Mary Magdalene, Sacred Union, and Medicine
Posted by Joan Norton at 2/16/2009 6:56 AM 
Categories: The Magdalene Rosary, Starting A Magdalene Circle
Tags: Mary Magdalene 14 Steps To Awaken the Sacred Feminine Women in the Circle of Mary Magdalene
Categories: The Magdalene Rosary, Starting A Magdalene Circle
Tags: Mary Magdalene 14 Steps To Awaken the Sacred Feminine Women in the Circle of Mary Magdalene
On Valentine's Day my sister Sally and I drove down to Laguna Beach to give a "Sacred Journey of Mary Magdalene" workshop at Carrie Woodburn's Kensho Awareness Center. When you leave the freeway and go through Laguna Canyon it's moist and enveloping and feels just like the womb of the Great Mother. Surely a sacred site. You know it's a holy site just by feeling it and that's confirmed by knowing the story of the crop circle which appeared here in 1996.It's our only Southern California crop circle, evidence of a moment of Sacred Union between heaven's mystery and earth's magnetic, feelingful consciousness. Just briefly, it came when there were great protests over desecrating the land to build a freeway. As with all wild land, there were many types of plants on the hillside but only two were mysteriously "bent" to create the circle's spoke shapes. Both were English-origin plants...referencing (to me) the English countryside plants were most of the circles are. I'm remembering that those celtic lands are sometimes called "the Holy Land before the Holy Land".This was in 1996. Naturally, the freeway got built anyway. But the Canyon's still holy, you can feel it.
Our first "daughter Circle" will start in Laguna Beach in March at Carrie's studio, a Magdalene Circle to meet once a month. And a couple of other very nice women there said they want to start Magdalene Circles in their towns , in the Burbank and Glendale areas. The Magdalene rosaries which people were most attracted to on Saturday were the ones with the beautiful , graceful picture of "Mary, called the Magdalene" in a locket. Sally made one with amethyst beads which really caught your attention. Carrie wears her garnet bead rosary around her neck all the time, like a couple of my other friends do. I'll have a picture of the Magdalene locket one to show you soon, but here's the garnet one and the pearl one. Seven groups of the Sacred Feminine sevens. Praying with these beads seems to ground the spiritual energy firmly into one's physical life. Not a new idea! I'm using Margaret Starbird 's Magdalene Mysteries prayer sequence to organize my workshop slideshow so my mind doesn't wander all over "Magdalene Land" while I talk. One woman there told me that praying with the beads helps her focus her thoughts purposefully. You may enjoy reading Margaret's personal story of inspiration and revelation in developing her Magdalene Rosary. It's in the prayer section of 14 Steps To Awaken The Sacred Feminine: Women in the Circle of Mary Magdalene
I'm continuing to talk on my Facebook page "Notes" and on the GoddessChristian discussion forum about the symbolism of the new book's cover and I've gotten some great help. My friend Chantal in Bath, England told me that the Thistle which is so prominent on the left side of the picture is also known as Lady's Milk Thistle and other names referring , ostensibly, to the Blessed Mother. I still think it may be a reference to the Knights Templar part of the Grail story. I hope we figure it out.
When we had the book cover picture projected on the wall at the workshop, Gregory Martin made a very interesting observation. Gregory was the "inspirer" of this workshop, having bought his girlfriend (Carrie) a Magdalene rosary for Christmas and then learning about Margaret and me and the Magdalene Circles. Remember how content the unicorn (a.k.a. Christ) looks in Mary Magdalene's lap, with the Garden of Life all around ? Gregory said it seemed to him that the Sacred Masculine needs the loving embrace and "holding" of the Sacred Feminine before it can safely "dip it's horn" into the Waters of Life, the stream. The unicorn's horn was said to have purifying capabilities, but those are only active in a positive way when they are within the sphere, the Garden, of the feminine. Translated into everyday life.... things will work best for a man if he's in good loving relation to a woman and/or to the feminine within himself.
Take another look and let me know what you think.
If you are becoming interested in starting a Magdalene Circle with your friends, to help restore the wisdom stories of "Mary, called the Magdalene" , please don't hesitate to get in touch with me here. We can talk about it in emails. It's going to be easier than you think!
Click Here To See Magadalene Rosaries and Chaplets
click here to order 14 Steps To Awaken the Sacred Feminine: Women in the Circle of Mary Magdalene
Our first "daughter Circle" will start in Laguna Beach in March at Carrie's studio, a Magdalene Circle to meet once a month. And a couple of other very nice women there said they want to start Magdalene Circles in their towns , in the Burbank and Glendale areas. The Magdalene rosaries which people were most attracted to on Saturday were the ones with the beautiful , graceful picture of "Mary, called the Magdalene" in a locket. Sally made one with amethyst beads which really caught your attention. Carrie wears her garnet bead rosary around her neck all the time, like a couple of my other friends do. I'll have a picture of the Magdalene locket one to show you soon, but here's the garnet one and the pearl one. Seven groups of the Sacred Feminine sevens. Praying with these beads seems to ground the spiritual energy firmly into one's physical life. Not a new idea! I'm using Margaret Starbird 's Magdalene Mysteries prayer sequence to organize my workshop slideshow so my mind doesn't wander all over "Magdalene Land" while I talk. One woman there told me that praying with the beads helps her focus her thoughts purposefully. You may enjoy reading Margaret's personal story of inspiration and revelation in developing her Magdalene Rosary. It's in the prayer section of 14 Steps To Awaken The Sacred Feminine: Women in the Circle of Mary Magdalene
I'm continuing to talk on my Facebook page "Notes" and on the GoddessChristian discussion forum about the symbolism of the new book's cover and I've gotten some great help. My friend Chantal in Bath, England told me that the Thistle which is so prominent on the left side of the picture is also known as Lady's Milk Thistle and other names referring , ostensibly, to the Blessed Mother. I still think it may be a reference to the Knights Templar part of the Grail story. I hope we figure it out. When we had the book cover picture projected on the wall at the workshop, Gregory Martin made a very interesting observation. Gregory was the "inspirer" of this workshop, having bought his girlfriend (Carrie) a Magdalene rosary for Christmas and then learning about Margaret and me and the Magdalene Circles. Remember how content the unicorn (a.k.a. Christ) looks in Mary Magdalene's lap, with the Garden of Life all around ? Gregory said it seemed to him that the Sacred Masculine needs the loving embrace and "holding" of the Sacred Feminine before it can safely "dip it's horn" into the Waters of Life, the stream. The unicorn's horn was said to have purifying capabilities, but those are only active in a positive way when they are within the sphere, the Garden, of the feminine. Translated into everyday life.... things will work best for a man if he's in good loving relation to a woman and/or to the feminine within himself.
Take another look and let me know what you think.
If you are becoming interested in starting a Magdalene Circle with your friends, to help restore the wisdom stories of "Mary, called the Magdalene" , please don't hesitate to get in touch with me here. We can talk about it in emails. It's going to be easier than you think!
Click Here To See Magadalene Rosaries and Chaplets
click here to order 14 Steps To Awaken the Sacred Feminine: Women in the Circle of Mary Magdalene
Joan,
I think it's wonderful your Mary Circles are hiving off and growing.....
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Hi Karen, Thanks for your good wishes. I love the imagery of the hive.
We're all doing the same "seeding and growing". I'm going to listen right now to your interview with Jann Clanton...looking forward to it. Readers, check out Karen's incredibly rich-for-the-soul internet radio show podcasts on her website www.KarenTate.com. She's on every Wednesday night but I usually listen to the very, very interesting interviews from the comfort of my bed and laptop a few weeks after they've been on. xoJoan
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hi joan,
wishing all the best in the continued formation of the new circle and many more. >>>just another ob of the painting/the fish, flower, and the unicorn's mouth are all painted blue. a sign of heaven? the color blue the sky, red, the earth =purple, a royal color.. this artist, this wonderful person, had to think like us. so amazing!
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Hi, Yes, I noticed that there is alot of blue, I think you're right about "heaven" .More Unions...heaven and earth. Blue and red making a 3rd color, the royal color purple, is another Union in the picture. I was just noticing the 6 evenly spaced leaves on the thistle plant, creating a circle. I'm beginning to think the artist decided to put in symbols of Sacred Marriage in every single little place he could.
I had wondered if the artist was living in a place and time that was somehow friendly to Grail stories, but Margaret said it's more likely that he painted this way "under the nose of the Inquisition". I hope he got great satisfaction from expressing his heart-felt beliefs in a secret way. Thanks for your comment! Joan
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Greetings Joan!
I love what Gregory mentioned, this inner voice let out a lovely sigh when reading his thoughts about the security of men rooted in the feminine. Gregory sounds much like my partner who has never shied away from my interest in the Magdalene nor the feminine within him and all of us. It's hard to put into words how awestruck and hopeful I feel. Having just begun "The M.M. W/in" and passing along homemade Magdalene Rosaries to other women, I have to believe that something is shifting. The evidence is startling! Yea!!!!!!
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Hi again, It's wondeful to hear about your "sacred partner" and his acceptance of "Mary, called the Magdalene" because we just have to go forward together with men in creation of a new and better world. Hurray for having a man like that in your life. I know men are tired of the "dominator culture" as much as women are because it makes their sensitivity unsafe. Gregory's comment touched many. At the workshop he was talking to my sister Sally and another women about making rosaries that men would want to wear. Not with all the beads but with a symbol for the Sacred Union of some kind. Many women I know wear their garnet or pearl ones all the time, like a necklace.
It feels a little bit like wearing my "home altar" with my Magdalene and Jesus pictures. Afterall, the word "Magdalene" is synonymous with all that we know Gaia to be, and the gems are part of her body. No wonder we're magnetized towards them.
I'm very curious about the rosaries you've been making. What are they like? One of our readers told us about using all kinds of beads and little "found objects" to make hers, giving it a wonderfully personal and alive feeling. I love old buttons....I think I might gravitate that way.
xoJoan
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