Magdalene Feast Day Circle with Cynthia Jordan
Posted by Joan Norton at 7/12/2009 5:45 AM 
Categories: Mary Magdalene Feast Day
Tags: Mary Magdalene 14 Steps To Awaken the Sacred Feminine Women in the Circle of Mary Magdalene Cynthia Jordan
Categories: Mary Magdalene Feast Day
Tags: Mary Magdalene 14 Steps To Awaken the Sacred Feminine Women in the Circle of Mary Magdalene Cynthia Jordan
Religion can be so heavy with all its pronouncements, easy to forget that the word means, among other things, a way to steer life towards happiness and "the Good". I guess that's enough reason for it to worry people so much. We really, really, really want to be content and happy. I was worrying in my garden this morning about what I was going to write here and a hummingbird came and hovered in front of my face. I laughed and recognized that for me happiness has so much to do with understanding the meaning of things. Hummingbirds mean "joy" in the sacred medicine ways of earliest America. Joy is also the name of the child born from the love story of Eros and Psyche in the Greek way. Joy is what is birthed from a marriage of opposites, dualities, masculine and feminine. It's what happens inside us when we try our best to live in balance between the needs of the heart and the needs of the head. "You join people together in relationships which bring out the best in them. You know instinctively where beauty abides...." Those are the attributes of Hummingbird, of the joyful union of heaven and earth, god and goddess, masculine and feminine energies inside us, head and heart, Jesus and Mary Magdalene. The union of opposites which we see in all god-goddess couples and in ourselves as balance, brings forth the ability to love life and enjoy life and experience life fully. 
There's alot of defending oneself in holding out for the Sacred Union of Mary Magdalene and Jesus Christ, you often have to deal with people's rigidities, disapproval, or blank stares. It's kind of easy to forget that we're talking about something joyful, a spiritual path which assures you that you'll love life. It's a kind of "taking back" of life from the dungeon of the cosmos where it's been assigned. Earth is not a punishment place where we endure the separation from God, and it's not a hellish place where God experiments on us to teach us lessons. In the "dearest bride and beloved of Christ" sacred union of Mary and Jesus, we are given to know that birth is nigh, and the birth is love of life. Just like it is when you have a baby, the world is created anew and your eyes are opened to a whole new world in "her or him". A new world is automatically born from you and it will live on for the rest of your life as a part of you. And that works as a metaphor for inner birth of consciousness as well, the birth inside of you of the "joyful child" born of the meeting of head and heart. You know you've been doing something right when you dream of a child being born.
Joy for me can be a synchronicity, a moment of understanding why and how the physical world and the invisible spiritual world come together in meaning. Synchronicitiy, when heaven and earth express themselves together in a moment of union.
Like the hummingbird and it's symbolism coming to hover in my face when I was worrying. Or that the Magdalene Circle book came back from the publishers as 144 pages, a number of the sacred canon of numbers which is the measure of the New Jerusalem. It means the "as below" of "as above, so below", the physicalization of the invisible God. The feminine Herself as the physical manifestation of the invisible. It means us humans, we the people, the Bride with her birthing potential. It means "fullness", "completion", that which is created from a union of heaven and earth. The earth and us as a completion. The joy of the Bride is in the number.
Once I had this in my mind as I awoke, "Christ comes to earth by magnetic attraction". It's the feminine energy which draws in the sacred masculine. And another time, this was in my mind, "Christ is not yet fully incarnate." The implication was that Christ cannot be himself without a fully free feminine. And anybody's masculine energy cannot be even functional without partnering with the feminine.
On the July 22 day of love for Mary Magdalene and her Sacred Union, Cynthia Jordan and I will be having a Magdalene Circle on her internet radio show. Tune in and participate, it's 12-2 Pacific time. These circles are a creative catalyst for people. Not because of anything I do, but because it opens up a creative freedom inside of you, a freedom to seek beauty and harmony and to express it in earthy ways. As above, so below.
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Hi Joan... and thank you for such an inspiring article on the masculine/feminine balance..we all feel the need for more joy in our lives and really it is always right in front of us, huh? Driving to work the other day I came upon two deer just standing in the middle of the highway..I stopped my car in a way to prevent anyone from going around me and injuring them...they finally just walked to the side of the road in all their leisure and on their own time!.but was happy the rest of the day. The spirutual union being completed of heaven and earth is so manifest today...be listening July 22 to get some pointers...: )...
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Hi Sheila, thanks very much for sharing your wonderful painting of Mary Magdalene on Facebook, it was great to see it there. I love Facebook because it allows for left and right brain expressions. God invented the physical world (images...right brain) before the left-brained, rational business of "the Word". I love your deer story and I'm imagining how safe they felt when you stopped your car and were just "with" them. A harmonious moment. Thanks for being in the wider world of the Magdalene Circles. xoJoan
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Lovely guidance, Joan. I'm really looking forward to being a part of the online radio broadcast Magdalene Circle. I am sure just listening will be uplifting. Blessings,
Sandra
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Thanks, Sandra, wouldn't it be nice to have an in-person one?
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Hi Joan,
Thank you for your wonderful blog entry. I love the focus on "joy" and on the sweet little hummingbird.
Sometimes I am inspired by the reports of people who have had near-death-experiences, because they all have in common, the experience of an immense joy, a sense of being loved, and of course, a great light. So, I feel quite certain that the state of joy is our original nature, to which we are always returning. And the Sacred Feminine surely brings such beauty and joy and even lightness into the equation of spirituality and religion and sets us on a joyful path.
Sometimes, you are right, people will not see our Magdalene-Jesus path as a good path, but we just keep radiating our joy, understanding that they may not be able to take in what we offer at this point and keep on treasuring our good fortune that we have found Her. Our magical hummingbird, our synchonicities, and our treasured path of Sacred Union tells us how fortunate we are!
Love, Jen
"The Holy Book of Mary Magdalene"
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Hi Jennifer, Yes, I was feeling the need for lightness, that's exactly right. I feel both the heaviness of trying to raise up the Magdalene from the dungeon and also the incredible lightness of the Aquarian future of partnered divinity. xoJoan
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hi Joan, ...happy to see Margaret will be joining you July 22 on Cynthia Jordan's radio show.. cant wait to listen!....: )
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Thanks a million for being there in your beautiful part of the country and for being a voice of the loving Sacred Union of Jesus and Mary Magdalene. Margaret and I are both excited about the radio show next week. Cynthia wants to make it a monthly circle, which would be helpful to lots of women (and loving men). Cynthia, the hostess of the show, is in Texas. She's done some very interesting work on the story of the "Lady in Blue", the bi-locating nun whose mystic abilities are legendary. I love the story because it carries the "secret esoteric traditions" of the left-out feminine. xoJoan
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