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Advent and Pregnancy

 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. ... << MORE >>

Magdalene Circles Change the Spiritual Story of Our Times

Spiritual stories create culture and guide the psychology of an era.. In the long, long span of time spiritual stories evolve to encompass the changing ideas of who we think we are in relation to the
sacred world. The spiritual stories of our time  have generally become too rigid and codified, grown into rule systems that have lost life. You know what I mean. At first the stories were
inspirational, moving people to improve themselves and their lives. Then the formality takes over. Maybe at that point people have learned all there is to learn from those particular ... << MORE >>

Godde was in Her House

GODDE. That's the experience  I had at Rev. Stacy Boorn's HerChurch in San Francisco last weekend. Both the Sacred Masculine and the Sacred Feminine were there. When Rev. Boorn introduces a
passage from the Gospel in her Sunday morning service she prefaces it this way, "Jesus and Mary Magdalene were teaching together and .....".   The idea of this sacred partnership as a
teaching couple is  more and more acceptable, and I think that means their Sacred Marriage can't be too far behind. Maybe they're in a courtship phase in our collective mind. At least they
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Day of the Dead

I had another "ah-ha" moment about Mary Magdalene when I was preparing for last week's on-line Magdalene Circle with Cynthia Jordan and Lerin Winter.  We were doing Lesson 1 from 14 Steps To Awaken the Sacred Feminine: Women in the Circle of Mary Magdalene , which is called "It Was Foretold". It deals with the idea that there was prophecy that the Bridegroom would have a Bride, that the King would have a Queen, that the Sacred Feminine would be partnered again. You can imagine how many times I've studied Margaret Starbird's books......MANY....but this time something jumped off the page ...<< MORE >>

Mary Magdalene's Intimacy with the Mystery World

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 ...<< MORE >>

The World Can't See the Light But Through the Eye of The Magdalene

 If it was Mary Magdalene who saw the Light and told the tale....then we have to say "The world can't see the Light but through the eye of the Magdalene."  
    Darkness preceded her experience of seeing the Light and experiencing the enlightenment. She is Autumn which loses the Light, Winter which  "perceiveth it not", and  Solstice where the Light comes again. Light is surely part of the iconography of Mary Magdalene. She follows her own love and her own life's journey through descent and darkness and then the Light ...<< MORE >>

Mary Magdalene's Gift from the Dark

One of the gifts of the "Descent to the Tomb" sequence of  the Sacred Union love story is prophecy, which is on the spectrum of experience we'd call Intuition.  Mary Magdalene  goes  into the cave/tomb of Jesus because she loves him and he has loved her, she is simply following her heart. But she comes out of the cave/tomb with a prophecy for her people, the "good news" that there's life after death. Life's cycle includes death and life again, on the physical plane in nature and the spiritual plane in life after death. 
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When Can We Have a Mary Magdalene Art Show?

Yes. When can we have an art
show of Magdalene and Sacred Union artwork? Who's embroidering and quiltmaking
and painting and sculpting on the theme of  the Bride of Christ, the
Beautiful One? How will our daughters know we've revived the Sacred Feminine in
our Western Mysteries Tradition, in our story of the ever-renewing Grail cup of
life? 

   Not that I
can paint, but I know lots of  you can. Sheila Greer has been inspired to
paint the Mysteries, and Ruth Thompson has been working with ...<< MORE >>

Mary Magdalene is the Instinctual Feminine

Our instinctual spirituality was fed last weekend at the Mary Magdalene workshop that Margaret Starbird and I gave in Massachusetts.  As our hearts and bodies become free and more free from the constraints of worn-out concepts of God, we've begun to feel God more through our senses. Don't you think so? So when we go through a guided meditation on the theme of "beloveds in the garden" or "journey in a boat with no oars"  our visionary capabilities are working and our bodies are expressing a variety of feelings to ...<< MORE >>

Dreaming the Magdalene

Last week I awoke with a dream teaching in my mind.
It was one of those experiences where you are aware there's been a story going
but it faded and you're left with one sentence or two only. It was something
like this, "You're expanding Mary Magdalene". The word was specifically
"expanding" and it reminded me of the Jungian concept of amplifying dream
material. We talk about associations to dreams from the dreamer's life and also
mythological (religious) themes that the dream brings up. It puts us into a
spiritual perspective ...<< MORE >>