Pix from my personal altar. Curious about the rose path? You might be thinking about how to build your own altar for Mary Magdalene. An altar is one of those things that doesn’t have any rules. The only requisite is that it feels meaningful to you. It’s a place to sit and reflect, and the…
Following the Rose Path
‘Curiouser and curiouser!’ cried Alice (she was so much surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English); ‘now I’m opening out like the largest telescope that ever was! Good-bye, feet!’ (for when she looked down at her feet, they seemed to be almost out of sight, they were getting so…
The Rose Priestess Lineage
Goddesses of the Rose Lineage My first exposure to the goddess of the Rose Lineage wasn’t Mary Magdalene, or Mother Mary. It was the Venus de Willendorf. My undergraduate degree studies were combined Cultural Anthropology and Art History, so when I learned about the Venus figurines, I couldn’t help but wonder, why was modern religion…
Books for the Rose Path
It was the White Rabbit, trotting slowly back again, and looking anxiously about as it went, as if it had lost something; and she heard it muttering to itself ‘The Duchess! The Duchess! Oh my dear paws! Oh my fur and whiskers! She’ll get me executed, as sure as ferrets are ferrets! Where can I…
Embodiment as Devotional
‘Curiouser and curiouser!’ cried Alice (she was so much surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English); ‘now I’m opening out like the largest telescope that ever was! Good-bye, feet!’ (for when she looked down at her feet, they seemed to be almost out of sight, they were getting so…
The Rose as a Symbol
Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, ‘and what is the use of a book,’ thought Alice ‘without pictures…
