How does practicing spirituality impact those around you? A Magdalene Path Perspective
Introduction by Cole Goodwin
Welcome to the Spiritual Roundtable, an interfaith roundtable featuring a diverse range of spiritual belief systems in the Gorge Community.
Each week, spiritual leaders and learners will share their take on some of humanity's biggest questions, starting with: What does your spirituality mean to you? And ramping up into discussions about the nature of existence, the soul, the divine, and of course…a question as old as time itself: why are we here?
Roundtable writings will be published each Saturday and Sunday of the month. So look forward to new installments every Saturday and Sunday morning!
Take a deep breath… Meditate for a moment…And when you’re ready…keep reading to explore the diverse faiths, belief systems, and philosophies that exist in our communities.
This Month's Question: How does your spirituality impact those around you? How does your spirituality encourage healthy relationships with other people, animals, and the earth? What is love? How can we be more loving?
Why this question was chosen: This question asks us to examine the basic principles and values that guide our Spirituality and expand our understanding of the many paths one can walk to live a Spiritual life.
About Claire Sierra: Claire Sierra, MA, LFT, author/founder of The Magdalene Path, is an Expressive Arts Therapist, Soul Alchemist, Spa Priestess, and Reiki Master on the path of awakening Feminine Soul since 1989. She shares intuitive, creative, spiritual practices through the lost wisdom of Mary Magdalene. Claire sees clients on-line and at Spa Sanctuary at the Balch Hotel, an elegant, award-winning inn in Dufur, Oregon, where she lives with her hotelier husband.
Learn more and access free resources for Feminine Soul at MagdalenePath.com. She can be reached at Claire@MagdalenePath.com
A Magdalene Path Perspective
by Claire Sierra
When this month’s theme was developed I’m sure there was no imagining what would be happening in the world right now. This really is the most crucial question: how does our spirituality make a different in the world around us: at home, in our community and around the world?
Can we have an effect on planetary healing and well-being? I believe we can.
And with the global focus on the invasion of Ukraine, it’s perfect timing. Humanity appears to finally be tiring of war. In war, no one wins, (barring a very elite and distanced few.)
As this war unfolds in real time, I’ve seen an unprecedented outcry of a different type. While typically “anti-war” sentiments would be common, something different is happening. Across electronic platforms of news and social media, there is a global outcry of support, calling for prayers of peace.
I’ve seen an unprecedented invoking of the divine mother, with prayers to Mother Mary, our Lady of Ukraine, and goddesses of the old tradition (like Berehynia, Mokosh and Baba Yaga). Invitations to prayer vigils constantly fill my newsfeed.
As someone who moves in the world of the awakening Divine Feminine, my view could be biased—confirmation bias, I suppose. But others who are not similarly desposed have noted it also, and we’re delighted at this change of heart.
It makes sense that this would occur. As the feminine awakens—which we’ve seen in the #metoo, #neveragain, Vagina Monologues and other pro-female movements—there’s a growing sense of feminine presence and empowerment.
The divine feminine is rising because it’s time. We’ve had 3000 years of patriarchy—hierarchical power over, domination and force, suppressing women, the poor or marginalized while abusing the resources of the Earth for the gain of the few.
The divine feminine is returning now to balance the toxicity that emerges when the masculine way of being has been epitomized as ideal, and the feminine has been seen as inferior, soiled and unworthy. This kind of hierarchy leads to imbalance. Not that men or the masculine are bad, but by removing the equal and opposite energy of the feminine, the planet has teetered out of control.
By reconnecting with the divine feminine we access forces of Love and compassion. We can set healthy boundaries, care for our neighbors, earth citizens regardless of race, religion, or borders. We can honor ourselves, each other and the land we live on/with. We can create a world that works for everyone, not just the privileged few. This is how it’s worked in my world and my practice.
And the dominant shift, that the world is edging towards is accessing the power of Love.
Love is a vibration, a frequency—not always a sweet romantic emotion. Love is a force to be reckoned with, that moves mountains when needed.
When we connect with this Sacred Feminine in and through love, we open to an expansiveness and possibility. Then magic and manifestation can happen in our life with family and friends, at work, even in business…
Connecting with the frequency of Love, we tap our feminine essence. Life can flow, full, fluid, easy, and graceful. Tap into magic and possibility, of divine timing—not always on clock or calendar time. Living from Feminine Soul creates an embodied sense of life as sacred, the divinity that is within and all around us.
When we awaken the Divine Feminine, we naturally strive to balance and integrate with the Sacred Masculine, knowing we need both energies within and around us for wholeness. In doing this, we start to know ourselves as sacred: our bodies, minds, and hearts. We live our days connected to the forces that surround us, human and otherwise..
When we access this frequency we can’t help but care for all life. The earth itself becomes sacred as we sense it giving us this beautiful life. How can we not want to protect, honor, and celebrate it? So we care for the planet, our environment, the workers who toil in the fields, and our planetary neighbors. We know, in our hearts that when one suffers, we all suffer. We feel this Truth of connection in our bones.
And from that Truth we honor the sacred all around us, and we too are blessed. The circle of life is turned. And so it is!
© 2022 Claire Sierra, The Magdalene Path ™
Connect with me: Claire@MagdalenePath.com www.MagdalenePath.com
*David Eisenstein
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