ON-DEMAND CLASS
The PLANTS
of Mary
We celebrate the Assumption or embodied ascension of the Blessed Mother on August 15.
This date happens to also be the date of several other sacred festivals and holy days.
In this on-demand class, we’ll discuss their correspondent meaning, patterns, and practices.
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The Virgin Mary or La Madonna and her many cults around the Mediterranean are deeply linked to the folk medicine and magic of the areas of the world where she’s worshipped. Virgin births, creation goddesses, and death goddesses, such as Mary, have mythic and symbolic roots that go back long before Christianity.
From an animistic view Mary is a pattern of consciousness, a being beyond linear time that takes different shapes and iterations merging with the people and the landscape where she arises and the way in which humans call her into awareness and commune with her and her blessings.
The flowers and plants associated with Mary do so because they are woven with her mythology and her character as well as the healing grace or grazia she offers us as saint and guardian spirit.
Also in this class
Pre-pagan and pre-Christian Virgin/Mother motifs from the Mediterranean/Southern Italy
Virgin Births
Heiros gamos sex and parthenogenetic conception
The seven sisters, the Pleiades, the milky way
The Blessed Mother and the witches
Black Madonnas of Southern Italy
Fallen angels
Plants, flower essences, and herbs associated with the Virgin Mary
Nemoralia and the goddess Diana
The Virgin Mary as goddess of extratemporal portals and a cyclical shapeshifter:
the portal to the sky
the portal to death
the portal of birth
the portal of the cave
the vulva-pelvic portal
Artemis of Ephesus in Naples, CC 2.5 Marie-Lan Nguyen
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