Jesus Loves Women
Posted by Joan Norton at 1/8/2009 7:40 AM 
Categories: Goddess and the Sacred Masculine
Tags: Mary Magadalene 14 Steps To Awaken the Sacred Feminine Women in the Circle of Mary Magdalene 14 Steps To Awaken Sacred Feminine Magdalene Rosary
Categories: Goddess and the Sacred Masculine
Tags: Mary Magadalene 14 Steps To Awaken the Sacred Feminine Women in the Circle of Mary Magdalene 14 Steps To Awaken Sacred Feminine Magdalene Rosary
What am I remembering when I try to recall Jesus ? I had a startling encounter with meanness this week and I knew I had to "on purpose" resurrect the Sacred Masculine in my mind. What was it again that started my relationship to Mary Magdalene? Oh yes, I remember now. It was the feeling of love that Jesus had for her. Now I remember. It was before dawn thirteen years ago and I was reaching into the cosmos in my mind, asking for observation from the cosmic intelligence I was told I could call "Energies of Grace". They had been reliable in wisdom and love in all the questions I'd asked. But this morning , with my pen and paper ready to record, something different happened. I heard this in my mind, "We want to express the gratefulness that Mary Magdalene felt in experiencing the regard with which Jesus held her. And to this end, we ask Mary to speak now..." And a little later she said this about Jesus, "When our bodies twined as one, he said he knew how the rivers loved the earth, how the oceans felt about the shores.....His God had shown him, on that fateful night of showing, that through women would the world evolve in all. Through women would each man be saved. This he knew. His God had shown him."
In the Navajo world when a person is traumatized or very sick, a medicine person chooses a piece of their religious story which will recreate a sense of well-being . The story piece is created in a sand picture for the sick person , thus restoring a deep remembering of the meaning of life. That's what I feel I do when I remember that there is a love story at the center of our culture's religious story. We live inside of this story and it lives in our spiritual DNA from long, long ago. When something bad happens , our story is there for us to recall, to remember that there's a deeper pattern of love and meaning to life than what often shows on the surface.
What I need to recall now is that there was a human man who knew that loving a human woman was the highest and best good he could do for life. "Cherish her rhythms, cherish the rhythms of thought and feeling that the women are willing to show you." That's how it was said to me , for me to pass on. Jesus really, really loved Mary, who was called the Magdalene.
"We were lost inside of each other, the way lovers always are."
This is the healing sand painting I've created for myself this morning from the religious story I live in. I'm remembering the Sacred Masculine in loving devotion to women.
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In the Navajo world when a person is traumatized or very sick, a medicine person chooses a piece of their religious story which will recreate a sense of well-being . The story piece is created in a sand picture for the sick person , thus restoring a deep remembering of the meaning of life. That's what I feel I do when I remember that there is a love story at the center of our culture's religious story. We live inside of this story and it lives in our spiritual DNA from long, long ago. When something bad happens , our story is there for us to recall, to remember that there's a deeper pattern of love and meaning to life than what often shows on the surface.
What I need to recall now is that there was a human man who knew that loving a human woman was the highest and best good he could do for life. "Cherish her rhythms, cherish the rhythms of thought and feeling that the women are willing to show you." That's how it was said to me , for me to pass on. Jesus really, really loved Mary, who was called the Magdalene.
"We were lost inside of each other, the way lovers always are."
This is the healing sand painting I've created for myself this morning from the religious story I live in. I'm remembering the Sacred Masculine in loving devotion to women.
click here to order 14 Steps To Awaken the Sacred Feminine: Women in the Circle of Mary Magdalene
Click Here To See Magadalene Rosaries and Chaplets
"Jesus loved women."
Thank you for sharing this simple, elegant mantra to call forth the Sacred Masculine!
I see your sand painting in my holy imagination; it is healing and comforting for me also.
Love!
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Hi Sandra, Thanks for being there and having such a wonderful right brain capacity to see the mandala.... Joan
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Hi Everyone!
Sorry I am so late in responding to this, quite a bit going on over here! I do agree with all of the interesting comments about the Sacred Masculine, and thank you Joan for bring forward such sweet and beautiful words about Mary Magdalene's Beloved Jeses. We have two thousand years of orthodoxy to overcome, generations of bad press that have been attached to Jesus' name. I feel that she loved him first for his kindness and second for his miraculous powers which she saw later. But many of us have a natural fear of the male energies, based on the warring and fighting and dominating pattern that history has seen. But Yeshua walked the earth without a sword, just to tell people that the Everlasting loves them as they are, without the need for Temple donations, without the need for pleasing a temple hierarchy, without rules or walls, just because we are the descendant of that intitial force of creation. He was a good man, an enlightened teacher, and a good husband to our Mary.
Love, Jennifer
Jennifer Reif
"The Holy Book of Mary Magdalene"
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Hi Jennifer, Thank you so much for your comments, you have a wonderful way of expressing yourself. (read her book!) I'm glad you said what you did about the naturalness of women's fears of male energies (within and without) , given the millenniums of distortion of those energies. How could women feel otherwise, really? But all that's changing now and that's why the true story of Jesus and Mary Magdalene's respectful and loving companionship can be seen. Thanks again for your point of view, told in love. xoJoan
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Joan: Your words are always beautiful and sweet. I also encouter meanness and it breaks my heart especially when it is directed to me. I know I should not take it personally but it is like a knife through the heart. I am the sweetest person and nice to everyone that I meet (or I try to be). In my mundane job, there are occasionally some who are intentionally 'mean' as if they were looking for attention. Most of these encounters have been with older retired men, occasionally some have been with women. Such encounters sometimes bring me to tears because of the meanness in people's hearts. But suddenly I realized that people are mean because they are reaching out - for love, for respect, for attention. Such a man came into our office recently. He had no regard for rules or office policies. He demanded service, shouted and yelled, and acted just like a 2 year old in a 70 year old body. After he was given what he wanted he seemed to calm down. However, such behaviour still bothers me but I was reminded that such ones act this way because they are in pain. The man came back several times and each time he was nicer than the time before. He wanted to talk and simply wanted someone to listen. Fear, lonliness, and pain often drive people to be at their worst because some cannot rise above it. Anyway, it turns out that this man's daughter was murdered years ago and I can only imagine that this was the source of much of his pain. I absolutely agree that Jesus loved women. He treatment of women got him into trouble! In my book, I do state that Jesus knew the heart and soul of a woman. Something that Peter could not understand. But Jesus knew the secret mysteries of the sacred feminine and he was not afraid to embrace that part of himself. In the end, it was the men who fled and the women who remained ever faithful to the one they loved.
MagdalenaIn Service of the Goddess
"We will burn incense to the Queen of Heaven and will pour out drink offerings to her just as we and our fathers, our kings and our officials did in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. At that time we had plenty of food and were well off and suffered no harm. But ever since we stopped burning incense to the Queen of Heaven and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have had nothing and have been perishing by sword and famine." Jeremiah 44:16-19
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Hello Magdalena, What a beautiful comment! Thank you for sharing and telling and caring so deeply. You give wonderful stories and I felt a sense of calm come over me as I read. You truly burn incense to the Queen of Heaven with your open heart. I hope you're still writing! Let me quote from the frontpiece of your book, King and Queen...
"The love of a woman is the greatest thing a man or spirit can have. Love is something you never recover from. To recover from Love would be to die in bitterness and rebellion. We are meant to love. Love extends to Hell and back and even to the farthest star. It has no boundaries; even time and space bend to its will."
Thank you for commenting....and lots of love to you. Joan
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Hi Magdalena,
I do know how you feel about people's meanness. When people show meanness, I try to recall that the natural state of the human being is a state of family, a state of oneness in our mutual divinity. Humanity has been so deprived of that so often. I try to remind myself that every person who directs negative energies to me or others, in any way, is doing so because they are in a sense, damaged, hurt. So it seems to me that the cycle of mimicking the perpetrator stops with us, when we press the pause button on the process that causes us to feel hurt.
I think we can find the power to do this by being nourished by the Sacred Persona(s) of Mary Magdalene and/or Jesus, as they might naturally call out to us. I feel that they are there, and always ready at any moment, to fill us with their love.
In a way, the process reminds me of the way we work with children. You know, when a child is having a bad day or a temper tantrum or such, we take the time to redirect their focus to something positive, trying to move them forward out of negative energies. There are times when children express meanness because they are scared, or threatened, or even just because they are over-tired. The whole thing is a work in progress, for sure.
For me, part of the work of Sacred Union Theology is to gently redirect ourselves and others toward a universal path of love. Step by step, word by word, action by action, we get there!
Love Jennifer
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Thank you for this, Jennifer, your words are really healing. How many times I've felt that "redirecting" energy given to me in my dreams, coming from the mysterious Everlasting. I always enjoy your comments...thanks always. Joan
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I just discovered your blog and podcasts! Having already pre-ordered the new book with Margaret Starbird, I was lead to your web site. Please do more!!! I've just made myself a Magdalene Rosary, that would be a wonderful podcast! Hint, hint
Many blessings and thanks...
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Hi Jen, Thanks for letting us know that you made your own "Magdalene Mysteries Rosary" , that is really great. What kind of gems or beads did you use? What was the experience like for you? What has it been like using the rosary. I love hearing about the dreams, synchronicities, and just nice feelings that tend to happen when we ask for direct connection with the Mary Magdalene/Ssacred Union energies.
Sally (my sister-the-rosary-maker at www.rubylane.com/shops/sallynortonjewelrydesign ) said someone had written to her saying she was going to organize a rosary making circle and I thought that sounded just wonderful. I have two friends who have the garnet rosary and they both wear it like a necklace.
Personally, my spiritual journey right now is on the first prayer, "Mary meets Jesus and is healed of seven demons". I'm seeking to understand that part of the story in a way applicable to our current consciousness. Any thoughts?
Thanks for coming to the blog here and to the podcast also....I look forward to hearing more from you. Joan
P.S. I don't know where you live but if you are in southern California, I'll be giving a workshop at The Kensho Awareness Center in Laguna Beach on Valentine's Day.
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Joan,
You've not been alone in transmuting old masculine energy in the last several weeks. I too've been exposed to it although in a more innocuous way.
What I realized from my experience (in hindsight, unfortunately) is how the feminine must now step into a leadership role and "course correct" the "old" masculine energies. This, I realize, cannot be done from a place of victimhood or competition or anger but from a place of compassion and respect.
It was a BIG lesson, this one ... for the feminine to step up to the plate now. She's being called. She's needed. Is she ready? ... None of that old feminism behavior or response will do ... for that's just more of the old masculine energy anyway! Isn't it?
The feminine ... the Goddess ... is being called and must respond ... with compassion, love, respect and firmness to old masculine ways.
I speak these words to you so that I might hear them for myself; and I'm so grateful for your lovely validating, healing declaration "Jesus Loves Women".
We've done a good piece of work here ... it sounds like we've both taken our experience of this old energy and held it up to the Light to be transmuted rather than being drawn into the drama and victimhood of it all. Yeh!
Love and regard,
Audrey Boser
www.fromheadtoheart.com
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Hi Audrey,
Thanks so much for your thoughtful comment. I've wondered whether the feelings of firmness in a new way are the lovely result of age. I'm 61 and I feel very different in my ability to hold my own and respond with firm kindness to "old energy dramas" of the old power-oriented masculine energies....inside and outside. Compassion and firmness can be the same thing at the same time.
I hope your situation righted itself. So many of the women I know are so very, very ready for increased leadership...... maybe because we've developed a "sacred union within" of balance between masculine and feminine.
I look forward to hearing more from you, xoJoan
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Joan, I've seen this picture of Jesus before. Olga uses it in an exercise where we walk around a group of pictures and pick the one that speaks to us and I picked this one. The one you created looks exactly like it. I wasn't able to save a copy and always wanted one. Now I have it. Wow!
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Hi Connie, Yes this is a riviting picture of Jesus, hard to keep one's eyes off it! Did Olga tell you that it's a picture that Sai Baba materialized for a devotee who loved Jesus? You can read more about it on this website
Thanks for commenting....I know others love the picture too. xoJoan
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Thanks for this. It really helped me out!
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You're welcome... thanks for your interest. Joan
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Thanks so much for your thoughtful comment.
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