest way towards MORE of it, and I've become more light hearted along the way. Burdens lifted. Apparently my physical brain loves spirituality and becomes healthier through spiritual practices like praying and pondering on the deeper meanings and mysteries. The authors are neuroscience researchers so the book is ...<< MORE >>
Posted by Joan Norton at 5/10/2009 6:14 AM | View Comments (11) | Add Comment
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