This may not seem to have anything to do with astrology, and yet it does because astrology is all about timing. From everything that I've been reading, seeing, feeling...both above and below, without and within...the conflicts that we've been having, we're seeing the rise of the Divine Feminine. Male or female, we are being called to balance the masculine and feminine energies within us. As we move into the Aquarian age, we are being called to embrace justice, compassion, equality, service, living in harmony with others and with all of creation.
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I recently purchased Meggan Watterson's book, Mary Magdalene Revealed: The First Apostle, Her Feminist Gospel and the Christianity We Haven't Tried Yet along with her "The Divine Feminine" Oracle card deck. Fascinating.
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The "Divine Feminine Oracle" contains 53 saints, mystics, poets, priestesses, and holy troublemakers who represent both divine beings and the human women who sought to embody them. Meggan writes, "The potency of this oracle rests in the variety of images of the divine feminine, not just religious diversity, but also race, culture, gender identity, mythology, and geographic location. And also all aspects of the divine feminine, from what's considered light to dark, are exalted in this oracle. ... Each card represents an aspect of the divine feminine that exists within us and that we've drawn because it's time for us to integrate or embody that aspect more fully. The red thread that connects them all is the legacy of love they each represent."
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And I've been getting the feeling that it's time for these voices to be heard. They have so much wisdom to teach us. No more hiding! No more silence! The time is now. Wisdom revealed. These wisdom keepers have so much to reveal, to teach us, and can support us on our life's journey. So when I feel that "nudge", I'd like to offer you the wisdom from one of these inspirational women.
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Today's wisdom comes from Mary Magdalene - The Apostle to the Apostles.
Mary Magdalene
The Apostle to the Apostles
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When Your Soul Selects Her Card
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Mary Magdalene represents the fierce, unwavering love that we all have access to within our own vulnerable hearts. It’s a love that renders all things sacred from the animals to the angels, from the poorest to the most powerful. It’s a love that sees the inherent worth of all things. And it’s a love that remains, even through the darkest times, even through death; her love is the one that resurrects.
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The Gospel of Mary Magdalene relates that Jesus came to unite us, to demonstrate to us a “true human being,” an anthropos, meaning a person who is both fully human and fully divine. This is what Mary became, and it’s why she was so beloved to Jesus. She didn’t seek to follow him; she sought instead to become her true self.
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Mary Magdalene reminds us that we have the power to receive vision from within. We are worthy of such proximity to the divine because that’s the other half of what it means to be truly human. She reminds us that there’s a bridge between heaven and earth, and that we are that bridge. And she wants us to remember that the truest church we can ever enter is in the heart. This is where our true power rests and where love never ends.
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Soul-Voice Meditation
Where has my love not yet reached?
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Intention
I am the bridge between heaven and earth. I am fully human and fully divine.
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Deck: The Divine Feminine Oracle by Meggan Watterson
Artist: Lisbeth Cheever-Gessaman
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For those who would like to know more about Mary Magdalene, there is a lot that you will not find in the Roman Catholic Bible, like her own gospel. It and several other gospels (gospel means "good news") were excluded when the books of the Bible were chosen. And not to forget that there are different Bibles out there that have different "books" in them...Catholic, Hebrew, Eastern and Russian Orthodox, Protestant, etc. Meggan has done extensive research. ....
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Who She Is
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Mary Magdalene embodies the capacity we all have to merge with the soul and receive divine guidance through a love that never ends. Mary was born in the 1st century in Magdala, Israel. She was the first to witness the resurrection, and for this reason is revered in Christianity as the Apostle to the Apostles.
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In The Meaning of Mary Magdalene, author and Episcopal priest Cynthia Bourgeault relates that the Gospels of Thomas, Philip, and Mary Magdalene all reveal Mary not only as Jesus’ beloved companion, kiononos, but also as an equal partner in teaching and transmission. Bourgeault believes that Mary Magdalene’s gospel contains a secret teaching that Christ gave Mary so that she could pass through the seven stages to reach the soul, or the nous, which is the highest point of the soul. And it is this union with her soul that allows Mary to see the risen Christ.
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In classic iconography Mary Magdalene is associated with an egg and the color red because of an Eastern Orthodox legend. It says that she used an egg to teach the court of Tiberius Caesar about resurrection. Caesar doubted her and responded that a person could no more rise from the dead than the egg in her hand turn red. The egg turned red immediately.
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Legends relate that Mary then traveled to the south of France to escape persecution and to continue her ministry. It is believed she lived the last 30 years of her life in the caves at Sainte-Baume. There she met with Christ with a love that inhabits the human heart but that lives on beyond it.
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Personally, I beg to differ with one thing...that Mary Magdalene was the first to witness the Resurrection. Perhaps as recorded in the Bible, but my heart tells me that Jesus would have appeared to his Mother first. Just my own opinion, not gospel. <G>
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Wishing you and yours abundant blessings!
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