The Call of the Wild
Posted by Joan Norton at 8/6/2010 6:11 AM 
Categories: Seasonal festivals
Tags: Magdalene Circles Goddess spirituality 14 Steps To Awaken the Sacred Feminine Women in the Circle of Mary Magdalene Cynthia Jordan
Categories: Seasonal festivals
Tags: Magdalene Circles Goddess spirituality 14 Steps To Awaken the Sacred Feminine Women in the Circle of Mary Magdalene Cynthia Jordan
The
movement of the year now goes towards renewal. But not yet. It passed the high
sun point and now goes towards the low light. Something has been accomplished
and celebrated and put a little bit to bed. Or just to quiet down. "It's like Christmas," Margaret Starbird said on our last Magdalene Circle show when we were talking excitedly about Mary Magdalene's Feast Day celebrations. It was liberating to me to hear her put it that way, with that magnitude and depth of feeling. Two big celebrations a year of "Godde with us" is better than one.
Who wants to start designing the greeting cards?
There is often an inner lull after a celebration. Sometimes "inner lull" is a nice way to say depression or descent. There's a part of us that feels "it's over"...the good celebration feeling has stopped. The earth energies begin to withdraw from the plants in very, very subtle ways. Barely perceive it. Contemplation is on its way. Good thing we celebrated July 22.
If Mary Magdalene's life stories are truly reflections of the sacred feminine in me and in earth, they will carry the turning of the year's cycle and its natural emotional expressions. We're going towards the "taking stock" time of things, the time of sorting through to save the best and let go of the other. When do I feel that mood in her stories? When do you feel that mood in her stories? Maybe it was in that time in Egypt ....maybe it's in the cave at Saint Baume.
The psychological task at such times is of feeling the feelings and sorting through and waiting for the call of the wild. The call of the wild is whatever will be born of this phase of things...of the half of the year just passed.
Mary the Magdalene is the call of the wild as much as she is devotion to mate and motherhood. What else would you say about a woman who had the nerve to marry the heretic? As representative of such courage, she is that part of ourselves which has the nerve to walk our own path of individuality. Our own unique path with all its intricate variations of being ourselves.
Hi, Joan,
Your writing is a beautiful meditative opening to the deep realms within that describe, and I especially respond to the line:
"She married the heretic."
Ironically, the word "heretic" lets the Sacred Union feel welcoming and safe and life-affirming. It helps me feel that I will be protected me and allowed to follow my own very individual path.
Thank you, Joan!
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What a blessing, to find this note in my InBox today. Sometimes the right words "come out of no where," and I needed to hear these, today. This time of year I always seem to start drowning in feelings, and am learning to give myself mass quantities of time to hear what they are saying....
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Thanks, Cate... so glad I'm not the only one! xoJoan
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Oh Joan! A Merry Magdalene Day to compliment our traditional Merry Christ~mas Time! Let's start designing the new greeting cards today! I so enjoyed our July 22 Magdalene Circle. What a wonderful way to celebrate Her and our one year anniversary with yourself, Margaret, Cynthia and Rene. Many Blessings now and always, Godde be with us each and every one ~ With Love, Lerin
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