Walking with Mary Day 12 December 2020

 

QUEEN OF ROSES – MARY, THE EARTH’S SACRED CLOAK

 

No estoy yo aqui que soy tu madre?  Am I not here, I who am your mother? – San Juan Diego of Guadulupe

  

A blessed feast day of Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe, Our Blessed Mother

  

Virgen de Guadalupe from the Mysteries of the Black Madonna

deck with obsidian skull

 

It was 1531, on the  12th of December.

A radiant shimmering young woman appeared to Juan Diego on Tepeyac Hill.

 As the story is told in the oral tradition, it was at dawn that she appeared.  He heard singing like that of beautiful birds.   When the song ended he heard someone calling his name.   When he climbed the hill there was a woman. She was radiant with light, shimmering like the sun. He was overcome by awe and fell down on his knees.  

 

She said to him :

'Know my youngest child, I am the Forever Whole

and Perfect Maiden Saint Mary,

Honourable Mother of the True God,

Honourable Mother of the Giver of Life,

Honourable Mother of the Creator of Men and Women,

Honourable Mother of the One who is Far and Close,

Honourable Mother of the One who Makes the Heavens and the Earth'

                                   - The Aztec Virgin, John Mini

 

She asked the Aztec man to return to his bishop and to tell him that she asks for a chapel to be built in the place that she appeared.  She also told him to climb to the top of the hill and pick of the roses that is growing there and to bring them back to her.  This was in the middle of December in the heart of winter!! It would surely be impossible for roses to be flowering on the top of the hill?  He however did find roses growing on the top of the hill, picked them and brought them back to her.  

 

She arranged the roses inside his cloak made of rough fibre.  He took these roses to the bishop hoping to prove to him the miracle of the Lady and Her roses that magically appeared in the middle of winter.  When he opened the cloak, the roses spilled out at the bishop’s feet and an image of the woman herself covered the inside of the garment. An even greater miracle than the roses themselves!

  A basilica was built for her on the spot where she appeared and the same image that appeared on the inside of his cloak, is still hanging in the church. Not only does this image still hang in the church, but the cloak that Juan Diego wore, made of rough cactus fibre, is still intact and also still on display.

 The Lady of Guadalupe’s cloak is dark like the night sky and covered in stars.  Her robe is a rose colour, similar to a new dawn, and as in all the apparitions of Our Lady, her robe is in the style worn by pregnant mothers. Our Lady of Guadalupe, standing on the moon, upheld by the angels of creation, surrounded by the radiant rays of the sun emanating from her,  is once again ‘the woman clothed in the sun’ Rev. 7:12.  She is the Cosmic Mary Herself cloaked in the constellations and matter of Earth. 

  

 

 

Without the earthly cloak of the Cosmos she would be invisible as each one of us would be invisible.  And she was not the only one wearing a cloak.  Juan Diego also wore a cloak made of the plants of the Earth and this cloak is also miraculously still intact and part of the message of Our Lady of Guadalupe.  The cloaks of earthly matter demonstrate that Juan Diego’s existence is related to the manifestation of the Cosmic Mary.  Both are made of star dust and earthly soil and green plants.  She tells us that there is no separation between spirit and matter and that the one cannot exist without the other.

 

So here we see an image of Earth Herself, robed around with the stars and galaxies of space!  And beneath the outer robe, the other, inner one peeks through – enlightenment – the coming of Dawn. If we are not convinced from that, she stands on the moon – our moon – and is lighted from behind with the rays of our sun, so that she is truly “the woman clothed in the sun,” from the ancient scriptures. (Revelations 7:12)

The sun both clothes her and gives its reflected light to all the orbs covering her robe and to the moon, as well.

The tilma, made of very crude cactus fiber should have lasted about 40 years, but it is still intact and carrying its image in 2014, with its message for our time. Conversion to Christianity was just the beginning of the story of how God comes to humanity.

We learn from the Christian story a more universal, larger story that is for all people at all times. God is an inner coming, as most religions of the world will agree.

We welcome that Presence into our beings as a woman welcomes a gestating child. But the Coming is never over. It is the cosmos itself that is pregnant with all of us and gives birth to us one by one. As we evolve communally, the new human comes into existence, but it is always an inner coming to each one personally.

The Woman clothed in the sun is Earth herself, having come to enough consciousness to be able to communicate this fact to us. It wasn’t possible before that moment because we had not grown enough in our sense of identity for this amazing miracle to happen – the revelation of the Lady who is still calling us to come and see and ponder this truth.

 I invite you to create a special altar today,  

Incense, flowers, prasad and other sacred offerings.  Tending her altar

is a sacred act of worship and in tending to her altar you are tending to your

own sacred spiritual essence.  The first initiation into the mystical path of the

Black Madonna is the gaze.  Place an image of Virgen de Guadulupe on your altar

and after the sacred offerings, gaze with love upon her image which is her emanation.  Rest your mind

on her divine image, allow your consciousness to merge with the image.

Listen to her speaking silence in your heart.

A blessed feast day of Nuestra Senora de Guadulupe, Our Blessed Mother