Rosary of the Three Marys

 

III Holyrood Three of Marys, the new card to the second edition of the Mysteries of Mary tarot deck - pre-orders now on the website hergracesacredart.com

Rosary of the Triple Mother, The Three Marys

Start on the first large bead of the rosary and invoke the Presence of the Supreme Cosmic Mother

Our Mother of the Cosmos

Of the Earth and of the Heaven

Our Mother Divine, luminous black light of the darkness

Holy Womb of all Creation

Holy is Thy name, O Mother of the Cosmos,

Bless and nurture Your children

In You we trust

Bead 2

O  Dove of Virgin Mary

Give birth to my Soul

Bead 3

O Black Madonna

Transmute all my sorrows 

Bead 4

O Mary Magdalene

Grant me the hieros gamos between body and soul

Second large bead

O Father-Mother God, Divine One

Hallowed be Thy Name

The Heart Medal

We love all life as the Divine Three Marys

as we hold the Immaculate Concept in the oneness of the Sacred Heart

First Decant

Hail Mary, Lady of Grace

Hail Mary, Black Madonna, Mother of the Cosmic Christ

Hail Mary, Magdalene of Love

Bring all our fragmented parts back to us as we rejoice in the Holy Triple Mother

Second Decant

Hail Mary, Mother of the Immaculate Infant 

Hold me, heal my inner child

Transmute my birth, all pain and denial

I am reborn with innocence

Third Decant

Hail Mary, Black Madonna

Holy Womb of black luminous light

Take from me all sorrow and suffering

Let your healing and love flow into my physical body and heal beloved Earth from all burdens of the hubris of humanity

Fourth Decant

Black Madonna, Mother of the Night

Blessed art thou, Womb of Holy Fire

Blessed art thou, Mary Magdalene

Lady of the Resurrection

Bearer of Secret Knowledge

Hail Mary Magdalene of Love

Open my heart

Through thy path of fire

Closing

Let the three-fold blessing of the Divine Mary,

Mary, Mother of Grace, 

Mary, Black Madonna

Mary the Magdalene

Thrive in your abundant and devoted heart

And so Be It!

This rosary and many other prayers are available on www.patreon.com/walkingwithmary

in bhakty

Hettienne Ma

Mysteries of the Black Madonna tarot deck sale

 

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. 

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.

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. 

Each deck will be accompanied by a handmade black velvet pouch lined with gold, the guidebook and the deck of cards.

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.

I will share more clear and in detail pictures when they go up for sale in the online shop at www.hergracesacredart.com

 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.

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. 

blessings

Hettienne

Novena to Our Lady of Living Fire Day 9

 

A blessed feast day of Our Lady of Lourdes to you.

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

.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.

An initiation is a ritual which takes the initiate through a doorway and threshold from the mundane ordinary reality into the sacred life.

A puja is a ritual dedicated to the worship of one's personal deity or devi.

(also called the Ishta Devata)

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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 the devotion (bhakty) of your sacred dance to Her.

Or however you feel the bhakty move in and through you.

We offer the fresh rose petals to Mary by showering her image with the petals.
You can also sprinkle some of the rose oil and water from the altar as a blessing.

This is a very evocative and heart opening practise which
you can do every day or once a week and not only on holy days.

Contemplation

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

Spirit "wears" materiality like a garment. 
This garment is Earth's physical nature –  her Body. 
She/we are the Immaculate Conception!

Our emotions, feelings and our energetic heart has the power to alter and transform the electromagnetic field of our world and to move mountains.

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.

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.

The bigger the crowd of believers in the power of love and beauty, the bigger the collective effect on the perceived and created reality.

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.

She is present for all

Her Grace enfolds everyone

You only have to become aware of Her.

Prayer

Hail Mary

Ave Maria

Glory is the one who is our home

Glory for the presence in our hearts

Glory since the mystery transcends all words.

all songs, all signs

Glory is the hope that makes us live

Hail Mary

Ave Maria

Glory is the wonder that we were and are

and will become

Glory is the Spirit who invades our bones

and makes them shine

Glory in the wind and in the  fire

Glory in the one breath

giving life to all the world

Hail Mary

Ave Maria

Glory in the rising earth

Glory embracing what we lost

Glory in assuming who we are

Glory in the One who is whole

Hail Mary

Ave Maria

blessings

Hettienne

Novena to Our Lady of the Living Fire Day 5

The Madonna with the Fiery Eyes

Madonna Nera di Montevergine : Mamma Schaviona

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.

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.

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.

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.

Contemplation

Mother of the Eucharist

Bread and roses

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. 

The Black Madonna of Montevergine opens the portal into altered states of consciousness and blesses you with a vision of your own Being.

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.

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.

 

Prayer

O Mother of the Eucharist

You are the bread. You are the wheat

You are the field. You are the dough.

You are the fire and you are the loaf.

You are food for the world and you are the world.

O Holy Mother Eucharista

blessings

Hettienne

Novena to Our Lady of Living Fire Day 3

 Mother of Fiery Water - Our Lady of Ngome

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.  

Mary appeared as a Living Monstrance and asked to be called the “Tabernacle of the Most High”.

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.

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.

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.

Mary said the following:

“Call Me ‘Tabernacle of The Most High’.

You too are such a Tabernacle, believe it.

as recounted by Sr Reinolda May    - these were kept a secret by the authorities for at least fifty years.

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'.

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.

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.

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.

Ave Maria, Holy Mother of Ngome

Ave Maria, umama ongcwele Ngome                  (Zulu translation)

Prayer

Magnificent Mary may I remain open

to the impossible

May I remember not to ignore the very subtle

messages of Spirit;

and may I undertake each task as the sacred task that it is

Ave Maria

Om jai mata Mary Ma

blessings

Hettienne

Our Lady of the Living Fire Novena Day 1

 

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.

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.

The only way I can describe it is 'a flame of living organic light' :

Her Divine Presence made manifest in this world, visible to my eyes.

And overwhelming and immense feelings which I am at a loss to name.

A feeling of such incredible fullness and completeness which has stayed with me ever since.

A hundred thousand harps take you

like wings and sweep you up out of silence.

And your primitive wind is blowing

the fragrance of your marvelous power

to every being and to every creature in need.

- Rainer Maria Rilke

This is an extract of my very first blog post about my first visit to Lourdes.

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.

Candles are kept burning at the sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes without fail

Contemplation 

Fire and Light

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

She was a poor shepherdess, Bernadette, 

growing up at the foothills of the Pyrenees, 

on the banks of the Gave du Pau.

Tending the very poor family's

small flock of sheep

When the most miraculous vision

appeared to her.

A vision of Light

with roses on Her feet.

From this numinous event

flowed forth a stream of healing water,

a holy place was born,

Bernadette's life was transformed

into one of passion,

commitment and a vocation to the highest Love

A place where the fire was lit long ago

and the fire of your Soul

and Its unconditional love

is kept alive

And such is the miracle within our own hearts

reminding us of the Sacred in the Ordinary

and when we open ourselves to the healing possibilities

we find that Love is everywhere

Prayer

Radiant Mary, shine radiantly upon me.

Bright Lady who illuminates my inner darkness

Yours is the incorruptible fire;

As it is clean, it cleanses; as it is pure, it purifies

You are the Living Fire,

the eternal flame of Love

May my heart and eyes open to the beauty of my own being,

halo to Love's fire

Ave Maria

Om jai Mata Mary Ma

blessings

Hettienne