Goddess in her swallow guise leads the  growth of the Mary Magdalene Feast Day Crop Circle  outward from the chalice-womb-vesica piscis shapes in the middle....She leads towards above and towards below at the same time, stretching our knowledge of who we are.  She's so huge here in the crop circle, with the three  magnificent  birds in the middle each holding three circles.  You can feel the safety of being enclosed in her wings and you can feel the urge to fly at the same time. A circle invites comfort and belonging, as well as growth into new circles of life.
   
     Where have I seen those swallows before? Yes of course, Goddess has always come in her bird form to link the worlds together. She who takes us from earth to sky and back again to ourselves. She is that part of ourselves that can safely fly to new heights and new dimensions and come back always to nest in the mud. The swallows return again to Capistrano and nestle in the church's rafters. Look where she returned to create a Sacred Union  crop circle in Wiltshire.
    The swallow was one of Inanna's  symbols for her role as the bestower of life and fertility. She represents the cyclic nature of everything and  the very pulse of life in our bodies. Her swallow tells us we can trust there are great rhythms of growth and it's safe to stretch beyond our usual boundaries. 
      The crop circles are surely doing that with their mysterious appearance over night, sometimes accompanied by orbs of light. They are always in the kindest harmony with the Great Mother, never damaging plants in any way. The stalks of grain are heated up mysteriously from the inside, their nodes expanded outward to create a bend. The grain is often laid down in intricate weaving patterns , bent first some inches off the ground. (the man made ones can't hope to replicate the complexity of this)  The grain always continues to grow, restoring itself upright to reach for the sun again. Seed heads taken from the crop circle grain  and planted sprout with extra strength and grow extra strongly. It's as if the Mother of All is happy with these formations, having communicated herself to us.
     In the Egyptian stories of love and death and renewal into life again, Goddess as Isis became a swallow in her search for her lover, Osiris after death. It was in her swallow guise that she conceived new life again, "fluttering around the pillar" to bring the Son to life. She links the worlds together in this way.
     There is a young man in the Netherlands named Robert van den Broekewho lives near fields in which crop circles appear regularly. He's very sensitive to the energy of their approach, becoming agitated and intuitively seeing the circle shapes to come. He  often describes his experience as "feeling Mary" when crop circle energy is gathering.  Most people's religious  frame of reference is the Virgin Mary, but we  understand his feeling  to be the more complete Mary, "the Magdalene", the "Woman Who Knows the All".   He is experiencing the energy of Eros between the dimensions, the relationship between the seen and the unseen worlds which results in a circle formation.  You can't "sense" the Divine Feminine without  knowing She's talking about relationships between things in her Web of Life.  She's always weaving.  And of course our Mary has a bird sacred to her as well, the dove. Even though the patriarchal story begun in the Old Testament tried to obliterate the Goddess of Forevermore, we still feel her magic in the dove.  And now we see her magic in the crop circles made with her body, in her cereal grains.
   In the medieval times of Mary as the May maiden, reminiscent of all goddesses of abundance, women warned others to never hurt the swallows nests , they were  thought to be as sacred as the chalice in the church. Their nests are like little chalices, little wombs, little earthen vessels, little "alabaster jars" of Mary.
    People have discovered that the crop circles appear where water is especially plentiful below the land, as if to say these are messages of the water of life continuing to carry us forward. And they repeatedly appear in the sacred sites of Celtic lands in England. They're most plentiful where Celtic Christainity is rooted in the web of Goddess which came before, but they have also now appeared in 29 other countries.  They want us to know the magnificence that we are, the sacred geometry within our bodies. It's our own personal instincts which can perceive these sacred patterns and follow them in our own lives, creating ourselves and our world anew.
     Goddess, or to use Margaret Starbird's word  Godde, is with us right now, inviting us with her wings to trust in stretching  our knowledge of ourselves as we each form  circles of the New Creation within our own lives.