Do You Dream of the Magdalene?
Posted by Joan Norton at 5/27/2008 7:57 AM 
Categories: Magdalene dreams, Starting A Magdalene Circle
Tags: Mary Magdalene 14 Steps To Awaken the Sacred Feminine Women in the Circle of Mary Magdalene
Categories: Magdalene dreams, Starting A Magdalene Circle
Tags: Mary Magdalene 14 Steps To Awaken the Sacred Feminine Women in the Circle of Mary Magdalene
I was responding to Josh's comment about "Bloodline" and telling of a Knights Templar dream I had a few years ago, and it made me think about other dreams I've had about the return of the Sacred Feminine through the Bride and Beloved, Sacred Union story of Mary Magdalene and Jesus. I wonder if you've had dreams of Mary too? As you know, I've worked with the dreamworld for many years and I've been so privledged to hear many wonderful women's dreams. After I published The Mary Magdalene Within I began a phase of inner life that simply filled up with images of Mary, of Margaret Starbird, of Jesus (occasionally) , of "night protectors" (Knights Templar?), of other medieval symbols, and of many, many archetypal symbols of the primordial Divine Feminine.
I would love to hear from you about your Magdalene-theme dreams. Here's one of mine from a couple years ago.
"I fall completely in love with a carved wooden statue of Mary Magdalene. A young retarded man carved it and I'm trying to buy it. He's done other carvings that are good (a horse's head) but nothing like the Beautiful Lady.
Then I'm near a church where there's a service to "the Magdalena" going on. It's a beautiful ceremony and ritual but I know it's not for me. I see posters advertising the service that are slick and commercial, stylized like 1930's art. They're kind of nice artwork but nothing like the beautiful wooden statue of Her."
I'm naming this category "Magdalene Dreams" .....I hope you're not shy about sharing. And I want you to know that I have my fair share of uncomfortable, difficult dreams as well. We all do, of course, and they're very important to work with. Maybe your Magdalene dreams are not always so smooth-going...let's talk about those ones too.
Always in Her Name, Joan
I would love to hear from you about your Magdalene-theme dreams. Here's one of mine from a couple years ago.
"I fall completely in love with a carved wooden statue of Mary Magdalene. A young retarded man carved it and I'm trying to buy it. He's done other carvings that are good (a horse's head) but nothing like the Beautiful Lady.
Then I'm near a church where there's a service to "the Magdalena" going on. It's a beautiful ceremony and ritual but I know it's not for me. I see posters advertising the service that are slick and commercial, stylized like 1930's art. They're kind of nice artwork but nothing like the beautiful wooden statue of Her."
I'm naming this category "Magdalene Dreams" .....I hope you're not shy about sharing. And I want you to know that I have my fair share of uncomfortable, difficult dreams as well. We all do, of course, and they're very important to work with. Maybe your Magdalene dreams are not always so smooth-going...let's talk about those ones too.
Always in Her Name, Joan
Hi Joan,
Lovely idea sharing the dreams!
Absolutely delicious....
Blessings,
Karen
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I dreamed that Mary Magdalene was a part of the prow of a ship. She was sailing that ship through the waters with a great look of joy on her face. The waters rippled by as the ship went forward. The ship moved by sails, but she was the guide, steering the direction of the ship. Those who stood on the deck seemed to be in a golden light, as if she was steering the boat toward the sun.
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Thanks very much, Jennifer, for being the first one to share a dream....and what a beautiful one. It reminds me of the story of Magdalene and the holy family in "the boat with no oars" escaping to France. It was said that the boat was guided through the sea and storms by God's hand, taking Mary and her daughter Sarah and others to a new and safe life.
In your dream she is once again expressing that dearest quality of the sacred feminine, joy. By steering the boat in the light and toward the sun she is expressing the ideal of Sacred Union, Sun and Moon being one of the most primordial images of union of masculine-feminine in mutual complement. What a nice comment it is on the Sacred Union "of now" that the ship is steered by the Magdalene....we often think that "steering" is a masculine energy. But no, of course the feminine is needed desperatley right now to lead things in a more
life-giving direction.
Both our Magdalenes are made of wood, aren't they? For me I felt this connected her to the Tree of Life, the very center of all existence. The wood also makes her a very practical earthy energy inside our lives, one which can build and grow strong and bear fruit and give shelter.
Your wonderful Magdalene ship image will always stay with me, thanks. Joan
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Hello Joan!
What synchronicity! Last night I dreamed that my cell phone rang and when I answered, it was a song about the Magdalene. It had a familiarity like it could have been the "Ballad of Mary Magdalene". Since Beltane I have been really connecting with "Sacred Union". Over the long weekend I spent time in my garden which I have a large stone statue of the Magdalene along with a decorated wall that is home to a large red 5 pointed star... This year my garden has unconsciously taken on a lot of Red color. I feel her energy is really stirring right now and that it is coming through in many different ways; all the more reason to remain awake and open to messages from the Sacred Feminine!
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Hi D'Ann, Yes, how synchronistic, it seems like many of us are dreaming her more and more strongly into our world, doesn't it? I love your dream's "Ballad of Mary Magdalene", I wonder if there is one. And I love that she calls on a modern communication device, her spirit is so up-to-the-minute. I'm remembering that song "He walks with me and he talks with me and he tells me I am his own...", someone told me that was written about Mary Magdalene. And I especially love that she comes in the form of a song...such a right brain way of approaching you. I bet she feels the beauty and receptivity of your garden's red flowers and 5 pointed star. "Beloveds in the Garden". Thanks for sharing ! Joan
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Yes Joan, there is a song called "Ballad of Mary Magdalene". I have copies by several artists and I think one is by a Celtic group called the Chieftains. Let me know if yoy need help finding it. Magdalene is really showing up in music; Joni Mitchell sings and wrote a song about the Magdalene laundries; Tori Amos has several songs about her.. Well, I suppose that is why she came to me in a song on my phone because I am attuned to that media!
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Thank you, Joan, for commenting on my blog, and for sending me the link to this "dream site".
My connection with her is not in unconscious dreams, but in a dreamworld I enter fully awake. I see appearances of Yeshua and Mariam, in shimmering transparencies, in overlays of my everyday reality.
I visited a monastery at a retreat some years ago where I started communicating with a crucifix and a statue. I felt their vibrating frequency from years of devoted nuns giving them their attention. After a couple of days of feeling these works of art coming alive, I started talking to them, and I got answers, surprising answers. Finally, I asked Christ, "why don't you step down, there is a table right underneath your feet." And I watched him loosen his hands and feet, step down, materialize a robe and walk around in the monastery. My first thought was, what will the nuns think if they find Jesus roaming freely in the corridors! The next day he asked me to free Mary Magdalene from her statue. Apparently, they needed a human to state it for them, they needed me to imagine the possibility before they could take action. So I told her. "You know, the pedestal is only a couple of feet off the floor, you could easily hop off." And I watched her take a ballet jump and land gracefully on the carpet, running towards him. They waived at me and disappeared towards the dining hall. I felt like a bad parent who had let the teenagers roam without supervision. The most prominent Christian icons were playing freely at the monastery!
Later they came and thanked me. I asked where they were going next, and as they waived goodbye, I was told they were heading for Nashville to work on world peace.
I thought the Gods could never surprise me again with their sense of humor,so I laughed with them, and hoped they would find a Greyhound bus.
Later I attended a seminar with William Henry in the Tennessee city and learned that there are indeed many reasons why Nashville might be a center for world peace in the near future. Check out his site where he explains.
So, maybe not a dream, but experienced in a state between waking and dreaming, a dreamworld where they can show themselves to me.
I've had many experiences like this, and they always surprise me with their gentle, serene way of approaching me, their way of presenting the most outrageous proposals as if it is everyday fare, and their immense sense of humor.
Thanks for letting me share.
Wencke.
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Hi Wencke,
What a beautiful experience and thank you so much for letting us hear it. Your way of working with "holy imagination" reminds me of my Jungian dreamwork method called Active Imagination, where we invite dream figures to speak their story on paper or in drawing. You really took the brave plunge into that world which supports, nourishes, informs, leads us creatively onward, broadens our perspective, etc. Your wonderful experience also reminds me of Christ's teaching in the Gospel of Mary Magdalene 10:16 (LeLoup version) where he tells Mary, "There where is the nous, lies the treasure." The nous being the place of inner sight between the regular world and the spiritual world. He has just told her she's blessed because she had a vision of him and she wasn't afraid of it. So many of us are not afraid of our visions now, and it's helping the world go forward.
When I had my visionary experience that became my book, I was first told that Mary Magdalene wanted to talk about the respect Jesus had for her. Her first "discussion" with me was in the context of Sacred Union, of their relationship, of them together as a Whole. I felt that same thing in your visonary experience when she got down off her statue (after him asking you to free her ! ) and she moved first towards him. And then the beautiful scene of them going off to work for world peace in Nashville. (I will certainly look on William Henry's website so I understand that better.)
What you said is profound, "Apparently, they needed a human to state it for them, they needed me to imagine the possibility before they could take action." To me, this is the perfect statement of the Sacred Union of Heaven and Earth, Body and Soul, God and humankind. They are Divine Relationships.
I really hope they've got the energy and love of teenagers....thanks for letting us experience that. Joan
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Hi, Joan,
Mary Magdalene comes to me in visions also, and I talk/pray to her often.
I get dreams of women with red hair, but She doesn't appear in attire or context that would make me say for sure, "That's Mary Magdalene."
My first vision of her came in the L.A. area when she appeared on the balcony outside my third floor apartment. A tall pine tree rose from the courtyard below, and I could see some of its branches and its trunk from my living room couch. The tree was close enough that I could touch it when I was on the balcony. I loved the tree, and often I would sit on my couch and look out at it.
One day I saw Mary Magdalene's face in the tree. I asked her what she was doing there, and she said that when it became dangerous for her and the others who had fled (to France?) after Yeshua was killed, that she sent her divine energy into the pine tree and that she had traveled through the pine trees to my doorstep! (There are lots of pine trees in France, even in Provence.) That was ten years ago.
Recently I read OF WATER AND THE SPIRIT by Malidoma Patrice Soma about his initiation into the Dagara tribe some years ago. It was a book that just fell into my hands. When I read about how a tree he was asked to "see" changed into an luminous green goddess of light that held him in amazing divine heart love, I thought "Gaia." Then Soma revealed part of her message: People think trees stay in one place, but they are wrong, trees travel.
Just like Mary Magdalene said.
I love my visions. I would love for her to come to me in dreams, too, so I have started asking for that. And I have started to imagine what I might do to prepare a place that invites her in. Maybe you have suggestions on this. (Maybe I'll ask Gaia to invite her!)
Sandra
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Hi Sandra,
That's so interesting that she came in the pine tree, I wonder what "pine tree consciousness" is? Do you know? It reminds me of reading about the number of earth-places in southern France that are named for Mary Magdalene. Fountains, vineyards, gardens; as well as church dwellings. Like D'Ann's garden with all it's red and it's 5 pointed star.... Magdalene is so obviously the earthy everything-ness of Goddess.
Your red haired dream woman is surely Her too. Lately I've been thinking that the redhaired women in dreams are a kind of shadow dream, a piece of feminine spirit that's a little bit unknown to the dreamer. Maybe she comes to help us attach to the passionate feelings for our life.
Thanks for telling your vision....love to hear more! Joan
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Wow! Thank you, Joan.
You sent me to my aromatherapy books and to my books about the Celtic tree alphabet to begin to discern what "pine tree consciousness" is.
There is so much for me to explore about this tree, considered the "same" as the yew and the fir, and able to help those who have a "weakness of boundary and self-identity," and "who feel responsible for. . .others' sufferings and wrongdoings as well as their own" (Gabriel Mojay in AROMATHERAPY FOR HEALING THE SPIRIT.)
As a woman who was abused (and recovers daily), I needed just the medicine Mary Magdalene brought. I live in a small grove of pines now, drawn here by dream guidance. Maybe that's why She comes to me in visions here. Maybe she is in these pines, too.
I wonder what would happen if I gave her permission the way Wencke did and asked her to come out of the trees!
From my reading, I also learned that the pine is associated with the "suffering, sacrifice and transformations of the divinity in several traditions" (Paul Rhys Mountfort, OGAM, THE CELTIC ORACLE OF THE TREES). Osiris, Attis, Dionysus and Jesus are all associated with the pine tree and all were sacrificed and/or dismembered and re-membered.
(The Yule log of silver fir, also considered "pine," venerates the birth of Christ.)
So my mind and spirit get really expansive now, and I even begin to sense the Magdalene's presence in the pine tree as Sacred Union consciousness since the pine tree, into which she said she sent her spirit, is associated with her Beloved, the sacrificed Christ.
(And I think of the pine tree as symbolizing how my own divinity was sacrificed and I was "dismembered" when She was left out of the holy story. It's funny the symbol holds the paradox of the sacrifice and the sacred union at the same time now.)
And that's just a small sampling of what is opening to me.
Thank you again, Joan. You asked just the right question at just the right time.
What a great addition to your blog and to what we "know" about Her these dream and vision stories are, so enlivening to my consciousness!
Good Night!
Sandra
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Thanks, Sandra, that is wonderful information...really helpful. I looked in the Garudas book, The Spiritual Properties of Herbs and learned that pine helps stimulate and open the third eye for "penetrating insight". That fits right in to the issues of abuse, doesn't it?
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Dear Joan,
Tonight I had a dream in which I take my icon of MM , I rip the image and under it appears another icon with Christ and the Magdalene than in few second it vanish away, it remains only the frame, leaving in me a sense of loss and futility. Do you see a connection with the fact that yesterday I wrote you for the first time?
Years ago I had some interior locutions while I was praying MM, if you are interested I would be glad to speak of them with you.
Massimiliano
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Hello again, Thank you very much for sharing your dream of the Magdalene, it is enlightening to others as well. I just love dreams because they don't lie and they offer such intricate and personal spiritual teaching. I would say that your soul is interested in your own ongoing inner dialog about Magdalene and the Sacred Union, and is probably stimulated by reaching out to conversation with me (and the wider world of Sacred Union Christianity).
If I were working with this dream I might say that you are transforming your relationship to your spiritual journey towards a very personal connection with the Sacred Union of Christ and Magdalene. The frame being left empty gives me the feeling that you are now creating your own image of balance and harmony between masculine and feminine energies within you. How beautiful that is! The dream is drawing you forward to believe in yourself as the "union of flesh and divinity" and that you will have your own unique "picture" for the frame.
For me, the dream gives the idea that Mary Magdalene doesn't come alone, she comes to us in partnership with the cosmic Christ, the energy of continuing enlightenment. And we each have to make our own personal relationship to that idea. The way your dream image of the Divine Couple faded gives me the feeling that you are being told that old ideas about it won't work anymore. It's up to you to bring your own feelings and ideas forward.
Thank you for sharing with us. Joan
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Dear Joan,
beg your pardon if I write you so often, but tonight I had another MM dream.
I was in the church of San Miniato, a wonderful cathedral on the hills of Florence. Inside the church there was a very Mystical dim light with many candles lighted along the naves, and I was disperately looking for a MM painting, to stay a bit with Her but I found none. I was sadly going out of the church when she appears on a painting on the wall...scarlet clothed with long blond hair and her alabaster jar, beautiful as she ever is, suddenly traces of her appear in many places of the church... you might think that I was happy to find her but it wasn't so, I was sad and empty. Then I go in the gift shop beside the church and ask for a medal of MM but the monk rebukes me telling me he has nothing about her.
Maybe it's my desire to have a cult place for her in my city-she isn't worshipped very much in Florence-or simply I have to find her within me, not outside....
in love Massimiliano
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Hello again Massimiliano,
Yes, a sad dream story. But one which has direction for you, as well as the feelings of separation which we talked about as part of autumn. It seems as though you love the beauty of the church, the candlelight and the spiritual atmosphere, but you now have strong feelings that Mary Magdalene is missing and the church is incomplete without Her. Yes, it is. Of course, it's natural to try to tell the church, for their own good, how much more wonderful their spirituality would be if they included Sacred Union . Perhaps you've read in Margaret Starbird's book The Goddess in the Gospels that she has experienced with the same feelings of wanting the church to understand the joy they are missing by leaving out our Magdalene.
It seems you have an appreciation for beauty and a spiritual atmosphere......I hope you translate that into a beautiful home altar. Do you put a picture of Mary Magdalene on a table and surround it with flowers? Do you put a beautiful cloth there and some small relics of meaningful moments in your life? Do you have a candle on your altar that you light when you want to make a special prayer? I hope so. These things help so much as we try to connect our daily lives with the life of divinity within.
All Goodnesses to you, Joan
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I don't so much dream of Mary Magdalene, but feel her. My heart aches with longing to know her more. I sometimes do pathworking and just recently in a medtation journey I was crowned with a gorgeous gold crown..
sometimes i smell the most exquisite perfume around me too. Alot of the time doubt comes in and I start to question if all of this is 'real'. I love that I have found yet another soul who might understand. xo
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Thank you!, "Miss R." What a beautiful sharing, I'm sure it means alot to others to know of the "ways of the Magdalene" in your life. We are all learning to believe ourselves when we have perceptions of the Magdalene energies, aren't we? I think she comes back through the functions which were "thrown out" of the Christian story when she was laid by the roadside. Namely, the heart's feeling and intuition's "knowing without knowing why I know it". Remember how she was called "the woman who knew the All"? That implies knowing on all levels; feeling, intuition, senses, and thinking.
I've heard stories from other women who said that Mary Magdalene just suddenly appeared when they were doing healing, or that she came suddenly into their awareness as if she was right there in the room. Or she came into their mind's perception as a kind of "thought direction".And she always seems to have something to give and something to say for the person, she seems to be encouraging something.There's often an urgency with her. And there's always great feeling with her. Some new development? Some new strength in carrying one's truth into the world? She's both personal in our individual lives and for our collective story of the times.
The gold crown that is now yours is surely the one She was intended to wear. "Do this in her name" said Jesus, for he understood the divinity of his partnership with her.
I love hearing these personal stories....dreams are just one way. xoJoan
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Hello Joan, yes it is me, Robyn (miss*R is a nickname that my Pa called me when I was little.. I love it so I use it on the net as my name)..
oh & I live in Australia, so I don't think I will get to meet Margaret, unless of course she comes here.
There is so much that I want to know, so much I want to discover about Mary Magdalene. Right now, I just need to know that she is definately with me.. why do I doubt so much? I wish I knew.
blessings always, Robyn
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Hello in Australia, Miss R, nice to have you here.
Doubt is human and so much a part of our efforts to align ourselves with divinity and feel "her" more and more with us. Connecting with dreams is, to me, the very easiest way to develop a dialog with your "inner wisdom of the Magdalene ". If you write your dreams down and notice the little details, I bet you will see many, many symbols typical to the Mary Magdalene stories. The color red...jars and vessels....long flowing hair....even tears are one of her hallmarks. You can learn much more about her symbols from The Woman With The Alabaster Jar. She comes to some women personified in dreams as a woman in red, but sometimes she has a message for you in more subtle ways, ways that will be unique to you and your story.
No need to be hard on yourself about doubting, She is with you anyway. You might try one of the Mary Magdalene Meditations when you are feeling separated, they always bring me closer to that beautiful feeling of sacred union.
Joan
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Dear Joan,
i had this dream tonight: I was on queue to get an embrace of Amma, an indian spiritual mother, I get my place flying close to the ground, then I open a book for passing time and I read the following words: each ten seconds our brain produces a voice and this little voice is thin and fecund, and it is feminine, and it is called Mary.
Ave Magdalena
Massimiliano
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Hello Massimiliano,
Thank you for sharing your dream so that the rest of us can benefit from its message. It's a wonderful dream as it moves you back to the spiritual embrace of the Mary Magdalene you love. I know who Amma is and I've talked to quite a few people who have been very moved by her sacred and divine love and her "mission" to give it so freely. But we have that love also right inside of us in our own fountain of life, Mary Magdalene. You might be surprised that I've met quite a few people who have had an experience of a loved religious figure from another culture who tells them to return to their Christianity where Jesus and Mary Magdalene live. Of course people go to other spiritual teachers and learn alot and experience divine love, but it seems that we are meant to revitalize our own religious stories which are the foundation of western civilization.
I love the message of your dream book, that the voice of the divine...or the voice of your own soul...is speaking all the time...so frequently. And I also appreciate that you are told that the feminine is a paradox in itself, that paradox is one of it's defining hallmarks. "A little voice is thin and fecund.'.. Both the smallest of the small and the most abundant. Maybe it means that the feminine is present in every small detail of life as well as the big experiences.
Yes, Ave Magdalena ! Joan
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Dear Joan,
I believe that the spiritual guidance of the magdalene comes not only with Jesus but with mother Mary too. Today I have meditated on the closesness of the two Marys and I believe that on the historical plane mother Mary had caring for the Magdalene, expecially when she was released of the seven demons. I feel that this dream is leading me to integrate the wild, passionate energy of Mary Magdalene with the quiet silent energy of the Mother Mary.
Absolutely sweet Marie....
"suddenly I turned around and she was standin' there, with silver bracelets in her arms and flowers in her hair; she walked to me so gracefully and took off my crown of thorns-come in she said, I'll give you shelter from the storm".....It's from a beautiful song of Bob Dylan called Shelter from the storm; it's the narration of his meeting with the goddess..maybe you already know it ...I wish you listen to it..Ave Magdalena!
Massimiliano
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Dear Massimiliano,
I like what you say about integrating the energies of the two Marys . It's quite a task to understand the differences between the inner mother and the inner....what? muse?...partner?....soul bride? The Mother energy in your dream is incredibly loving and she wants a relationship with your "sister-bride" Magdalene energy. Yes, I agree that the Virgin Mother is most caring for Mary Magdalene, the extraordinary woman who married her beloved son. There's no conflict between them, don't you agree?
Thank you for reminding me of that wonderful Bob Dyland song, I think I'll listen to it on YouTube right now. Here's the song ..he even looks a little Jesus-like.
Do you know this book? Lying With The Heavenly Woman, Understanding and Integrating the Feminine Archetypes in Men's Lives, by Robert A. Johnson. Wonderful small book which talks about just what you mention .
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dear joan,
I wish to recommend you another Bob Dylan' song called "changing of the guards" who shows in a cryptic way the occultment of the Magdalene made by the church, and the longing of Christ for her....it was the 1978, he has been a forerunner.
always in her name
Massimiliano
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I just read the lyrics here on a Dylan website , it's an amazing song. Tell me more about your interpretation of it. I see her iconography in the imagery but I'm curious to hear more of your thoughts about it. Thanks, Joan
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Dear Joan,
the imagery of this song is very complex, but the meaning is clear: the church has denied the bride and the shepard grieves for her, hoping that his beloved returns to him.
the guardians of the wall have shaved her head and lifted her veil meaning that they have deprived her of her strenght, vitality and her real status of Queen. There is a direct reference to the Magdal-eder telling that she is born near the tower,very interesting Dylan places her birth "on a mid-summer's eve" perhaps a reference that she is the virgo counterpart of the Lord of the fishes.
there are mentions of the secret societies that trasmit the tradition of the Grail an the Magdalene-the empty rooms where her memory is protected-.
After she wakes him up on the Easter morning she asks what he means to do, and he points the finger against the church who has corrupted the real message of the Magdalene,and the death will be won with the reunion of king and the queen of Swords. Bob has always had a loving relationship with the feminine face of the divine and through the 70's and the 80's he sewed his songs with esoteric meanings.
I take the occasion to tell you a dream I had in 2006. There was a naked magdalene with long blonde hair lying on a bed, she was crying very tenderly and softly and she told me "Magdalene is everywoman that says I'm full of your love...." Really Mary Magdalene was crying for my love? I still can't believe it....
in LOVE
Massimiliano
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Thank you for illuminating this song for us.....you've made it much more clear and interesting. And your dream.....a beautiful request from Everywoman to be loved as well as you love Magdalene.
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Dear Joan,
please forgive me, but I had anothher mary magdalene dream a week ago and I don't know the meaning....it begins with Mary who makes up at a mirror, I see her riflection from behind her, and I begin to weep feeling a great love for her, than I go to her sister martha and say "I want to marry Mary Magdalene" she said "what a groom for Mary ....really special"in a ironic tone...I said "Martha you're the one who really understand me you're not double tongue you speak directly..." she was a very strong charachter, very concrete and solid..than Martha goes to Mary Magdalene and says to her "Massimiliano is here and he want to speak with you, he will ask you to marry him"...Mary walks up to me but I feel umworthy of such important figure....
if you could tell me the meaning....thanks Massimiliano
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Dear Massimiliano,
Of course it's always best to talk personally about a dream so I can ask for your ideas and feelings....but we will do the best we can. It may help other people to "hear us talk".
Your dream starts with Mary Magdalene holding a mirror, which is one of her symbols. I think ithe theme of "mirroring" comes out in the older station of the cross in which Veronica holds a cloth to Jesus's face and his image stays on the cloth. This gives the idea of the sacred feminine's reflection of God on earth, and of our own soul's reflection of us. The idea of "twins" in many mythological stories carries the same notion of humans as both physical and non-physical at the same time. Body and soul. Your soul has the ability to reflect back to you your own inner being. Mary Magdalene "choses the better part" when she chooses to sit with Christ, and we also choose a better path when we place ourselves in receptivity to our own soul's communications to us. Magdalene has the ability to show you to yourself. She is your own ability to know who you really are.
When you say that Martha spoke in an ironic tone, it sounds like she is a little bit bitter or sarcastic. She frequently represents the part of ourselves which overworks and worries. Both those attributes can keep us from "the Light" with it's joy and inspirational creativity. In your dream it seems like your own "inner Martha" wants to help bring you to greater happiness (sacred union with Mary Magdalene) but the problem is feelings of unworthiness. Of course you are worthy ! She wants you. Place yourself in receptivity to your own soul's unique path and to the intuitions and feelings which mark the way and you will be in a marriage with Mary Magdalene. Sit with your own inner being and you will be "choosing the better part."
I have recorded some meditations about sacred union and Mary at http://MaryMagdaleneWithin.podomatic.com . They might help create good feelings of worthiness.
Thank you very much for sharing your dream, Massimiliano, I welcome your contributions here. Joan
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