Advent and Pregnancy
Posted by Joan Norton at 11/29/2009 6:48 AM 
Categories: Christmas
Tags: Mary Magadalene 14 Steps To Awaken the Sacred Feminine Women in the Circle of Mary Magdalene Sacred Marriage hieros gamos Bride of Christ
Categories: Christmas
Tags: Mary Magadalene 14 Steps To Awaken the Sacred Feminine Women in the Circle of Mary Magdalene Sacred Marriage hieros gamos Bride of Christ
M-m-m-mmmmm....I feel expectant. It's dark and getting darker in the land. The animals have grown their shaggy coats, knowing to keep warm is harder when we're waiting for the great returning sun. There's something inside me that is waiting and I don't yet know what I'm waiting for . Expectant. Advent. It means that a desired guest is coming, to be welcomed into the house. It's related to the words convent and coven. I'm waiting to welcome a very desired guest into my "inner home", my heart. I'm expecting. I might as well say I'm pregnant, for the sense of mystery that is with me. I don't know who it will be or what it will be.....I just know that I'm going to welcome something new. I think I'll set a candle in the window to light the way for my desired guest. Pregnancy, expectancy, advent, mystery, takes place in the dark. We need candles. 
Mary had no idea what to expect. Which Mary? Both Marys, both Marys as the one Great Mother with all her names throughout all time and as the inner Great Mother who governs the seasons of the land which give us pregnancy, expectancy, and later on...birth. These are the patterns of psychological spiritual growth and change and spiritual transformation. Is Mary escaping to Egypt with the protective Joseph of Arimathea or is Mary wandering from unwelcoming inn to unwelcoming inn? Or is she you awaiting a birth from Mystery inside? It's all the same story and we're beginning to feel it now. It's the part of the story that comes after a wedding, that's one reason we have to have Jesus and Mary Magdalene's wedding as our celebration as well. Otherwise, we don't know how she got pregnant. And it has to be an earthy wedding and follow the sacred pattern of fecundity and holiness of the earth's patterns of life. The sacred and holy stories are earthy stories, for they are Godde's participation in earthy physical life. You know the saying, we are spirit walking a physical path. Walking a physical path in love with physicality, for Love governs all.
Marriage and wedding imply birth, growth, death, and the resurrection of life again, on all planes of existence. We're in the birth part of the story now, which is the darkness part of the story that comes before the birth. The Mystery part of the story, the part where you don't know what will happen next.
The veil between the worlds becomes thinner in the expectancy, Advent time, the time when we look forward to welcoming the guest. That's a typical frame of mind of pregnancy too, when we are comfortable with Mystery. We know that the child is coming from Mystery, whether it's the mystery of genetics or the mystery of the child's own soul story. Or whether it's the mystery of the coming resurrection of life in springtime and the newness it will hold. At Christmastime we allow ourselves to thin the veil between the worlds, we begin to expect something special to happen. And then we're on the path of "believing" and "faith". Yes, I have faith that I am in the presence of Mystery and that I will be surprised.
When an inner birth is coming, when your dreams give you a story that you're pregnant, we count backwards in "real time" to see when the conception was. Dreams are literal that way...just like physical life. When was this baby conceived ? When was a new growth process started in me and what could have caused it? Usually when I count backwards with someone about such a dream, it's pretty apparent what the moment of "marriage" was. The dreamer may have been pondering a new path, new school course, new creative enterprise, new relationship, new belief system, ...new something. Just like a wedding, where we decided to become open and vulnerable to another person's way of life and way of thinking. We start along a path of growth and learning and this will result in new parts of ourselves being born. Our soul pictures this very literally in dreams and we picture it very literally in our greatest spiritual stories.
We're in the Expectancy time.
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