Mary Magdalene's Intimacy with the Mystery World
Posted by Joan Norton at 10/25/2009 5:47 AM 
Categories: Goddess and the Sacred Masculine
Tags: Mary Magdalene 14 Steps To Awaken the Sacred Feminine Women in the Circle of Mary Magdalene
Categories: Goddess and the Sacred Masculine
Tags: Mary Magdalene 14 Steps To Awaken the Sacred Feminine Women in the Circle of Mary Magdalene
' Tis the season for intimacy with the sacred world within. The seasonal job of "composting the year", of discernment about what to keep and what to throw, begs for closeness with Godde. (I'm going to try to use Margaret Starbird's word for Deity more often) During this important process and time of year I want to feel the sense of prayers answered, synchronicities abounding, and dreams full of my soul's current concerns. These are intimate, private experiences that are hard to describe. What does it feel like to you when you receive a sudden intuition? Where do you sense it? In your head, in your stomach, in your chest? And what about those fantastic synchronicities where you find yourself in a conversation that is answering just exactly an inner question you had, or a dream's story comes alive during the day? It's a private moment of wonder, that's for sure. A private moment of knowing that you're not alone, that the Mysteries are with you. The Mystery is the Godde, Higher Power, Soul, Inner Wisdom, Creator, or any of the other names we're trying on as we broaden our concepts of spirituality. By whatever name, you know in that moment that you are not alone, in fact, you are in an intimate relationship with the unseen. "Not a hair on your hair goes uncounted." 
Mary Magdalene represents the soul and heart of humanity as we walk our walk with spirit, which can be pictured as Jesus. Earth and Heaven, Body and Soul, Seen and Unseen, Creator and Co-creator. The intimacy of this relationship is in Mary Magdalene's story and that's why we need to have her as "the Bride", it's the only way to illustrate the intimacy of relatedness between ourselves and Mystery.
I was sitting on a chair yesterday and thought to myself, "I'm wedded to The Unseen One Who Cares About Me as closely as I'm molded onto this chair" but a picture of that wouldn't convey the feeling in me of being loved and cared for. For that I need pictures of Mary Magdalene and Jesus' intimacy. They're the ones I find myself staring at for a long time, feeling the feelings.
Everything of life and nature can be all around them but you know they are alone together, somehow separate from the world at the same time as being in the world. That's the feeling I have the moment I realize a prayer was answered or I have an insight to an inner question. I feel I'm in my world but I've just had an intimate moment with my soul. Often the moment is startling to me, startling to realize I'm not alone. Many of the paintings of Mary Magdalene carry this feeling of startle. But it's a good and wonderful kind of sudden startle, not one with fear in it.
When Mary Magdalene is in the "descent to the underworld" phase of her story, the phase that fits right now with Autumn, there is an intimacy in her aloneness and her deep feelings. She's without her earthly lover but she is in communion with her own soul.
How wrong it would look if she didn't have her long flowing hair at such a moment. It's in our inner relationship with our soul that we can really let our hair down, really express what's true to our heart.
Sometimes people are reluctant to keep a journal or record dreams because they fear someone will look at it. They feel they can't let their hair down anywhere without being criticized. But of course, it's in relationship with soul and Godde that criticism doesn't happen. Mary Magdalene shows us how to let our hair down, how to be in intimacy with Mystery, how to have faith that light will come again. I always hope it will come again and again to me by way of dreams and insights and startlingly meaningful coincidences. I promise to hold them in my grail when they do and to allow them to germinate into my life's story.
Hi Joan....what a comforting message to read out here in Tennessee..(temp 35!)...as far as synchronicties, I have had couple this week that were stunning but brought a lot of joy...Yeshua and Mary's union surely is the only answer to attain balance...when Mary went into her "cave" or Autumn, I always like to imagine her, even alone with her thoughts and prayers, that her spiritual "light" from Yeshua and the holy spirit only made life brighter..next painting will be this scene in the series I am working on of the "7 Legendary Mysteries of Magdelene"...joy.: )...
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Dear Sheila,
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Thanks, Joan, for such beautiful and loving guidance to the inner world, which truly does draw me inward at this time of year and this stage of life. I needed and love the image of the Magdalene in sacred relationship with her Soul: Not alone even though her Beloved is in another realm. Never alone when engaged with my Soul. Love, Sandra
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Hi Sandra, My soul is my Beloved and I am the Beloved of my soul. ...... it's a love affair I can appreciate. xoJoan
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