Mornings with Mary - Monday 19 May

Queen of Heaven - handmade rosary necklace by Hettienne

The Madonna Flower Cycle

extract from 

The Blessed Virgin Mary, Her Life

and Her Mission by Corinne Heline

......June is the month of Celestial Reflections.

It claims the Iris, the rainbow flower,

and the stately plant that bears an impress

of the flower spectrum.

Man did not always know the seven-rayed

spectrum, nor does he know its twelvefold

range.  But time will bring extensions.

July - the White Lily - a native of the Holy Land,

is the symbol of the Feast of the Visitation

which is celebrated in July, the 

month of Cosmic Remembrance.

Wherever the Visitation is preserved,

the vase of white lilies stands by the

Virgin's side, crowned with an auriole of

three mystic blossoms.

In August, the golden month of 

Divine Consummations, occurs the

Feast of the Assumption.

This season knows the golden Sunflower.

It is the golden blossom upon which the soul,

newly separated from earth conditions,

feasts in preparation for transition

into a higher state of consciousness, and

therefore appropriately named 

'food for a king'.

It is today truly a King's food for seeds

are of man's greatest nourishment, the

breath of the Sun breathing its power into the body

through the these tiny seeds.

September - Golden Rod.

In September the annual inflow

of Light is celebrated as the Nativity Feast, 

the birth month of Mother Mary.

Blessed herbs, through which astral prototypes

the Beloved Lady has poured streams of healing 

force from her hands of light,

belong to this, her natal month.

These herbs possess the qualities to soothe 

and sustain tired and broken bodies.

For October, the month of Sacrifice,

is fashioned the Rosemary.

It typifies the Bridge of Remembrance

between the inner and the outer.

November, the stately Chrysanthemum reaches

the height of its beauty.

It lifts its proud and haughty head upward

toward the sky.

December - poinsettia.

This is the season in which red

and green are the principal colours used by

both nature and man.

It is here that we see the shining green

of the leaves and the lustrous red berries of the

holly proclaiming joyously that the season

of Christmas is now with us and it is at

this time that the Poinsettia lifts its smiling

face toward the sun as it declares that now is

the most holy season of the year,

the time of the birth of the 

Blessed Christ Child is now with us.

For more interesting fact, myth and lore

and maybe a deeper understanding of

our inner worlds and how it is created

in the image of the Divine,

please visit next Monday for more

Mornings with Mary.

A blessed week to you

and please join if you have the time or

desire.

with love,

Hettienne