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Posted by Joan Norton at 3/4/2010 6:33 AM 
Categories: Events and Premieres
Tags: 14 Steps To Awaken the Sacred Feminine Women in the Circle of Mary Magdalene
Categories: Events and Premieres
Tags: 14 Steps To Awaken the Sacred Feminine Women in the Circle of Mary Magdalene
We're all in the circle together........
Cynthia Jordan's song "Mary Magdalene" is going to be a part of Margaret Starbird's "Miracle Play" on March 20 in the Seattle area. Cynthia chooses the music for our monthly online Magdalene Circle, often using her own beautiful compositions. Her Magdalene song stays in my head a long time after I hear it at the beginning of each Circle. Did you hear Margaret on the February 22, 2010 show describing her play? She said it's going to be videotaped and available so other churches and groups can use it. I think we're in the "post-book" era of the return of Mary Magdalene and we're going to be seeing a lot more paintings, poetry, plays, and music dedicated to the story of Sacred Union. She told us that she'd modeled her play's style on the simple passion plays performed on the steps of cathedrals in medieval times.
Katerina Fretwell's poetry about Mary Magdalene is sweeping and intense and sometimes heart-piercing. She's going to read some more of it on Karen Tate's online radio show March 24, 2010 when I'm on it. Karen's "Voices of the Sacred Feminine" continues to be a fantastic discussion forum for goddess spirituality and the expanding consciousness "movement". Karen is currently teaching the "Cakes for the Queen of Heaven" curriculum at the Goddess Temple of Orange County and I'm going to co-teach the Mary Magdalene section with her in June. I'm grateful for the opportunity to do a little bit to get beyond the "best little apostle in the world" story.
Another online radio show coming up is with with Kala Ambrose in North Carolina. We had a great conversation that will be on air soon, I'll let you know. There were some similarities in my talk with Kala and many other Catholic raised women I'm meeting these days. I keep hearing something like this, "I knew something was wrong with the story when I was little". Kala said she'd really given her priest a talking-to because of what she knew intuitively about Jesus. Other women tell me they wouldn't have even tried to talk to the priest, they just "knew" the spiritual story they were told was wrong. I say this all the time but I'll say it again.... I love these stories because it's so clear that our feminine spirit has the instincts about Sacred Union and the love story that's at the center of our spiritual life. There's a love story at the very center of the "Great Mysteries" of western civilization. Too grand a way to say it? I don't think so.
The Magdalene Rosary and the 14 highlights of Mary Magdalene's life that Margaret Starbird identified continues to grow in my creative life as I work a bit on writing commentary about each prayer. The rosaries and chaplets themselves are getting prettier and prettier. The ones Sally is making now are each unique with different symbols on them, some Celtic and some really beautiful little portraits of Magdalene and other women. Sally is a forward-movement-always Aquarian soul and I should have know she wouldn't be content with making the same design over and over. Those of us who have the original rosaries with garnet gemstones now have collection pieces.
I met a nice young woman named Marcia Frescura this weekend at a workshop in north San Diego county. Marcia has a Magdalene Circle and told me she is liking the flexibility of doing the book's readings and meditations in different and new ways. I'm so happy that the book is used as a template, not a rule book. She also has more than one rosary..... now I don't feel too guilty. Kala Ambrose told me she has a collection of old and beautiful rosaries, and she is very interested in the new way our community is using rosaries. She wants to write about the Magdalene Rosaries in her column in the online Examiner where she can show pictures too.
Write in and let me know about "Magdalene things" that you know about, okay? Thanks.... Christ Consciousness is not fully useful until it's in Sacred Union.
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hi Joan...thanks again so much with informing us of all the current and future "happenings" for Mary Magdelene now and in the coming months...I hope how soon the video of Margaret's play is available for order!..especially since it will be set in medieval times..also, have had the opportunity to hear Cynthia's beautiful music..something special about how it moves one..//the painting of Mary soaring over the prairie kind of gives reference or adds feminine influenze to the Mormon beginnings in the middle 1800's..not sure if this was the intent of the painter..love her holding a tablet..from ancient writings and the bible we learn of "tablets written in heaven" and also of course Moses' tablets of laws. Why should she not have her own tablets?!..love those red and gold easter eggs!!!..thanks again for your uplifting blog entry..happy spring...sheila...: )...
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Dear Sheila,
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Where is the door with pair of green cameos located?
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Hi, It is on a church in the town of Orlean in France. Orlean is one of Joan of Arc's cities. You might find the image by searching about that town. Good luck.
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