The Beloveds Meet in the Garden Again
Posted by Joan Norton at 4/11/2009 6:22 AM 
Categories: The Magdalene Rosary
Tags: Mary Magdalene 14 Steps To Awaken the Sacred Feminine Women in the Circle of Mary Magdalene
Categories: The Magdalene Rosary
Tags: Mary Magdalene 14 Steps To Awaken the Sacred Feminine Women in the Circle of Mary Magdalene
I was helped last week to read Margaret Starbird's Easter greeting to the various discussion forums online. She wished us a good Holy Week as we prepare for the Beloveds to meet in the garden again. Just that phrase was enough to mitigate the weightiness of the Way of the Cross. It started me thinking just what it means to "meet in the garden again" in our normal physical life, because this is a cyclic story of renewal on all levels physical and spiritual. "The Garden" is symbolic of the Life Energy itself, birth growth death birth again. Mary Magdalene has just gone through death and suffering and carried it courageously. Now she meets Jesus again, she meets the Light. In the physical garden of Life once more.
What makes that happen to us in our normal daily life? In what way can I come to the garden again for renewal? The garden is earthy, plants, dirt, animals, Nature. My own nature and my own body. That's what the return is to me, the return to the body's life for a new beginning. Mary Magdalene represents, speaks for, the sacredness of the heart, the body, feelings.
Spiritual Light can be let into our bodies again , our own personal "meet in the Garden", by returning our attention to our body's health and our body's capacity to "be Light". There are all kinds of different ways to do that, one of them is to know that your body responds to the pictures in your mind and the thoughts in your head. When I've gotten overwhelmed with thoughts and feelings that are difficult or sad, I sometimes "meet in the Garden" by picturing flowers associated with the colors of the chakras. Imagining the flower's colors creates the highest possible functioning of each energy center. Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet, and the fountain of Light at the crown. See if you can go through your body's energy centers imagining a flower for each one. You've put yourself into the garden again in your body and the healing will flow into your world.
It's sad that our "corporate" christian story left Mary Magdalene out at this point, but at least we know she met her Beloved again. And from this we know that we also will meet our beloveds again, on earth or in heaven.
Part of what we do in the Magdalene Circles is guided meditations such as the Magdalene Chakra meditation to place ourselves in receptivity to the spiritual energies within us. .Here's a recording of the one I've talked abut today. It reminds me that the "secret tradition" in christianity includes mysticism as well as the Beloveds, Jesus and Mary Magdalene.
Click on the picture ....there's a new Magdalene Chaplet
click here to order 14 Steps To Awaken the Sacred Feminine: Women in the Circle of Mary Magdalene
What makes that happen to us in our normal daily life? In what way can I come to the garden again for renewal? The garden is earthy, plants, dirt, animals, Nature. My own nature and my own body. That's what the return is to me, the return to the body's life for a new beginning. Mary Magdalene represents, speaks for, the sacredness of the heart, the body, feelings. Spiritual Light can be let into our bodies again , our own personal "meet in the Garden", by returning our attention to our body's health and our body's capacity to "be Light". There are all kinds of different ways to do that, one of them is to know that your body responds to the pictures in your mind and the thoughts in your head. When I've gotten overwhelmed with thoughts and feelings that are difficult or sad, I sometimes "meet in the Garden" by picturing flowers associated with the colors of the chakras. Imagining the flower's colors creates the highest possible functioning of each energy center. Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet, and the fountain of Light at the crown. See if you can go through your body's energy centers imagining a flower for each one. You've put yourself into the garden again in your body and the healing will flow into your world. It's sad that our "corporate" christian story left Mary Magdalene out at this point, but at least we know she met her Beloved again. And from this we know that we also will meet our beloveds again, on earth or in heaven. Part of what we do in the Magdalene Circles is guided meditations such as the Magdalene Chakra meditation to place ourselves in receptivity to the spiritual energies within us. .Here's a recording of the one I've talked abut today. It reminds me that the "secret tradition" in christianity includes mysticism as well as the Beloveds, Jesus and Mary Magdalene.
Click on the picture ....there's a new Magdalene Chaplet click here to order 14 Steps To Awaken the Sacred Feminine: Women in the Circle of Mary Magdalene
Thank you for another lovely post, Joan.
For me, my inner garden is what has been called the secret chamber of the heart. It is the spiritual chamber behind the heart chakra, just above and to the center of the physical heart. It is a place where we discover our true Being, and we can only enter it after we have overcome our human mortal identity (crucified our lower egos).
There we meet with our Christ selves, and this consciousness leads us back to Oneness with our Highest identity, our God selves.
Focus on this area during meditation brings our beings back to center and expands the flames of our heart.
Love
Rebecca
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Dear Rebecca,
Thank you for lending us your learning about the inner garden heart chamber. I love your image that this is a garden. Is there a color associated with it like the chakras? I mean vibrationally. The way you describe Christ Consciousness is soft in the best way because I know you include the Sacred Feminine in your understanding. xoJoan
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Always at this time of year I am reminded that although we think of ourselves as human, the vessel of flesh and blood and bone that we live is is not "WHO" we are...we are in truth spiritual being having a human experience which requires that we inhabit this earthy vessel. We are small flames of the eternal light...each of us comes again and again to the beloved as we refresh and renew ourselves in the seasons of our lives. When I first met the Magdalene I was unaware of how this figure of spiritual history would remain a part of my life, now at sixty three I realize that each time my thoughts, my meditations or my writing soars off in Her direction I am blessed with a certain knowing that we are truly spiritual being having a human experience and that those of greater Light, the bearers of Spiritual Truth come to those of us whose spiritul center is open...we become as it seems one with the beloved returning each time to that place where first we knew, certainly, with no human hesitation that we were in the presence of the Holy Grail. When I pass St. Anthony's Cathedral close by my home here in Long Beach, Ca I always take the time to circle the building come in through the front gate and round to the back where there is a bench and a Statue that many must think is the Virgin, but if one meditates there in that garden on this simple statue of a women with her hand on the head of a small child...it becomes clear that she is the Magdalene...I once asked a priest who passed by while I was seated there why this statue had a rosy colored robe and light redish blond hair..."It was a mistake made by the artist and that is why she is in this seperated area...if you wish to pray to the VIrgin you must go round to the east garden." And so it has been through much of the history of the church, there were always those who knew the place of the Magdalene and those who would have her sticked from history. Oddly this is the second time in my life that I have seen such a statue here in the USA, the other is in a small town in South Dakota near where the Passion play is held each weekend in the summer months...there the statue stands desolutely at the back of a large Catholic cemetray. We who know the Magdalene are blessed, we have a Truth written indeminously into our very souls that resonates with Her story and because of that we bear Her Light, the light of the Beloved, we are sanctified to carry on her story, to help others come to know the greater breath, the greater depth of Truth that She alone carries. She touches the Mystic in us all!
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Dear Leah,
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