This book offers 14 lessons to help understand the wisdom offered by Mary Magdalene’s story and mythos.
by Joan Norton and Margaret Starbird
Women’s circles have been called a “revolutionary-evolutionary movement hidden in plain sight” by Jean Shinoda Bolen and have been hailed as capable of affecting global change. Magdalene Circles are groups of women who focus their shared energies on the wisdom of Mary Magdalene to gain insight into the role of the sacred feminine in their own lives and to help them advance on their spiritual paths.
This book offers 14 lessons to help understand the wisdom offered by Mary Magdalene’s story and mythos. Among the lessons are prophecies of the bride, why we need the bride, Magdalene’s archetypal pattern of descent and how modern women carry the Grail.
Well-suited for the individual reader as well as groups, each lesson includes an introduction, wisdom story, guided meditation, questions for journaling, an essay by Margaret Starbird, author of The Woman With the Alabaster Jar, as well as suggestions for group sharing.
Placing Mary Magdalene within the pattern of “cyclic renewal” of Earth-based religions, this book offers the chance to incorporate the sacred feminine wisdom of Mary Magdalene into everyday life for Christians and spiritual feminists alike.
$14 — Bear & Company, One Park St., Rochester, VT 05767.
Reprinted from AzNetNews, Volume 28, Number 4, August/September 2009.
April 15, 2012
Book review