Do You Dream of the Magdalene?
Posted by Joan Norton at 6/2/2008 8:06 AM 
Categories: Magdalene dreams, Goddess and the Sacred Masculine, Starting A Magdalene Circle
Tags: Mary Magdalene 14 Steps To Awaken the Sacred Feminine Women in the Circle of Mary Magdalene. Magdalene Circles
Categories: Magdalene dreams, Goddess and the Sacred Masculine, Starting A Magdalene Circle
Tags: Mary Magdalene 14 Steps To Awaken the Sacred Feminine Women in the Circle of Mary Magdalene. Magdalene Circles
Why does it matter so much to learn the lost stories of the Sacred Union, of Mary Magdalene and Jesus? One answer I give is that these stories are the world-soul's teaching stories for our time, our age, our civilization; and they will be used in our inner world to lead us ever onward towards our own deeper wisdom. That's true for the religious stories of every civilization. The Wisdom of the Ages comes through the lens of our spiritual stories. I've used the story of Inanna's descent to the underworld, with all it's details, as a way to understand depressive phases of life with their loss of energy and death and grieving features. Now I know that Mary Magdalene's descent to the tomb with it's cold stillness and weeping loss of hope is our civilization's version of that truth of life experience. And I can say that while others may run away from that cold reality, the sacred feminine knows how to feel the feelings and stay with the experience until it turns and becomes something else; a rebirth, a resurrection . She is changed forever and becomes the bearer of joy. Everyone's favorite part of the Easter story.
Dreams teach us through the language of our time and the religious stories of our civilization. That's where the mind of "the All" expresses itself. So, to know the stories of Mary Magdalene is a way of knowing the Sacred Feminine aspect of "the All", which is to say our own feminine selves. It helps alot to know that in the dance of life's creation as expressed through Jesus and Mary Magdalene, Jesus respected her heart's feelings. He was moved to action by her tears, her feelings. The heart values of women are meant to shape our world. As Margaret Starbird says, "In the Gospels, while the Virgin Mary 'ponders her sorrows in her heart', Mary Magdalene cries. She cries at the tomb of her brother Lazarus(John 11) and Jesus is so moved by her tears that he raises Lazarus from the tomb. She cries over the feet of Jesus at the banquet in Bethany(John12) and wipes her tears from his feet with her hair. Here Jesus is moved to protect her from the complaints of Judas about the wasted value of her fragrant ointment." 1.
I've been asked many times when we're interpreting dream stories of men and women and the dream men are behaving badly, what is a good "picture" of sacred masculine behavior? These stories of Jesus' respect for Mary Magdalene's feelings, and how his behavior is influenced by her , are wonderfully helpful examples for me to give.
Of course we're not going to dream the exact stories from the Gospels, but there will be elements of the various stories which will help you understand your dream's nuances of teaching. There may certainly be red clothing, or "the special kiss", or a jar of some kind, or a crying woman, or a garden, or a "fragile boat", or even a Beloved. And we can also count in the stories and the symbols of the story of Magdalene's suppression , of the way the values of the feminine went underground during subsequent centuries. The Bride in darkness and hiding, stripped of her mantel....I've seen dream themes like that in myself and other women.
I almost forgot the rose! Is there a more beautiful image symbol for the Sacred Feminine and Mary Magdalene? I don't think so.
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Dear Joan: This is exciting to think our dreams can have these highly charged elements related to the sacred marriage, the sacred couple, at the heart of Christianity.
I can't wait for Mary Magdalene: Way of the Heart to come out! Gonna use it in our Order of Mary Magdalene lessons for sure...
--Katia
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With the awakening of the divine feminine, we've had to go through a lot of history of suppression to find her. And we probably have our own genetically remembered stories that come up and asks to be heard and seen.
But I also see her arrive in the morning sunshine, stretching her arms towards the light after so many years in the dungeons of the earth. I see her sit down outside the cave opening, take a deep breath and appreciate the beauty of nature around her.
We're getting there. She's arriving. And maybe the first signs are when men notice their womens beauty. Men are awakening to the beauty of her deep quiet knowing, her way of bringing beauty with her wherever she goes. Maybe it's time to step back and simply see.
Her rose, the fivepetal flower of many church windows and decorations, the path of Venus, the sister planet of the earth, which gave us the structure of time and the power to organize our societies, we see it everywhere. It was the symbol of Sophia, and also of Mary Magdalene.
Is that what she brought,civilization?
Yes, a gentle, wise and ultimately powerful way of relating between people, nature and the cosmos.
Wencke.
http://marymagdalenesmessage.blogspot.com/
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I love what you say about men lighting up to the real beauty of women's "knowing". Yes, that is certainly evidence of a man's inner feminine beauty opening up as well. We're longing for the masculine-feminine balance, aren't we?
I hope some of you readers will take a look at Wencke's blog, she has some wonderful reflections on the Magdalene. I enjoyed the recent post about understanding the level of education in Mary and Jesus' time...it's certainly a different zeitgeist than we feel in the Bible. She describes a rather worldly time and place where they could easily be highly educated and developed and influenced by much.
Wencke is a Magdalene author as well, her trilogy of historical novels is called Rituals in Sacred Stones. The first book follows Mary Magdalene through her education in Egypt, her dramatic years in Jerusalem, and her exile in France. I'm looking forward to reading it soon.
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