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 spiritual ideas. Our brains are built to continually want to reach for the MORE of us, and that re

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 get to spend time together.      It was an amazing feelin

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 with a new awareness f

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 you receive a sudden intuition? Where do you sense it? In your head, in your stomach, in your chest?  And what

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 comes again, new life awakens.  When Jesus said, "Do this in memory of her", he may as well have be