Rosary of the Three Marys

 

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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

Day 25 Walking with Mary 2020

A Blessed Nativity Feast of the Holy Child

Puja in my garden with japonica petals from the

bush that grows next to her image

Welcome to the Hearth of Mary on this blessed day of good news

and healing

Today is the feast day of the Nativity of the Divine Child. 

This morning we step into our sacred space once again
and we will add a special puja (ritual of devotion) for
Mary and the birth of Her Holy Child.

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.  In these Thirty Days with Mary we

are devoting our focus, intent, emotion, senses,

passion and vision to evoke our

spiritual selves and to connect with our

own divinity as well as the integration between psyche and body,
masculine and feminine, mind and heart.
These rituals and tools are all part of ancient traditions known
as tantra or the hieros gamos.

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.

My altar with some of my collection of dolls 

For today's ceremony 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. 

Today's puja is dedicated to the

Holy Child, both Mary as child and 

the birth of the holy child Jesus.

You may create a special altar for today or add special items 

that have meaning to you.  Add special flowers.

Have a musical instrument ready, a hand drum, or a bell

or any instruments that you may use in ceremony.

Find a piece of music that has meaning to you

or pick a piece of music that is devoted to Mary.

If you have space, you can use  spontaneous movement and dancing
as part of your puja.

My Black Madonna frame drum

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 images.

Pick up your instrument and offer your devotion to
the Holy Child.
You may choose to chant or sing along and use your instrument of choice
or you may feel drawn to move your body in movement and offer
the devotion (bhakty) of your sacred dance to Her
Or you can combine it all.


After offering your heart through song and dance, we offer
the fresh rose petals to Mary and Jesus 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 as often as called to and not only on holy days.

You can do the daily mantra after the puja.

Daily Prayer

Hail Mary

Hail Mary, full of grace,

The Lord is with thee

Blessed art thou among women

and Blessed is the fruit of thy womb

Holy Mary,  Mother of God,

oh Rose Queen

You bestow your Blessing upon us

Now and Forever

Daily mantra

Om Jai Mata Mary Ma Namaha

Sit quietly for a few minutes, just allowing yourself absorb the energy you have invoked.
Enjoy it ...... feel the presence of the Sacred embracing you, flowing all around you.
We rejoice in our physical nature, appreciating this time to pause and remember the holy
purpose of our lives.  We feel gratitude for those travelling with us on this path of love
and freedom.  Feel a smile forming on your face.  You are happy to be here in this
peaceful inner place.  Let there be peace.


You can choose to draw a daily card at the end or to contemplate
your weekly card and see which insight arise after the ritual.

Nativity of Holy Child-Daughter

By honouring and acknowledging the birth of the holy child-daughter, Mary Herself, the masculine story is changed and the daughter and girl-child becomes sacred in the collective unconscious.

‘A hermit had on a certain night for many years heard music in the heavens. When he asked the cause an angel answered, : the Virgin was born this night, and what is ignored on earth is being celebrated by angels’ – Legends of Mary, Thirteenth Century

In this card we see the birth of the holy daughter, the female bearer of the Christ.  When one considers that the term Christ or Christed One is a title and not part of a name, then the sentence ‘female bearer of the Christ’ has a completely different meaning.  Mary is the feminine companion to Jesus or Maryam to Yeshua in the original Aramaic.  As we saw earlier three Marys always accompanied Jesus one of whom was his mother and one his companion or beloved.  Reading these words and stories with the inner mystical eye of vision and understanding, we understand that the psyche has four aspects : two masculine and two feminine and these are referred to as mother, father, daughter and son.  The picture reflected a whole psyche is incomplete without the daughter.  What would change within both men and women when the Christ appears in female form?  Or when the Christ appears as a divine couple? 

 In the Gospel of the Birth of Mary, it is described that the angel visited both Joachim and Anna (Mary’s parents) on two separate occasions.  Mary’s conception and birth was a miraculous one.  Anna, her mother was barren until the Archangel Gabriel visited her and declared that her barren womb will be opened by God and that the Holy Spirit will descend into the body of her daughter Mary whilst still in the womb.  Mary referred to herself as The Immaculate Conception when She appeared to Bernadette at Lourdes.   The sanctuary of the nativity of the virgin Mary is in Milan and her tiny effigy wrapped in lace and swaddling clothes is known as Santa Maria Bambina.  Her nativity is on 8 September and is one of the twelve major feast days in the liturgical calendar.    In the years between 1720 and 1730 a Franciscan nun from Todi (Sister Chiara Isabella Fornari) created wax statues of Mary as a baby. One of these dolls was donated to the Capuchin Sisters of Santa Maria degli Angeli in Milan. Eventually the statue arrived at the General House of the Sisters of Charity of Lovere , in Via Santa Sofia in Milan, and these sisters are called "Maria Bambina" .

The miraculous image of Maria Bambina was made prior to 1730 by a Franciscan nun who afterwards entrusted Her to others. During the ensuing years, she came into the care of the Sisters of Charity at Lovere, Italy. In 1856, these Sisters of Charity were asked to take over the management of the Hospital of Ciceri in Milan and, in 1876, this waxen image was carried to their Mother House there at Via Santa Sofia 13, where she has remained ever since.

The beautiful image of the Maria Bambina was exposed for veneration only on the 8th of September, the Feast of Mary's Nativity. In 1884, those who were devoted to the Maria Bambina received a reward for their devotion. Due to paralysis in her arms and feet, Sister Josephine Woinovich was bedridden and in unbearable pain. On the 8th of September, she begged the Mother General to get Maria Bambina and leave the image near her overnight. The following morning the Mother General was inspired to take the image, so old, worn and grayish colored to the other sick Sisters in the infirmary so they could kiss her.

There was in the infirmary a good novice, Giulia Macario, who was unable to move because of her serious illness, but who, overcome by her ardent faith, took the image into her arms and pleaded with her in tender and loving words for the grace for her recovery. She was immediately and miraculously cured, for such Faith moves mountains. And at the same time this image itself underwent an amazing transformation from the former dull gray color to the warm flesh hues it has today, as can be seen, where she is enshrined in the Sanctuary of the Mother House in Milan.

Luce Irigaray in her work says that ‘there is no woman God, no female trinity: mother, daughter, spirit.  This paralyses the infinite of becoming a woman since she is fixed in the role of mother through whom the son of God is made flesh’

By honouring and acknowledging the birth of the holy child-daughter, Mary Herself, the masculine story is changed and the daughter and girl-child becomes sacred in the collective unconscious.

Santa Maria Bambina with golden wool
Handmaiden of Suit of Distaff
Mysteries of Mary Tarot Deck
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These stories of the divine are powerful myths which activate and animate archetypes in our consciousness.  Mary calls Herself the Immaculate Conception and as such Her birth is truly a divine birth of a divine female and feminine which has been lying fast asleep like the princess in Sleeping Beauty (Card IV of the Suit of the Distaff).  Creating art and seeing images of Mary as the holy girl-child  and images of the Sacred Mother and Daughter will change our understanding of the world and our Soul completely.

blessings to you

Hettienne 

Walking with Mary Day 23 December 2020

 Welcome to day 23 of Walking with Mary

The Mystical Rose

When we read that the Radiant Lady at Lourdes stands over the wild rose bush

and that she has golden roses on her bare feet, we realise that she is deeply identified with roses, as was Our Lady of Guadalupe. 

The rose just seems to be the most easily recognizable symbol for the flowering of differentiated consciousness or the unique divine spark. 

The Lady of Guadalupe brought forth roses in cold December and wrapped them tenderly in an ordinary tilma worn by an old Indian peasant. This is an image of wrapping consciousness in the outer cover of our human body, something that a mother does when she conceives a human life. It is something that the earth does when she provides us with the material for a human body. Or, another way to look at it, is that creation itself – the material world – is a wonderful cloak that covers the radiant divinity.

Juan Diego had something in common with the Lady who came to him on the hill of Tepeyac. They each had a cloak that was made of the fabric of created reality. She gave him a visual aid in order to teach him and us about this. She imprinted her picture graphically so that Her cloak – the entire cosmos – can now be seen upon his rough one.  This Lady is not interested in dogma or ideologies; she interfaces with us to teach us about our personal rose – our inner divinity – which is trying to become incarnate here.

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.

Isis-Maria

Handmaiden of the Suit of HolyRood

Mysteries of Mary tarot deck

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In conjunction with Lourdes, it is necessary to speak more about Queen Isis whose lore is still embedded in the Christian mythology from its ancient roots in Judaism while it lingered in Egypt. The Lady of the Lourdes grotto asked specifically for processions. Queen Isis loved grottoes and processions. Processions to the goddess are as old as recorded history. What child of the pre-Vatican Catholic Church does not recall the May processions and the joy of strewing flowers in the path of the statue that represented Mary? It was a way of showing our deep devotion to our “Queen of Heaven.” She was “Queen of the angels and Queen of the May!” Bernadette referred at times to the Lady as  “The Queen of Heaven” or “The Beautiful Lady.”

We have an account, still extant, of an apparition granted by Queen Isis in ancient times that further points to the identity of the marvelous woman still appearing today. It comes from the book “The Golden Ass” written by Apuleius, an initiate of Isis, the night before he walked in her procession in 150 A.D. Here is his testimony that records the words spoken by the apparition that stood before him then:

“I am she that is the natural mother of all things, mistress and governess of all the elements, the initial progeny of worlds, chief of the powers divine, queen of all that are in hell, the principal of all that dwell in heaven, manifested alone and under one form of all the gods and goddesses. At my will the planets of the sky, the wholesome winds of the seas, and the lamentable silences of hell are disposed; my name, my divinity is adored throughout the world, in divers manners, in variable customs, and by many names.

For the Phrygians that are the first of all men call me the Mother of the gods of Pessinus; the Athenians, which are sprung from their own soil, Cecropian Minerva; the Cyprians, which are girt about by the sea, Paphian Venus; the Cretans, which bear arrows, Dictynian Diana; the Sicilians, which speak three tongues, infernal Proserpine; the Eleusinians, their ancient goddess Ceres; some Juno, others Belonna, others Hecate, others Ramnusie, and principally both sort of the Ethiopians, which dwell in the Orient and are enlightened by the morning rays of the sun; and the Egyptians, which are excellent in all kind of ancient doctrine, and by their proper ceremonies accustomed to worship me, do call me by my true name, Queen Isis." (Occidental Mythology, p. 42-43 - from The Masks of God series).

 When she appeared to Apuleius she was crowned with the headdress of the moon and two vipers, with corn stalks woven in her hair. Her multi-colored robe was woven with flowers and fruit, and her black mantle embroidered with stars and the moon. There is much similarity between the vision of Apuleius and that of Juan Diego, the visionary of Our Lady of Guadalupe. The mantle of Isis is covered on the outside by the night sky – by stars. Like Our Lady of Guadalupe, she is dressed in the cosmos itself as if it is her robe. 

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


Sutra for today :

I enter the Underworld as you pull me into your embrace, 

in every waking moment of living.

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.  

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.

Ave Maria

Om Jai mata Mary Ma

jai jai ma

blessings

Hettienne

Walking with Mary Day 22 December 2020

 

The Black Madonna is Alchemy

During my pilgrimage to Southern Italy and Sicily we visited many Black Madonnas on black beaches.  During the festival of Madonna Nera delle Neve, we watched the sun set behind the volcanic mountain of Vesuvius.  As I looked down at my feet I noticed that I am standing in black sand.  

Black Madonna sculpted from volcanic lava

At the sanctuary of the Black Madonna of Tindaris I bought a sculpture and a rosary carved from the volcanic lava.

Our Lady of Tindari

The Black Madonnas of Positano and Tropea are both in the shadow of Mount Etna.  

Into the Inferno is a documentary (available to watch on the channel Netflix) by Werner Herzog.   I highly recommend that you watch this film.  This incredible and heart-stopping documentary explores active volcanoes from around the world.  Herzog's quest (according to the promotional material) is to gain an image of our origins and nature as a species.  He finds that the volcano is mysterious, violent and rapturously beautiful and instructs 'that there is no single one (volcano) that is not connected to a belief system.

The volcanologist and co-director Clive Oppenheimer explains that the volcano is the creator of the biosphere within which all of life exists on this planet.  

Deep down in the darkness, in the womb of the Earth, her fire is alive and without volcanic eruptions no life will continue to exist.

In the making of this documentary they visit tribes in Indonesia, Iceland, North Kore and Ethiopia who are living in the shadow of each of these volcanic mountains.  Each of these tribes believe in the divinity of the volcano as an ancestor, as Spirit, as Creatrix and as Destroyer and as the Source of life.

Members of the tribes that live on the edge of the volcanoes go to great lengths to collect obsidian.  They also risk their lives to climb to the rim of the volcano in order to receive guidance from the spirit of the volcano.

Obsidian skull

  Obsidian was and is still used to make knives, arrowheads, spear points, scrapers, and many other weapons and tools. Once these discoveries were made, obsidian quickly became the raw material of preference for producing almost any sharp object 

Inside the great Gothic Cathedrals of Europe, and especially France, are statues of the Black Madonna made out of black obsidian. Many were painted white over the black rock but eventually the paint flecked away revealing the original black stone.

Black Obsidian is very likely the prima materia of the alchemists. It is from this important substance that gold and other transmutations could be performed. Out of this dark and black aspect comes the albedo, the stage of the King and the Queen, the duality.  The unity of the One has now become the duality of the opposites.  

According to the alchemist Fulcanelli there is a Black Madonna in the crypt, or the basement, of every Cathedral in France. He says that she is the Veiled One who must stay hidden through this age. And I believe that the time has come for her to take her rightful place in our consciousness.

blessings

Hettienne

Day 20 December 2020

 Welcome to the final day of the week with the

Suit of Distaff

The work of an artist is the work of the lover of life, in both its 

darker and brighter aspects.

Our hand, our vision, our thoughts and our energy,

when directed with intent of devotion and love,

imbues our work and offerings with sacred energy.

Gardening with intent, creating harmony and beauty,

feeding the meridians and leylines of the Earth with our vision of a 

more compassionate world

Our hands are extensions of our hearts

A travel altar

Writing a poem :

Ave Maria

Mary, Maryam, Maria, Mares

Holy Woman

So much more

Than a head bowed down

Arrow fierce and fast

Directed at the heart

No sin of error here

Cloak of power

All-embracingly blue

Heart on fire

Flowing from the sacred well

Eternally walking on the bed of coals

You seduce me into dancing in the flames

Eyes blinded

Only the heart sees

And hears

The howling winds of compassion

Screaming through my ribcage

Cracked open

Finger by finger

Pomegranate juice flowing in my veins

Persephone’s ashes

Caked with the tears of Demeter

Entangled in the hair of Medusa

I follow where you lead

The perfume of your feet

The guiding light my holy woman

Sacred Am I

Ave Maria

Writing a haiku :

Star of Love born

Returning beauty to my eyes

A miracle I behold

I wish you a creative day of envisioning what you want for yourself, for your life

and for the Earth.  We are in a potent time of change and your hands

carry the sacred energies.

blessings

Hettienne

Day 19 December 2020

III of Distaff, the Rosa Mystica

Listing a few of the names that Sophia goes by makes a lovely litany

Yes, she is Judaic, she is Christian, she is Buddhist, she is Moslem,

she is and will be everywhere that anything is manifest in form

Alice O Howell - The Dove in the Stone

Today I share with you one of my favourite tarot layouts, 

the Rosa Mystica reading.

The Rosa Mystica is the Three of Distaff (Swords)

in the Mysteries of Mary tarot deck.

The apparition and miracle of Mary in the story of the

Rosa Mystica is based on the three swords that are transformed

into three roses.

The roses are said to have been blue, pink and golden.

These are the exact same colours of the triple flames of the

esoteric (hidden) heart chakra, also known as the higher heart

or the sacred heart in the Ascended Master tradition.

In 1947 in Montechiari, Italy, the Radiant Lady appeared to

Pierrina Gilli.  She wore a violet dress and a white veil.

She had three big  swords through her heart.  The second

time that she appeared to Pierrina she was wearing a white dress 

and three roses had replaced the three swords.

The messages apparently had to do with the clergy of the church,

but the symbolism was that the three swords in her heart

had been transformed into three flowering roses through three

redeeming acts on the part of those that had caused her sorrow.

The pierced heart is a universal symbol.  It signifies

pain and suffering but also the awakening of the heart and the

transformation of the mind which is the gift of working

consciously and consistently with one's pain and suffering.

This is not a morbid belief in martyrdom but the understanding

that hardship and loss need not be regarded as pointless.

If one looks at challenges and betrayals in your life 

as opportunities  to allow yourself to be informed to your

false beliefs and conditioning, as well as the inner strength

and unconditional love and forgiveness that you are capable of 

you will be rewarded with a greater sense of clarity and inner-seeing.

Spiritual growth is never possible without going through

the pain and the suffering in the same way that it is not possible

to give birth without going through the labour.

The roses at the feet of the Immaculate Conception

So, for the Rosa Mystica layout I drew the three roses

and the three swords.

Then I call on the presence of the Rosa Mystica and Our Lady of Lourdes,

the Immaculate conception and I place those two cards on the layout.

The three roses symbolically represent the three flames of kundalini

and the divine 'braid of energy' that is formed in your spiritual body.

The ida, pingala and sushumna.

They are not truly so distinct and separate, as shakty and shiva/

ida and pingala are not truly separate, but for the purposes of a 

reading we can separate these into three distinct aspects.

In this layout you are looking at three areas of your life;

and i separated them into action, receptivity and outcome.

The Questions :

Which challenge/obstacle do I face in each of these three areas of my life?

You can specify the three areas of your life before you do the layout.

Pick three cards, and place one on each sword.

How will these challenges be transformed into gifts/grace/positive outcomes?

What will be expected from me?

Pick three cards, and place one on each rose.

Afterwards I realised that it will on an intellectual level make more sense to turn the layout

around, that is to have the swords at the bottom of the layout and the roses on top.

But up is not always down, so I was quite happy to keep it this way.

Three of the cards that have significance on this reading

Mary, Sophia, Mother Wisdom, Gnosis, Holy Spirit or one of the many

names that have been given to her by different tradtions, speaks to and

awakens the highest point of consciousness as symbolised by the

apex of the triangle with its three sides.

She is the source of intuitive knowing and its the veils of the

mind that obscures the knowing and the bliss.

It is miraculous ..... if you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of

track that has been there all the while, waiting for you,

and the life that you ought to be living is the one  you are living ...

If you are following your bliss, you are enjoying ... that life within you

all the time - Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth

blessings

Hettienne