I was one of the first to join this online group since I did it during a Zoom section when Sandi announce it. But I have been one of the last to introduce myself having been verrry busy with packing to relocate. I hope to finally get more deeply involved in all this. I have been a strong devotee of Magdalene for the past 6 or 7 years. For the past several decades I have felt that Christianity even at its best(!) was not dealing well with issues of gender or sexuality well and failing in ways that have been detrimental on so many levels. I had the good fortune to grow up in relatively progressive "left field" Christian churches, but even there(!!) something seemed to me to be (at least a bit) amiss in coping with gender and sexuality. I abandoned Christianity in the late 80s, and returned to it more or less 10 years ago, in much more consciously radical form. (The Christianity I grew up in was very left field, but I now think it is a whole different ball park.) My first really in-depth encounter with Magdalene teachings was a weekend retreat with Margaret Starbird in the late 2000s. At the time I was emerging (in a kind of difficult birth) out of the tail end of a period of skepticism and doubt. My core reaction to Margaret Starbird was that it would be really peachy keen and nifty if this was true, but I was not yet convinced that it was. But the signs and smallish wonders kept adding up and here I am. When I took the deep dive into Magdalene, there suddenly appeared in my life 4 teachers about Magdalenic matters all named Megan (two with that spelling, one Meghan, and one Meggan.) I currently have three religious communities, the Episcopal Church in Palo Alto that I attend, a Thursday night Kabbalah meditation and study group I attend, and a twice-monthly early Sunday morning Tarot group. When I first signed up to join this group, the random 4digit code I was sent to verify my identity was the last 4 digits of my social security number, which somehow seemed like an auspicious sign.

Someone left a post about sacred orgasms on FB. I though that you may like to see my comment:💖 Aren't the entrances of cathedrals supposed to be vaginas? There are roses above them, aka clitoris? This is the path to God. In "Secret Teachings of Mary Magdalene", by Claire Nahmad, she talks of The Rose of Sharon, aka a giant entrance in the Heavens with a rose at the top. The rose is Mary Magdalene. There's a story in "Hot Chocolate for the Mystical Lovers Soul" it tells of a woman who has cancer, goes out of body, sees a giant vagina in the Sky, enters it, and is healed upon her return to earth.