tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56172838481886607412024-03-15T10:36:30.862+02:00The Mysterium of MaryOur mundane lives contain the sacred and are enclosed in the sacred. Every ordinary act is an act of worship and glorification. The deepest stream of the Divine in our consciousness is birthing a new mythos and we are the mythmakers - Sri Hettienne BhaktyMayi Ma, The Mysterium of Mary
Hettienne Groblerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06171699855415167735noreply@blogger.comBlogger300125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5617283848188660741.post-61408117170646974412023-09-08T11:35:00.001+02:002023-09-08T11:35:51.141+02:00Rosary of the Three Marys<p style="text-align: center;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimTtWIENMXhl1ika89wkBRwNtZeovIbuG0jF7R9S2bcl17KWjSmIwf6I5z5zU7hl_drvcypUDxHyBBSMuBZhhOPrkSRFL1qmI2pazP3f_vWB0gqJhELrpRrN2SZMbL0ne0JIeL6LgLFwZwoyOVWEf8QziTu0adJxqy_J7Jdfcua-RwYX1CUzqa5lH6igs5/s640/threemaries.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimTtWIENMXhl1ika89wkBRwNtZeovIbuG0jF7R9S2bcl17KWjSmIwf6I5z5zU7hl_drvcypUDxHyBBSMuBZhhOPrkSRFL1qmI2pazP3f_vWB0gqJhELrpRrN2SZMbL0ne0JIeL6LgLFwZwoyOVWEf8QziTu0adJxqy_J7Jdfcua-RwYX1CUzqa5lH6igs5/w480-h640/threemaries.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p style="background-color: white; color: rgba(11, 12, 15, 0.95); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;"><strong>Rosary of the Triple Mother, The Three Marys</strong></p><p style="background-color: white; color: rgba(11, 12, 15, 0.95); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;">Start on the <strong>first large bead</strong> of the rosary and invoke the Presence of the Supreme Cosmic Mother</p><p style="background-color: white; color: rgba(11, 12, 15, 0.95); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;"><em>Our Mother of the Cosmos</em></p><p style="background-color: white; color: rgba(11, 12, 15, 0.95); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;"><em>Of the Earth and of the Heaven</em></p><p style="background-color: white; color: rgba(11, 12, 15, 0.95); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;"><em>Our Mother Divine, luminous black light of the darkness</em></p><p style="background-color: white; color: rgba(11, 12, 15, 0.95); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;"><em>Holy Womb of all Creation</em></p><p style="background-color: white; color: rgba(11, 12, 15, 0.95); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;"><em>Holy is Thy name, O Mother of the Cosmos,</em></p><p style="background-color: white; color: rgba(11, 12, 15, 0.95); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;"><em>Bless and nurture Your children</em></p><p style="background-color: white; color: rgba(11, 12, 15, 0.95); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;"><em>In You we trust</em></p><p style="background-color: white; color: rgba(11, 12, 15, 0.95); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;"><strong>Bead 2</strong></p><p style="background-color: white; color: rgba(11, 12, 15, 0.95); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;"><strong>O Dove of Virgin Mary</strong></p><p style="background-color: white; color: rgba(11, 12, 15, 0.95); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;">Give birth to my Soul</p><p style="background-color: white; color: rgba(11, 12, 15, 0.95); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;"><strong>Bead 3</strong></p><p style="background-color: white; color: rgba(11, 12, 15, 0.95); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;"><strong>O Black Madonna</strong></p><p style="background-color: white; color: rgba(11, 12, 15, 0.95); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;">Transmute all my sorrows </p><p style="background-color: white; color: rgba(11, 12, 15, 0.95); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;"><strong>Bead 4</strong></p><p style="background-color: white; color: rgba(11, 12, 15, 0.95); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;"><strong>O Mary Magdalene</strong></p><p style="background-color: white; color: rgba(11, 12, 15, 0.95); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;">Grant me the hieros gamos between body and soul</p><p style="background-color: white; color: rgba(11, 12, 15, 0.95); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;"><strong>Second large bead</strong></p><p style="background-color: white; color: rgba(11, 12, 15, 0.95); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;">O Father-Mother God, Divine One</p><p style="background-color: white; color: rgba(11, 12, 15, 0.95); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;">Hallowed be Thy Name</p><p style="background-color: white; color: rgba(11, 12, 15, 0.95); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;"><strong>The Heart Medal</strong></p><p style="background-color: white; color: rgba(11, 12, 15, 0.95); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;">We love all life as the Divine Three Marys</p><p style="background-color: white; color: rgba(11, 12, 15, 0.95); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;">as we hold the Immaculate Concept in the oneness of the Sacred Heart</p><p style="background-color: white; color: rgba(11, 12, 15, 0.95); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;"><strong>First Decant</strong></p><p style="background-color: white; color: rgba(11, 12, 15, 0.95); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;">Hail Mary, Lady of Grace</p><p style="background-color: white; color: rgba(11, 12, 15, 0.95); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;">Hail Mary, Black Madonna, Mother of the Cosmic Christ</p><p style="background-color: white; color: rgba(11, 12, 15, 0.95); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;">Hail Mary, Magdalene of Love</p><p style="background-color: white; color: rgba(11, 12, 15, 0.95); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;">Bring all our fragmented parts back to us as we rejoice in the Holy Triple Mother</p><p style="background-color: white; color: rgba(11, 12, 15, 0.95); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;"><strong>Second Decant</strong></p><p style="background-color: white; color: rgba(11, 12, 15, 0.95); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;">Hail Mary, Mother of the Immaculate Infant </p><p style="background-color: white; color: rgba(11, 12, 15, 0.95); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;">Hold me, heal my inner child</p><p style="background-color: white; color: rgba(11, 12, 15, 0.95); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;">Transmute my birth, all pain and denial</p><p style="background-color: white; color: rgba(11, 12, 15, 0.95); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;">I am reborn with innocence</p><p style="background-color: white; color: rgba(11, 12, 15, 0.95); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;"><strong>Third Decant</strong></p><p style="background-color: white; color: rgba(11, 12, 15, 0.95); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;">Hail Mary, Black Madonna</p><p style="background-color: white; color: rgba(11, 12, 15, 0.95); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;">Holy Womb of black luminous light</p><p style="background-color: white; color: rgba(11, 12, 15, 0.95); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;">Take from me all sorrow and suffering</p><p style="background-color: white; color: rgba(11, 12, 15, 0.95); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;">Let your healing and love flow into my physical body and heal beloved Earth from all burdens of the hubris of humanity</p><p style="background-color: white; color: rgba(11, 12, 15, 0.95); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;"><strong>Fourth Decant</strong></p><p style="background-color: white; color: rgba(11, 12, 15, 0.95); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;">Black Madonna, Mother of the Night</p><p style="background-color: white; color: rgba(11, 12, 15, 0.95); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;">Blessed art thou, Womb of Holy Fire</p><p style="background-color: white; color: rgba(11, 12, 15, 0.95); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;">Blessed art thou, Mary Magdalene</p><p style="background-color: white; color: rgba(11, 12, 15, 0.95); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;">Lady of the Resurrection</p><p style="background-color: white; color: rgba(11, 12, 15, 0.95); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;">Bearer of Secret Knowledge</p><p style="background-color: white; color: rgba(11, 12, 15, 0.95); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;">Hail Mary Magdalene of Love</p><p style="background-color: white; color: rgba(11, 12, 15, 0.95); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;">Open my heart</p><p style="background-color: white; color: rgba(11, 12, 15, 0.95); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;">Through thy path of fire</p><p style="background-color: white; color: rgba(11, 12, 15, 0.95); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;"><strong>Closing</strong></p><p style="background-color: white; color: rgba(11, 12, 15, 0.95); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;">Let the three-fold blessing of the Divine Mary,</p><p style="background-color: white; color: rgba(11, 12, 15, 0.95); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;">Mary, Mother of Grace, </p><p style="background-color: white; color: rgba(11, 12, 15, 0.95); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;">Mary, Black Madonna</p><p style="background-color: white; color: rgba(11, 12, 15, 0.95); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;">Mary the Magdalene</p><p style="background-color: white; color: rgba(11, 12, 15, 0.95); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;">Thrive in your abundant and devoted heart</p><p style="background-color: white; color: rgba(11, 12, 15, 0.95); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;">And so Be It!</p><p style="background-color: white; color: rgba(11, 12, 15, 0.95); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: rgba(11, 12, 15, 0.95); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;">This rosary and many other prayers are available on www.patreon.com/walkingwithmary</p><p style="background-color: white; color: rgba(11, 12, 15, 0.95); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: left; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9qYb-bEeMaDvOAE4oQoBMLGebfX6dav3Wz-NS9mS01HI909IBTrcZAqWk7xzhikE0WW3-YdE-2G6XczTnwdKof_wzOdtPRnjxugHcI-yXEcsxZPskVmsqpNV7YE4PXaXVdBptHLhI03tNfNzZJiKd9TqhBR51rXlo41ozp_eO_vHrN1e91lShu6SI1-yt/s1093/mom2ndedition.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1093" data-original-width="820" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9qYb-bEeMaDvOAE4oQoBMLGebfX6dav3Wz-NS9mS01HI909IBTrcZAqWk7xzhikE0WW3-YdE-2G6XczTnwdKof_wzOdtPRnjxugHcI-yXEcsxZPskVmsqpNV7YE4PXaXVdBptHLhI03tNfNzZJiKd9TqhBR51rXlo41ozp_eO_vHrN1e91lShu6SI1-yt/w300-h400/mom2ndedition.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><p style="background-color: white; color: rgba(11, 12, 15, 0.95); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: rgba(11, 12, 15, 0.95); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: left; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: rgba(11, 12, 15, 0.95); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: left; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;">in bhakty</p><p style="background-color: white; color: rgba(11, 12, 15, 0.95); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: left; white-space-collapse: preserve-breaks;">Hettienne Ma</p></div><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p>Hettienne Groblerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06171699855415167735noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5617283848188660741.post-73167953107325347862023-06-21T15:45:00.017+02:002023-06-21T17:26:22.873+02:00The Mysteries of the Black Madonna tarot decks<p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsJDDji4QwzeJ1xK0Shnses0eFy3HwWelYiqpljTie9NVZGbmIAgrVdOIi-3DtV9CtDGuuUEVLkICEuoTuc4m1OrBjFT1amvmLj83N3tPYOU8_diQ2CPp1jO9e0XhcsdGLUecpbbWaL5dHbTWWvc9bMZdNNOKPWuNEBewvFzXxraZzrPWozRzMMgeJsIPi/s2016/bmbigcards2.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsJDDji4QwzeJ1xK0Shnses0eFy3HwWelYiqpljTie9NVZGbmIAgrVdOIi-3DtV9CtDGuuUEVLkICEuoTuc4m1OrBjFT1amvmLj83N3tPYOU8_diQ2CPp1jO9e0XhcsdGLUecpbbWaL5dHbTWWvc9bMZdNNOKPWuNEBewvFzXxraZzrPWozRzMMgeJsIPi/s320/bmbigcards2.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /> <p></p><p style="text-align: center;">The Mysteries of the Black Madonna decks have arrived and I can say that</p><p style="text-align: center;">I am so excited to share these cards with you.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhU4p_-5w3kvyiSrrcP4zxcczZINadMAs4mSpLwMm0dyp0ByLTQjJZzSRwNkkfPI3vqbw7krbfzC60HGdoLhHk7rXuy_M480TBF86XRSWKtKbmIu6u5fgGJ9oW7U4O9Fgy3nXeWet8vDjIEnvQlWuK2safPFkAFdyB-_Wo8_2gr2jImwRC4IbbhjevXNujI/s2016/bmbigcards5.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhU4p_-5w3kvyiSrrcP4zxcczZINadMAs4mSpLwMm0dyp0ByLTQjJZzSRwNkkfPI3vqbw7krbfzC60HGdoLhHk7rXuy_M480TBF86XRSWKtKbmIu6u5fgGJ9oW7U4O9Fgy3nXeWet8vDjIEnvQlWuK2safPFkAFdyB-_Wo8_2gr2jImwRC4IbbhjevXNujI/s320/bmbigcards5.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The cardstock is thick yet light. I used a much thicker board than previously.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The corners are die cut digitally and they are perfect.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5MkCQcsCb53WOQZM93gcjLsr-gzOGyLn-wsIt7ybvI_TjrK3QtAA-65lluOmQ7UjwagZzgt6VqurdQP94xYcL4rn3fNtqRTKQqhtOw5Z93TKE8vQui91L59MibuGPhSlVG8DlT5IvZcyc8jYmah6J2ujv0SJuGNmnsL5xADoWLWj9RB1pJ2sR8s01YdZ-/s320/CARDS3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="240" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5MkCQcsCb53WOQZM93gcjLsr-gzOGyLn-wsIt7ybvI_TjrK3QtAA-65lluOmQ7UjwagZzgt6VqurdQP94xYcL4rn3fNtqRTKQqhtOw5Z93TKE8vQui91L59MibuGPhSlVG8DlT5IvZcyc8jYmah6J2ujv0SJuGNmnsL5xADoWLWj9RB1pJ2sR8s01YdZ-/s1600/CARDS3.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;">The edges are now matte black laminated and the finish of the cards is a non-scratch matte.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUWlpUxwD-hiyxzFPaPipPK94S2iXCh4JFpQXDIW58D8fgwhwIeqvrfZdx6pdofihltMBC7kJOgamcJxYDMmywqX7Jw7eFi3OOzlJTTfz0dMZM41KfRiZPnPSYhy13HkRZ8u-kDNS1NJJF_AkRz7tmOrqEI9b5ryTmNG1hP4yDtJRhM_kuf-2oLVUTlY7O/s320/CARDS3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="240" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUWlpUxwD-hiyxzFPaPipPK94S2iXCh4JFpQXDIW58D8fgwhwIeqvrfZdx6pdofihltMBC7kJOgamcJxYDMmywqX7Jw7eFi3OOzlJTTfz0dMZM41KfRiZPnPSYhy13HkRZ8u-kDNS1NJJF_AkRz7tmOrqEI9b5ryTmNG1hP4yDtJRhM_kuf-2oLVUTlY7O/s1600/CARDS3.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJt2ENvpjQJR786pq1MgEWXz5ikT7f9E_-3ZfXhcqQl_U_A4c1F1SIYskUMQdgCVd62h_pj3Q2b5MYORXHJG_ylnQ912HrdPX6TYWB79YtYDbc5J1fCSDSEQxN9LVG7KLafZMTRZTfvoFjIqpCm-ilnGNAwrIaNx9Hzrrrv--s6mwfXRuM3zScY273f6xr/s2016/bmbigcards6.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJt2ENvpjQJR786pq1MgEWXz5ikT7f9E_-3ZfXhcqQl_U_A4c1F1SIYskUMQdgCVd62h_pj3Q2b5MYORXHJG_ylnQ912HrdPX6TYWB79YtYDbc5J1fCSDSEQxN9LVG7KLafZMTRZTfvoFjIqpCm-ilnGNAwrIaNx9Hzrrrv--s6mwfXRuM3zScY273f6xr/s320/bmbigcards6.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The decks now come with a new pouch in a linen type material with the holy card of the Black Madonna of Bavaria transferred on (in the style of the Mysteries of Mary tarot deck)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Sets also come with a black rosary and a black 3D printed figurine of the Black Virgin</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">and of course the guidebook.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4Ow-1fEgt_vIenNOqm2xVR3u67wbGSaLmInPP_st5yU-7WXDVbT_Gxrj3Mi6ca9TODMN7_KV_QHHEgjkqs0WCnqviJzc6oJdiryRSbwKFrX4ygRc2DJln06pyuZk6YwgdlwOn3vaqZmjnlW9hztOc3_Km9dQrCjwLZwvyk2hrsWUcmftNEYv-VwPDm6__/s2016/bmbigcards4.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4Ow-1fEgt_vIenNOqm2xVR3u67wbGSaLmInPP_st5yU-7WXDVbT_Gxrj3Mi6ca9TODMN7_KV_QHHEgjkqs0WCnqviJzc6oJdiryRSbwKFrX4ygRc2DJln06pyuZk6YwgdlwOn3vaqZmjnlW9hztOc3_Km9dQrCjwLZwvyk2hrsWUcmftNEYv-VwPDm6__/s320/bmbigcards4.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Details on my website at www.hergracesacredart.com</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjs5yjj4soXYkcLigdeb54zCxLgRekA97e3O5u5IZF-TQdLqEVZ10QmtCOlFjRLNjb1QzrEIGpRdWcN7DV7FprzJZn3pfUsU1h2VVdEfIQLQVqDdhn8DMva4NbssTWYXhzwR0IBYVMPVfNHxWywcLyYZwRY2ER63SMtAVDvHdwUiEoTCOngmeK9NbQcs0W6/s2016/bmbigcards7.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjs5yjj4soXYkcLigdeb54zCxLgRekA97e3O5u5IZF-TQdLqEVZ10QmtCOlFjRLNjb1QzrEIGpRdWcN7DV7FprzJZn3pfUsU1h2VVdEfIQLQVqDdhn8DMva4NbssTWYXhzwR0IBYVMPVfNHxWywcLyYZwRY2ER63SMtAVDvHdwUiEoTCOngmeK9NbQcs0W6/s320/bmbigcards7.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I will be sharing updates on the second edition of the Mysteries of Mary soon.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I invite you to join the Mysterium of Mary on <a href="http://www.patreon.com/walkingwithmary" target="_blank">Patreon</a> and receive in-depth posts on the path</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">of Marian Shaktypat and the Three Marys.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">in bhakty</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Hettienne Bhaktymayi Ma</div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p>Hettienne Groblerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06171699855415167735noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5617283848188660741.post-32242285774974802812023-05-19T12:24:00.012+02:002023-05-19T14:26:33.802+02:00New Mysteries of the Black Madonna decks<p style="text-align: center;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5Hz69i7tc3qGghjbcjTQzKXhgnkM7SzdBJoYNS-wopx2T8m-64mMMgvv3jZSrIL4M-RYQtc2-Io_pQuYTnZwEWpyo99M0KcG3d4qYLk1DTa4EnQlETsR2KCNlUqYqJkww-wnqDvhkAiKaV_EOzfUdmPhLle_gZ8wgyFHTLZ5kbdKwIi22Za09vc9xWQ/s1093/belovedbm2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1093" data-original-width="820" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5Hz69i7tc3qGghjbcjTQzKXhgnkM7SzdBJoYNS-wopx2T8m-64mMMgvv3jZSrIL4M-RYQtc2-Io_pQuYTnZwEWpyo99M0KcG3d4qYLk1DTa4EnQlETsR2KCNlUqYqJkww-wnqDvhkAiKaV_EOzfUdmPhLle_gZ8wgyFHTLZ5kbdKwIi22Za09vc9xWQ/s320/belovedbm2.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I have copies of the Mysteries of the Black Madonna tarot decks arriving at the end of May.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I offer pre-orders on my website at www.hergracesacredart.com</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Currently these are locked for patrons of my <a href="http://www.patreon.com/walkingwithmary" target="_blank">patreon</a> as this is one of </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">their benefits of supporting my work on an on-going basis.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The Mysteries of the Black Madonna deck now comes with black edging</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjieMtRam26KPQMkjuLehb_0nFUxnlvLMXGMk8D407hyGoIXQomZy1pL2e8RVg5esTqw297Q6lzg9jprEBZvp_wAZ1pmk-WJ1iZ7mnS9jO8Apgz-wDJhPn0JH04JxtU8bHVbkN4xTJPyL0-s4C2OrB5z_FKijtD6pRVMcXmLOp0CMgSYUudxwRZ7XzmYA/s620/blackdecksedges.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="465" data-original-width="620" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjieMtRam26KPQMkjuLehb_0nFUxnlvLMXGMk8D407hyGoIXQomZy1pL2e8RVg5esTqw297Q6lzg9jprEBZvp_wAZ1pmk-WJ1iZ7mnS9jO8Apgz-wDJhPn0JH04JxtU8bHVbkN4xTJPyL0-s4C2OrB5z_FKijtD6pRVMcXmLOp0CMgSYUudxwRZ7XzmYA/w400-h300/blackdecksedges.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>I am also crafting a new bag for the decks, similar to the style of the Mysteries of Mary decks.<p></p><p style="text-align: center;">The bag is black, with the gold satin lining and trim, but now with an added</p><p style="text-align: center;">holy card of the Dark Mother and Holy Child.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgq_WmZlnCKhS_4cbXXgdcTraFlWhN6qGSht5gXjPFl65VYi-C14sSTvDIWv_hzSZbGQYvb_kp2au-KnesqBP_QdX9ZaL1pnmtaAjCwx9xz2GfF_oWiXfw0kMGbvrb1ec7smz-ug3qwYdETUU9vEV0k_YMlmtSbhaplFj8vNHYS2wka7Kz5a6HatrRk_A/s640/newbagsbm1.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Pre-orders will be opened up on Sunday 21 May 2023</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">in bhakty</p><p style="text-align: center;">Hettienne</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />Hettienne Groblerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06171699855415167735noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5617283848188660741.post-72966262418078600152023-01-27T07:44:00.001+02:002023-01-27T07:44:21.745+02:00Mysteries decks are shipping<p style="text-align: center;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbvCzEggBZukWquDGEDfhxKXaorBw3mmVq8349eFh7-OfGBkln1oYvttbLCrCUa7zYkkkxVX6n12ERGr9PRjGq5BCIVixq2MxnRQMfduSBq-fe5LCr-bVcrmXT0D5aOSh1quKdiLjGsfwbp41TbhrTqnkmw3z6bzsbDK0SQEZoKi1E94W_0SLAb28lQQ/s1093/belovedbm.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1093" data-original-width="820" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbvCzEggBZukWquDGEDfhxKXaorBw3mmVq8349eFh7-OfGBkln1oYvttbLCrCUa7zYkkkxVX6n12ERGr9PRjGq5BCIVixq2MxnRQMfduSBq-fe5LCr-bVcrmXT0D5aOSh1quKdiLjGsfwbp41TbhrTqnkmw3z6bzsbDK0SQEZoKi1E94W_0SLAb28lQQ/s320/belovedbm.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I have started to ship the pre-orders for the Mysteries of Mary and the Black Madonna decks.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Some orders are delayed by a week or two by delays in the supply chain. We</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">are dealing with heavy load shedding in South Africa and everything is taking longer, </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">but all orders are being shipped.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">When your parcel is handed in with the couriers, you receive a mail with all details, from </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">my online store. </span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I am waiting on another small batch of both decks and these will be put on sale as soon as they arrive, You can subscribe to this blog for updates or to my <a href="http://www.patreon.com/walkingwithmary" rel="nofollow">Patreon</a> as patrons are notified first</span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I work with a small boutique printing company, with a green footprint and every step of the way is done by hand. All parts of the deck set is handcrafted and it will not be perfect but small irregularities do exist. It is a unique work of art. I do not have access to the big deck printing presses in the rest of the world.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><div class="DraftEditor-paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="fh0f1" data-offset-key="apoja-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-size: 16px; margin: 1em 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="apoja-0-0" style="position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="apoja-0-0" style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The Mysteries decks in Marian Library of Dayton University</span></span></div></div><div class="DraftEditor-paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="fh0f1" data-offset-key="bca3m-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-size: 16px; margin: 1em 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="bca3m-0-0" style="position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="bca3m-0-0"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I once again have very exciting news to share with you. Both the Mysteries of Mary and the Mysteries of the Black Madonna have been acquired by the Marian library of Dayton University in the US. The Marian library is one of the biggest academic resources on Virgin Mary. Both the decks will be displayed in an art exhibition curated by Dayton University at the end of February. The librarians have promised to send photographs of the exhibition which I will share with you.</span></span></div></div></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgszU38o4ZWAd7dJN-yoZw8i_13UDRtjGvVlnYfGsBUv6gNTrWudTnCHjQwWLcN_psy68Z5pFj6IqD2dX3Lfje-_79d_lwc_bcIQoGVFGqmOiFaQNZgV5MvGGcqazrBGaz-N1pq23LXC2_SEzp9yo68CwJtAxdOQpVjG6InWk1iZ7kVK43Rc48mKG2tRQ/s1102/kb1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1102" data-original-width="620" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgszU38o4ZWAd7dJN-yoZw8i_13UDRtjGvVlnYfGsBUv6gNTrWudTnCHjQwWLcN_psy68Z5pFj6IqD2dX3Lfje-_79d_lwc_bcIQoGVFGqmOiFaQNZgV5MvGGcqazrBGaz-N1pq23LXC2_SEzp9yo68CwJtAxdOQpVjG6InWk1iZ7kVK43Rc48mKG2tRQ/w225-h400/kb1.jpg" width="225" /></span></a></div><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /> </span><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvJweLC1g2vRFH6X6VFRRL6gEWqMRUYhTBgiY4SkRSqy4YFuJQvSvrBETNk88p9CLFjwD05YS8eeEMtGKyvqqtpACRPl-p96vUWMEDvtUEW9JS9cE5bgWdoT705tsw1LwIkL0Tka7yUUTA833GhqkflUJFoLkTxznfMZ5amk8ec9F--qZTLWuUf1Y3SQ/s1458/barush3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1458" data-original-width="820" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvJweLC1g2vRFH6X6VFRRL6gEWqMRUYhTBgiY4SkRSqy4YFuJQvSvrBETNk88p9CLFjwD05YS8eeEMtGKyvqqtpACRPl-p96vUWMEDvtUEW9JS9cE5bgWdoT705tsw1LwIkL0Tka7yUUTA833GhqkflUJFoLkTxznfMZ5amk8ec9F--qZTLWuUf1Y3SQ/w225-h400/barush3.jpg" width="225" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><div class="DraftEditor-paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="fh0f1" data-offset-key="f42tn-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-size: 16px; margin: 1em 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="f42tn-0-0" style="position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="f42tn-0-0" style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Imaging Pilgrimage</span></span></div></div><div class="DraftEditor-paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="fh0f1" data-offset-key="ag2p3-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-size: 16px; margin: 1em 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="ag2p3-0-0" style="position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="ag2p3-0-0"><span style="font-family: verdana;">AND the book Imaging Pilgrimage by Dr Kathryn Barush, academic, pilgrim and Marian devotee, is now available in paperback at $26. Which is amazing as the hardcover sold for $180. Its published by Bloomsbury Publishing. I shared details previously of the beautiful book in which the entire chapter 2 is dedicated to my work and the Mysteries of Mary tarot deck. It also contains colour photographs of some of my earlier work.</span></span></div></div><div class="DraftEditor-paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="fh0f1" data-offset-key="9tohj-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-size: 16px; margin: 1em 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="9tohj-0-0" style="position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="9tohj-0-0"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="DraftEditor-paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="fh0f1" data-offset-key="9t8k7-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-size: 16px; margin: 1em 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="9t8k7-0-0" style="position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="9t8k7-0-0" style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Mysteries of the Red Madonna</span></span></div></div><div class="DraftEditor-paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="fh0f1" data-offset-key="b4eil-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-size: 16px; margin: 1em 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="b4eil-0-0" style="position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="b4eil-0-0"><span style="font-family: verdana;">As the Red Madonna deck is unfolding I am getting excited to share it with you. It will be completed by September this year.</span></span></div></div><div class="DraftEditor-paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="fh0f1" data-offset-key="3aqfm-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-size: 16px; margin: 1em 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="3aqfm-0-0" style="position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="3aqfm-0-0"><span style="font-family: verdana;">When I travel to Haridwar with a small group of Flamekeepers on pilgrimage in September, I will buy sarees from</span></span></div></div><div class="DraftEditor-paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="fh0f1" data-offset-key="96vh-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-size: 16px; margin: 1em 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="96vh-0-0" style="position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="96vh-0-0"><span style="font-family: verdana;">which I will make the deck pouches. I will take the material down to the Ganga to be blessed before bringing it back with me. I will also bring back malas to be included with the deck. This will probably only be for a limited number of decks, patrons will get first choice.</span></span></div></div><div class="DraftEditor-paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="fh0f1" data-offset-key="8arfh-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-size: 16px; margin: 1em 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="8arfh-0-0" style="position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="8arfh-0-0"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Most of the altars are covered in pieces or trim of saree cloth</span></span></div></div></blockquote><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">blessings</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Hettienne</span></p>Hettienne Groblerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06171699855415167735noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5617283848188660741.post-53680593243104546692023-01-12T11:28:00.004+02:002023-01-12T12:18:45.857+02:00Pre-orders of the Mysteries tarot decks<p style="text-align: center;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoFEJNuNDCDVmVRPONyNVFY3l7RMOglRhuT3AJspe829fy4wxxCEV41XNaWy4EcpQOLKQ1MAaKFvNGyqrSNDBdHS41J525_GPI6x9HP3lQ0_eX7PlyZBg38ajZMMzm0s-TvW3fmYoPlFuz62VqteFe2hhCiqyPoaSIlRUWiVtlubKE6yBlt7J1SKttZg/s1093/altarmary4.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1093" data-original-width="820" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoFEJNuNDCDVmVRPONyNVFY3l7RMOglRhuT3AJspe829fy4wxxCEV41XNaWy4EcpQOLKQ1MAaKFvNGyqrSNDBdHS41J525_GPI6x9HP3lQ0_eX7PlyZBg38ajZMMzm0s-TvW3fmYoPlFuz62VqteFe2hhCiqyPoaSIlRUWiVtlubKE6yBlt7J1SKttZg/w480-h640/altarmary4.HEIC" width="480" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Thank you for your amazing support.</p><p style="text-align: center;">The pre-order for December/January is now sold out.</p><p style="text-align: center;">I will offer a final batch on pre-order (for the year) during February/March 2023.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Two of us are checking, sorting and packing all the orders and shipping will start on Monday 24 January 2023 and it will take approximately three weeks to get all the parcels off to you. I thank you for your patience. This is a long and slow process as everything is done by myself. </p><p style="text-align: center;">You will receive a notification from my website to say that your deck has been handed in with DHL Courier Express. This will be followed by an email from DHL within 48 hours with tracking details. If you have any issues with missing parcels, please let me know. DHL has a very good track record with my deliveries. Deliveries take approximately ten days worldwide; some countries are a bit slower. I am shipping from Cape Town, South Africa.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxluVR4kdDlwy_B5-7w6W6km0a_g_7VGfmBw-4pC-bEIfJbovIjkZRe0EBXgIyMs4S9pE6N4BjJx3rezLGW6aLZFjG_v-_LluCPxl1-DRGVxgtWkfdQBA3VFcBcM6R9sqlVkEN4TV5HSpVC26nMHEgHz2HQPso0CymL_38XO3_JsQkaPlsxvzkJCyy9g/s1093/belovedbm.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1093" data-original-width="820" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxluVR4kdDlwy_B5-7w6W6km0a_g_7VGfmBw-4pC-bEIfJbovIjkZRe0EBXgIyMs4S9pE6N4BjJx3rezLGW6aLZFjG_v-_LluCPxl1-DRGVxgtWkfdQBA3VFcBcM6R9sqlVkEN4TV5HSpVC26nMHEgHz2HQPso0CymL_38XO3_JsQkaPlsxvzkJCyy9g/w480-h640/belovedbm.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;">Please consider supporting my Walking with Mary community and the Order of the Dove on Patreon : www.patreon.com/walkingwithmary</p><p style="text-align: center;">blessings</p><p style="text-align: center;">Sri Hettienne BhaktymayiMaria Ma</p>Hettienne Groblerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06171699855415167735noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5617283848188660741.post-17162529031986248752022-12-19T16:34:00.000+02:002022-12-19T16:34:01.007+02:00Updates on Walking with Mary and the Hearth of Mary<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK7T91-FWuJbV7ZI-dk_G5Hyy64gBUPD9Sk9y-c29g0wWGag20WhaYSYIlgbwNyHnnMqitHX5lMWT4m-HuZKGfZ_eOX_IRaClZH-pWAESLiRUjzXTnyF_WKJqUU4p2AlFNi2aTNYHuKuYBdBtL8jMsELmrri6YO5v_BmzxkY1wJmyZQKOcszXYUcFgzQ/s1094/ngome%20(2).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1094" data-original-width="820" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK7T91-FWuJbV7ZI-dk_G5Hyy64gBUPD9Sk9y-c29g0wWGag20WhaYSYIlgbwNyHnnMqitHX5lMWT4m-HuZKGfZ_eOX_IRaClZH-pWAESLiRUjzXTnyF_WKJqUU4p2AlFNi2aTNYHuKuYBdBtL8jMsELmrri6YO5v_BmzxkY1wJmyZQKOcszXYUcFgzQ/w480-h640/ngome%20(2).jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"> Mysteries of Mary and Mysteries of the Black Madonna tarot decks are on sale. </div><div style="text-align: center;">I only have a limited amount of decks available and shipping will take place </div><div style="text-align: center;">January 2023.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEPcUaepk947YIbiANhAzaGuoNVozTwXjEsQLupj8Goo-SGRrs-Wshi1tFp53PH9wYUnQf8oaA72nGn7MDfosXEKzjT1EstLmvMqRgJ0DhHb4KRzIlfVsjWoDUOqLWl2y2va2inXamHcufIMdF4Fl-IiDRynwCaA31baydEVUt0aFFmd6Z1ksCZigzkg/s4032/4AB9F911-A878-4919-85CD-CD05608A0426.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEPcUaepk947YIbiANhAzaGuoNVozTwXjEsQLupj8Goo-SGRrs-Wshi1tFp53PH9wYUnQf8oaA72nGn7MDfosXEKzjT1EstLmvMqRgJ0DhHb4KRzIlfVsjWoDUOqLWl2y2va2inXamHcufIMdF4Fl-IiDRynwCaA31baydEVUt0aFFmd6Z1ksCZigzkg/s320/4AB9F911-A878-4919-85CD-CD05608A0426.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi48A0ci-Mxlf89-Yyp5r-jfZ9oq2mOeACu3ik48jDbLhzANN7XoC5gRSKAwhmve4PT-fwU3Tr5qTJoz6ihm_t_zMR4Ve9-lmmNBo4L_-jxS_sfc4Bc5XpczIRSmv53u7Drbgcwzj5_k3rD6cl0wHj3mrL9wso3ZZDRk4Gqs_UBJmv4yZlyMgXleo-ieg/s4032/6A1A0655-50B0-4320-898F-532247162F8A.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi48A0ci-Mxlf89-Yyp5r-jfZ9oq2mOeACu3ik48jDbLhzANN7XoC5gRSKAwhmve4PT-fwU3Tr5qTJoz6ihm_t_zMR4Ve9-lmmNBo4L_-jxS_sfc4Bc5XpczIRSmv53u7Drbgcwzj5_k3rD6cl0wHj3mrL9wso3ZZDRk4Gqs_UBJmv4yZlyMgXleo-ieg/s320/6A1A0655-50B0-4320-898F-532247162F8A.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">The decks have arrived and these are pictures of this new printing. It has taken 18 months</div><div style="text-align: center;">to find a printing company that was willing to co-ordinate various requirements and the</div><div style="text-align: center;">results are good. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwUkNuM9xrPDxtEuYbh0bqq42We9ITJCzTJdzfECDOAOqnSNngqRozgXBhI3Z3zT620UGXemjNAsaa4L2v8eSDSJKYiUxX1kb4PwOGrTKo7v09399CcOuZtbiK8ZlADmSt-PoCj8SgCpcR13QdSUm5xCEUrPmHwm0Tz0m0_C2zSUJ1mKXVpVAkml6XLw/s4032/1C164B93-B5CF-4D9D-9511-3A630853835E.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwUkNuM9xrPDxtEuYbh0bqq42We9ITJCzTJdzfECDOAOqnSNngqRozgXBhI3Z3zT620UGXemjNAsaa4L2v8eSDSJKYiUxX1kb4PwOGrTKo7v09399CcOuZtbiK8ZlADmSt-PoCj8SgCpcR13QdSUm5xCEUrPmHwm0Tz0m0_C2zSUJ1mKXVpVAkml6XLw/s320/1C164B93-B5CF-4D9D-9511-3A630853835E.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoYqIlqGnkZUJ5bTJPHFLuaRb6gTUF7j74cRD7PfgLMopTxAcWT3y57rfcjB4wxvDLqu7hnAEpSF0yc9H0PhZkBX0APKlC60wQEKasFh-mOx_0enSVzOtI7_xs4PGz70l8mGH61LEmxUrsK6hiP8daC_rvWyfK57iPM6tmIH14qFf5xlKj-gkMUEgjZw/s4032/2B28A0B0-9FA9-447D-97FF-261935F87B35.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoYqIlqGnkZUJ5bTJPHFLuaRb6gTUF7j74cRD7PfgLMopTxAcWT3y57rfcjB4wxvDLqu7hnAEpSF0yc9H0PhZkBX0APKlC60wQEKasFh-mOx_0enSVzOtI7_xs4PGz70l8mGH61LEmxUrsK6hiP8daC_rvWyfK57iPM6tmIH14qFf5xlKj-gkMUEgjZw/s320/2B28A0B0-9FA9-447D-97FF-261935F87B35.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNlE62EfKTNG17Rnij_rHgHHWpqEGZIiJ1UKdKovJg4GLe18LeEY7oHzgEL6uy4o4P5wAvQySeNjmOc7mDy7DNIT9P7MTe60i50KseHVoq3Mn6wfVF_E91_ZG9uJHeH1mlbQUZ5g7A4sfsHZws2fr3o8_rJ_eNlJjAayVyArAqeIBV7YoKtW7tjkLX2A/s4032/7E5DDA2A-8C51-47DF-ADB6-54BDDCB558BB.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNlE62EfKTNG17Rnij_rHgHHWpqEGZIiJ1UKdKovJg4GLe18LeEY7oHzgEL6uy4o4P5wAvQySeNjmOc7mDy7DNIT9P7MTe60i50KseHVoq3Mn6wfVF_E91_ZG9uJHeH1mlbQUZ5g7A4sfsHZws2fr3o8_rJ_eNlJjAayVyArAqeIBV7YoKtW7tjkLX2A/s320/7E5DDA2A-8C51-47DF-ADB6-54BDDCB558BB.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdZd18MLmsWsMuzZaRD2gibmZf2pUEJOnAA6Cucq3mcVXByEHsupIZazjBfPO_SufOWZzbQHBBF_z3dQVQN4NdUSDZXk90J-kAJJS-kZYfDOh70wuRbSZQiS5ZDF-ttwU5-lk_5DBoYMsFZHFUwP5ZDqt5tOR6T6EsQqY_PZcELjpFTYvVAQpPsrJhaQ/s4032/98EA67E9-DD60-429D-A20B-88EE77D8A6EE.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdZd18MLmsWsMuzZaRD2gibmZf2pUEJOnAA6Cucq3mcVXByEHsupIZazjBfPO_SufOWZzbQHBBF_z3dQVQN4NdUSDZXk90J-kAJJS-kZYfDOh70wuRbSZQiS5ZDF-ttwU5-lk_5DBoYMsFZHFUwP5ZDqt5tOR6T6EsQqY_PZcELjpFTYvVAQpPsrJhaQ/s320/98EA67E9-DD60-429D-A20B-88EE77D8A6EE.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Since Covid19 South Africa's economy is crippled and the national postal services have collapsed,</div><div style="text-align: center;">I tried shipping out stickers to my patrons on Patreon and only a handful arrived in Europe and very few in the US. There is no international tracking available and lost parcels simply just disappear.</div><div style="text-align: center;">The only option I have is to send decks with DHL Courier Express and it is very</div><div style="text-align: center;">expensive. The only highlight is that if you live in the US and UK you do not pay custom duties as I ship these as printed matter. Shipping prices start at $70 and some are even higher, but I have put up a flat shipping rate and I am subsidizing the extra.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Buyers will receive an email from my website when the parcel is handed in with DHL and you will receive another email from DHL with tracking details.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Delivery worldwide takes between 4 and 10 days depending on the world zone.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTztIz2UIQl6SnOGPk3aQ6s4ZZ89klycdbiGRFld9PnV5X82nFW9d5eReyDr_8OixI66_sG1G-4ct43jd5J3ENn3H_7TeUoH0-VWBPm4FYvBxmA249J6eZDcCwwVfOx_-1FtUkehnMeLACTDtyYFOAB6oETQbWmoY81YTNT1NTH8YQPjTfV63wTtdxXg/s1102/walkingwithmary.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1102" data-original-width="620" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTztIz2UIQl6SnOGPk3aQ6s4ZZ89klycdbiGRFld9PnV5X82nFW9d5eReyDr_8OixI66_sG1G-4ct43jd5J3ENn3H_7TeUoH0-VWBPm4FYvBxmA249J6eZDcCwwVfOx_-1FtUkehnMeLACTDtyYFOAB6oETQbWmoY81YTNT1NTH8YQPjTfV63wTtdxXg/w360-h640/walkingwithmary.jpg" width="360" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">My many blogs (links in the sidebar) have all migrated together to an online Patreon</div><div style="text-align: center;">community at http://www.patreon.com/walkingwithmary</div><div style="text-align: center;">I share on-going themes of the journey with Mary, both spiritual, astrology and tarot.</div><div style="text-align: center;">I focus on various monthly and yearly themes and tiers start at $2 per month.</div><div style="text-align: center;">The highest tiers give you entrance into the Order of the Dove with initiations into</div><div style="text-align: center;">the spiritual path as Flamekeepers.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I also share the creative and spiritual journey and undertaking of creating the Mysteries of the Red Madonna, and Her Beloved tarot deck.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFiavmUK2TTy3mMYLWO2koSpcvYt1Jxj8QhpcDaid481yboZNNJzeniRTuFzPwdZZTUHxqVKE_-BwvRptCB6ei9ves7x3QvMk5w7L4btU04SHV0m0XSMuOeXkvxAWlJJWCQoCuFIsoRc2bZu0nmlv083eHfklo9PEjb8oydYYV18EW7XzpD5L3DtKAIw/s905/aarthivaranasi.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="905" data-original-width="820" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFiavmUK2TTy3mMYLWO2koSpcvYt1Jxj8QhpcDaid481yboZNNJzeniRTuFzPwdZZTUHxqVKE_-BwvRptCB6ei9ves7x3QvMk5w7L4btU04SHV0m0XSMuOeXkvxAWlJJWCQoCuFIsoRc2bZu0nmlv083eHfklo9PEjb8oydYYV18EW7XzpD5L3DtKAIw/w363-h400/aarthivaranasi.jpg" width="363" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">In 2023 I am travelling with 7 Flamekeepers to the cities of Haridwar and Varanasi on a shaktypat retreat. I still have one space available</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-APvfyPmQjHcxo70NFovbbBD8n11a1bAEDOiYvKs82q689OcFH2dDSpHjguFKM-_96hmmZxianugdS7sbFHiTzXPVHSR_KxDmb5LOvl5x4amJG5uqBQu-iAC7WnU2PWfBuVVxR7YGwmrqVzqWqKIFqVcO_ufdTD8rt0Hxu8YMS3SRTuFxnJDogO6rgQ/s620/indiapink.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="620" data-original-width="620" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-APvfyPmQjHcxo70NFovbbBD8n11a1bAEDOiYvKs82q689OcFH2dDSpHjguFKM-_96hmmZxianugdS7sbFHiTzXPVHSR_KxDmb5LOvl5x4amJG5uqBQu-iAC7WnU2PWfBuVVxR7YGwmrqVzqWqKIFqVcO_ufdTD8rt0Hxu8YMS3SRTuFxnJDogO6rgQ/w400-h400/indiapink.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">blessings</div><div style="text-align: center;">Hettienne</div><p></p>Hettienne Groblerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06171699855415167735noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5617283848188660741.post-20917630152094597702022-12-06T09:59:00.000+02:002022-12-06T09:59:16.983+02:00Shaktypat Retreat and Yatra to the holy cities of Haridwar and Varanasi<p style="text-align: center;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpvDRzdt78rKqLFwi-aHGLp8WKXO4ShEF8fJI3l6DfpJiaHk30Bw30u4wjxlt7bAHewWng362JEggfU9OaC5V7PaFdk2CTsqC-LKFSk__lFl7RsiyHnq4zJvjLcpOZVo0UI_PZl6O4q369lRqrDuNFUAsITBj6sDdPQUB53Am4dhdhYdYE8qASEs1m0Q/s820/pinksaree3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="820" data-original-width="820" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpvDRzdt78rKqLFwi-aHGLp8WKXO4ShEF8fJI3l6DfpJiaHk30Bw30u4wjxlt7bAHewWng362JEggfU9OaC5V7PaFdk2CTsqC-LKFSk__lFl7RsiyHnq4zJvjLcpOZVo0UI_PZl6O4q369lRqrDuNFUAsITBj6sDdPQUB53Am4dhdhYdYE8qASEs1m0Q/w400-h400/pinksaree3.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"><span style="font-family: arial;">A yatra/pilgrimage to the holiest city of the Kumbh Mela in India, Haridwar and Benares (Varanasi) City of Lights. I have travelled to India many times since 2009, with groups, on my own and also leading workshops and retreats. Accommodation has been booked in my favourite holy house (haveli) in Haridwar. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"><span style="font-family: arial;">We are a small group of pilgrims travelling from 15 September to 26 September 2023 and I had one cancellation which means that I have spot available on this retreat/yatra.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"><span style="font-family: arial;">If you are interested please send an email to me at <a href="mailto:hgsacredart@gmail.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; font-weight: var(--global-fontWeights-body-default) !important;" target="_blank">hgsacredart@gmail.com</a> and I will send all the details.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGaAWLthlGQ3302nIVOEvpy9_3sL0FXwiMLONMBdna7ZrUn24oTIGvPG-sG3_GFaBlt_-ppewI8q3zaf2t5SHOve-aPgAIZBEtM6OHVyZ9sVCIR9TEWV7lK4UUie1er53giyhNptkbkpWW7M2ESCYaRCwxtz9rjnzRfFa_wLz3cuPXadRc_OPXGkRVRw/s1044/aarthiharidwar2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1044" data-original-width="820" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGaAWLthlGQ3302nIVOEvpy9_3sL0FXwiMLONMBdna7ZrUn24oTIGvPG-sG3_GFaBlt_-ppewI8q3zaf2t5SHOve-aPgAIZBEtM6OHVyZ9sVCIR9TEWV7lK4UUie1er53giyhNptkbkpWW7M2ESCYaRCwxtz9rjnzRfFa_wLz3cuPXadRc_OPXGkRVRw/w502-h640/aarthiharidwar2.jpg" width="502" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Aarthi and darshan at Hari ka Paur ghat in Haridwar</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"><span style="font-family: arial;">15 to 26 September 2023</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"><strong><span style="font-family: arial;">Haridwar, holiest city in India, Kumb Mehla site</span></strong></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"><strong><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></strong></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Five nights in the hundred year old pilgrim house, Haveli Hari Hotel, on the Ganges. I have stayed at the Haveli during each of my visits and am always yearning to return.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"><span style="font-family: arial;">We will be staying in the beautiful Heritage Rooms. The hotel is right in the religious district of Haridwar and we will walk down to aarthi at the ghat and meander through the market stalls selling religious items. We are within walking distance of the promenade where sadhus sit and 'teach'.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The Hari Haveli has a private indoor temple, a private bathing ghat and an in-house priest for special ceremonies or ritual.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"><span style="font-family: arial;">This part of the pilgrimage will include initiations, kundalini mantra, shaktypat, diksha as well as puja by myself. Also the very powerful interaction at the Hari Ka Paur Aarthi with personal participation.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Group meditations, initiations and shaktypat will be held in a private meditation/yoga room in the hotel to coincide with temple and ashram visits and Aarthi. There will be a few hours each day for rest or exploring the markets and walking along the Ganga. Both Haridwar and Varanasi are yatra destinations and the markets supply pilgrims with malas, khumkhum, sandalwood, shawls, statues, silks and much more.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib8yB0vQGc6yMIBAQgDyT_jbJm4Eq2odG-fkB1CEM0EYCbxYJSEndBoe9iByk_OsEXjaIozjUpVT59tCQnTXVV9Wt1MDJPRlDfUKEUb1cSS6NKnVdewqUnXCW2-HEVcKc5THPKduDMefzFgAtLBMRToYaIeSGog6cv1gNm7Fc6k2ZLP3s5KgDc1Qh3Lg/s820/pinksaree2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="820" data-original-width="820" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib8yB0vQGc6yMIBAQgDyT_jbJm4Eq2odG-fkB1CEM0EYCbxYJSEndBoe9iByk_OsEXjaIozjUpVT59tCQnTXVV9Wt1MDJPRlDfUKEUb1cSS6NKnVdewqUnXCW2-HEVcKc5THPKduDMefzFgAtLBMRToYaIeSGog6cv1gNm7Fc6k2ZLP3s5KgDc1Qh3Lg/w400-h400/pinksaree2.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"><span style="font-family: arial;">We will attend aarthi at Har Ki Pauri ghat; you will be able to float prayer flowers down the river and buy garlands as offerings to Ganga Ma. The Haveli offers an inhouse temple and priest, a private ghat for ceremony and ritual as well as a private bathing ghat.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Excursions are booked to the ashram of Anandamayi Ma</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"><span style="font-family: arial;">- a full day visit to Rishikesh and its ashrams as well as attending aarthi at the Parmath Niketan ghat</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"><span style="font-family: arial;">- a visit to the Chandi Devi temple</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"><span style="font-family: arial;">- a tour of the many temples of Haridwar</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"><span style="font-family: arial;">and special restaurants.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Transport has been booked between cities; a combination of rail travel with first class seats and flights.</span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA80oQBwRfmTAuLQ6ZkTNE9N86gVXqpOetLg8BsWWzOzyMLGRBzbqBU8r1vQaE8Z3_qWi1wPRrNwt5JX04ePmJI--Inn9KvLDzx9a5OW61jk0MTqfHv5DV5-ziXI3hEGRVwJCZd9QN9aj6TX9MbAr0xKYzYnSglwZrasXCkUKNESGyV4JQvrbVE338qg/s905/aarthivaranasi.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="905" data-original-width="820" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA80oQBwRfmTAuLQ6ZkTNE9N86gVXqpOetLg8BsWWzOzyMLGRBzbqBU8r1vQaE8Z3_qWi1wPRrNwt5JX04ePmJI--Inn9KvLDzx9a5OW61jk0MTqfHv5DV5-ziXI3hEGRVwJCZd9QN9aj6TX9MbAr0xKYzYnSglwZrasXCkUKNESGyV4JQvrbVE338qg/w363-h400/aarthivaranasi.jpg" width="363" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;">Aarthi on the main ghat of Varanasi (Benares)<br /></span><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><div><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"><strong><span style="font-family: arial;">Varanasi (Benares)</span></strong></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"><span style="font-family: arial;">We will be staying in the pilgrim house Amritara Suryauday Haveli, situated on the main ghat of Varanasi.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Our time here will be spent :</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"><span style="font-family: arial;">- an the evening boat ride on a private boat on the Ganges. You will have the opportunity to place flowers on the river with your prayers. We will witness the incredible Aarthi to Ma Ganga from the boat and see the spectacle in all its magnitude.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"><span style="font-family: arial;">- dawn boat ride on the Ganga. We will travel down to the burning and bathing ghats and witness the city of Varanasi engaged in its ancient sacred rituals. We will explore temples along the ghat</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"><span style="font-family: arial;">- a visit to the Durga temple</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"><span style="font-family: arial;">- a visit to the Kashi Vishwanath temple, known as the Golden Temple, one of seven all across India</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhj7qNzmNfL7llo4owSAzJv_0i4abrrnA64StgAWpdXP-DOf5tHq4VeohmzDU5q2lRMCTsRfe52BQ4Yc-wza1UXO2D_LXkSZfbz3xQqZNcFZ_IrWXQt8PeN1CsS9g1WGDzD0vsTMCtukMk_XNUbmSGp4EJIVhMpY4JxSM4lSU8a57ksCYedDPWETT0Q8A/s930/varanasighat.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="930" data-original-width="820" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhj7qNzmNfL7llo4owSAzJv_0i4abrrnA64StgAWpdXP-DOf5tHq4VeohmzDU5q2lRMCTsRfe52BQ4Yc-wza1UXO2D_LXkSZfbz3xQqZNcFZ_IrWXQt8PeN1CsS9g1WGDzD0vsTMCtukMk_XNUbmSGp4EJIVhMpY4JxSM4lSU8a57ksCYedDPWETT0Q8A/w353-h400/varanasighat.jpg" width="353" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;">Varanasi ghat</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"><span style="font-family: arial;">blessings</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Hettienne BhaktymayiMa</span></p></div></div></div>Hettienne Groblerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06171699855415167735noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5617283848188660741.post-83357178907473988692022-11-27T20:21:00.000+02:002022-11-27T20:21:06.939+02:00Mysteries of Mary tarot deck pre-orders<p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpgQONllzZNdcjOutt8PqmrCHvEdhzPL9NblgSCRCklKD3m6g4gZ3lhLGeekPYV48ulWLjkWl_v1SCvXctgE0Z6P3TDQ8keimhgnYKdPSchXQ3T0TuySteN3hgQT5nh0zq4yp7mCRnm36EqfD5yN3UbXQIm3CbTkyuawnE-eSp3qgNsH5xOC9nLfJIHg/s2812/IMG_5053.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2812" data-original-width="2250" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpgQONllzZNdcjOutt8PqmrCHvEdhzPL9NblgSCRCklKD3m6g4gZ3lhLGeekPYV48ulWLjkWl_v1SCvXctgE0Z6P3TDQ8keimhgnYKdPSchXQ3T0TuySteN3hgQT5nh0zq4yp7mCRnm36EqfD5yN3UbXQIm3CbTkyuawnE-eSp3qgNsH5xOC9nLfJIHg/s320/IMG_5053.JPG" width="256" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">The Mysteries of Mary tarot deck is now available on pre-order. 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The Mysteries of the Black Madonna tarot decks will be available on pre-order by the end of November.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">blessings</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Hettienne</div><p></p>Hettienne Groblerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06171699855415167735noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5617283848188660741.post-56527952412248095032022-03-30T11:37:00.005+02:002022-03-30T11:37:50.149+02:00Mysteries of the Black Madonna tarot deck sale<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqMM_15rgMllx8Gjdgi1NUD2syzLa9kO6PgFft88RaMCEa3SteH9JTIpubaNsNRInW2GO0wO0rEHhtFksevlMErEvbk7rt_03CQRUlYafJy_Q3BYOvOKZqquPwvb2adv-g40Bmu3m_sCX1BGvYC4cK_lwI0lLveL268Gf6-mZF5W6s70A3nkQ4X0NgfA/s640/promo4.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqMM_15rgMllx8Gjdgi1NUD2syzLa9kO6PgFft88RaMCEa3SteH9JTIpubaNsNRInW2GO0wO0rEHhtFksevlMErEvbk7rt_03CQRUlYafJy_Q3BYOvOKZqquPwvb2adv-g40Bmu3m_sCX1BGvYC4cK_lwI0lLveL268Gf6-mZF5W6s70A3nkQ4X0NgfA/w300-h400/promo4.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p style="text-align: center;">The Mysteries of the Black Madonna tarot decks were printed during Covid19's highest lockdown in South Africa. All businesses, except essential services, were closed down for a couple of months. This, together with the collapse of international freight, minimum staff at Customs, and on and on, had a disastrous effect for the printing of a relatively small batch of cards. I had to face challenge after challenge for the printing of both the decks and the books. Businesses were in survival mode and there was no re-printing or tweaking of cards. </p><p style="text-align: center;">Eventually I found a printer that could deliver, but only after I had received 300 decks from various printing company. Some went straight into the recycling, but some I kept.</p><p style="text-align: center;">The Mysteries of the Black Madonna decks are sold out but I do have two boxes of decks that have minor imperfections. I am planning to put these up for sale at a reduced price. </p><p style="text-align: center;">Each deck will be accompanied by a handmade black velvet pouch lined with gold, the guidebook and the deck of cards.</p><p style="text-align: center;">The imperfection is the very noticeable die cut mark on the top and bottom ends of the cards. These cards are also laminated with a waterproof matte layer which makes the cards thicker and sturdier than the ones that I have been selling.</p><p style="text-align: center;">I will share more clear and in detail pictures when they go up for sale in the online shop at www.hergracesacredart.com</p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFyX0S6msOnf-7W5rOK54ckm3YOOEtrUDlSDbJPjD0MMNRY5kELznHdGQdUDxWAF5jiKAfl-TYCKI9pNPfC0_p4plrY1JfHsLKpJ2y3JPwYTrtJZNRP13AvU0C7q9EAFKSLvHP4UsGPQB4OZLDEah5aIkJQbtIm9UridCJRmGXUL8E5Nl7cpINO-BGfw/s640/promo5.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFyX0S6msOnf-7W5rOK54ckm3YOOEtrUDlSDbJPjD0MMNRY5kELznHdGQdUDxWAF5jiKAfl-TYCKI9pNPfC0_p4plrY1JfHsLKpJ2y3JPwYTrtJZNRP13AvU0C7q9EAFKSLvHP4UsGPQB4OZLDEah5aIkJQbtIm9UridCJRmGXUL8E5Nl7cpINO-BGfw/w300-h400/promo5.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><br /> I will also offer the option to purchase one of a variety of miniature Mary statues. These are not available as a purchase on its own as the postal shipping is totally unreliable and there are still countries that are not open for mail from Africa. Shipping is only offered with DHL Courier Express which is a direct delivery by courier.<p></p><p style="text-align: center;">Patrons of The Temple of Mary on Patreon always receive first choice and the date that the decks will be dropped in the shop with everyone else will be shared here on this blog and on my Instagram feed @walkingwithmary. </p><p style="text-align: center;">blessings</p><p style="text-align: center;">Hettienne</p>Hettienne Groblerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06171699855415167735noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5617283848188660741.post-82164452630305613802022-02-16T10:55:00.003+02:002022-02-16T11:24:43.532+02:00Black Madonna of the New Dawn<p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjqiPeVIYKZEGuJTR5IpYS-wvjSLKZFTL4i_yL3PTC7oNdFdOybXXI3KjkFF98MebxYcuOtFfLJquMZd0QkrJfVmpCIcS5gXbR5zZpPCR1f9nJOnrEnKGARobp35erWjEaq3fZNZUfSLMFXvwMDedjGOWSWQU6oXIt1S6Eq4xQIfMiJMbijkrO8nlHFqQ=s640" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjqiPeVIYKZEGuJTR5IpYS-wvjSLKZFTL4i_yL3PTC7oNdFdOybXXI3KjkFF98MebxYcuOtFfLJquMZd0QkrJfVmpCIcS5gXbR5zZpPCR1f9nJOnrEnKGARobp35erWjEaq3fZNZUfSLMFXvwMDedjGOWSWQU6oXIt1S6Eq4xQIfMiJMbijkrO8nlHFqQ=w480-h640" width="480" /></span></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;">An extract from an exclusive post on <a href="http://www.patreon.com/templeofmary" target="_blank">Patreon </a>during the Novena to Our Lady of Living Fire</span><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Nine days of images, art, contemplation and prayer</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhb7EbqavkzcuQyP5gF9RBFBc4SRe2bqW_GXRLnLGko6dKOOmABKv7FNvJdIx4jikw-UIaOcJX5pcZPtrlP3Zb5OovxgFq3RbNokxH9D_SBz4tvmn_87_nIEhbqfgcd4hEdI2yrG_pSXG5k31PwJNSSl2eMvp8b6Pt5gUqTN8_60_mBCyZ4MuQ46BMJUw=s640" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhb7EbqavkzcuQyP5gF9RBFBc4SRe2bqW_GXRLnLGko6dKOOmABKv7FNvJdIx4jikw-UIaOcJX5pcZPtrlP3Zb5OovxgFq3RbNokxH9D_SBz4tvmn_87_nIEhbqfgcd4hEdI2yrG_pSXG5k31PwJNSSl2eMvp8b6Pt5gUqTN8_60_mBCyZ4MuQ46BMJUw=w480-h640" width="480" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"> Our Lady of the New Dawn sacred altar available</span><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">on www.hergracesacredart.com</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="6h07t" data-offset-key="ft6iq-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; margin: 1em 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="ft6iq-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="ft6iq-0-0"><span style="font-family: arial;">It is a soft dawn sprinkled with the drops of birdsong.</span></span></div></div><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="6h07t" data-offset-key="a0mrr-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; margin: 1em 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="a0mrr-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="a0mrr-0-0"><span style="font-family: arial;">In the sky the new moon is hanging just above the rising sun. I ponder my statue of Mary, placed in the most eastern corner of my garden, directly in the light of dawn during the astrological new year. </span></span></div></div><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="6h07t" data-offset-key="gh0-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; margin: 1em 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="gh0-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="gh0-0-0"><span style="font-family: arial;">Cloaked in the haze of the morning light, intense bliss rises in me, both tightening and releasing my heart and chest simultaneously and I hear the voice of Mary.</span></span></div></div><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="6h07t" data-offset-key="4fkdt-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; margin: 1em 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="4fkdt-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span data-offset-key="4fkdt-0-0">'</span><span data-offset-key="4fkdt-0-1" style="font-style: italic;">You are not who you think you are. It is not necessary, and at times quite pointless, to hang on to your weaknesses, foibles and strengths with such intent and focus.</span></span></div></div><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="6h07t" data-offset-key="f4q3r-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; margin: 1em 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="f4q3r-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="f4q3r-0-0" style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Your nature may not always please you, or suit your idea of who you are.</span></span></div></div><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="6h07t" data-offset-key="6623h-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; margin: 1em 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="6623h-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="6623h-0-0" style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The more you resist what is happening in your life and the more you resist your nature, the greater the wall which is blocking the light.</span></span></div></div><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="6h07t" data-offset-key="6crvv-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; margin: 1em 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="6crvv-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="6crvv-0-0" style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Only the warmth of the Light and its spiritual qualities of acceptance, compassion, understanding and peace, can bring life back to the barren wasteland that lies behind that wall.</span></span></div></div><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="6h07t" data-offset-key="9vbop-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; margin: 1em 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="9vbop-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="9vbop-0-0" style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Those who seek do not realise that it appears to them that they are making free and liberated choices, but this is very seldom true. You are a compilation of impressions, feelings, reactions, memories, half-felt emotions, fleeting desires and wishes and unexplored and half-lived dreams.</span></span></div></div><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="6h07t" data-offset-key="cvsmm-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; margin: 1em 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="cvsmm-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="cvsmm-0-0" style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: arial;">You carry within you the memories of all time.</span></span></div></div><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="6h07t" data-offset-key="drj3l-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; margin: 1em 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="drj3l-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="drj3l-0-0" style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: arial;">At times you may appear to be a book, its pages the Keeper of all stories ever told and at other times you may feel like the blank pages, ready to be written onto. </span></span></div></div><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="6h07t" data-offset-key="9fhrd-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; margin: 1em 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="9fhrd-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="9fhrd-0-0" style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Both of these ideas may drive you to frustration, and into trying to become either or both or even </span></span></div></div><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="6h07t" data-offset-key="91co9-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; margin: 1em 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="91co9-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="91co9-0-0" style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: arial;">to transcend the human experience by side-stepping the creative dance of creating and destroying.</span></span></div></div><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="6h07t" data-offset-key="felbt-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; margin: 1em 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="felbt-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="felbt-0-0" style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: arial;">But you are so much more than all of the above. Within you lies the Holy Seed, dormant, waiting on the Kiss of Light. Only the mind, with its ideas like clouds in the sky, is obscuring the Light from awakening the Tree of Life within you.</span></span></div></div><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="6h07t" data-offset-key="2s4b0-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; margin: 1em 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="2s4b0-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="2s4b0-0-0" style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: arial;">A mind locked down with ideas and concepts and beliefs of how you should be, is like concrete poured down onto a pavement. It is only with the wearing away of time and weather that cracks can form, through which the tendril of a soft new plant can grow. This tiny plant has the potential to become the beanstalk that will take Jack into the heavens of the giant.</span></span></div></div><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="6h07t" data-offset-key="9m48m-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; margin: 1em 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="9m48m-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="9m48m-0-0" style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: arial;">A mind concretized with set ideas and theories, is the greatest obstacle to peace and ongoing blossoming and fruiting.</span></span></div></div><p style="text-align: center;"> <span style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;">That moment of absolute alignment with the Spirit within, is the kiss of the Light.</span></p><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="6h07t" data-offset-key="5aj6b-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 1em 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="5aj6b-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span data-offset-key="5aj6b-0-0" style="font-style: italic;">And all you need for that to happen, is to drop everything.</span></div></div><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="6h07t" data-offset-key="4etvd-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 1em 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="4etvd-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span data-offset-key="4etvd-0-0" style="font-style: italic;">By that I mean that you can let your mind and its many doors and passages and rooms, drop away.</span></div></div><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="6h07t" data-offset-key="befi9-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 1em 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="befi9-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span data-offset-key="befi9-0-0" style="font-style: italic;">Over and over.</span></div></div><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="6h07t" data-offset-key="c5cmi-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 1em 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="c5cmi-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span data-offset-key="c5cmi-0-0" style="font-style: italic;">Repeatedly</span></div></div><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="6h07t" data-offset-key="av6l5-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 1em 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="av6l5-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span data-offset-key="av6l5-0-0" style="font-style: italic;">Every day</span></div></div><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="6h07t" data-offset-key="2lpi4-0-0" style="background-color: white; margin: 1em 0px;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="2lpi4-0-0" style="color: #241e12; direction: ltr; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; position: relative; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span data-offset-key="2lpi4-0-0" style="font-style: italic;">Every time</span></div><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="2lpi4-0-0" style="color: #241e12; direction: ltr; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; position: relative; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span data-offset-key="2lpi4-0-0" style="font-style: italic;"><br /></span></div><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="2lpi4-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span data-offset-key="2lpi4-0-0"><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="6h07t" data-offset-key="610ro-0-0" style="color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; margin: 1em 0px; text-align: start; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="610ro-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span data-offset-key="610ro-0-0" style="font-style: italic;"><span data-text="true">You are standing in the Light and each moment that you open your heart and you accept yourself and your nature and the many selves that you have created, you will receive the kiss of Light.</span></span></div></div><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="6h07t" data-offset-key="fg67u-0-0" style="margin: 1em 0px; text-align: start;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="fg67u-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;"><div style="color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-style: italic;">And I ask you to share your love with everyone, as we are all the One.'</span></div><span data-offset-key="fg67u-0-2"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-style: italic; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><span data-text="true" style="color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: center;">- Our Lady of the Living Fire</div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Full article is availabe on Patreon</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">blessings</div><div style="text-align: center;">Hettienne</div></span></span></div></div></span></div></div>Hettienne Groblerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06171699855415167735noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5617283848188660741.post-72223894103044391722022-02-11T14:31:00.005+02:002022-02-11T14:31:41.325+02:00Novena to Our Lady of Living Fire Day 9<p style="text-align: center;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjn5_nI93-UI3rwP-V-cBc3UVMaoNiGIP1uqTYwbiRM8AwguWKohR6jO31WLLDOnYfruheqUZfqyDY-fGEu0mz1IEtXwNsrfFp5jb_21aPY_aarh8-f_ZcO64nruPrpZSNN5Nn9VuGcfscp5l74lnOdJBWcQ-Uw3hcSDC0aUD57NtuYYxELwgokbyXl8g=s826" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="826" data-original-width="620" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjn5_nI93-UI3rwP-V-cBc3UVMaoNiGIP1uqTYwbiRM8AwguWKohR6jO31WLLDOnYfruheqUZfqyDY-fGEu0mz1IEtXwNsrfFp5jb_21aPY_aarh8-f_ZcO64nruPrpZSNN5Nn9VuGcfscp5l74lnOdJBWcQ-Uw3hcSDC0aUD57NtuYYxELwgokbyXl8g=w480-h640" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">A blessed feast day of Our Lady of Lourdes to you.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj8mCBW8BVQgKuxRHlbr9T_rBxxQh6EU0JoxvSL7lNODuE_2QjTnw6IHWvCecLmB0Ukxu177eaij8pfjnpbLwc36cyCLGiiNK33nkHGYyKvhOk0PqU0KYn_s5Ljfr_v_o1DXkL2dqi5dkQ4Sqa9eE6Lilm74ztzsmDpiGu9Vah1RMo-aYsbadD8WoPxBw=s1092" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1092" data-original-width="820" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj8mCBW8BVQgKuxRHlbr9T_rBxxQh6EU0JoxvSL7lNODuE_2QjTnw6IHWvCecLmB0Ukxu177eaij8pfjnpbLwc36cyCLGiiNK33nkHGYyKvhOk0PqU0KYn_s5Ljfr_v_o1DXkL2dqi5dkQ4Sqa9eE6Lilm74ztzsmDpiGu9Vah1RMo-aYsbadD8WoPxBw=w480-h640" width="480" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><p style="font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center;">Apologies for the late post but I decided to do my own puja first and then to share the images with you. These images and objects are imbued with the living fire of Our Lady of Lourdes and you will be able to feel and receive the shakty that is flowing from them</p><p style="font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center;">.<em>An initiate is one who chooses to turn his or her focus inward, into a metaphysical reality and upward into a wider context and upward into a higher consciousness.</em></p><p style="font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center;"><em>An initiation is a ritual which takes the initiate through a doorway and threshold from the mundane ordinary reality into the sacred life.</em></p><p style="font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important;"></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 1rem;">A puja is a ritual dedicated to the worship of one's personal deity or devi.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 1rem;">(also called the Ishta Devata)</span></div><p></p><p style="font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important;"></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 1rem;">As in all ritual there is a certain set of actions; each one designed with a particular focus and effect in mind. Today's puja is one of devotion to Our Lady of Lourdes, Lady of the Living Fire, the Immaculate Conception and out intention is to evoke our spiritual selves through the senses and the open heart.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 1rem;">These rituals and tools are all part of ancient traditions known as tantra yoga which really means a coming together with the entire body, heart and soul.</span></div><p></p><p style="font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center;">Through repeated entry into the spiritual realms we shed the perceptions and projections of the mind and access a wider vision, a deeper connectedness to all of life and transpersonal wisdom.</p><p style="font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; white-space: pre-line;" /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiqB-Q7RSyfwswcXwpwkR-TKP4xhzSr_NMM3Gm3vS9BWVJvx1XLz6P_0e0DDD_8WBjgVTgFiCLrDT40FUOZB8PY7GIoejLXACe9Zr-fsuNkkvgrPm8OkHfZE8lbUYccD_BwZLABmsiunbKaklUXuo53wksWFA81vz1dW293OhgyC1Gr8RQLkXmTAoN3gQ=s1092" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1092" data-original-width="820" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiqB-Q7RSyfwswcXwpwkR-TKP4xhzSr_NMM3Gm3vS9BWVJvx1XLz6P_0e0DDD_8WBjgVTgFiCLrDT40FUOZB8PY7GIoejLXACe9Zr-fsuNkkvgrPm8OkHfZE8lbUYccD_BwZLABmsiunbKaklUXuo53wksWFA81vz1dW293OhgyC1Gr8RQLkXmTAoN3gQ=w480-h640" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; white-space: pre-line;">For today's rite or puja we use fresh flowers, fresh flower petals, incense, music and if you can, and you feel drawn to do so, movement and spontaneous dancing. </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; white-space: pre-line;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg3HHt0REQ8Un_g0ZPcnQWpb7EZ53nrVfQmvfjej-wwrmN7QqKneaKDgbPmFqG0zBY-VFdHz6EB89syP99HJfKTYFeOMRIWIv7ygb-5FUHgs1asq2qF6vvrntdZT-dhn4G9Mg7_ZD6TNdITqar5-MHkpxaGNpSZH_4UiXctiV5gsoTUjSvWkHJL7tMNAg=s1092" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1092" data-original-width="820" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg3HHt0REQ8Un_g0ZPcnQWpb7EZ53nrVfQmvfjej-wwrmN7QqKneaKDgbPmFqG0zBY-VFdHz6EB89syP99HJfKTYFeOMRIWIv7ygb-5FUHgs1asq2qF6vvrntdZT-dhn4G9Mg7_ZD6TNdITqar5-MHkpxaGNpSZH_4UiXctiV5gsoTUjSvWkHJL7tMNAg=w480-h640" width="480" /></a></div><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; white-space: pre-line;">We open our sacred space with the daily prayer. Put your music on and you may want to put it on 'repeat' so that it plays continually. Light the candles. Light the incense and offer the sacred smoke to the items on the altar and to the image of Holy Mary. Pick up your instrument and offer your devotion through voice and song or music. You may feel drawn to move your body in movement and offer </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; white-space: pre-line;">the devotion (bhakty) of your sacred dance to Her.</span><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; white-space: pre-line;">Or however you feel the bhakty move in and through you.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiXLppV59iYbUcpyNafFFQhmH6fsmVseCsWDHapEc-BWYRjEWxV2agJMw-Ln0hIj58H4_dcjRwG9EHFC6elNRFtMwTAY9Y2TNbb7RGi2wKG-MDmdwUAmgxrgW3QKbm355_qO9HHbloBC2o97s6flCHOinsxL0AGVjES64tFrJtqlHmAgnCqSrEm-AwlBw=s1092" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1092" data-original-width="820" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiXLppV59iYbUcpyNafFFQhmH6fsmVseCsWDHapEc-BWYRjEWxV2agJMw-Ln0hIj58H4_dcjRwG9EHFC6elNRFtMwTAY9Y2TNbb7RGi2wKG-MDmdwUAmgxrgW3QKbm355_qO9HHbloBC2o97s6flCHOinsxL0AGVjES64tFrJtqlHmAgnCqSrEm-AwlBw=w300-h400" width="300" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; white-space: pre-line;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; white-space: pre-line;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; white-space: pre-line;">We offer the fresh rose petals to Mary by showering her image with the petals.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; white-space: pre-line;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; white-space: pre-line;">You can also sprinkle some of the rose oil and water from the altar as a blessing.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; white-space: pre-line;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; white-space: pre-line;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjVuWTsT9l9Zj5kis5BQ9iRMgGw6X8F3rFRPnFPsbBGwhGOR8OW79KZCk82ANRQ9ZtFQlCT9nH_3MmyifSEHZ4gyWwZKPcJ162a5bEvJQE4bcNL3dJ61lYPUXu3LDV_SeVfO1GZAHFv6zSViiJ9SX4DBhf312JKg64ON6JWAfHCftX40ovdh42SapmqiQ=s1092" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1092" data-original-width="820" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjVuWTsT9l9Zj5kis5BQ9iRMgGw6X8F3rFRPnFPsbBGwhGOR8OW79KZCk82ANRQ9ZtFQlCT9nH_3MmyifSEHZ4gyWwZKPcJ162a5bEvJQE4bcNL3dJ61lYPUXu3LDV_SeVfO1GZAHFv6zSViiJ9SX4DBhf312JKg64ON6JWAfHCftX40ovdh42SapmqiQ=w300-h400" width="300" /></a></div><br />This is a very evocative and heart opening practise which<br style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; white-space: pre-line;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; white-space: pre-line;">you can do every day or once a week and not only on holy days.</span><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi1qxiUp3yl7c0ARRf2THaz43Q5J7NglQENMOG4_Yatg8VqkWYZ0rIggc4xvkcnnVt8Z7Sfd5MGB52nKoKGIWeKE7m6W2vKCphEVzfWbjhP9DjvkzgTbTO0DMlSFLczJ88udegRFalwHBeqwtU7H1zeXZTQ1zdjPklGkBq7HCmhLhRf0VxxlhBiFveP7A=s1092" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1092" data-original-width="820" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi1qxiUp3yl7c0ARRf2THaz43Q5J7NglQENMOG4_Yatg8VqkWYZ0rIggc4xvkcnnVt8Z7Sfd5MGB52nKoKGIWeKE7m6W2vKCphEVzfWbjhP9DjvkzgTbTO0DMlSFLczJ88udegRFalwHBeqwtU7H1zeXZTQ1zdjPklGkBq7HCmhLhRf0VxxlhBiFveP7A=w480-h640" width="480" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"><strong>Contemplation</strong></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">The woman at Lourdes refuses to give any other name but to say "I am the Immaculate Conception." She does not say, as the Church would have Jesus' mother say, "I am the virgin Mary who has been immaculate from the moment of my conception." (conceived and born without sin of any kind) She says that she IS the Immaculate Conception. The Lady of the Grotto is the embodiment of the cosmos speaking to us as an aspect of God’s own Being. She shows us the breathlessly beautiful immaculate plan – God’s conception of materiality. She is telling us that she is an image of our created, material nature, which is nothing less than a cloak that covers divinity. She uses every means available to communicate to us about who we are and what will help us</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhPliDjPiSxc3iFxAFGA4vw57oNn7YmgJjNwdVpMeoIi2kGmH1kF-QpZT85H6Jhl3QsbOgGygBCw82UyzjIh4b1HaLABU5KY_E3XqjQuvPv_JiFlZV5uioqmQSQiQhyv9I3ytXa_nkTpukRc2a9WrsKYR7oWG8MjTL-6pHeeAPjq8Q26dwvNdPfU52sLA=s1092" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1092" data-original-width="820" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhPliDjPiSxc3iFxAFGA4vw57oNn7YmgJjNwdVpMeoIi2kGmH1kF-QpZT85H6Jhl3QsbOgGygBCw82UyzjIh4b1HaLABU5KY_E3XqjQuvPv_JiFlZV5uioqmQSQiQhyv9I3ytXa_nkTpukRc2a9WrsKYR7oWG8MjTL-6pHeeAPjq8Q26dwvNdPfU52sLA=w480-h640" width="480" /></a></div><br /><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"><span style="text-align: start;">Spirit "wears" materiality like a garment. </span><br style="text-align: start;" /><span style="text-align: start;">This garment is Earth's physical nature – her Body. </span><br style="text-align: start;" /><span style="text-align: start;">She/we are the Immaculate Conception!</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiZ11CJD8g_ozIV3GjLKBsfqLyqaDWBLXnhRzA1lQuZPcT5M2LCdC_o8zPjOQ0Je6rvRN1m6vugm3c8W9Eljt1_oly16n_yj9Q9KLsfCDuy8ECjHU099L-12iwS2oERjaHSpB2BCq1GKkMr7LkklCGyJPlRK6euaVYOxZw9hxtlD7Y-gaSFRBNJ_bffrA=s1092" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1092" data-original-width="820" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiZ11CJD8g_ozIV3GjLKBsfqLyqaDWBLXnhRzA1lQuZPcT5M2LCdC_o8zPjOQ0Je6rvRN1m6vugm3c8W9Eljt1_oly16n_yj9Q9KLsfCDuy8ECjHU099L-12iwS2oERjaHSpB2BCq1GKkMr7LkklCGyJPlRK6euaVYOxZw9hxtlD7Y-gaSFRBNJ_bffrA=w300-h400" width="300" /></a></div><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"><br /></p><p></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">Our emotions, feelings and our energetic heart has the power to alter and transform the electromagnetic field of our world and to move mountains.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">The appearances and manifestations of Mary prove that the idea of separation between our world and the Otherworld is but an illusion. Matter is made up of atoms and those atoms can be altered by the power of belief.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">At sacred sites where the veils of belief have thinned, thousands of people feel the sacred presence of the divine. And this sacred presence transcends all dogma, beliefs and laws. It demonstrates to us that we have the power to alter our collective reality.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">The bigger the crowd of believers in the power of love and beauty, the bigger the collective effect on the perceived and created reality.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiURR5AXQerfa1jOV0bSrCRdoF9u1nqHDDWV_ddaGsUZHzl_8_kFEozwUM5QsgXLswgtPtGZxfUyrZ49datvnMj3e2yJ9_nxRcXnTxYe2T_3-tszcPefft7g8EBUVbtueAHij5bDlCrJEYSNHsFD6qS_dgyOH7vhhI3shKkRwMZ2W6W8KhP7Cf-o8eRXA=s1092" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1092" data-original-width="820" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiURR5AXQerfa1jOV0bSrCRdoF9u1nqHDDWV_ddaGsUZHzl_8_kFEozwUM5QsgXLswgtPtGZxfUyrZ49datvnMj3e2yJ9_nxRcXnTxYe2T_3-tszcPefft7g8EBUVbtueAHij5bDlCrJEYSNHsFD6qS_dgyOH7vhhI3shKkRwMZ2W6W8KhP7Cf-o8eRXA=w300-h400" width="300" /></a></div><br /><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">To me, the Blessed Mother is not limited to any religion, any dogma or any culture. The Soul has her own religion and that is where you will find Her and Her many faces.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">She is present for all</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">Her Grace enfolds everyone</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">You only have to become aware of Her.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgWot_bpaPwCNA2F18GVSgFnWamYUF3gye0rVyKUS2ctl815wSUhMBCsVh3RszQTTkdBI1N6VspQ1tIwSBdMm7YR4MxKOsW0jY6yCYXqzJeg5oJDT41YxKSvMK9fpThk3Q9iMiPWp6l19nzixmNfJIXXdDIpTXlIY1dc5R2HrbrrjThg_5b0VmhOYMxow=s1092" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1092" data-original-width="820" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgWot_bpaPwCNA2F18GVSgFnWamYUF3gye0rVyKUS2ctl815wSUhMBCsVh3RszQTTkdBI1N6VspQ1tIwSBdMm7YR4MxKOsW0jY6yCYXqzJeg5oJDT41YxKSvMK9fpThk3Q9iMiPWp6l19nzixmNfJIXXdDIpTXlIY1dc5R2HrbrrjThg_5b0VmhOYMxow=w480-h640" width="480" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"><strong>Prayer</strong></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">Hail Mary</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">Ave Maria</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">Glory is the one who is our home</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">Glory for the presence in our hearts</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">Glory since the mystery transcends all words.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">all songs, all signs</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">Glory is the hope that makes us live</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">Hail Mary</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">Ave Maria</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">Glory is the wonder that we were and are</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">and will become</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">Glory is the Spirit who invades our bones</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">and makes them shine</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">Glory in the wind and in the fire</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">Glory in the one breath</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">giving life to all the world</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">Hail Mary</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">Ave Maria</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">Glory in the rising earth</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">Glory embracing what we lost</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">Glory in assuming who we are</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">Glory in the One who is whole</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">Hail Mary</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">Ave Maria</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">blessings</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">Hettienne</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"><span style="text-align: start;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>Hettienne Groblerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06171699855415167735noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5617283848188660741.post-61028197794646320472022-02-10T09:23:00.001+02:002022-02-10T09:23:22.413+02:00Novena to Our Lady of the Living Fire Day 8<p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgcxstojp1lqv53NeXvRUr5cfeYyPY4EJQNdl9psR7XMycqGfQb0GtFIv_wMnP8hUX9uWkbxD0QbdSpREL9FzxHS9MEEnLYLBLJJprnSDGRyxx4-jt1LmzIdhGr0Cp54P4F2Czsgrw5yYPCKULGD2PZtrhhbfhMa0BXMageESW776h-lizqVrA1bt81Lw=s826" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="826" data-original-width="620" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgcxstojp1lqv53NeXvRUr5cfeYyPY4EJQNdl9psR7XMycqGfQb0GtFIv_wMnP8hUX9uWkbxD0QbdSpREL9FzxHS9MEEnLYLBLJJprnSDGRyxx4-jt1LmzIdhGr0Cp54P4F2Czsgrw5yYPCKULGD2PZtrhhbfhMa0BXMageESW776h-lizqVrA1bt81Lw=w300-h400" width="300" /></a></div><br /> Sacred Altar VI Holy Mother and Child from the Mysteries of the Black Madonna tarot deck<p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"><strong>Contemplation </strong></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">We are blessed with three mothers in the course of life; our biological mother, mother nature, and Mary, our spiritual mother. Mother being a metaphor in the case of nature and of Mary.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">They are mothers in the sense that they represent a structure that acts in a motherly way; forming, transforming, protecting, instructing, directing and redirecting, warning and initiating. This is an energy in the universe called mother nature and an energy in the soul personified as Mary.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">The life-giving powers in nature were sacred in ancient times and revered as deities, deva, angels and fay.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">Nature has laws that exert an energy that compels and draws but also accompanies us through the phases of life.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">The early Christian <em>Didache </em>communities followed the Way of Life and used gender-inclusive language throughout. Women were called on to lead all sacraments and rites and they called their spiritual Mother, 'the Lord'.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhRZIoOChC3Rdc0thvY1wdV_BrlmexpsX58QyEUCxfMWy77IWQxIbrf0MXhxN4vEoXqgLCMq7mp3305FAmBgTNQuEMAUoPuq19Z6tYoMMa2QSGH57yMbBkFCGn0iDfkcR68Op6jmotJlT_aNXRgwt03DnoIn0FqVhq2ZOR1saq_n8gzNiG3sX5cwuHMxw=s1092" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1092" data-original-width="820" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhRZIoOChC3Rdc0thvY1wdV_BrlmexpsX58QyEUCxfMWy77IWQxIbrf0MXhxN4vEoXqgLCMq7mp3305FAmBgTNQuEMAUoPuq19Z6tYoMMa2QSGH57yMbBkFCGn0iDfkcR68Op6jmotJlT_aNXRgwt03DnoIn0FqVhq2ZOR1saq_n8gzNiG3sX5cwuHMxw=w300-h400" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-line;"><div style="text-align: center;">Aldobrandesca, a medieval mystic of Siena, when close to death had a vision of Mary with this message : 'Daughters, be obedient to the law of the Mother'.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhXr4WXB-r6eIdpPClVnf8cbuaRLqNivYm4rZuN8MTaWTtpamh_x0tQvhVbvPMzhJGCzwatJ4Y8Vqx7Rg6wjKN_5PDslnV4F_6LrwTJxOe4niBYvR5dPDr4SQ0BYfEzAMCzni-5-Xb1aKkhiThF2Fvh6vypp45pkK47YBoST4mTP2pwkgbNC05hN4XU-Q=s1092" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1092" data-original-width="820" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhXr4WXB-r6eIdpPClVnf8cbuaRLqNivYm4rZuN8MTaWTtpamh_x0tQvhVbvPMzhJGCzwatJ4Y8Vqx7Rg6wjKN_5PDslnV4F_6LrwTJxOe4niBYvR5dPDr4SQ0BYfEzAMCzni-5-Xb1aKkhiThF2Fvh6vypp45pkK47YBoST4mTP2pwkgbNC05hN4XU-Q=w300-h400" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"><span style="text-align: start;">Mechtild of Magdeburg saw Mary as the spiritual mother of all humankind : 'I suckled the prophets and sages before God was born'.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"><span style="text-align: start;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgdMUAd_nKGktb4P-IVHrSg4CkoJHC3dsq6SHFxSIj5VVZ2zEIGlnKryYT2ryWswVLBqTqH6m04WZyzwlxkao8Oh2kZHDjna9A7_UCsxmw0JD8xZmGPhVF4iM9vL97Uroo7u-wBug-9u7Ty-J3rNIod_Ml88Q3ETCRZUOrbXmZ08lC4bNZfTZMvqfSK2Q=s1092" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1092" data-original-width="820" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgdMUAd_nKGktb4P-IVHrSg4CkoJHC3dsq6SHFxSIj5VVZ2zEIGlnKryYT2ryWswVLBqTqH6m04WZyzwlxkao8Oh2kZHDjna9A7_UCsxmw0JD8xZmGPhVF4iM9vL97Uroo7u-wBug-9u7Ty-J3rNIod_Ml88Q3ETCRZUOrbXmZ08lC4bNZfTZMvqfSK2Q=w300-h400" width="300" /></a></div><br /><span style="text-align: start;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"><span style="text-align: start;">Juliana of Norwich saw visions of the motherhood of God and also said 'Our Lady is our mother in whom we are all enclosed ..... and our saviour is our mother in whom we are endlessly born ..... To motherhood belong nature, love, wisdom and knowledge, and this is God'</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"><span style="text-align: start;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjozpDIdoMFOWrEcKolTb6LLPsJRJlRYhF_JJatWrmr_7Dq4FcmfWBWLdr7aVa_JATEUv4LEBKy7iAWn89k1WVUm-JHDVOb5GqX1d8lSJC3JXaFIGOpGgbUc7cYvMXawut-MssNtzU4KPVjMTqx1_nnkrG8mdcE96fzr2BTrWB9zLAR6vpkPw1Sz1pEeA=s1092" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1092" data-original-width="820" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjozpDIdoMFOWrEcKolTb6LLPsJRJlRYhF_JJatWrmr_7Dq4FcmfWBWLdr7aVa_JATEUv4LEBKy7iAWn89k1WVUm-JHDVOb5GqX1d8lSJC3JXaFIGOpGgbUc7cYvMXawut-MssNtzU4KPVjMTqx1_nnkrG8mdcE96fzr2BTrWB9zLAR6vpkPw1Sz1pEeA=w300-h400" width="300" /></a></div><br /><span style="text-align: start;">Inciting love in every heart, you bring forth generation after generation - Prayer to Venus, Mother of Rome, by Lucretius (d 55B.C.)</span><p></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgsxnObas-1HdNt3jyMdYkLQJhc0F6oYd8fcabc2R_hMILej0FpbSrE1wJJVK7emjTfbSznkl7PMde-uTv8FZyHv-Q-zIwUjuZM784GAd7WPlKN1ToKNoX1SGt6WtnawntQDIWeY9zCNIRYjSj2GQrpV61y5uOvjrGvLDjKayayxGNcZ3E0eC_fgCj7AQ=s826" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="826" data-original-width="620" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgsxnObas-1HdNt3jyMdYkLQJhc0F6oYd8fcabc2R_hMILej0FpbSrE1wJJVK7emjTfbSznkl7PMde-uTv8FZyHv-Q-zIwUjuZM784GAd7WPlKN1ToKNoX1SGt6WtnawntQDIWeY9zCNIRYjSj2GQrpV61y5uOvjrGvLDjKayayxGNcZ3E0eC_fgCj7AQ=w300-h400" width="300" /></a></div><br /><span style="text-align: start;">The Tao is the great mother, empty and yet overflowing, bringing forth the infinite universe. And it is forever inside you - Tao Te Ching</span><p></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"><span style="text-align: start;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">You will open the hearing of the wayfarer's heart (fu'aadi min saalikin) because the subtle knowledge of Her is Her proof. Grant us union with Her always and cause us to withdraw from every sensory existence.- Songs of Shaykh Muhammad ibn al-Habib</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"><strong>A Mary-Psalter</strong></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">O Mother of beautiful Love</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">You who are our moon and our lamp</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">Our Lady of Heaven and Our Lady of the World</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">Holy Mother of All</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">Aurora radiating the Eternal Sun,</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">the rod smoking with incense,</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">The Lord is with you as the sun is with the dawn going before it,</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">as the flower is with the flowering rod</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">Mother of Dawn, Sun, Rod and mother of all</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">blessings</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">Hettienne</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"><br /></p>Hettienne Groblerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06171699855415167735noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5617283848188660741.post-55168604276364955562022-02-09T14:56:00.002+02:002022-02-09T15:01:08.712+02:00Novena to Our Lady of the Living Fire Day 7<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj4AIRhvVP0MUD3jqfsd3-KHJU44ut1hAzfPeNWlt4gudbMm-VCBivN-7P9Sm1bQe_mtBmIYy3nfADsr-HKKaiohQUh_CIF0R9drMIPqxcE189iTZvpTV03KcxSWcHrFOsOHjgovs9xd7o30O1M4F6hdjOirZis3urrln9fnG6krJ-toPnKvW_SpbEZ9g=s1092" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1092" data-original-width="820" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj4AIRhvVP0MUD3jqfsd3-KHJU44ut1hAzfPeNWlt4gudbMm-VCBivN-7P9Sm1bQe_mtBmIYy3nfADsr-HKKaiohQUh_CIF0R9drMIPqxcE189iTZvpTV03KcxSWcHrFOsOHjgovs9xd7o30O1M4F6hdjOirZis3urrln9fnG6krJ-toPnKvW_SpbEZ9g=s320" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"> <strong style="color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-line;">Contemplation</strong></div><p></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px; white-space: pre-line;">'<em>I am the Immaculate Conception' were the words by which Lady of Lourdes made herself known to Bernadette. She appeared as a Radiant White Lady, known as the Sacred Woman of the Land before Christianity eradicated the knowledge of the spiritual world from the understanding and belief of human beings.</em></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px; white-space: pre-line;"><em><br /></em></p><p style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiFB6QqUMOU9C-IWWMeHTSpTv0VTCsbvd4TyuzOxt5R1q19l2p2clWItdwT_P1XSOyFg8ErU6Tx7q162WlNg95rxlJf92IZBdHabwnVxJ_SwJUBMiZBe1J6JBiD309ipfekEYnSHTy3ecMpzgxkIV24aL2POwBg3DPTLQQ0sL0uLQv8Pe1j-2mzX6thFw=s1092" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1092" data-original-width="820" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiFB6QqUMOU9C-IWWMeHTSpTv0VTCsbvd4TyuzOxt5R1q19l2p2clWItdwT_P1XSOyFg8ErU6Tx7q162WlNg95rxlJf92IZBdHabwnVxJ_SwJUBMiZBe1J6JBiD309ipfekEYnSHTy3ecMpzgxkIV24aL2POwBg3DPTLQQ0sL0uLQv8Pe1j-2mzX6thFw=w300-h400" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span face="aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif" style="color: #241e12; font-style: italic; white-space: pre-line;">Pink Madonna by @maryhenlin on Instagram</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span face="aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif" style="color: #241e12; font-style: italic; white-space: pre-line;">Roses from my garden</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span face="aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif" style="color: #241e12; font-style: italic; white-space: pre-line;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span face="aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif" style="color: #241e12; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; white-space: pre-line;">She appeared at the grotto once sacred to Persephone-Kore, holy daughter of Demeter. On Candlemass we celebrated Mary Magdalene as Black Madonna of the Confession in the crypt of an Abbey that once used to be sacred to Persephone. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span face="aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif" style="color: #241e12; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; white-space: pre-line;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhKiOS56d9wnRZW6gLqJqK14Cq7MFORqdphHA-5BX0MLD5I82W7XitpU9jTgoO7zhDKlLLZcs8b0nrMf2dN6DxYUYIfi-bLxDKwNRApH0cseHhO1ZtMfueikQlbP3UWZqfpnSHlrTnOG0D68nSzWQ6G7yinEY-4VmVjDcUR8f2FEInJuVENl2fcXEzwnQ=s1092" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1092" data-original-width="820" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhKiOS56d9wnRZW6gLqJqK14Cq7MFORqdphHA-5BX0MLD5I82W7XitpU9jTgoO7zhDKlLLZcs8b0nrMf2dN6DxYUYIfi-bLxDKwNRApH0cseHhO1ZtMfueikQlbP3UWZqfpnSHlrTnOG0D68nSzWQ6G7yinEY-4VmVjDcUR8f2FEInJuVENl2fcXEzwnQ=w300-h400" width="300" /></a></div></div><p></p><p style="font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px; text-align: center;">Demeter and her burning torches and the sacred pomegranate</p><p style="font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px; text-align: center;">Statue is a work in progress from a sacred altar in the</p><p style="font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px; text-align: center;">Mysteries of the Red Madonna tarot deck</p><p style="font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px; text-align: center;"><br /></p><div style="text-align: center;"><p style="font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px;">During the feast of Persephone the search of Demeter was re-enacted by the devotees. They walked in procession in the city with lit candles and torches, as Demeter once did.</p><p style="font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px;"><span style="font-size: 1rem;">“Why do we carry candles in this feast? Because the Gentiles [meaning non-Christians here] dedicated the month of February to the infernal gods; and as at the beginning of it Pluto [Hades] stole Proserpine [Persephone], and her mother Ceres [Demeter] searched for her in the night with lighted candles, so they, at the beginning of this month, walked about the city with lighted candles. Because the holy fathers could not wipe out this custom, they ordered that Christians should carry around candles in honor of the Blessed Virgin; and thus what was done before to the honor of Ceres [Demeter] is now done to the honor of the Virgin.” - Pope Innocent XII</span></p><p style="font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; text-align: start; white-space: pre-line;" /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjo_INOrdE123xjk9AIq-uB-VJokwbPe3RcH5-4oepRqTbL4VZNeUsQWd6HLi8mkyV8KSTMPPaRCFj2QmNJMEIoo3MjeuZEgrAu7LQ8XIvAKvaxz6kCK6kaIBHo_LepuYJKKCUdPn5JOIbyuBfY6BMmSZifKvWIlWBiuDwWMZWtD2jAgZsBWEhB4dcuNQ=s640" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjo_INOrdE123xjk9AIq-uB-VJokwbPe3RcH5-4oepRqTbL4VZNeUsQWd6HLi8mkyV8KSTMPPaRCFj2QmNJMEIoo3MjeuZEgrAu7LQ8XIvAKvaxz6kCK6kaIBHo_LepuYJKKCUdPn5JOIbyuBfY6BMmSZifKvWIlWBiuDwWMZWtD2jAgZsBWEhB4dcuNQ=w300-h400" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Mother Eucharista, Black Madonna of Montevergine sacred altar</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The Mysteries of the Black Madonna tarot deck</div><br /><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">The feast day of Mamma Schaviona, Mother Eucharista, in the Mysteries of the Black Madonna, takes place on the same date. Her feast day has been celebrated with the breaking of the bread and wine in the past. Bread and wheat were sacred to Demeter, mother of Persephone and wine to Dionysius. Demeter, Persephone and Dionysius were the key figures in many of the Eleusinian Mysteries.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">The holy daughter, like her mother, is a many faceted goddess. She is Kore, the Maiden who brings the spring. In the Underworld she is Persephone (Proserpina) who receives the disembodied souls. After her descent into the Underworld, she dies to her maidenhood as becomes the bride and sacred lover of Plouton, the God of Death. She is a radiant source of light in the Underworld and initiates the newly dead into Elysium and introduces them to the knowledge of their own divinity. She destroys the initiate's fear of death. She is the one who has overcome the fear of death and death itself as she had descended into the Underworld and yet returned to life again. One of the important messages of the Mysteries are that death is not the end.</p><div><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhf_SamAxTehmWCX0VfkfIDi71l3kmH_b513VK9j4b4KdoSfWA_Bh2WdJ6f-fNFmqOgpu5zVoSAP2EpGuW3GEe5ZyEORYdRDGjU7Sa19a9Use5NQTD6ME71tw8Ew4H65NGtt4zJHT237HWYzFLSpXN-FJG8SYntCdy3yZEthLrY8DY2iNXUYnfJ4UjhrQ=s1092" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1092" data-original-width="820" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhf_SamAxTehmWCX0VfkfIDi71l3kmH_b513VK9j4b4KdoSfWA_Bh2WdJ6f-fNFmqOgpu5zVoSAP2EpGuW3GEe5ZyEORYdRDGjU7Sa19a9Use5NQTD6ME71tw8Ew4H65NGtt4zJHT237HWYzFLSpXN-FJG8SYntCdy3yZEthLrY8DY2iNXUYnfJ4UjhrQ=w300-h400" width="300" /></a></div>Exquisitely fragrant roses all from my Mary garden</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><span face="aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; white-space: pre-line;">There is also a powerful connection shown between Persephone and Aphrodite in ancient works of art. Love, an aspect of Aphrodite and later Mary, is what draws Persephone and Plouton together. Persephone is often shown with doves, (sacred to Mary), always with the five petalled rose and lily and an ointment jar (sacred to Mary Magdalene) She is also accompanied by the hen, similar to many Black Madonnas and especially Madonna of the Hens. As the maiden she is often accompanied by the swan</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiFXvNUZMot7YtSKD4xARr1EQvAoorRBaQRg9HO0-zBCryPSjU3KF-pVRgpDHGF8L9gq1umFvOJO5RUd3UCE8eb_EtN3ZHYIMsAyua6aijTg6Thcc9A6edF2tmli8BUJKfnAGmcFTSIZG97x6YobXjyWINJUXXx7od0tay7NMQKRJYOHQUA_WjK0yc6cw=s1092" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1092" data-original-width="820" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiFXvNUZMot7YtSKD4xARr1EQvAoorRBaQRg9HO0-zBCryPSjU3KF-pVRgpDHGF8L9gq1umFvOJO5RUd3UCE8eb_EtN3ZHYIMsAyua6aijTg6Thcc9A6edF2tmli8BUJKfnAGmcFTSIZG97x6YobXjyWINJUXXx7od0tay7NMQKRJYOHQUA_WjK0yc6cw=w300-h400" width="300" /></a></div><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">The Red Madonna and Her Beloved sacred altar wip</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">from the Mysteries of the Red Madonna tarot deck</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px; text-align: start; white-space: pre-line;">As Queen of the Underworld, Persephone's sacred union with the god of Death is essential to the continuation of the seasons and to life. The rape of Persephone is not part of the original tradition nor story. Many modern authors view the story of the maiden and her descent very differently to the well-known hymn by Homer, called 'Hymn to Demeter'. Research has shown that this part of the story were changed when the change from a matriarchal society to a patriarchal society began. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg2EINU9VBNA2NCzYQwpQUJ_xRikmoA0S8sc1HX6EgEZAe_EmIoXCNKioWMQtwYC1G1ugWY8-jmGepuP7tH9Xi8NUGMI9g7QpvSiPGo78eMAas6L8upbVyf7Tplg_7mXEqK7sFP-CJMEanmwvCNbgwLNGRoGD_HZsLNg2LKmgFr5xJtAVMk3znGu2I21A=s1092" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1092" data-original-width="820" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg2EINU9VBNA2NCzYQwpQUJ_xRikmoA0S8sc1HX6EgEZAe_EmIoXCNKioWMQtwYC1G1ugWY8-jmGepuP7tH9Xi8NUGMI9g7QpvSiPGo78eMAas6L8upbVyf7Tplg_7mXEqK7sFP-CJMEanmwvCNbgwLNGRoGD_HZsLNg2LKmgFr5xJtAVMk3znGu2I21A=w300-h400" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face="aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; white-space: pre-line;">Clarissa Pinkola Estes writes in Women who run with Wolves, that in older matristic tales of the East, the Maiden had a desire to descend below in order to find her bridegroom. In older myths such as Inanna, the Maiden knows her destiny and chooses to meet if of her own free will.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhZASlPQGxPOH5NKUXpQ6KB9Dvdkl4ZHKbxEkvTSFByzc3igmSRPzmfpb38BgSGN53gwba1ZRatTZJwohPVI-4iGJ4eBZp_paoDP-Uwb0-zPo4s7q0ws4e9MVn1cPFODLPVNqLmcKrgeh-PDb3scV3VkHHSKRbN0r422IbLj0Z4GTrgByMgFwH5RRW93A=s1092" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1092" data-original-width="820" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhZASlPQGxPOH5NKUXpQ6KB9Dvdkl4ZHKbxEkvTSFByzc3igmSRPzmfpb38BgSGN53gwba1ZRatTZJwohPVI-4iGJ4eBZp_paoDP-Uwb0-zPo4s7q0ws4e9MVn1cPFODLPVNqLmcKrgeh-PDb3scV3VkHHSKRbN0r422IbLj0Z4GTrgByMgFwH5RRW93A=w300-h400" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px; text-align: start; white-space: pre-line;"> Demeter and her torches, searching for her daughter</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px; text-align: start; white-space: pre-line;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px; text-align: start; white-space: pre-line;">The story of the maiden Bernadette and Lady of Lourdes has all the elements of the mythic and the mysteries and we see the echoes of Persephone-Kore in the story of Bernadette as well.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px; text-align: start; white-space: pre-line;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px; text-align: start; white-space: pre-line;">'<em>First Bernadette feels a brief quivering pang of terror, next a steady fear. But this is no familiar, no fear that propels one to jump up and run away. Later this fear melts into still another feeling of which this child Bernadette has no idea and can find no name. One might call it comforting or consolation. But until this instant Bernadette never knew that she was in need of being comforted.</em></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px; text-align: start; white-space: pre-line;"><em>For she is really not at all aware of the hardness of her life .... This is naked reality accepted as a matter of course. But moment by moment now she is more deeply</em></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px; text-align: start; white-space: pre-line;"><em>swathed in this consolation which has no name, which is a hot flood of compassion..... </em>extract from The Song of Bernadette by Franz Werfel</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px; text-align: start; white-space: pre-line;">In her own way Bernadette descended into the Underworld and had to face her fear of death, as she was taken into deep trance states when the Radiant Lady appeared to her. Bernadette saw the shimmering young lady appear in the grotto near Cachot 18 times. </p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px; text-align: start; white-space: pre-line;">The young Bernadette descends into the Underworld in order to receive the messages and gifts from Lady of Lourdes. And she returned with the greatest gift to the world : the gift of compassion for self, for all living creatures and for life itself. She enters the womb of the Great Mother of All and brings back the compassionate heart. She entered into a divine union with the Beloved and her soul received the Immaculate Conception.</p><div><span face="aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: arial; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; white-space: pre-line;">In one of the versions of the Eleusynian myth, Persephone is torn between her love for her mother and her love for the god of the death. This crisis took place at the same time as the Earth was laid barren by Demeter's grief and the maiden's absence. A resolution was reached : Demeter and her opponent for her daughter's love, Plouton, met and broke bread together in an act of great compassion for all of life and the Earth. This surrender of the self to the Immaculate Conception, is the miraculous power that continues life into eternity.</span></div><div><span face="aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; white-space: pre-line;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi8KJzYoZTTjmrcb4-48iRuBZ-7EGiaV4fSB4avtzwtrCiDNdsuLjDwgwcpVY0GcGBLhDS4PZrfq61uM539RGcXAF38-DayztoJ997a5yBfG99Zlim7bbyqZvewJYb1KZSbhyVU5vnPxzsKLbyVVG2wYV64781ipHuIyo1DB-pp1BPoE9TNAeQ3ySgTCA=s1092" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1092" data-original-width="820" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi8KJzYoZTTjmrcb4-48iRuBZ-7EGiaV4fSB4avtzwtrCiDNdsuLjDwgwcpVY0GcGBLhDS4PZrfq61uM539RGcXAF38-DayztoJ997a5yBfG99Zlim7bbyqZvewJYb1KZSbhyVU5vnPxzsKLbyVVG2wYV64781ipHuIyo1DB-pp1BPoE9TNAeQ3ySgTCA=w300-h400" width="300" /></a></div><br /><span face="aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; white-space: pre-line;"><br /></span></div><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"><strong>Prayer</strong></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">I enter the Underworld as you pull me into your embrace, in every waking moment of living.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">Contemplating on your Presence in the world, opens me up to the poignant beauty and suffering of all life in order and my heart breaks open over and over, over flowing with compassion.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">As my rigid mind dissolves in your presence, all boundaries between myself and all living creatures and the earth disappears and we are all one.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">blessings</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">Hettienne</p></div><br /><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"><br /></p></div><p style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px;"></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span face="aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif" style="color: #241e12; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; white-space: pre-line;"><br /></span></div><p></p>Hettienne Groblerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06171699855415167735noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5617283848188660741.post-58015586118415626452022-02-08T10:42:00.001+02:002022-02-08T10:42:05.266+02:00Novena to Our Lady of the Living Fire Day 6<p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF_HA4M0Ty7t2rGlmseuW0ZeSNRRq1pPa5FZsGg32JJLzDk1iKRKm5J5k-LFstapbw6OZ8nnWMlN__TpsQJdz35xX1HwbY8MsAtX2UIgoi37w4Qi8qO8e4os1CUpmKKcGTbN6FX8KFmxAna_Dg28wARiZ2a8zSo6xicLGPr0rby-nrw44avQT4kzoLAQ/s640/lourdes 046.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="427" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF_HA4M0Ty7t2rGlmseuW0ZeSNRRq1pPa5FZsGg32JJLzDk1iKRKm5J5k-LFstapbw6OZ8nnWMlN__TpsQJdz35xX1HwbY8MsAtX2UIgoi37w4Qi8qO8e4os1CUpmKKcGTbN6FX8KFmxAna_Dg28wARiZ2a8zSo6xicLGPr0rby-nrw44avQT4kzoLAQ/w429-h640/lourdes 046.JPG" width="429" /></a></div><br /> <span style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-line;">I shall try the only thing a devotee can do :</span><p></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">I shall always keep thy divine image</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">and thy holy divinity</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">locked in my heart and</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">conjure them in my imagination</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">- the words of Lucius, the hero of The Golden Ass</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixV5gSixKnBss6AbNam107hMewh-8M_hWqaH3lS-afkyPt4QtMywctrA0Pf69nx2udRuHdFTEXiny78VQYTyY62D9gFH-lN-GWcZ6_r6iiE44bVqp6zokcsKVHW0lMu_0JId4wxwVkKhaZdVbM4YX_w5URqquJzi6BK4k-tfXb-qJFNFMQHhJMBqLa6w/s320/lourdesingarden 020.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="281" data-original-width="320" height="351" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixV5gSixKnBss6AbNam107hMewh-8M_hWqaH3lS-afkyPt4QtMywctrA0Pf69nx2udRuHdFTEXiny78VQYTyY62D9gFH-lN-GWcZ6_r6iiE44bVqp6zokcsKVHW0lMu_0JId4wxwVkKhaZdVbM4YX_w5URqquJzi6BK4k-tfXb-qJFNFMQHhJMBqLa6w/w400-h351/lourdesingarden 020.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">The image is an inner shrine,</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">an interior refuge.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcDID8C4fHDrBWXZjDF8aZp0ODn-b7iEBGwjieTuyu3e2TYUeVU_w-1mqXLe__rzahIQ3xoljDVZJvXzjCXk92zNeLibxGJtxn0UV6nhptUPCy_dN_-Mtjl0y3otw17TCDxLAQDPq69nzkMmSV0hVON7O1wY0pWT7dlYVxucGvAzoDEsPT_he5w-Gb7Q/s400/lourdesflowers.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="266" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcDID8C4fHDrBWXZjDF8aZp0ODn-b7iEBGwjieTuyu3e2TYUeVU_w-1mqXLe__rzahIQ3xoljDVZJvXzjCXk92zNeLibxGJtxn0UV6nhptUPCy_dN_-Mtjl0y3otw17TCDxLAQDPq69nzkMmSV0hVON7O1wY0pWT7dlYVxucGvAzoDEsPT_he5w-Gb7Q/w426-h640/lourdesflowers.JPG" width="426" /></a></div><br /><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"><span style="text-align: start;">It is beyond words</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"><span style="text-align: start;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZAm9XTqJfmcSfzU747ydZY95GIH4Vfm0AejujzsQps7Q2tN17jDtpSs63C9WMjvPrxMvryTLMRiY1E3v9cvGfu9s6uDNT8H2xgmMwMxHYCvKEZ3ERGgQDuo0MSss0FkqsN2qi1M6tC1zYcfjE3i3ywLFOpa-rqtfYwAyhdYZ-z1ZF09hNCdNps19UwQ/s640/image2 (1).jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZAm9XTqJfmcSfzU747ydZY95GIH4Vfm0AejujzsQps7Q2tN17jDtpSs63C9WMjvPrxMvryTLMRiY1E3v9cvGfu9s6uDNT8H2xgmMwMxHYCvKEZ3ERGgQDuo0MSss0FkqsN2qi1M6tC1zYcfjE3i3ywLFOpa-rqtfYwAyhdYZ-z1ZF09hNCdNps19UwQ/w300-h400/image2 (1).jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">but the poet and sage knows how to</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">invoke the imagination and the</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">Sacred One up into the psyche</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">in an enduring</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxAEcB8nnly90FD1dkz1koYDXNkYS8Dlx5c7qncqFMHXXOtdRAd30s4AWOmaAjjFjpq3DWYpZ6plAqfTqAsrAC9p_3LFjTzRuDik97hzXDRN-EaTC4TShy7_WI_V0T3QPPcTEhAUE0oNsHRZ0xC1m4lXEEwjnQ3GcyV6b9_iuXh6q60ZyunX41NQYsKA/s1600/lourdescandle.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxAEcB8nnly90FD1dkz1koYDXNkYS8Dlx5c7qncqFMHXXOtdRAd30s4AWOmaAjjFjpq3DWYpZ6plAqfTqAsrAC9p_3LFjTzRuDik97hzXDRN-EaTC4TShy7_WI_V0T3QPPcTEhAUE0oNsHRZ0xC1m4lXEEwjnQ3GcyV6b9_iuXh6q60ZyunX41NQYsKA/w300-h400/lourdescandle.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><br /><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"><span style="text-align: start;">and nurturing way.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiPO0Itzn50X3GEw_GG3jvt8XJ83u5Ir8D0voFqdxisC_tpIdDV3r74Xd323KYPTWFGjsY0-vi3xYNF8eR00J4ehsdadZs7lbgG-wRkAH5MFzdRX4qiI10_PTWR2mNxP04G_rqTAPjVbajqLbh71E3jDoCh_N4p9FMGG8VnLMAAwbstys8HA8Do8YYhA/s320/maryingarden 021.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="312" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiPO0Itzn50X3GEw_GG3jvt8XJ83u5Ir8D0voFqdxisC_tpIdDV3r74Xd323KYPTWFGjsY0-vi3xYNF8eR00J4ehsdadZs7lbgG-wRkAH5MFzdRX4qiI10_PTWR2mNxP04G_rqTAPjVbajqLbh71E3jDoCh_N4p9FMGG8VnLMAAwbstys8HA8Do8YYhA/s1600/maryingarden%20021.JPG" width="312" /></a></div><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"><br /></p><p></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">An image includes not only a picture but the way</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">we experience it, the way we <strong>feel </strong>it.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">Every image we perceive,</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">every feeling it evokes,</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">is a living prayer.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"><strong>Prayer</strong></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; white-space: pre-line;"></p><div style="text-align: center;"><em>I open myself to your presence, o Great Mother;</em></div><em><div style="text-align: center;"><em>I commit myself to your priestesshood of miracle thinking</em></div><div style="text-align: center;"><em>and the practise of faith in the extraordinary.</em></div><div style="text-align: center;"><em>I am willing for my eyes and heart to be broken open</em></div><div style="text-align: center;"><em>by your divine and blinding presence;</em></div><div style="text-align: center;"><em>as I priestess your love and compassion in the world.</em></div></em><p></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">blessings</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">Hettienne</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"><span style="text-align: start;"><br /></span></p>Hettienne Groblerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06171699855415167735noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5617283848188660741.post-990364528894044902022-02-07T07:37:00.004+02:002022-02-07T07:37:23.770+02:00Novena to Our Lady of the Living Fire Day 5<p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgDRluXJ0GCbOzc-1Z86DizPBAvCUwIaNZOxM3qd5fs5VOIU7qRDpXfgG2cOblGBIInU7hMsLcKd8XnN6_BI5-TIIbr6xaQeFwGJzy6dbTOkmxIx7z92vXbf9YUIRocQSml64_-pgqYLfq-Pxxm2YzVLL_FaPUq4n8GyJke_f_gnUZDluXEKmzX6c6m4Q=s401" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="401" data-original-width="294" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgDRluXJ0GCbOzc-1Z86DizPBAvCUwIaNZOxM3qd5fs5VOIU7qRDpXfgG2cOblGBIInU7hMsLcKd8XnN6_BI5-TIIbr6xaQeFwGJzy6dbTOkmxIx7z92vXbf9YUIRocQSml64_-pgqYLfq-Pxxm2YzVLL_FaPUq4n8GyJke_f_gnUZDluXEKmzX6c6m4Q=w294-h400" width="294" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"><b>The Madonna with the Fiery Eyes</b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"><b>Madonna Nera di Montevergine : Mamma Schaviona</b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">She is one of the Seven Sisters of Calabria in Italy and I visited Her last year. She is known as the Slave Mother, Mama Schaviona and She is the patron of the LGBTQ community, the poor and the oppressed. She has two feast days that are assigned to her, 2 February and 15 August. Both these feast days are celebrated with the tammuriata, the song, drumming and dance of the region and sacred to the Black Madonna. The legend goes that there were seven sisters and the blackest one was the ugliest but then She became the most powerful!! And this is Mamma Schaviona.</p></div><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiNFWe9o4GDJd0WFN7g-SLoeOwglTfXdQAN0F8wNnfFUg3ApTwBkdIG4goRIu2DUorq6PCPdh1aAn8m0cM7bWnFf7w3aIO2kBILg4Byx1ip--8_VSApnU1f5R-1wKMVvUUdGmGmUz8e6Azcx28I9dECTU_Nw624aRI5NUPngZJjqe6gzammigWnScNQHQ=s595" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="595" data-original-width="372" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiNFWe9o4GDJd0WFN7g-SLoeOwglTfXdQAN0F8wNnfFUg3ApTwBkdIG4goRIu2DUorq6PCPdh1aAn8m0cM7bWnFf7w3aIO2kBILg4Byx1ip--8_VSApnU1f5R-1wKMVvUUdGmGmUz8e6Azcx28I9dECTU_Nw624aRI5NUPngZJjqe6gzammigWnScNQHQ=w400-h640" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; white-space: pre-line;">She is located on the top of the mountain and where an ancient Cybele shrine used to be. Cybele has a long history in Africa and Egypt, and was also known as Kybele and it is believed that She was brought to Italy by the people of Africa who migrated to and lived in Italy and Sicily. Maybe when African slaves arrived much later they recognized their mother goddess in the Black Madonna of Montevergine.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-line;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjlcp1Wwl0afhmFjIs5CDFT4nIxztplgg7vi-arHa4zOWdqmX7LR4KEl2k4-IFBUjhL9CR497_-ARPm6SInq_tj6EsLuyaNlOhjDWi5StUUlYfJZmkiogZxiuv6BjtneGCnnUVJorlOGR_HyOMy5O-4F8rQY8Dy7PYMn_kzniiC4fmj9w6aZs7zhoutAQ=s640" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjlcp1Wwl0afhmFjIs5CDFT4nIxztplgg7vi-arHa4zOWdqmX7LR4KEl2k4-IFBUjhL9CR497_-ARPm6SInq_tj6EsLuyaNlOhjDWi5StUUlYfJZmkiogZxiuv6BjtneGCnnUVJorlOGR_HyOMy5O-4F8rQY8Dy7PYMn_kzniiC4fmj9w6aZs7zhoutAQ=w480-h640" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-line;">She is located on the top of the mountain and where an ancient Cybele shrine used to be. Cybele has a long history in Africa and Egypt, and was also known as Kybele and it is believed that She was brought to Italy by the people of Africa who migrated to and lived in Italy and Sicily. Maybe when African slaves arrived much later they recognized their mother goddess in the Black Madonna of Montevergine.</span></div></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-line;"><br /></span></div><p></p><p style="font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center;">Madonna of Montevergine has the most piercing gaze and her eyes follow you wherever you move. By touching the railings and the marble around her inner shrine, one can feel the ages of devotion and faith in Her almighty power.</p><p style="font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center;"><b>Contemplation</b></p><div style="text-align: center;"><p style="font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important;"><b>Mother of the Eucharist</b></p><p style="font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important;"><b>Bread and roses</b></p><p style="font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important;">Mamma Schaviona is on the top of the mount on the site where an ancient Cybele used to be. The feast of Cybele also celebrated the harvest and a hieros gamos ritual bread and wine. Mamma Schaviona's great feast is also celebrated by her devotees, the femminielle. Here is a literal hieros gamos which erases all boundaries between the opposites as embodiment by gender. </p><p style="font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important;">The Black Madonna of Montevergine opens the portal into altered states of consciousness and blesses you with a vision of your own Being.</p><p style="font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important;">Priestesshood and priesthood is a sacramental aspect of oneself. Bread and wine are the vital symbols of the Eucharistic sacrament : bread and wine are shared as nourishment and transformation and has been a part of the transformational mysteries celebrated by women outside religion for ages. Bread is a powerful symbol of the transformation of the alchemical process.</p><p style="font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important;">The physical life and its objects are manifestations and representations of the life and existence of the spirit. Taking care of our physical life is a sacred task and when performed with intent and awareness we realise that the ordinary is indeed sacred.</p><p style="font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; text-align: start; white-space: pre-line;" /></p></div><p style="text-align: center;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj2Che1TXAiAzX5r0poi1xcpqpfx9wPdWIXt0sObwZX8nipmeKhdaS8zvsh99QZVIgs3JjDmbb8ce9guaNpzx8FZ8CkDwy08DXU7bDSPScXVOZ21cVO3VYW2CyMHi6MYpcBz5hq4ExnzmeUm4JsLM_IY3uGKT1xo-HOSVdLZhE0oe3fmtQynmMbibdsuw=s640" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj2Che1TXAiAzX5r0poi1xcpqpfx9wPdWIXt0sObwZX8nipmeKhdaS8zvsh99QZVIgs3JjDmbb8ce9guaNpzx8FZ8CkDwy08DXU7bDSPScXVOZ21cVO3VYW2CyMHi6MYpcBz5hq4ExnzmeUm4JsLM_IY3uGKT1xo-HOSVdLZhE0oe3fmtQynmMbibdsuw=w300-h400" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"><strong>Prayer</strong></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">O Mother of the Eucharist</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">You are the bread. You are the wheat</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">You are the field. You are the dough.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">You are the fire and you are the loaf.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">You are food for the world and you are the world.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">O Holy Mother Eucharista</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">blessings</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">Hettienne</p>Hettienne Groblerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06171699855415167735noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5617283848188660741.post-4261380943052997902022-02-06T07:00:00.001+02:002022-02-06T07:00:00.174+02:00Novena to Our Lady of Living Fire Day 4<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhVIIf7ZS96oLt4MfjCst_CvR4j4mzrQqrHKNmS7n9FbVsEpBDA8r8mZicqldrb5ivJC0Rf8BZbgzjjfvXP4CmKwA71oquHls1Hgh92eDRttZOoTdrSRBDwL7F9I_0JMne-5mecW_7YsVLBDiYrEPgQBcW_idEBW9bZM7IL1NXNmwrGjKlUXXuau9AMRg=s640" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhVIIf7ZS96oLt4MfjCst_CvR4j4mzrQqrHKNmS7n9FbVsEpBDA8r8mZicqldrb5ivJC0Rf8BZbgzjjfvXP4CmKwA71oquHls1Hgh92eDRttZOoTdrSRBDwL7F9I_0JMne-5mecW_7YsVLBDiYrEPgQBcW_idEBW9bZM7IL1NXNmwrGjKlUXXuau9AMRg=w300-h400" width="300" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"><strong>Our Lady of the New Dawn</strong></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"><strong>Contemplation</strong></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; white-space: pre-line;"></p><div style="text-align: center;"><em>We contemplate the darkness as we wait for the</em></div><em><div style="text-align: center;"><em>Gate to the New Dawn</em></div></em><p></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">"Who is she that rises forth like the dawn,</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">fair as the moon,</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">pure and bright as the sun,</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">and as terrible as a many-bannered army?"</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">- Song of Songs 6:10</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhQsxPze4v8WEZCbwjdeLRfpPLfaXjEEEnF-gb4ozxLqov0cirfY_seQnUyYanNGJxVCRg9UqJerwuOXCPbecoCtaHPKKUc65pq9HtJgyaDfzbgiN1Pftz-BxoZkeve4e_Ipc8E8f-JqIl80dnwilX-O_TPPyW3Sck4eHMzYSJpU8OUREGT8wcBL1W_7w=s640" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhQsxPze4v8WEZCbwjdeLRfpPLfaXjEEEnF-gb4ozxLqov0cirfY_seQnUyYanNGJxVCRg9UqJerwuOXCPbecoCtaHPKKUc65pq9HtJgyaDfzbgiN1Pftz-BxoZkeve4e_Ipc8E8f-JqIl80dnwilX-O_TPPyW3Sck4eHMzYSJpU8OUREGT8wcBL1W_7w=w300-h400" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: start;"></p><div style="color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"><em>Black is the colour of night and the shade of soil.</em></div><em style="color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-line;"><div style="text-align: center;"><em>It cloaks midnight and blankets the depths of caves</em></div></em><em style="color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-line;"><div style="text-align: center;"><em>and grottos. In previous cultures, the most</em></div></em><em style="color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-line;"><div style="text-align: center;"><em>popular totem for a chief male divinity was the sun and,</em></div></em><em style="color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-line;"><div style="text-align: center;"><em>by extension, light; goddesses have been</em></div></em><em style="color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-line;"><div style="text-align: center;"><em>associated with the moon and, by extension, night.</em></div></em><em style="color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-line;"><div style="text-align: center;"><em> -Leonard Shlain (The Alphabet vs the Goddess)</em></div></em><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; white-space: pre-line;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><em style="color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-line;"><div style="text-align: center;"><em>Many medieval churches, extending in a wide arc from</em></div></em><em style="color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-line;"><div style="text-align: center;"><em>Russia across Europe to Spain, had as their most sacred</em></div></em><em style="color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-line;"><div style="text-align: center;"><em>object a statue of Black Mary.</em></div></em><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><em style="color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-line;"><div style="text-align: center;"><em>Like the black, abiding earth, her simple being is so vastly </em></div></em><em style="color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-line;"><div style="text-align: center;"><em>present that we have not noticed it.</em></div></em><em style="color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-line;"><div style="text-align: center;"><em> - Caitlin Mathews</em></div></em><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhIO_FnvMCuUejXA5L0Te4MsKAL4xMb09pudGxTIQlOavhHq9LFXj7y7XPjdF8CFlbh5n7QcntHo_nEHAzHevoUnz6YPHuZulFBqw6yh_Cph3mvRhcYqbGtaCRMllubceitzmbydNm50rGyi5MQsSsQ6xJANvBbjWhc1fc4uExDRpje8CMqZ7Sx_lwT_w=s640" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhIO_FnvMCuUejXA5L0Te4MsKAL4xMb09pudGxTIQlOavhHq9LFXj7y7XPjdF8CFlbh5n7QcntHo_nEHAzHevoUnz6YPHuZulFBqw6yh_Cph3mvRhcYqbGtaCRMllubceitzmbydNm50rGyi5MQsSsQ6xJANvBbjWhc1fc4uExDRpje8CMqZ7Sx_lwT_w=w300-h400" width="300" /></a></div><br /><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: start; white-space: pre-line;"></p><div style="text-align: center;">In a quest for a mother who will accept us when we can't quite</div><div style="text-align: center;">make peace with our errors, or with ourselves, it is easier</div><div style="text-align: center;">to turn to a simple mother acquainted with the darkness of life</div><div style="text-align: center;">than to the image of the Virgin distorted by religion into a perfectly obedient and always pure being.</div><p></p><p style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: start;"></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; white-space: pre-line;"><br /></span></div><span style="color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; white-space: pre-line;"><div style="text-align: center;">In the heart of our dark mother, love for us endures without</div></span><span style="color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; white-space: pre-line;"><div style="text-align: center;">judgement or pretense. She helps us deal with the undeniable</div></span><span style="color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; white-space: pre-line;"><div style="text-align: center;">fact that we live in a world we can neither control nor</div></span><span style="color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; white-space: pre-line;"><div style="text-align: center;">comprehend, a world with which we often cannot cope -</div></span><span style="color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; white-space: pre-line;"><div style="text-align: center;">in which we can at times only endure.</div></span><p></p><p style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: start;"></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; white-space: pre-line;"><br /></span></div><em style="color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-line;"><div style="text-align: center;"><em>She is the silent companion who stands at our elbows</em></div><div style="text-align: center;"><em>as we toil ..... daily grappling with humanity's</em></div><div style="text-align: center;"><em>problems ...... striving to reflect the light of the</em></div><div style="text-align: center;"><em>spirit in our world.</em></div><div style="text-align: center;"><em> - Caitlin Mathews</em></div></em><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; white-space: pre-line;"><div style="text-align: center;">In the Gnostic book of the Apocryphon of John it is written that we are never alone as the power of the mother, the shakty in Hindu terms, the Epinoia in Gnostic terms, kundalini in tantric terms and Mary in my own personal experience, is here with us and within us.</div></span><p></p><p style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: start;"></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; white-space: pre-line;"><br /></span></div><em style="color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-line;"><div style="text-align: center;"><em>the blessed One, the Mother-Father, the beneficient and merciful One, had mercy on the power of the mother .........</em></div><div style="text-align: center;"><em>And he sent, through his beneficient Spirit and his</em></div><div style="text-align: center;"><em>great mercy, a helper to Adam, luminous Epinoia which</em></div><div style="text-align: center;"><em>comes out of him, who is called Life.</em></div><div style="text-align: center;"><em>And she assists the whole creature,</em></div><div style="text-align: center;"><em>by toiling with him and by restoring him to</em></div><div style="text-align: center;"><em>his fullness ........ and be teaching him about</em></div><div style="text-align: center;"><em>the way of ascent.</em></div></em><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; white-space: pre-line;"><div style="text-align: center;">And thus we ponder the dark Madonna within ourselves -</div></span><span style="color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; white-space: pre-line;"><div style="text-align: center;">the unknown who springs into action during an emergency, or who rises to the occasion as need be without thought or hesitation.</div></span><span style="color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; white-space: pre-line;"><div style="text-align: center;">We also have the queen within who wants everything perfect and who, when not treated just so, can take offence unnecessarily.</div></span><span style="color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; white-space: pre-line;"><div style="text-align: center;">Disciple, 'know thyself'</div></span><span style="color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; white-space: pre-line;"><div style="text-align: center;">We are she.</div></span><p></p><p style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: start;"></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; white-space: pre-line;"><br /></span></div><em style="color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-line;"><div style="text-align: center;"><em>These polarised appearances - as Hag or Queen of Heaven -</em>are the two sides of the coin, one archetypal power.</div></em><p></p><p style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: start;"></p><div style="color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"><em>Just as coal and diamond are both carbon - that basic substance of life - so does the Goddess of Wisdom manifest her power through seemingly opposing appearances. The Goddess of Wisdom is seeded in us all.</em></div><em style="color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-line;"><div style="text-align: center;"><em> - Caitlin Mathews</em></div></em><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; white-space: pre-line;"><br /></span></div><strong style="color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-line;"><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>However, the Great Mother of Wisdom, in all her</strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>many aspects, are the One, only perceived</strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>in polarity and duality. By the darkness of night</strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>we perceive her as the moon and in the</strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>brightness of the day, as the sun.</strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>But there is only One Light</strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>and we come to know this through detachment. - Mary Gate of the New Dawn, Mysteries of the Black Madonna</strong></div></strong><p></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: start; white-space: pre-line;"><br /></p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhz5am0Qu9XatTSqFvNE-Bikt5vV7Owxn0Ds8rKQoUCezq4BvKc-KIESO-77BhZl0dmHcR4HYotqmtaVhEEV4cxpo_lylbK-c0pk8ebHtUwCgA3hoXHQI9ThpCr5WGyTMSYBnFZZ-XMFlTrwm-p9Fs7t8eNqwUmSzyuQpkBZP6F4dxcLerqk_jCPdFEIw=s400" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="300" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhz5am0Qu9XatTSqFvNE-Bikt5vV7Owxn0Ds8rKQoUCezq4BvKc-KIESO-77BhZl0dmHcR4HYotqmtaVhEEV4cxpo_lylbK-c0pk8ebHtUwCgA3hoXHQI9ThpCr5WGyTMSYBnFZZ-XMFlTrwm-p9Fs7t8eNqwUmSzyuQpkBZP6F4dxcLerqk_jCPdFEIw=w300-h400" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"><strong>Prayer</strong></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"><strong>LAUDS - DAWN</strong></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"><em><strong>Oh Mary Gate of the New Dawn</strong></em></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"><em><strong>come to me</strong></em></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"><em><strong>Oh Mother of both night and day</strong></em></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"><em><strong>come to me</strong></em></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"><em><strong>The blackness burns until only white bones remain</strong></em></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"><em><strong>glimmering in the Light of new possibilities</strong></em></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"><em><strong>I follow your black cloak down the well of the night</strong></em></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"><em><strong>You receive me once more</strong></em></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"><em><strong>as we await the New Dawn</strong></em></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"><em><strong>Ave Maria</strong></em></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">blessings</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">Hettienne</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p>Hettienne Groblerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06171699855415167735noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5617283848188660741.post-20358044228281790352022-02-05T07:00:00.001+02:002022-02-05T07:00:00.193+02:00Novena to Our Lady of Living Fire Day 3<p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi9Kcu4Bosrbt0FKP5AbAilVsHrZjQKiFSSaXvBtued3M-mLyLTEzaw8O32hiWocS_ETL8Q1d7YArLdrCswof0zFTgbf_jBS-RA6u3Yd39RhlDkrc3Kl2lsN84kbmyh00xAg08hHULBZIHoOIT5LoFXvJ64oi8skaCV_6tBNooZaUaIQbb6ABrrHuHzBw=s1600" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1066" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi9Kcu4Bosrbt0FKP5AbAilVsHrZjQKiFSSaXvBtued3M-mLyLTEzaw8O32hiWocS_ETL8Q1d7YArLdrCswof0zFTgbf_jBS-RA6u3Yd39RhlDkrc3Kl2lsN84kbmyh00xAg08hHULBZIHoOIT5LoFXvJ64oi8skaCV_6tBNooZaUaIQbb6ABrrHuHzBw=w266-h400" width="266" /></a></div><br /> <strong style="color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-line;">Mother of Fiery Water - Our Lady of Ngome</strong><p></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; white-space: pre-line;">Mother of Fiery Water, Our Lady of Ngome appeared many times at during the 1950s in South Africa at Ngome. Ngome is an ancient sacred site where seven streams meet and Her spirit was revered and the energies kept immaculate by the local Zulu people. </p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; white-space: pre-line;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgHFO45-enpMGxOl5stMDp2P2puwvG6YhXPe_eAqCE1LnMmWLxpdRQuLUWQF09ECBKcRPSyLe1EZa8KIdlJY6yCWdfyXP4ow-rfrSvFKSxnXee2TBgqvOjCuCUwWIrey5q7SnNAyBqpTXZNR50VCN6YMf7wAS_RN8gliBjwq7lSRcxAjB93dAT104BZbw=s1094" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1094" data-original-width="820" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgHFO45-enpMGxOl5stMDp2P2puwvG6YhXPe_eAqCE1LnMmWLxpdRQuLUWQF09ECBKcRPSyLe1EZa8KIdlJY6yCWdfyXP4ow-rfrSvFKSxnXee2TBgqvOjCuCUwWIrey5q7SnNAyBqpTXZNR50VCN6YMf7wAS_RN8gliBjwq7lSRcxAjB93dAT104BZbw=w300-h400" width="300" /></a></div><br /><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">Mary appeared as a Living Monstrance and asked to be called the “Tabernacle of the Most High”.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">The Blessed Virgin stated that she wished a shrine to be built in a place where the seven streams come together—pointing to an empty area.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"><em>Shortly after Holy Communion, Mary stood before me, very close-by. Everything was seen in spirit. I was drawn into another atmosphere. Mary showed Herself in a wonderful light more beautiful than the sun. She was robed all in white, flowing veil from top to toe. Upon Her Breast rested a big host surrounded by a brilliant corona radiating life. She was a living Monstrance.</em></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"><em>Mary stood upon the globe, hands and feet invisible. I felt like entering a cloud, drawn by Mary, away from the earth. I had my eyes closed but I saw so much light that, for several days, I was very much dazzled by the beauty and light that I had seen.</em></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"><strong>Mary said the following:</strong></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"><strong>“Call Me ‘Tabernacle of The Most High’.</strong></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"><strong>You too are such a Tabernacle, believe it.</strong></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">as recounted by Sr Reinolda May - these were kept a secret by the authorities for at least fifty years.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj-bunDCpmKti4y71Aw78jMn5CDkJWJg0gtJ7GKF1QtCpoGGgk9uDV5xHKW8EJ5RqSiIHeHsXeIM8_KsGCSvIt_4A93jsTG7D4KQwc9y1E9Lx3aDgmHO4cErrmTlBauJ8ensVvhzXaAmNXmw9VTtUCqq8NyNV2YVBdu-TgWYaWBZDvFqWV080Mos0nBFg=s640" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj-bunDCpmKti4y71Aw78jMn5CDkJWJg0gtJ7GKF1QtCpoGGgk9uDV5xHKW8EJ5RqSiIHeHsXeIM8_KsGCSvIt_4A93jsTG7D4KQwc9y1E9Lx3aDgmHO4cErrmTlBauJ8ensVvhzXaAmNXmw9VTtUCqq8NyNV2YVBdu-TgWYaWBZDvFqWV080Mos0nBFg=w300-h400" width="300" /></a></div><br /><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"><span style="text-align: start;">At the inauguration of the Chapel of Lady of Ngome thousands of people witnessed another miracle of the dancing sun. The sun rolled and moved in the sky and in the words of witnesses 'shot a ray of sunlight onto the statue of the Lady of Ngome'.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"><span style="text-align: start;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg_U-5VMn7hBqQzBZWyIvUTlUBLGB98TaMmHGbnGr2QWn6u2eYCJDrAYOwGzNHzscOqoGsXNThBsAMGvXi34U3Oz3Vd6PzxxVruHXu7KQGi3DTByLcoyu2GSs_EgQ2FrtyclJFq2XkRRI9m4O0ryzZnN3owMRVuC5Foph0Z-S47pwnieT_EknmHrVOR9g=s640" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg_U-5VMn7hBqQzBZWyIvUTlUBLGB98TaMmHGbnGr2QWn6u2eYCJDrAYOwGzNHzscOqoGsXNThBsAMGvXi34U3Oz3Vd6PzxxVruHXu7KQGi3DTByLcoyu2GSs_EgQ2FrtyclJFq2XkRRI9m4O0ryzZnN3owMRVuC5Foph0Z-S47pwnieT_EknmHrVOR9g=w300-h400" width="300" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">The original tapestry created by the nuns, shows Mary as having a beautiful glowing dark brown skin but in official church images she is depicted with a light skin. Annine van der Meer writes that she has found in her research that in pagan times the Lady of the Land known as Grandmother in the matrilineal traditions, always appeared as a radiant 'white' woman. This colour had nothing to do with the colour of her skin, but everything to do with the colour of her aura and energy. I directly experienced Our Lady of Lourdes as a column of intense white radiance or white light. As we have seen in the apparitions of Mary all over the world, She speaks the language of the one who sees her, she appears with the symbology and archetypal knowledge of the One Who is the Sacred Land in all instances.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">She spoke to Bernadette in a French dialect which only that region knew; Bernadette had to translate the message for the Bishop who speak a more formal French; in the case of Guadalupe She spoke to Juan Diego in Nahuatl, his mothertongue. The Aztec devotees of Guadalupe called her the Heavenly Mother, the Radiant Maiden, Maiden of Light, Cosmic SkyDancing Maiden and other titles that we tend to judge as 'ascension' and 'patriarchal white light' but it is not the radiant white light that teaches escape from Earth, but rather those who created a new dogma from these powerful truths.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">The appearance of the Lady in White at Lourdes and at Ngome and the miracles that she brought to the world, has the ability to transform your world.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"><em><strong>Ave Maria, Holy Mother of Ngome</strong></em></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"><em><strong>Ave Maria, umama ongcwele Ngome</strong></em> (Zulu translation)</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"><strong>Prayer</strong></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"><em>Magnificent Mary may I remain open</em></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"><em>to the impossible</em></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"><em>May I remember not to ignore the very subtle</em></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"><em>messages of Spirit;</em></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"><em>and may I undertake each task as the sacred task that it is</em></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"><em>Ave Maria</em></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"><em>Om jai mata Mary Ma</em></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">blessings</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">Hettienne</p>Hettienne Groblerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06171699855415167735noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5617283848188660741.post-76285338621895392292022-02-04T06:00:00.004+02:002022-02-04T06:00:00.181+02:00Our Lady of the Living Fire Novena Day 2<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEicF2SfeesN4VXw_B8kfDgISxcT5-BI_rGo51qQbTcymAUK7HFliP4EL01bdLunP8wrEFaNJWh7QvdA3oADnehfZr4dlaaQ13AdNdWhswrzwXVc1vXlOMJjw3p-riqHcpPd37TbYpjlUTuRYdG98Pgtji08oIQ9Kq5iykSApb_ywWDo9B1urP2cRIwVjA=s1600" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1066" data-original-width="1600" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEicF2SfeesN4VXw_B8kfDgISxcT5-BI_rGo51qQbTcymAUK7HFliP4EL01bdLunP8wrEFaNJWh7QvdA3oADnehfZr4dlaaQ13AdNdWhswrzwXVc1vXlOMJjw3p-riqHcpPd37TbYpjlUTuRYdG98Pgtji08oIQ9Kq5iykSApb_ywWDo9B1urP2cRIwVjA=w400-h266" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="9b3vs" data-offset-key="887om-0-0" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 1em 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"></div><p></p><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="9b3vs" data-offset-key="69mck-0-0" style="background-color: white; margin: 1em 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; widows: 2;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="69mck-0-0" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #241e12; direction: ltr; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; position: relative; text-align: left; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px;"><span data-offset-key="69mck-0-0" style="font-style: italic;"><span data-text="true">Mary has her own folk mythology unrelated to the mainstream Christian myth. In the mythological sense she is like the goddesses in all cultures of the world. The legends about Mary illustrate that Mary is a force in people's lives. - extracted from The Breath, the soul, the Divine female by Rasa Luzyte</span></span></div><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="69mck-0-0" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #241e12; direction: ltr; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; position: relative; text-align: left; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px;"><span data-offset-key="69mck-0-0" style="font-style: italic;"><span data-text="true"><br /></span></span></div><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="69mck-0-0" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #241e12; direction: ltr; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; 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color: #241e12; direction: ltr; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; position: relative; text-align: center; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px;"><span data-offset-key="69mck-0-0" style="font-style: italic;"><br /></span></div><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="9b3vs" data-offset-key="95r46-0-0" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 1em 0px; text-align: start; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="95r46-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span data-offset-key="95r46-0-0" style="font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Contemplation</span></span></div></div><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="9b3vs" data-offset-key="akp23-0-0" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 1em 0px; text-align: start; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="akp23-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span data-offset-key="akp23-0-0" style="font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">The Living Hearth</span></span></div></div><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="9b3vs" data-offset-key="ap0jl-0-0" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 1em 0px; text-align: start; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="ap0jl-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span data-offset-key="ap0jl-0-0"><span data-text="true">The IV of Vessels in the Mysteries of Mary tarot deck depict the young Virgin Mary as temple priestess in the Temple of the Dove as told in The Mystical City of God. We follow her days as a sacred priestess dedicated to the Divine, throughout the deck.</span></span></div></div><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="9b3vs" data-offset-key="cg9l1-0-0" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 1em 0px; text-align: start; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="cg9l1-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span data-offset-key="cg9l1-0-0" style="font-style: italic;"><span data-text="true">Her days as a young girl in the temple starts with Joachim and Anne setting out from Nazareth, accompanied by a few of their kindred and bringing with them the true living Ark of the covenant, the most holy Mary, borne on the arms of her mother in order to be entered into the holy temple of Jerusalem. - The Mystical City of God</span></span></div></div><span data-text="true" face="aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif" style="color: #241e12; font-style: italic; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiukYNcdOHu5CgIWD9BNmQUE9_MqFLgitcu3YIAA__71SbLPRxW9HM5JPAqifdxEI2thacuYUYgWl0hhyJi9oNy8ufMSBr0n_-4nqTsfHrWfcmxJgucpLE5ys6tMzQDKINOgTxBtbir-_wScau1_TkimjHiAfkDybuiuZVk10AlIhz6B_Ikvqj9Vg-XOQ=s2761" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2591" data-original-width="2761" height="375" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiukYNcdOHu5CgIWD9BNmQUE9_MqFLgitcu3YIAA__71SbLPRxW9HM5JPAqifdxEI2thacuYUYgWl0hhyJi9oNy8ufMSBr0n_-4nqTsfHrWfcmxJgucpLE5ys6tMzQDKINOgTxBtbir-_wScau1_TkimjHiAfkDybuiuZVk10AlIhz6B_Ikvqj9Vg-XOQ=w400-h375" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="9b3vs" data-offset-key="7vnlh-0-0" style="font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; margin: 1em 0px; text-align: start;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="7vnlh-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span data-offset-key="7vnlh-0-0"><span data-text="true">We have come to know the dove as a symbol of the male Holy Spirit in Christianity, but previously the dove has been a bird sacred to Ishtar, Venus and Aphrodite, the goddesses of love. The dove is also a symbol of Sophia and the Holy Shekinah. In the Protoevangelium of James, it is described that Mary spent her childhood in the Temple as one of seven virgin priestesses. The seven virgin priestesses were part of the symbolism and metaphor of the ancient Mysteries Temple.</span></span></div></div><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="9b3vs" data-offset-key="33uoe-0-0" style="font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; margin: 1em 0px; text-align: start;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="33uoe-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span data-offset-key="33uoe-0-0"><span data-text="true">The Mandean texts tell the story of Miriai (Mary) who spent her childhood in a Jewish temple and whom became a priestess and prophetess with her own disciples. It was told that when she speaks, the world shake. When she prays and teaches, even the fish and birds listen. And that a special fragrance surround her disciples as they spend time in her presence and listen to her words. The sacred fragrance still manifest into our reality today when the mind and heart is open enough to accept that there is no separation in realities; this is especially prominent at holy places where the Divine has become manifest in the physical ordinary reality.</span></span></div></div><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="9b3vs" data-offset-key="26oh8-0-0" style="font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; margin: 1em 0px; text-align: start;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="26oh8-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span data-offset-key="26oh8-0-0"><span data-text="true">We awaken to the Inner Presence by discovering the story that lives within each one of us.</span></span></div></div><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="9b3vs" data-offset-key="3qaii-0-0" style="font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; margin: 1em 0px; text-align: start;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="3qaii-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span data-offset-key="3qaii-0-0"><span data-text="true">Here Mary, as Priestess of the Soul, stands as the holy Presence within the inner temple of your heart. She is the Keeper of the Holy Hearth and the Hearth Itself.</span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="9b3vs" data-offset-key="a5rgp-0-0" style="font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; margin: 1em 0px; text-align: start;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="a5rgp-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span data-offset-key="a5rgp-0-0">She tends to the flame eternal of the embodied Hearth until the influences of the hidden worlds has been purified and you awaken to falling in love with yourself.</span></div></div><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="9b3vs" data-offset-key="6i47d-0-0" style="font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; margin: 1em 0px; text-align: start;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="6i47d-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span data-offset-key="6i47d-0-0">The Soul within you is priestessing the healing balm for your own personal story.</span></div><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="6i47d-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span data-offset-key="6i47d-0-0"><br /></span></div><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="6i47d-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjivt4CrTOSFaK5pIuAvuoq1rt3r5NLHWM6EdT-lV2xNDygh8Zmd-Do6sRalvSQFIql3oTm0UMOxcNha6k8Ki8T6N9bbrAbnQZzZMLy-E6XzgiOM_pzm1C0gdkzAHeNIvK4e7ga8o9k-Nd0iiNtl0lcUlynzmfJSftdgFBcGj9FtiJSvqOid-ph6cJJ4w=s640" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjivt4CrTOSFaK5pIuAvuoq1rt3r5NLHWM6EdT-lV2xNDygh8Zmd-Do6sRalvSQFIql3oTm0UMOxcNha6k8Ki8T6N9bbrAbnQZzZMLy-E6XzgiOM_pzm1C0gdkzAHeNIvK4e7ga8o9k-Nd0iiNtl0lcUlynzmfJSftdgFBcGj9FtiJSvqOid-ph6cJJ4w=w480-h640" width="480" /></a></div><br /><span data-offset-key="6i47d-0-0"><br /></span></div><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="6i47d-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span data-offset-key="6i47d-0-0"><br /></span></div><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="6i47d-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span data-offset-key="6i47d-0-0"><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="9b3vs" data-offset-key="ej767-0-0" style="margin: 1em 0px; text-align: start;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="ej767-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span data-offset-key="ej767-0-0" style="font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Prayer</span></span></div></div><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="9b3vs" data-offset-key="9krau-0-0" style="margin: 1em 0px; text-align: start;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="9krau-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span data-offset-key="9krau-0-0"><span data-text="true">Hail Mary, She who Priestesses the Sacred in the Ordinary;</span></span></div></div><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="9b3vs" data-offset-key="83c3p-0-0" style="margin: 1em 0px; text-align: start;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="83c3p-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span data-offset-key="83c3p-0-0"><span data-text="true">By the wings of the dove.</span></span></div></div><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="9b3vs" data-offset-key="71nga-0-0" style="margin: 1em 0px; text-align: start;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="71nga-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span data-offset-key="71nga-0-0"><span data-text="true">Holy High Priestess, eternally balanced in the stillpoint,</span></span></div></div><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="9b3vs" data-offset-key="317gl-0-0" style="margin: 1em 0px; text-align: start;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="317gl-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span data-offset-key="317gl-0-0"><span data-text="true">between Boaz and Jachin, the Sun and the Moon</span></span></div></div><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="9b3vs" data-offset-key="bv2ut-0-0" style="margin: 1em 0px; text-align: start;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="bv2ut-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span data-offset-key="bv2ut-0-0"><span data-text="true">Birthing visible Grace into the Ordinary</span></span></div></div><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="9b3vs" data-offset-key="dg5nu-0-0" style="margin: 1em 0px; text-align: start;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="dg5nu-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span data-offset-key="dg5nu-0-0"><span data-text="true">Living Hearth</span></span></div></div><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="9b3vs" data-offset-key="5p3m-0-0" style="margin: 1em 0px; text-align: start;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="5p3m-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span data-offset-key="5p3m-0-0"><span data-text="true">Setting my heart on fire.</span></span></div></div><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="9b3vs" data-offset-key="1aq5r-0-0" style="margin: 1em 0px; text-align: start;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="1aq5r-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span data-offset-key="1aq5r-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="1aq5r-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span data-offset-key="1aq5r-0-0">Om jai mata Mary Ma</span></div></div><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="9b3vs" data-offset-key="4k40c-0-0" style="margin: 1em 0px; text-align: start;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="4k40c-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span data-offset-key="4k40c-0-0"><span data-text="true">blessings</span></span></div></div><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="9b3vs" data-offset-key="dtolf-0-0" style="margin: 1em 0px; text-align: start;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="dtolf-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span data-offset-key="dtolf-0-0"><span data-text="true">Hettienne </span></span></div></div></span></div><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="6i47d-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span data-offset-key="6i47d-0-0"><br /></span></div></div></div></span></span></div></div>Hettienne Groblerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06171699855415167735noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5617283848188660741.post-2787211451370831402022-02-03T07:00:00.002+02:002022-02-03T07:00:00.201+02:00Our Lady of the Living Fire Novena Day 1<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgxfYl3HcXxilMg4Gtvyqpt6IcRUR8WZu5DG2ZI_B6vrMFbzQQtS2KIM_6WXayKyGl2Tb9VEsF1_UjTEakB4VxSF7Bq-2mxBrzWfA_f05irwOOt4eaNEo9t1Y6t4twsrqrs3FaFUIugBFoybVGHKRF0SSgRwcqZcmEwJOBKZFGj4jqVQHhDXfhiSiAxIA=s1600" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgxfYl3HcXxilMg4Gtvyqpt6IcRUR8WZu5DG2ZI_B6vrMFbzQQtS2KIM_6WXayKyGl2Tb9VEsF1_UjTEakB4VxSF7Bq-2mxBrzWfA_f05irwOOt4eaNEo9t1Y6t4twsrqrs3FaFUIugBFoybVGHKRF0SSgRwcqZcmEwJOBKZFGj4jqVQHhDXfhiSiAxIA=w300-h400" width="300" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="87mvi" data-offset-key="29q0-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 1em 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="29q0-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span data-offset-key="29q0-0-0" style="font-style: italic;">At the grotto I fell in line with the other pilgrims, waiting my turn to touch the walls of the cave and its dripping water. The atmosphere was light and joyful, although many stood and kneeled deep in prayer. As I approached the statue of Our Lady where She appeared to St Bernadette, I could feel an intensification of the energy, a slight vibration and a humming sound. The closer I came, the louder the sound became. The sound was over and above the sound of the rushing waters.</span></div></div><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="87mvi" data-offset-key="3ibur-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 1em 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="3ibur-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span data-offset-key="3ibur-0-0" style="font-style: italic;">As I put my hand out to touch the dripping water and I raised my eyes, a column of light was visible to me, shimmering and dancing. My first impression was that it is a giant candle, but then my logical mind realized that this is not possible.</span></div></div><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="87mvi" data-offset-key="34i9i-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 1em 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="34i9i-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span data-offset-key="34i9i-0-0" style="font-style: italic;">The only way I can describe it is 'a flame of living organic light' :</span></div></div><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="87mvi" data-offset-key="f7b5l-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 1em 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="f7b5l-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span data-offset-key="f7b5l-0-0" style="font-style: italic;">Her Divine Presence made manifest in this world, visible to my eyes.</span></div></div><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="87mvi" data-offset-key="6vcen-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 1em 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="6vcen-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span data-offset-key="6vcen-0-0" style="font-style: italic;">And overwhelming and immense feelings which I am at a loss to name.</span></div></div><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="87mvi" data-offset-key="1ndmh-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 1em 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="1ndmh-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span data-offset-key="1ndmh-0-0" style="font-style: italic;">A feeling of such incredible fullness and completeness which has stayed with me ever since.</span></div></div><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="87mvi" data-offset-key="7srvu-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 1em 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="7srvu-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span data-offset-key="7srvu-0-0" style="font-style: italic;">A hundred thousand harps take you</span></div></div><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="87mvi" data-offset-key="9g5b7-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 1em 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="9g5b7-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span data-offset-key="9g5b7-0-0" style="font-style: italic;">like wings and sweep you up out of silence.</span></div></div><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="87mvi" data-offset-key="4onk3-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 1em 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="4onk3-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span data-offset-key="4onk3-0-0" style="font-style: italic;">And your primitive wind is blowing</span></div></div><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="87mvi" data-offset-key="32ndf-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 1em 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="32ndf-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span data-offset-key="32ndf-0-0" style="font-style: italic;">the fragrance of your marvelous power</span></div></div><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="87mvi" data-offset-key="af2ub-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 1em 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="af2ub-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span data-offset-key="af2ub-0-0" style="font-style: italic;">to every being and to every creature in need.</span></div></div><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="87mvi" data-offset-key="bp58c-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 1em 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="bp58c-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span data-offset-key="bp58c-0-0" style="font-style: italic;">- Rainer Maria Rilke</span></div></div><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="87mvi" data-offset-key="ft9mp-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 1em 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="ft9mp-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span data-offset-key="ft9mp-0-0">This is an extract of my very first blog post about my first visit to Lourdes.</span></div></div><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="87mvi" data-offset-key="b6d9h-0-0" style="background-color: white; margin: 1em 0px;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="b6d9h-0-0" style="color: #241e12; direction: ltr; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; position: relative; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span data-offset-key="b6d9h-0-0">And since that blog post I have been offering the Art Novena to Our Lady of Lourdes for the past ten years and this year to Our Lady of the Living Fire.</span></div><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="b6d9h-0-0" style="color: #241e12; direction: ltr; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; position: relative; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span data-offset-key="b6d9h-0-0"><br /></span></div><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="b6d9h-0-0" style="color: #241e12; direction: ltr; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; position: relative; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj-pnbXUCf-WUSlqORZSi_rN7XzXah1095CqfUfOE7Mq-QphHbudKDmMUiUCoZkjFvOZqpXDGnWXo-4iV4L-KSpXJsE4mMy1keEnNKmFHNNhDSM4elwRMN76km2attrXQErda-POA8VYo3BeiYkdMIf0cx7IZLliOx0TWXfTh88FOUJbD_cYIbsEZfTxg=s1600" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1066" data-original-width="1600" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj-pnbXUCf-WUSlqORZSi_rN7XzXah1095CqfUfOE7Mq-QphHbudKDmMUiUCoZkjFvOZqpXDGnWXo-4iV4L-KSpXJsE4mMy1keEnNKmFHNNhDSM4elwRMN76km2attrXQErda-POA8VYo3BeiYkdMIf0cx7IZLliOx0TWXfTh88FOUJbD_cYIbsEZfTxg=w400-h266" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span data-offset-key="b6d9h-0-0">Candles are kept burning at the sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes without fail</span></div><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="b6d9h-0-0" style="color: #241e12; direction: ltr; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; position: relative; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span data-offset-key="b6d9h-0-0"><br /></span></div><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="b6d9h-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span data-offset-key="b6d9h-0-0"><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="87mvi" data-offset-key="97et-0-0" style="color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 1em 0px; text-align: start; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="97et-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span data-offset-key="97et-0-0" style="font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Contemplation </span></span></div></div><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="87mvi" data-offset-key="4081c-0-0" style="margin: 1em 0px; text-align: start;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="4081c-0-0" style="color: #241e12; direction: ltr; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; position: relative; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span data-offset-key="4081c-0-0" style="font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Fire and Light</span></span></div><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="4081c-0-0" style="color: #241e12; direction: ltr; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; position: relative; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span data-offset-key="4081c-0-0" style="font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true"><br /></span></span></div><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="4081c-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span data-offset-key="4081c-0-0"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjENDZ_8RG6_dN1OCJwgx5avPTA7Dko2ttcc8uhE3wuvbmat4qWMJWMRTBt23aLSxOvTO_DKVYvFzX-6Kn8Wvpxk0ysxIP0xAdpZSb5_O1t8EODxQAMFa9lU9apyFgBdpfWnRSMAw8bmrDm8-bXOxRcMqk7OpDqihfNQFVdcUUlvFvEGEpMuW6j-ZksXQ=s320" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="213" data-original-width="320" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjENDZ_8RG6_dN1OCJwgx5avPTA7Dko2ttcc8uhE3wuvbmat4qWMJWMRTBt23aLSxOvTO_DKVYvFzX-6Kn8Wvpxk0ysxIP0xAdpZSb5_O1t8EODxQAMFa9lU9apyFgBdpfWnRSMAw8bmrDm8-bXOxRcMqk7OpDqihfNQFVdcUUlvFvEGEpMuW6j-ZksXQ" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="87mvi" data-offset-key="49ja6-0-0" style="font-weight: 400; margin: 1em 0px; text-align: start;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="49ja6-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;"><div style="text-align: center;">Fire is of great importance to us. We use it to cook our food and to keep warm in winter. The hearth and its fire has always been a symbol of the divine presence of the Deity who provides and supplies us with what we need.</div><span data-offset-key="49ja6-0-0"><div style="text-align: center;">The candle is also seen as the flame of the Soul. Those with mystical sight can see the flame that is alit on the crown of the awakened ones.</div></span></div></div><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="87mvi" data-offset-key="e6ue1-0-0" style="font-weight: 400; margin: 1em 0px; text-align: start;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="e6ue1-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;"><div style="text-align: center;">One can see the halo of a burning flame with the naked eye and holy ones and awakened ones are often drawn with similar halos. Even though we understand how fire is created, it remains a mystical ocurrence with miraculous abilities.</div><span data-offset-key="e6ue1-0-0"><div style="text-align: center;">Similarly, as prana is ignited in the body (spontaneously or through spiritual practice) and involuntary and unexpected changes take place in both the mind, the body and the heart, it is a wondrous mystical occurrence.</div><div style="text-align: center;">As inner sight develops and extra sensory perception and a vast peace eventually settles in your being, one feels drawn to make these events manifest in ritual, practise and art.</div></span></div></div></div><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="4081c-0-0" style="color: #241e12; direction: ltr; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; position: relative; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span data-offset-key="4081c-0-0" style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="87mvi" data-offset-key="fvli8-0-0" style="margin: 1em 0px; text-align: start;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="fvli8-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgzh59N59xiclcp1r5JRbD2uVdVVpnCQxiu9aCToz_XT0fSf7tJy_LOKtOK2CLFj54Ro9BLwW1Od7RHfk5Ct8j7mXcNEAYhtm-otIsxa_iWXSPlUMSx6LAXjUAtLtL_ld9tqfmV-aEC7A6Sx2c-Qk36U-s42ccrctjiiY3rdpQkWL1kZqVYyO-wgAeqcg=s320" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="213" data-original-width="320" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgzh59N59xiclcp1r5JRbD2uVdVVpnCQxiu9aCToz_XT0fSf7tJy_LOKtOK2CLFj54Ro9BLwW1Od7RHfk5Ct8j7mXcNEAYhtm-otIsxa_iWXSPlUMSx6LAXjUAtLtL_ld9tqfmV-aEC7A6Sx2c-Qk36U-s42ccrctjiiY3rdpQkWL1kZqVYyO-wgAeqcg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><span data-offset-key="fvli8-0-0" style="color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div style="text-align: center;">Since ancient days a candle was kept alit in the temples and cities as an offering to the heavens and as a sign of the unwavering spirit. This is still the practise at Lourdes and also at Kildare where the Brigidine nuns keep the flame lit.</div></span></div></div><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="87mvi" data-offset-key="7mq20-0-0" style="color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin: 1em 0px; text-align: start; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="7mq20-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span data-offset-key="7mq20-0-0"><span data-text="true">She was a poor shepherdess, Bernadette, </span></span></div></div><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="87mvi" data-offset-key="6camb-0-0" style="color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin: 1em 0px; text-align: start; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="6camb-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span data-offset-key="6camb-0-0"><span data-text="true">growing up at the foothills of the Pyrenees, </span></span></div></div><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="87mvi" data-offset-key="e7vtb-0-0" style="color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin: 1em 0px; text-align: start; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="e7vtb-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span data-offset-key="e7vtb-0-0"><span data-text="true">on the banks of the Gave du Pau.</span></span></div></div><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="87mvi" data-offset-key="d09u2-0-0" style="color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin: 1em 0px; text-align: start; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="d09u2-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span data-offset-key="d09u2-0-0"><span data-text="true">Tending the very poor family's</span></span></div></div><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="87mvi" data-offset-key="elo35-0-0" style="color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin: 1em 0px; text-align: start; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="elo35-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span data-offset-key="elo35-0-0"><span data-text="true">small flock of sheep</span></span></div></div><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="87mvi" data-offset-key="e20cj-0-0" style="color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin: 1em 0px; text-align: start; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="e20cj-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span data-offset-key="e20cj-0-0"><span data-text="true">When the most miraculous vision</span></span></div></div><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="87mvi" data-offset-key="1mlee-0-0" style="color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin: 1em 0px; text-align: start; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="1mlee-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span data-offset-key="1mlee-0-0"><span data-text="true">appeared to her.</span></span></div></div><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="87mvi" data-offset-key="pmj3-0-0" style="color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin: 1em 0px; text-align: start; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="pmj3-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span data-offset-key="pmj3-0-0"><span data-text="true">A vision of Light</span></span></div></div><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="87mvi" data-offset-key="65cmm-0-0" style="color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin: 1em 0px; text-align: start; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="65cmm-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span data-offset-key="65cmm-0-0"><span data-text="true">with roses on Her feet.</span></span></div></div><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="87mvi" data-offset-key="bt691-0-0" style="color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin: 1em 0px; text-align: start; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="bt691-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span data-offset-key="bt691-0-0"><span data-text="true">From this numinous event</span></span></div></div><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="87mvi" data-offset-key="f9pri-0-0" style="color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin: 1em 0px; text-align: start; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="f9pri-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span data-offset-key="f9pri-0-0"><span data-text="true">flowed forth a stream of healing water,</span></span></div></div><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="87mvi" data-offset-key="on3c-0-0" style="color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin: 1em 0px; text-align: start; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="on3c-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span data-offset-key="on3c-0-0"><span data-text="true">a holy place was born,</span></span></div></div><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="87mvi" data-offset-key="b37lu-0-0" style="color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin: 1em 0px; text-align: start; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="b37lu-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span data-offset-key="b37lu-0-0"><span data-text="true">Bernadette's life was transformed</span></span></div></div><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="87mvi" data-offset-key="6ufj9-0-0" style="color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin: 1em 0px; text-align: start; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="6ufj9-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span data-offset-key="6ufj9-0-0"><span data-text="true">into one of passion,</span></span></div></div><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="87mvi" data-offset-key="4q9mj-0-0" style="color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin: 1em 0px; text-align: start; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="4q9mj-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span data-offset-key="4q9mj-0-0"><span data-text="true">commitment and a vocation to the highest Love</span></span></div></div><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="87mvi" data-offset-key="7ajao-0-0" style="color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin: 1em 0px; text-align: start; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="7ajao-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span data-offset-key="7ajao-0-0"><span data-text="true">A place where the fire was lit long ago</span></span></div></div><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="87mvi" data-offset-key="73nuc-0-0" style="color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin: 1em 0px; text-align: start; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="73nuc-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span data-offset-key="73nuc-0-0"><span data-text="true">and the fire of your Soul</span></span></div></div><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="87mvi" data-offset-key="ed8ut-0-0" style="color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin: 1em 0px; text-align: start; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="ed8ut-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span data-offset-key="ed8ut-0-0"><span data-text="true">and Its unconditional love</span></span></div></div><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="87mvi" data-offset-key="7rrq5-0-0" style="color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin: 1em 0px; text-align: start; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="7rrq5-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span data-offset-key="7rrq5-0-0"><span data-text="true">is kept alive</span></span></div></div><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="87mvi" data-offset-key="4o6s3-0-0" style="color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin: 1em 0px; text-align: start; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="4o6s3-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span data-offset-key="4o6s3-0-0"><span data-text="true">And such is the miracle within our own hearts</span></span></div></div><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="87mvi" data-offset-key="9vo43-0-0" style="color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin: 1em 0px; text-align: start; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="9vo43-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span data-offset-key="9vo43-0-0"><span data-text="true">reminding us of the Sacred in the Ordinary</span></span></div></div><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="87mvi" data-offset-key="8u4do-0-0" style="color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin: 1em 0px; text-align: start; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="8u4do-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span data-offset-key="8u4do-0-0"><span data-text="true">and when we open ourselves to the healing possibilities</span></span></div></div><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="87mvi" data-offset-key="bvgj7-0-0" style="color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin: 1em 0px; text-align: start; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="bvgj7-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span data-offset-key="bvgj7-0-0"><span data-text="true">we find that Love is everywhere</span></span></div></div><span data-text="true" style="color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg5EPw3NQqjVTFQip58vByrE4pHVg9210YGaqDIJFM2MaugMv_NvRRoJCc9YdVURyCJlle7TyJA2wbOjaP4rwQ50bzTtD6quTGXDUlg-2wErnFuSe-j0RiF_U4eO5WHdzW5O6Ud7oV76eCYHDgkbbDjtqVeDUvbaUMbQwXLPvX3kMrx1CgrJyc9v_xYFA=s400" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="300" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg5EPw3NQqjVTFQip58vByrE4pHVg9210YGaqDIJFM2MaugMv_NvRRoJCc9YdVURyCJlle7TyJA2wbOjaP4rwQ50bzTtD6quTGXDUlg-2wErnFuSe-j0RiF_U4eO5WHdzW5O6Ud7oV76eCYHDgkbbDjtqVeDUvbaUMbQwXLPvX3kMrx1CgrJyc9v_xYFA=s320" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="87mvi" data-offset-key="4co24-0-0" style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin: 1em 0px; text-align: start;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="4co24-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span data-offset-key="4co24-0-0" style="font-weight: bold;">Prayer</span></div></div><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="87mvi" data-offset-key="ek9hd-0-0" style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin: 1em 0px; text-align: start;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="ek9hd-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span data-offset-key="ek9hd-0-0">Radiant Mary, shine radiantly upon me.</span></div></div><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="87mvi" data-offset-key="15st1-0-0" style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin: 1em 0px; text-align: start;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="15st1-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span data-offset-key="15st1-0-0">Bright Lady who illuminates my inner darkness</span></div></div><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="87mvi" data-offset-key="3lk8j-0-0" style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin: 1em 0px; text-align: start;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="3lk8j-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span data-offset-key="3lk8j-0-0">Yours is the incorruptible fire;</span></div></div><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="87mvi" data-offset-key="2vi60-0-0" style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin: 1em 0px; text-align: start;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="2vi60-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span data-offset-key="2vi60-0-0">As it is clean, it cleanses; as it is pure, it purifies</span></div></div><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="87mvi" data-offset-key="a4kg7-0-0" style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin: 1em 0px; text-align: start;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="a4kg7-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span data-offset-key="a4kg7-0-0">You are the Living Fire,</span></div></div><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="87mvi" data-offset-key="esn4o-0-0" style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin: 1em 0px; text-align: start;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="esn4o-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span data-offset-key="esn4o-0-0">the eternal flame of Love</span></div></div><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="87mvi" data-offset-key="20dc8-0-0" style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin: 1em 0px; text-align: start;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="20dc8-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span data-offset-key="20dc8-0-0">May my heart and eyes open to the beauty of my own being,</span></div></div><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="87mvi" data-offset-key="bp0l6-0-0" style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin: 1em 0px; text-align: start;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="bp0l6-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span data-offset-key="bp0l6-0-0">halo to Love's fire</span></div></div><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="87mvi" data-offset-key="bbhc6-0-0" style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin: 1em 0px; text-align: start;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="bbhc6-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span data-offset-key="bbhc6-0-0">Ave Maria</span></div></div><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="87mvi" data-offset-key="a813d-0-0" style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin: 1em 0px; text-align: start;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="a813d-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span data-offset-key="a813d-0-0">Om jai Mata Mary Ma</span></div></div><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="87mvi" data-offset-key="al5bh-0-0" style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin: 1em 0px; text-align: start;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="al5bh-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span data-offset-key="al5bh-0-0">blessings</span></div></div><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="87mvi" data-offset-key="989pt-0-0" style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin: 1em 0px; text-align: start;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="989pt-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span data-offset-key="989pt-0-0">Hettienne</span></div><div><span data-offset-key="989pt-0-0"><br /></span></div></div><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="87mvi" data-offset-key="eh6ef-0-0" style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin: 1em 0px; text-align: start;"></div></div></span></span></div></div></span></div></div>Hettienne Groblerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06171699855415167735noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5617283848188660741.post-19097038520767648272022-02-02T06:41:00.001+02:002022-02-02T06:41:00.183+02:00A blessed Candlemass!<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjbUDV2kb-T7JfdjQ0Czc8K-wQGj6cCv6JneEsNvwLy_Pqmq9Uck6eYDyKJOx0Ea-owSnSDiq3kYqRv5cDiUZZ9L-xawZSvy34II1awHhHAGLPckHi_beUmcDgyVDQcEY43k_HHSl4WO5xA_HOn18jgNXQavSGdF2D6D3yU027pxRYyeTiBFo9oMUFCAw=s826" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="826" data-original-width="620" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjbUDV2kb-T7JfdjQ0Czc8K-wQGj6cCv6JneEsNvwLy_Pqmq9Uck6eYDyKJOx0Ea-owSnSDiq3kYqRv5cDiUZZ9L-xawZSvy34II1awHhHAGLPckHi_beUmcDgyVDQcEY43k_HHSl4WO5xA_HOn18jgNXQavSGdF2D6D3yU027pxRYyeTiBFo9oMUFCAw=w300-h400" width="300" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;">A blessed Candlemass and feast day of the Black Madonna of the Green Candles to you</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;">If you are interested in going deeper, posts with more content, ritual and prayers are shared on Patreon.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;">A major pilgrimage takes place every year at Candlemas (a celebration 40 days after Christmas) in the town of Marseilles, France. In the evening of 1 February the preparations already start and on the morning of February 2nd, a procession starts from the Old Port to the Abbaye of Saint Victor. The pilgrims carry long green candles symbolizing the eagerly awaited green shoots of spring. The black Virgin stored in the crypts is dressed in a green cloak and presented to the crowd. The archbishop then blesses her and a mass begins.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhKWBJgnKDGtskTPINOy7X026gE8R2i1dt0tpQu2kNVt6qGi1pF-Yy-AX1rc_uOj3N0TfG4rSzkIksDexyDjekisGxTN3My6N2X7T_3tWv_qoGAPyZfX_HqF37e9KH5yaZ-8GIxkcSYIXMg-qExowOtof8hv4YoKZ-wSwAqPIrqACtIKOFF_QhKRb2n2g=s1093" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1093" data-original-width="820" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhKWBJgnKDGtskTPINOy7X026gE8R2i1dt0tpQu2kNVt6qGi1pF-Yy-AX1rc_uOj3N0TfG4rSzkIksDexyDjekisGxTN3My6N2X7T_3tWv_qoGAPyZfX_HqF37e9KH5yaZ-8GIxkcSYIXMg-qExowOtof8hv4YoKZ-wSwAqPIrqACtIKOFF_QhKRb2n2g=w300-h400" width="300" /></a></div><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; white-space: pre-line;">Afterwards, everyone goes to a nearby bakery to buy navettes, long thin biscuits flavored with orange water and intended to resemble the boat, or navette, that brought Lazarus, Mary Magdalene and other saints to Saintes Maries de la Mer in Provence </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; white-space: pre-line;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"><strong>Black Madonna of Confession; The Good Black Mother; Our Lady the Green One; Our Lady of New Fire</strong></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"><strong>Bride of Holy Wells in the Mysteries of the Black Madonna tarot deck</strong></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">Today, 2 February, pilgrims descend onto the crypt of the Abbey; they light their green candles and carry the Black Mother with the green cloak up and out into the procession. The Candlemas procession of this Black Madonna replaced an ancient torchlight procession in honour of Persephone, daughter of Demeter. </p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">The green candles of Candlemas symbolize fertility, the birth of new life and the greening of the Earth. The wings of the goddess Isis is still depicted as being green and there used to be a devotion to Green Isis. </p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg4zl8kuzmFmi3Ag0cOW5uPaZP7g15W-ThVFYuue0fkuhL473KdvHWZxOHWMVNaK_7R7b7EO8i7-tIvk7EaH2WvVvDe846yCeMW_x2TytiCNmS-SpwOYKT3QZUIU7AtpiPqQV6m0NNyXLbfHRywIvpOeb6OfYD_h0GgJgZl0rUlQoFaTtWsiv99l2hfwQ=s1092" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1092" data-original-width="820" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg4zl8kuzmFmi3Ag0cOW5uPaZP7g15W-ThVFYuue0fkuhL473KdvHWZxOHWMVNaK_7R7b7EO8i7-tIvk7EaH2WvVvDe846yCeMW_x2TytiCNmS-SpwOYKT3QZUIU7AtpiPqQV6m0NNyXLbfHRywIvpOeb6OfYD_h0GgJgZl0rUlQoFaTtWsiv99l2hfwQ=w300-h400" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjDpM3hnrLoR81gXkzVPKQbVDbxlXx-qgQBU0roYInqYZQkgfnuX45dzGgRpEMrDSlXDh33saRdkUp9ArpxDOP-zJ6NCfRTE5K7vr-QGcdhc-VXkwnntyJ6GB2jY_VNFR5yWPb-jW7JKmvK3DLjgGBdckhe5ZKJxMxT_YnrpOUAw9ZiS6tWBQiWprQeEQ=s1025" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1025" data-original-width="820" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjDpM3hnrLoR81gXkzVPKQbVDbxlXx-qgQBU0roYInqYZQkgfnuX45dzGgRpEMrDSlXDh33saRdkUp9ArpxDOP-zJ6NCfRTE5K7vr-QGcdhc-VXkwnntyJ6GB2jY_VNFR5yWPb-jW7JKmvK3DLjgGBdckhe5ZKJxMxT_YnrpOUAw9ZiS6tWBQiWprQeEQ=w320-h400" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"><em>Our Lady of Confession, the Black Madonna, has always been known as Our Lady of the New Fire because on her feast day, the new candles are blessed for the year. Devotees still take their green candles to be blessed in the annual ritual in the Abbey.</em></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"><em>She is still known as The Green One and her woollen green mantel is overlaid with a green cloth coat and green candles are lit in front of her. The colour green is also associated with the planet Venus. - from the Mysteries of the Black Madonna</em></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">You can read the entire story of the legend of the green candles in the Abbey of St Victor in the guidebook of the Mysteries of the Black Madonna. </p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">Many believe this Madonna to be Mary Magdalene and there is also a strong connection with Sante Sara. </p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">She is the personification of new life and fertility. She reminds us that Our Lady of Living Fire restores health and joy after the long dark nights of the winter of the soul. She restores hope and optimism as her fire lights the candle, both within and within our world. </p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiAzApN1KoJ7gaLN18mTRQuNMbAX-GZKRogyue5oYx1EUPohkP125AguyI_f_t9pWLRBzSV_JqIBJTh8Zo_AE6kn0WILx061Kfl3QnfLo664QHzQbLVcj258bMOlGtDbolv93VS4FY-qPGeyd7cVzAzKJD4HZUbq8_Kl9scnWQUgQicbOmVI0X5cTnD5Q=s1093" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1093" data-original-width="820" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiAzApN1KoJ7gaLN18mTRQuNMbAX-GZKRogyue5oYx1EUPohkP125AguyI_f_t9pWLRBzSV_JqIBJTh8Zo_AE6kn0WILx061Kfl3QnfLo664QHzQbLVcj258bMOlGtDbolv93VS4FY-qPGeyd7cVzAzKJD4HZUbq8_Kl9scnWQUgQicbOmVI0X5cTnD5Q=w300-h400" width="300" /></a></div><br /><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"><strong>Blessing rite of the green candles</strong></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">What is needed beforehand :</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">Set up your altar</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">Place two green candles on altar</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">Place bowl of water on altar</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">Have prayers and mantra at hand (for sanctification of space and water)</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">Today is when the blessing rite of the green candles take place. Place two green candles on your altar. I have shared with you the opening and closing prayers and the sanctification mantras, to clear and bless your space all your sacred tools. Before you do the candle blessing rite, first sanctify your altar and make sure that you have placed water on the altar.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">Light the two candles and repeat the following prayer. Sprinkle candles with the blessed water on your altar.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">You can use the sanctification prayer and mantra that I shared with you in the previous post</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">on creating your altar. There are also more prayers on Patreon.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">blessings</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">Hettienne</p>Hettienne Groblerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06171699855415167735noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5617283848188660741.post-70091595901291628892022-02-02T05:00:00.000+02:002022-02-02T05:00:00.181+02:00Our Lady of Living Fire Altar<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgIGz2utOOjcOzhyMH8mFR9OvmjU6HkaEjX78u70Z-8j5_iGIcQdN_MdZqPM47Vc2IqjEl_ws9l5vrpejhaUfaUaxeJ6VTFVC7ioaDLlvz8VhAg1RCAcijSU_-YFBy7BkwRsiZoVdv6Rtk45rN5m480Dyg1TAAzxRyi-mtpdS4HQ_5p-KpP0KpVkXPmDQ=s640" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgIGz2utOOjcOzhyMH8mFR9OvmjU6HkaEjX78u70Z-8j5_iGIcQdN_MdZqPM47Vc2IqjEl_ws9l5vrpejhaUfaUaxeJ6VTFVC7ioaDLlvz8VhAg1RCAcijSU_-YFBy7BkwRsiZoVdv6Rtk45rN5m480Dyg1TAAzxRyi-mtpdS4HQ_5p-KpP0KpVkXPmDQ=w300-h400" width="300" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><p></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"><em>Never underestimate the power of ritual and ceremony. The ritual of preparing the altar, lighting candle and incense, etc indicates to the subconscious and unconscious that you are now entering sacred time and space.</em></p><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Blessings to you on this feast day of Our Lady of the Green Candles and the</span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Novena to Our Lady of the Living Fire.</span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Welcome to our virtual community where we connect with each other,</span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">with our devotion to the Divine Feminine in Her Grace as Mary</span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">and with our innermost selves.</span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">If this is your first visit to the blog </span><span style="font-family: arial;">you may want to scroll down and read the previous posts</span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">with information on the idea of these offerings. You will also</span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">find links to my other blogs and stories on this path of</span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">walking with Mary, in the side bar of this blog.</span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjJNHMDoFGXC55VGJgEQofaPTMFwxdwmJtbA8wkfmJxmp7DDF-wRq3QBE1iIPI9FeSS6TxkTDPQR904vjU11VpZegY8ztzSrR0EOZDUS4yAk54UmvjUAj6JAztxCJGiEHkeGfPTZt_g-ZenN8Eiq0l82yP6S1-lvIByHnNtcdyO_pMMiWM9cAlVSr9qAw=s826" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="826" data-original-width="620" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjJNHMDoFGXC55VGJgEQofaPTMFwxdwmJtbA8wkfmJxmp7DDF-wRq3QBE1iIPI9FeSS6TxkTDPQR904vjU11VpZegY8ztzSrR0EOZDUS4yAk54UmvjUAj6JAztxCJGiEHkeGfPTZt_g-ZenN8Eiq0l82yP6S1-lvIByHnNtcdyO_pMMiWM9cAlVSr9qAw=w480-h640" width="480" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">Today I am sharing with you the preparation of a sacred altar for both the Feast Day of Our Lady of the Green Candles and the 9 day novena. Throughout the novena you may add colours or flowers for the specific aspects of Mary for that day. You do not have to follow my suggestions; you are free to create an altar that is in alignment with your own vision and desire.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">I will throughout the 10 days of feast days and novena, share various prayers and practices; these all form part of the Immaculate Practice which is part of the Order of the Dove training. Some of these practices and prayers will only be shared with the <i>Order of the Dove</i> in keeping with the Temple of Mary on <a href="http://www.patreon.com/templeofmary" target="_blank">Patreon</a>. All posts for the novena is shared early with patrons and specific prayers, mantras and invocations are only shared on Patreon.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;">Gather the following items for the altar and rituals : a meditation shawl (if you like to wear one), rosary or mala or prayer beads, a few fresh lemons - at least one or two, one or two cups of coarse sea salt; essential oils (lemon and rose geranium); candles especially green but you can also add white and red and black and yellow. Fresh flowers and an image of Holy Mary. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi0_6JjOtpYlLM0cOfYKnI4SLfkWkx4IYv6I2A3vvlqrSrxrbLQn13QADr3VXlG-8Pm8t0tHv8BkVZ6K_Q82mnP1pScCkD_XNMCGJalYtPuHY1fexlL_HcBzDkmhXvGGI_XFGypW9v_MBpFYKwfYB62kNv7ooMHK7yBZHt_E2bfq2crNSSoV9uLAPzbSA=s1600" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi0_6JjOtpYlLM0cOfYKnI4SLfkWkx4IYv6I2A3vvlqrSrxrbLQn13QADr3VXlG-8Pm8t0tHv8BkVZ6K_Q82mnP1pScCkD_XNMCGJalYtPuHY1fexlL_HcBzDkmhXvGGI_XFGypW9v_MBpFYKwfYB62kNv7ooMHK7yBZHt_E2bfq2crNSSoV9uLAPzbSA=w300-h400" width="300" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><p style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center; white-space: pre-line;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 1rem;">There are various ways of clearing your space : burning sage or mpepho (a local indigenous plant in South Africa); lavender, burning aromatherapy oils; holy water; sacred waters and salt.</span></p><p style="font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">My favourite way of cleansing is the following :</span></p><p style="font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">A whole <strong>lemon</strong> placed in the room and one on the altar. I leave the lemons in place for weeks (until it has naturally dried out). When the lemon starts to rot it has absorbed negative energy and you have to put it into the compost or garden and replace it with another fresh lemon. Lemons are powerful energy clearing fruit and one of the oldest holy fruits that we know. The lemon also aborbs the sacred energies of the activated altar and space and you can eat it as prasadh (blessed food) after your sacrament.</span></p><p style="font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">You can add the essential oils to your oil burner.</span></p><p style="font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">It is a powerful practice to have a sacred space in which to meditate and work your holy medicine. You only need a small space. You can prepare this space beforehand with a special chair or space on the floor to sit.</span></p><p style="font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">If you already have a meditation shawl, place it in your sacred space. I suggest that you find a special (meaning one that you use for this purpose) shawl with which to cover your shoulders or head. In the bhakty tradition we wear white.</span></p><p style="font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Create your altar with candles, incense, an essential oil burner, fresh flowers and of course an image of Mary. Add your Mysteries of Mary and Mysteries of the Black Madonna tarot deck or any deck that you will be using. </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important;"></p><div style="font-size: 1rem; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 1rem;">We invoke a blessing and sacrament from Mary on our sacred work and offerings. We will</span><strong style="font-size: 1rem;"> </strong><span style="font-size: 1rem;">sanctify our meditation shawl, rosary</span></span></div><div style="font-size: 1rem; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 1rem;"><span style="font-family: arial;">(and/or mala) and any other items to be used as sacred altars and tools. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 1rem;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Place a glass or bottle of water on your altar.</span></div></span><span style="font-size: 1rem;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 1rem;">You can drink this water after the blessing ritual.</span></div></span></span><p></p><p style="font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important;"></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 1rem;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 1rem;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Should you want to, you can repeat this invocation daily. The more</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 1rem;"><span style="font-family: arial;">often and the more people that repeat the same mantra, the more</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 1rem;"><span style="font-family: arial;">powerful it becomes. Traditional mantras which have been chanted</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 1rem;"><span style="font-family: arial;">for many years, have great healing effect on the vibrations of our</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 1rem;"><span style="font-family: arial;">physical and spiritual world.</span></span></div><p></p><p style="line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important;"></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><strong style="font-size: 1rem;"><div style="text-align: center;"><strong style="font-size: 1rem;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Mantra for blessing (invocation)</span></strong></div></strong><p></p><p style="font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important;"></p><div style="text-align: center;"><em style="font-size: 1rem;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Ave Maria Sanctum Gloriae</span></em></div><em><span style="font-family: arial;"><div style="text-align: center;"><em style="font-size: 1rem;">Ave Maria Sanctum Gloriae</em></div><div style="text-align: center;"><em style="font-size: 1rem;">Ave Maria Sanctum Gloriae</em></div><div style="text-align: center;"><em style="font-size: 1rem;">OM</em></div></span></em><p></p><p style="font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">After you have <strong>blessed your space</strong>, open the ritual with a prayer to Mary.</span></p><p style="font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-family: arial;">Prayer to Mary</span></strong></p><p style="font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center;"><em><span style="font-family: arial;"> Holy Mary, Mother of God </span></em></p><p style="font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center;"><em><span style="font-family: arial;">oh Rose Queen</span></em></p><p style="font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center;"><em><span style="font-family: arial;">Bestow your blessings upon us</span></em></p><p style="font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center;"><em><span style="font-family: arial;">Now and Forever</span></em></p><p style="font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center;"><em><span style="font-family: arial;">To open and close any sacred work dedicated to Mary we use :</span></em></p><p style="font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-family: arial;">Om jai Mata Mary Ma Namah</span></strong></em></p><p style="font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">blessings</span></p><p style="font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Hettienne</span></p><p style="font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 10px 0px !important;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; white-space: pre-line;" /></p>Hettienne Groblerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06171699855415167735noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5617283848188660741.post-74732883000347614242022-01-25T18:22:00.002+02:002022-01-25T18:22:30.829+02:00Our Lady of Living Fire Novena February 22<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgKsbGfDMS-qO2CsH-Y2zIren3ZJhC1WTjpTmuITkoij_9q2QqjhFc8b4fHns5bDYhRlG0QgL1OSNqMYzwStipqoCWtzdjJm-B-HDDEpQWLq1Td6UFm55DQ2Fi3PFtGefV-3MbFjJ_uowx0s9q4wGtTm5660en4o0BcFHWBuWKzOMbIWaojv6fqpr9RQg=s1080" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgKsbGfDMS-qO2CsH-Y2zIren3ZJhC1WTjpTmuITkoij_9q2QqjhFc8b4fHns5bDYhRlG0QgL1OSNqMYzwStipqoCWtzdjJm-B-HDDEpQWLq1Td6UFm55DQ2Fi3PFtGefV-3MbFjJ_uowx0s9q4wGtTm5660en4o0BcFHWBuWKzOMbIWaojv6fqpr9RQg=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;">Candlemas and the ancient Festival of the Lights is celebrated on 2 February</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;">The feast day of Our Lady of the Candles is on Candlemas and is celebrated in Tenerife, Spain. She is a Black Madonna, Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria de Jaro (Our Lady of the Candles; formally: Nuestra Señora de la Purificación y la Candelaria).</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhGE8X3Cs-f87okzXQ509Mg4sjR6Va1eOx0VAFZxu8Rrizgq_QPUJEbzxR8xqJVy5Z4GU0QSeeYiw2R71NRpJcJU_YlxtaB9gUjT95JAHVA1pwJaR6niEtqPF8ubv3MPniXSFVrdZW5mLED0NYMsT5zS9YXhW9dKT-t3YAQilr5tizTeaUGlWsqHnzuqw=s640" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhGE8X3Cs-f87okzXQ509Mg4sjR6Va1eOx0VAFZxu8Rrizgq_QPUJEbzxR8xqJVy5Z4GU0QSeeYiw2R71NRpJcJU_YlxtaB9gUjT95JAHVA1pwJaR6niEtqPF8ubv3MPniXSFVrdZW5mLED0NYMsT5zS9YXhW9dKT-t3YAQilr5tizTeaUGlWsqHnzuqw=s320" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Our Lady Mary, the Holy Lemon Tree<br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;">We will celebrate this day as a feast day before the start of the novena on 3 February 2022. You may want to set up your altar beforehand and I will share a post with altar suggestions on Patreon before the start of the novena.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"> www.patreon.com/templeofmary</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;">On this day we will celebrate the various Lady of Living Fire as she appear in both the Mysteries of Mary and Mysteries of the Black Madonna decks</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg8EZDZw3rGWuugkrLg1bFUhZ72VtTbczLiMw-bNBaG2DgSfRZTSgYBE8bIuDHV6DBGN1lrFtWIZO1m6n8FHGPJKQecy6gLZPFirdGafQjDUftf1YK74RJ1LMxlx0cK7CWNEOeAGswrRhBowWbOZJO1PmR5sJnoaUHp95IGmzedzWewinIoNsloq0PbWw=s1600" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg8EZDZw3rGWuugkrLg1bFUhZ72VtTbczLiMw-bNBaG2DgSfRZTSgYBE8bIuDHV6DBGN1lrFtWIZO1m6n8FHGPJKQecy6gLZPFirdGafQjDUftf1YK74RJ1LMxlx0cK7CWNEOeAGswrRhBowWbOZJO1PmR5sJnoaUHp95IGmzedzWewinIoNsloq0PbWw=s320" width="240" /></a></div><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;">The novena will start on 3 February and culminate on 11 February, the feast day of Our Lady of Lourdes. This is the 12th year that I am offering this novena. I will share the full novena posts with patrons early here on Patreon. The novena and daily lectio divina (piece that I offer for contemplation) will be shared across all tiers, but certain ritual and prayers will only be shared on Order of the Dove. I will share the daily novena on Instagram and I invite you to join in and share your images and anything else that you would like to share. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;">I will have a small number of Black Madonna decks available in the shop from 1 February and I will offer a few of the sacred altars for sale from 2 February.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;">blessings</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hettienne</span></div><br /> <p></p>Hettienne Groblerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06171699855415167735noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5617283848188660741.post-5745967028912673252022-01-15T18:38:00.006+02:002022-01-15T18:38:59.192+02:00Our Lady of the Living Fire<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhi3bYcKipx8HKyzM6ImfV-dXfnUpDrc7N1ACVxEcc0SG5EJuj8V8zgnBxHoZ9_0asj8OJ5hhUEZkQv_9QiiUsqFtloF-I_tnJ-oPgXhKl83aFHjCz2tYb0QLaA2Riv30n0Z2G2U6AuWcDtVvPMr0u_yHO2O4TgUBfLoHQwg28vk6mu2uc3nsztAGWLeQ=s1600" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="1600" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhi3bYcKipx8HKyzM6ImfV-dXfnUpDrc7N1ACVxEcc0SG5EJuj8V8zgnBxHoZ9_0asj8OJ5hhUEZkQv_9QiiUsqFtloF-I_tnJ-oPgXhKl83aFHjCz2tYb0QLaA2Riv30n0Z2G2U6AuWcDtVvPMr0u_yHO2O4TgUBfLoHQwg28vk6mu2uc3nsztAGWLeQ=w640-h160" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">A new tier on the Temple of Mary on <a href="http://www.patreon.com/templeofmary" target="_blank">Patreon</a> has replaced Divine Mary Speaks :</div><div style="text-align: center;">Our Lady of Living Fire</div><div style="text-align: center;">a5 $2 a month.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjfEgvpuRLMDjriAgj6eP99kaSI-_wflvsSiHC_KYYrSRCxpkkr_ubNXXNaiyT_q14KCtlFAx2-lZQ6M6TzlY-xIOMNAexOOZAh3w2q4sY8lJl49GwPJhJuzL_9x_OZdebT4mdFKO-LNG-sDcxNNpoMPvSrD4U7qWObCHoilchqQxIMO0q9whp7OipYRA=s940" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="788" data-original-width="940" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjfEgvpuRLMDjriAgj6eP99kaSI-_wflvsSiHC_KYYrSRCxpkkr_ubNXXNaiyT_q14KCtlFAx2-lZQ6M6TzlY-xIOMNAexOOZAh3w2q4sY8lJl49GwPJhJuzL_9x_OZdebT4mdFKO-LNG-sDcxNNpoMPvSrD4U7qWObCHoilchqQxIMO0q9whp7OipYRA=s320" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div> My face is black with the wisdom of the Cosmos - Our Lady of Living Fire<div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;">The living liquid fire burns the 'samskaras', the patterning that has been imprinted in every cell of the body. This is an on-going process and it is experienced in the physical body, the mental and emotional bodies. Once the process has started, nothing can stop it and transformation will take place. - Our Lady of Living Fire</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;">This is an extract from the first teaching received from Our Lady of Living Fire during samadhi. The full post is available on Patreon.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">blessings</div><div style="text-align: center;">Hettienne</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>Hettienne Groblerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06171699855415167735noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5617283848188660741.post-40009628483743591132022-01-09T20:18:00.003+02:002022-01-09T20:18:34.616+02:00Creating the Mysteries of the Red Madonna and her Beloved tarot deck in 2022<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgy-TzPyB2udDOx6H8DGIYWBmtaEgKv0-wXTkUabY5cwDfioJ842QFc-3ypXjeEHdMvwWw3REegzHctdWBMU9I3PXV47IS4tPy1GmmJL46VDjh0XaSXAstdBpOlYTjk2VJImb6c2Ybq1w2BHuSBjpd5PD3zYEA99A9vaEqj4dn-goRuAra_4UgXI_u4xQ=s1102" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1102" data-original-width="620" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgy-TzPyB2udDOx6H8DGIYWBmtaEgKv0-wXTkUabY5cwDfioJ842QFc-3ypXjeEHdMvwWw3REegzHctdWBMU9I3PXV47IS4tPy1GmmJL46VDjh0XaSXAstdBpOlYTjk2VJImb6c2Ybq1w2BHuSBjpd5PD3zYEA99A9vaEqj4dn-goRuAra_4UgXI_u4xQ=w360-h640" width="360" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;">The Passion of Venus and Pluto</p><p style="text-align: center;">from the Mysteries of the Red Madonna tarot deck</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="dkomq" data-offset-key="r2ja-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 1em 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="r2ja-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="r2ja-0-0" style="font-style: italic;">Immerse yourself in the radiant beauty</span></div></div><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="dkomq" data-offset-key="ffub-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 1em 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="ffub-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="ffub-0-0" style="font-style: italic;">which is the world beyond the mind.</span></div></div><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="dkomq" data-offset-key="m060-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 1em 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="m060-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="m060-0-0" style="font-style: italic;">Surrender every thought, every attempt at creating a division between yourself and the other.</span></div></div><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="dkomq" data-offset-key="cllmm-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 1em 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="cllmm-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="cllmm-0-0" style="font-style: italic;">Join heart and sensation with the continuous dance of lovemaking between devi and dev, shakty and shiva, bharavi and bharava, god and goddess, Maria and Christos, Sophia and the Dove.</span></div></div><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="dkomq" data-offset-key="9s90o-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 1em 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="9s90o-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="9s90o-0-0" style="font-style: italic;">Join with the Madonna and Her Beloved who is making love in every particle of creation</span></div></div><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="dkomq" data-offset-key="4ght4-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 1em 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="4ght4-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="4ght4-0-0" style="font-style: italic;">With every breath and touch bless the life that surrounds you</span></div></div><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="dkomq" data-offset-key="dgqvq-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 1em 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="dgqvq-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="dgqvq-0-0" style="font-style: italic;">A blessed year of the Lovers and the unfolding of the Mysteries of the Red Madonna and Her Beloved to you</span></div><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="dgqvq-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="dgqvq-0-0" style="font-style: italic;"><br /></span></div><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="dgqvq-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEieiPXUAC1GNTPWh5nOfwNTKYgGjSsDDibEx-vrajlihRJ8ZH4Honb2xIeOyk5dmGQBKnQ1VzCpbdy0LkYXw39H1RBpIPNSFFAjoaDM6jHS7gDdjJ8DHS85l7FBHWjmuxeTcxxptVI5pWkaCREe0GZmI0AZ5gllCxyMFqcM8yxiQUTnSe1vK-vWWqGCiw=s826" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="826" data-original-width="620" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEieiPXUAC1GNTPWh5nOfwNTKYgGjSsDDibEx-vrajlihRJ8ZH4Honb2xIeOyk5dmGQBKnQ1VzCpbdy0LkYXw39H1RBpIPNSFFAjoaDM6jHS7gDdjJ8DHS85l7FBHWjmuxeTcxxptVI5pWkaCREe0GZmI0AZ5gllCxyMFqcM8yxiQUTnSe1vK-vWWqGCiw=w300-h400" width="300" /></a></div><br /><span data-offset-key="dgqvq-0-0" style="font-style: italic;"><br /></span></div></div><p style="text-align: center;"> <span data-offset-key="b4867-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;">'</span><span data-offset-key="b4867-0-1" style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;">Those initiated into these Inner Mysteries discovered that Christianity wa</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;">s not just about the dying and resurrecting Son of God. They were told another myth that few Christian today have even heard of - the story of Jesus' love, the lost and redeemed Daughter of the Goddess. ... They understood the Divine to have both a masculine and a feminine face; they worshiped the Divine Feminine as Sophia, the wise Goddess. - Jesus and the lost Goddess by Timothy Freke</span></p><div><span data-offset-key="b4867-0-1" style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div><span data-offset-key="b4867-0-1" style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="7tjn1" data-offset-key="6kaoc-0-0" style="font-style: normal; margin: 1em 0px;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="6kaoc-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="6kaoc-0-0"><span data-text="true">Elaine Pagels in her book, the Gnostic Paul, writes that Paul says that 'Among the initiates we speak of Sophia' for it is 'the secret of Sophia' that is 'taught in our Mysteries'. She also explains that when initiates of the Inner Mysteries of Christianity partook of Holy Communion, it was Sophia's passion and suffering they revered and remembered. It is said that priests and priestesses offered initiates wine as a symbol of 'her blood.' The prayer that was offered was :</span></span></div></div><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="7tjn1" data-offset-key="bijb1-0-0" style="margin: 1em 0px;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="bijb1-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span data-offset-key="bijb1-0-0"><span data-text="true"><i>'May Sophia fil your inner being and increase in her Gnosis.'</i></span></span></div></div><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="7tjn1" data-offset-key="es2f0-0-0" style="font-style: normal; margin: 1em 0px;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="es2f0-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="es2f0-0-0"><span data-text="true">Another prayer to Sophia was :</span></span></div></div><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="7tjn1" data-offset-key="7n2u8-0-0" style="margin: 1em 0px;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="7n2u8-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="7n2u8-0-0"><span data-text="true"><i>'Come, hidden Mother; come, you who are made manifest in your works, and give joy and rest to those who are bound to you. Come and partake in this Eucharist which we perform in your name, and in the love feast for which we have assembled at your invitation.'</i></span></span></div></div><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="7tjn1" data-offset-key="9kvv2-0-0" style="font-style: normal; margin: 1em 0px;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="9kvv2-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="9kvv2-0-0"><span data-text="true">The Mysteries of the Red Madonna and Her Beloved will be a deck that will bring together the Divine Masculine and the Divine Feminine in the mythological teachings of Sophia, Her Daughter Mary Magdalene and Her Son-Beloved-Brother Yeshua or Jesus.</span></span></div></div><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="7tjn1" data-offset-key="frbp2-0-0" style="font-style: normal; margin: 1em 0px;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="frbp2-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="frbp2-0-0"><span data-text="true">In the Mysteries of the Red Madonna I will once again explore the allegorical teachings encoded in the Outer Mysteries. These Outer Mysteries included the allegorical initiation myths of the 'lost and redeemed' Goddess and the 'dying and resurrecting Godman of the various Gnostic communities and idealogies. These mythological motifs are displayed in the Pagan Mysteries, and taught by the great Pagan Gnostics and the later Jewish mythological mysteries. The Mysteries of the Red Madonna will firstly illuminate the stories and teachings of Sophia and her lost daughter, Mary Magdalene. The Inner Mysteries of the Red Madonna will reveal the esoteric or hidden Inner Mysteries which lead to Gnosis and the final stage of Hieros Gamos or Sacred Marriage with her Beloved and Consort, the incarnate Godman.</span></span></div></div><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="7tjn1" data-offset-key="9e22j-0-0" style="font-style: normal; margin: 1em 0px;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="9e22j-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="9e22j-0-0"><span data-text="true">I will explore the divine couple in Egypt, Isis and Osiris; in Greece as Persephone and Dionysus, in Syria as Aphrodite and Adonis; Cybele and Attis, Ishtar and Marduk, Asherah and Baal amongst others.</span></span></div><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="9e22j-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="9e22j-0-0"><span data-text="true"><br /></span></span></div><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="9e22j-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="9e22j-0-0"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh2QM1m-EyxM97jZUqTzFqkfCIUlJJkrEc9y3skOknDvSQcTviv4Ly9B14ZGN2RJBT1GrQrXGDTWio-I_uMENBYYs5ripnU6JrJJQmxtH0l0lOMXbRsYI4jtF8hJJDO7tfATYFALJFZevniKLMuwxZbSqT_-Zin53YuCYd5sOqG0hngPyfirWCXTKFWPg=s1093" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1093" data-original-width="820" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh2QM1m-EyxM97jZUqTzFqkfCIUlJJkrEc9y3skOknDvSQcTviv4Ly9B14ZGN2RJBT1GrQrXGDTWio-I_uMENBYYs5ripnU6JrJJQmxtH0l0lOMXbRsYI4jtF8hJJDO7tfATYFALJFZevniKLMuwxZbSqT_-Zin53YuCYd5sOqG0hngPyfirWCXTKFWPg=w300-h400" width="300" /></a></div><br /><span data-text="true"><br /></span></span></div><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="9e22j-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="9e22j-0-0"><span data-text="true"><br /></span></span></div><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="9e22j-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="9e22j-0-0"><span data-text="true">Sophia, Lady Wisdom and Maria-Sophia in the Mysteries of Mary, has been the Goddess of the Pagan philosophers for centuries. 'Philosophy' means 'lover of Sophia'.</span></span></div><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="9e22j-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="9e22j-0-0"><span data-text="true"><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="7tjn1" data-offset-key="bia3a-0-0" style="margin: 1em 0px;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="bia3a-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="bia3a-0-0"><span data-text="true">The Goddess Ashera, in the Jewish tradition, became known as God's companion and co-creator Sophia, in books such as Proverbs, the Sophia of Solomon and The Sophia of Jesus the son of Sirach. </span></span></div></div><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="7tjn1" data-offset-key="am2mh-0-0" style="margin: 1em 0px;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="am2mh-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="am2mh-0-0"><span data-text="true">As in both the Mysteries of the 'White Lady' Mary and the Black Madonna, there will be an overlap between these three decks in the Red Madonna as well. For the original Christians, Mary had always represented the Goddess Sophia, Queen of Heaven.</span></span></div></div><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="7tjn1" data-offset-key="935b1-0-0" style="margin: 1em 0px;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="935b1-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="935b1-0-0"><span data-text="true">The Literalists, those who are exponents of the literal interpretation of the Mysteries, put an end to the Goddess and Divine nature of Mary and Sophia both. They saw her as merely a mortal woman who gave birth to a divine son. They also put an end to the equality of the sexes as proclaimed by the Gnostics and women no longer were spiritual partners to men. Women were seen as the evil descendants of Eve because of whose sin the son of God had to die.</span></span></div></div><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="7tjn1" data-offset-key="2u5lk-0-0" style="margin: 1em 0px;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="2u5lk-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="2u5lk-0-0"><span data-text="true"> I will explore the 'fallen goddess' theme in the many references to 'the soul as prostitute' in both the Gnostic texts as Biblical texts. This will take us into the stories of Mary Magdalene, the priestess who anointed the Godman; Mary Magdalene as the Beloved Disciple and the ancient tradition of temple priestesses or Devi Dasi, the ancient Hindu tradition of the temple priestess who were called 'prostitute'.</span></span></div></div><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="7tjn1" data-offset-key="k48f-0-0" style="margin: 1em 0px;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="k48f-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="k48f-0-0"><span data-text="true">I will also explore the various Red Madonna Sophia figures in these stories, such as the barren Elizabeth, Rebecca who draws water from the well of wisdom of Sophia, Martha, the prostitute Tamar, the fallen Batsheba, and more.</span></span></div></div><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="7tjn1" data-offset-key="5m8n4-0-0" style="margin: 1em 0px;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="5m8n4-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="5m8n4-0-0"><span data-text="true">'</span></span><span data-offset-key="5m8n4-0-1" style="font-style: italic;"><span data-text="true">Jesus does not show himself as he really is, but he shows himself as people are able to see him. He shows himself to all. To the great he appears great. To the small he appears small. To the angels he appears as an angel, as to men as a man. Hence the Logos conceals itself from all. Some indeed see him and realize that they are seeing themselves.' - The Gospel of Philip</span></span></div><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="5m8n4-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="5m8n4-0-1" style="font-style: italic;"><span data-text="true"><br /></span></span></div><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="5m8n4-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;">I invite you to join me on Patreon at www.patreon.com/templeofmary and to become a part of the final deck in the Mysteries of Mary.</div></div><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="7tjn1" data-offset-key="c6egh-0-0" style="margin: 1em 0px;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="c6egh-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="c6egh-0-0"><span data-text="true">blessings</span></span></div></div><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="7tjn1" data-offset-key="63q8t-0-0" style="margin: 1em 0px;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="63q8t-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="63q8t-0-0"><span data-text="true">Hettienne</span></span></div></div></span></span></div><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="9e22j-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="9e22j-0-0"><span data-text="true"><br /></span></span></div></div></span></div><div class="_2TO-components-SimpleRichTextEditor--paragraphElement" data-block="true" data-editor="7tjn1" data-offset-key="7eol7-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 1em 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"></div>Hettienne Groblerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06171699855415167735noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5617283848188660741.post-14350751906076991642022-01-09T15:15:00.001+02:002022-01-09T15:15:15.704+02:00The Mysteries of Mary tarot deck out of print<p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj4OracTUKooN7vuO6M3xvMc-AkFwVQ8X9XJon-ZrUs9INIDTPNqwJuTAOGyP5GDC_lUV0hrLUTMnm4q1jy0NNV4aCxwZMDsNf3GjN_PusiOXWkgUTfTV4laDhUrwCRYy4pzCk-wsX3NplkZ5_glF57iEGzUKnfL502LK-uz_zPzEBLrwO61zjtyjl9sQ=s640" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj4OracTUKooN7vuO6M3xvMc-AkFwVQ8X9XJon-ZrUs9INIDTPNqwJuTAOGyP5GDC_lUV0hrLUTMnm4q1jy0NNV4aCxwZMDsNf3GjN_PusiOXWkgUTfTV4laDhUrwCRYy4pzCk-wsX3NplkZ5_glF57iEGzUKnfL502LK-uz_zPzEBLrwO61zjtyjl9sQ=w300-h400" width="300" /></a></div><br /> The Mysteries of Mary tarot deck is now out of print. <p></p><p style="text-align: center;">I am working on a second edition with a few changes to the original deck. The deck will be republished later this year with the details of the frames of the cards changed, but still keeping the essence of the original deck. I may open it up for pre-orders once everything has been finalised and the printing has started. If you would like to know when the deck will be ready, you can subscribe to this blog or join the Temple of Mary community on www.patreon.com/templeofmary. I will also share updates on my Instagram feed @walkingwithmary.The pre-orders will be available in the online shop at www.hergracesacredart.com</p><p style="text-align: center;"><i>'the light of our sister Mary's lamp fills the world and will not be extinguished until the end of days, so that those who have decided to be saved will receive assistance from her. And if they receive the image of light, (fire), they will receive her rest and her blessing' - the Book of Mary's Repose</i></p><p style="text-align: center;">The creation of the Mysteries of Mary deck is the result of a truly mystical journey with Mary.</p><p style="text-align: center;">My journey with Mary started 25 years ago when I noticed the Woman with the Blue Flame, dressed in a calico type garment with an unusual headdress, appearing at my side during meditations. My belief system did not include the possibility of the appearance of Mother Mary and definitely not appearing to me. I could accept the angelic presence that walked with me, but not the divine mother. I was known in our local community as the 'angel lady' and I spoke publicly at events and on radio shows to an audience that included religious people and other skeptics, about the presence of angelic beings in our lives. Thus my journey started under the guidance of Archangel Michael and he led me to recognize that it was Mary that appeared to me and guided me. (I share this journey in more detail on my Patreon)</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjj_rH34gaMNB9G85rC7F1DZyZ9D5R0_ksInjNxdfuCfIOI8S8jrt3tk4wL843DewgLMeGfuTucyKvMDlr2woNCz8zwzjqPJ3QDjMzL_2Gu_xQcWamFvflXnM272tVMRLlPrbE3pivKShOsT_jj234jgXuOQhiIhYm7nSGvXQq1xrs3Mn8DQ5YknCcBqQ=s1600" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1336" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjj_rH34gaMNB9G85rC7F1DZyZ9D5R0_ksInjNxdfuCfIOI8S8jrt3tk4wL843DewgLMeGfuTucyKvMDlr2woNCz8zwzjqPJ3QDjMzL_2Gu_xQcWamFvflXnM272tVMRLlPrbE3pivKShOsT_jj234jgXuOQhiIhYm7nSGvXQq1xrs3Mn8DQ5YknCcBqQ=w334-h400" width="334" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><b>Mother of the great Cherub of Light</b> from the <i>Book of Mary's Repose</i> makes the relationship between Mary and Michael very clear. The ancient traditions of Mary's Dormition and Assumption is shared in the Book of Mary's Repose and it had a great following. This is the oldest known writings of Mary's Dormition and this tradition is known as the Palm traditions. Here in this card of the Queen of Distaff in the Mysteries of Mary deck, she is seen carrying a palm leaf under the book of wisdom held by her. The Great Angel appeared to Mary and handed her this unknown book. The Great Angel refuses to give her his name but when she ascends the Mount of Olives she recognizes him as her son Jesus. The earliest dormition traditions followed the narrative known as the Angel Christology. This Christ Angel is believed to have been absorbed into the icon of Archangel Michael after the fourth century.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Mary addresses him as 'the Great Cherub of Light who resided in my womb'. The author Stephen J Shoemaker writes that he has found an amulet referred to that speaks of 'The Great Cherub of Fire'</p><p style="text-align: center;">Mary, Mother of the Great Cherub of Light and the dormition tradition is discussed in the Mysteries of Mary tarot guide book.</p><p style="text-align: center;">blessings</p><p style="text-align: center;">Hettienne</p>Hettienne Groblerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06171699855415167735noreply@blogger.com0