Madeleine as Cinderella
COMET Holmes continues to present a celestial spectacle in the constellation of Perseus. My colleague, Yasmin Boland, rang from Sydney with a fascinating suggestion. In legend, Perseus killed Medusa and held aloft her head. Medusa, though, was once synonymous with sovereign feminine wisdom. Some scholars believe the patriarchal Greeks demonised her by depicting her as an ugly Gorgon. The new bright explosion in the realm of Perseus may therefore portend the redress of an ancient imbalance. If so, expect a time when strong, wise women reclaim spiritual and political leadership.
http://www.pressdisplay.com/pressdisplay/viewer.aspx
This comet which, between October 23–24, 2007, grew much brighter, going from magnitude 17 to magnitude 2.5 in just a few hours, has astronomers scratching their heads.
Signs and wonders in the sky have always been associated with significant changes on the earth. So when I saw that this comet made its closest approach to the sun last May I couldn’t help but associate this sign, this wonder with missing Madeleine Mccann. Yasmin’s link of the comet to feminine wisdom sits well with my belief that Madeleine’s fate is tied to some archetypal drama being played out on the world stage.
The popularity of The Da Vinci Code opened the door for the much maligned Mary Magdalene to re-enter our consciousness as the ’lost face of the sacred feminine’ and as having a deep connection with the Grail tradition.
Madeleine’s name first aroused my curiosity; it comes from Magdalen. Her Second name is Beth and Mary Magdalen was often referred to or confused with Mary of Bethany. Whilst on the surface it seems to be just a coincidence, I couldn’t seem to let it go, or rather it refused to let mego. Likewise, I found myself unable to just let Madeleine go, no matter how hard I tried. I also discovered I wasn’t alone.
In Margaret Starbird’s thought provoking book The Woman with the Alabaster Jar - Mary Magdalen and the Holy Grail, she describes how the Church through the Inquisition forced the Grail tradition underground. Like the resistance movement during WWII the the ‘heritics’ found ways of passing their tradition and faith on through the stories of the troubadours.
One such ’story’ is Cinderella: Cinderella is the lost Princess, described by Starbird as ‘a lost feminine, scorned and kept in exile and obscurity, relegated to the kitchen and her face covered in soot.’ It came as little surprise to me, then, when the Daily Express asked:
Is Madeleine a Child Slave on Morocco?
Madeleine McCann may have been condemned to a life of slavery working as a “little maid” for a rich Arab family in Morocco, child trafficking experts claimed yesterday. http://tinyurl.com/36wbab
There were also reports of a sighting of a little girl resembling Madeleine in Morocco who was barefoot. The man carrying her was seen trying to buy her shoes. The shoe/slipper plays an important part of the Cinderella story. As I said, an archetypal drama being played out?
The black face of Cinderella in the Grail tradition is not soot, but refers to the dark-skinned Sarah, the daughter of Mary Magdalen. The mother and daughter, the Grail family, legend tells us, fled to France and were depicted in the Black Madonna statues across Europe.
Cinderella is just one of many ‘Fairy Tales’ that depict the idea of the lost princess and the Grail. Tales that tell us that the realm is healed when the princess and her true counterpart are united. When this happens the ‘ancient imbalance’ that Yasmin speaks of is redressed.
Our little lost princess, our own real-life Cinderella needs an army of Fairy Godmothers to find her. I’m off to buy ‘Being a Fairy Godmother For Dummies’...anyone care to join me in spot of wand-waving?
November 5, 2007 at 8:35 pm
Wand at the ready m’dear….you wave, I’ll follow….(I’ve seriously considered changing my screen name to Mrs Weasley, a move that will only be clear to those who have read the final Harry Potter.)
Seriously, I think you are touching something important here about fairy stories. They are so important in all our consciousnesses and the archetypal characters configure our deepest hopes and fears as personalities. They are the products of true poets of the oldest oral traditions and true poets are all, as Blake and Graves tell us, really prophets. It still works nowadays (my favourite example is Bob Dylan’s “I ain’t gonna work on Maggie’s farm no more” which predicted 1980s UK history to my mind.)
So does the tale of Cinderella, with the deception and prejudice of the Ugly Sisters crushing the little slavey, who ultimately is released as the genuine princess she deserves to be, a prediction about Madeleine, who many now refer to as a princess? Certainly the happy outcome depends on Prince Charming keeping his focus on Truth and never letting up in his search even when told there is no other girl in the house….no pure sweet kind spirit only ugly, greedy ones.
Perseus was the rescuer of a princess, Andromeda who was exposed to the sea monster because of a crime of vanity committed by her mother who nonetheless is spared the dreadful punishment of losing her daughter so horribly because Perseus arrives on his way back from slaying Medusa the Gorgon and falls in love with the chained Andromeda whom he rescues by slaying the monster. He had defied the ugly Graeae sisters, (Dread, Horror and Alarm) and tricked them into revealing the hiding place of the hideous Medusa whose head he then uses to slay his enemies. It’s worth a look at the Wikipedia article on him:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perseus
Andromeda is not the only imprisoned princess, Perseus’ own mother Danae was imprisoned also, to keep her from bearing children. Complicated, but the themes are there and run through the myth at different levels.
November 6, 2007 at 2:33 pm
How subtle is the subconscious mind to infuse fairytales with lost truths?
Throughout history written by men, mothers whispered HERstory to their beloved daughters. In the form of fairytales, HERstory became embedded in our subconscious.
The sacred feminine is not lost, nor is she forgotten.
She has been veiled by history.
Time to unveil HERStory.
Four years ago, I sat down to write my opus–a book of healing.
Yet the muse did not find me until I prayed to be shown what I was meant to write. On September 15th, 2003, I had a dream that I was 14 year old Mary Magdalen dancing down the streets of Nazareth in a hurry to meet my friend Yeshua.
For eight months, HERStory poured out of me.
I even thought in Aramaic. I wrote aspects of that time that were later proved by archeologists. It is as if in remembering the sacred feminine, HER consciousness awakened across the globe.
So as it turns out I did write a healing book…in the form of a novel, for story stirs the soul. My colleagues are recommending my debut novel, LoveDance Awakening the Divine Daughter, to their patients and have reported transformational healings.
The time is ripe for the world to fully receive Mary Magdalen.
Time to redeem the lost princess to her original throne. Not a sinner, not a prostitute, but as the beloved wife of Jesus.
LoveDance unveils Mary Magdalen as the Divine Daughter, and essential partner to Yeshua, the Divine Son, the completion of the Divine Tetrad.
LoveDance unveils HERstory
November 7, 2007 at 6:13 pm
Have my wand ready too!
November 13, 2007 at 11:38 am
I noticed yesterday that Martin Brunt was reporting on the publication of the first photo of the apartment Madeleine was taken from. In his piece to camera he said something like – this was something like the HOLY GRAIL for journalists in the case!