On the Black Madonna in a Time of Kamala Harris

An indication of wholesome masculinity is welcoming the sturdy female, as I level out in my ebook on The Hidden Spirituality of Males: Ten Metaphors to Awaken the Sacred Masculine. This was in proof on the DNC the place so many males have been respectful of and excited by Harris as a powerful chief.

There, Kamala Harris’s many accomplishments as lawyer, prosecutor, district legal professional, legal professional basic, senator, and vp have been on full show. And celebrated as a lot by each ladies and men.

Wholesome males are usually not threatened by sturdy ladies (Donald Trump, take observe!). Unhealthy males are.

In Saturday’s DM, I made reference to Kamala Harris and the Black Madonna. For many years I’ve been in league with the Black Madonna, and satisfied that she has a big position to play in waking up humanity immediately, and urging us on to our subsequent stage of evolution.

Certainly, over time now we have celebrated numerous Cosmic Plenty with the Black Madonna because the theme; one we referred to as “It’s Time to Honna’ the Black Madonna.”   

I’ve been blessed to work with and encourage others to name on this archetype so match for our time. I used to be honored to be invited to jot down the Foreword for Alessandra Belloni’s ebook, Therapeutic Journeys with the Black Madonna: Chants, Music and Sacred Practices of the Nice Goddess. Alessandra is artist in residence at St. John the Divine Cathedral in NYC, and conducts many workshops within the US in addition to pilgrimages to southern Italy the place Alessandra was born, and the place the Black Madonna custom continues to be very a lot alive.

I additionally salute the work of Christena Cleveland, whose latest ebook, God Is a Black Lady, brings the Black Madonna into immediately’s consciousness in a particular means. Christena is a specialist within the French custom of the Black Madonna, having made quite a few pilgrimages to numerous shrines in France on her personal. Just lately she led 30 black ladies to hitch her in such a pilgrimage, and she or he and Alessandra have met and joined forces as nicely. 

Carl Jung says that archetypes return after we want them—and we do want this archetype immediately, for she represents the sturdy and wholesome and even fierce Divine Mom who is aware of all about Pleasure, but additionally Justice, and who defends the poor and all those that endure. 

For her, justice serves the poor, not the highly effective and nicely positioned. It’s mentioned, “Her sympathy was with individuals who suffered underneath legislation.”* Is that this pertinent to immediately’s Supreme Courtroom or what?

Kamala Harris carries in her story and goal lots of the values of the Black Madonna. Additionally, since her mom comes from India, she additionally bears the historical past of the Nice Mom so sturdy in that tradition which additionally birthed Andrew Harvey (although of English mother and father), whose ebook on the Nice Mom is a basic.  

To be continued.

* See R. P. Blackmur, Henry Adams: A Main Critic’s Account of a Nice Amerian Determine, p. 203.

See Matthew Fox, “The Sacred Marriage of Masculine and Female” in Fox, The Hidden Spirituality of Males: Ten Metaphors to Awaken the Sacred Masculine, pp. 221-248.

And Fox, Trump & the MAGA Motion as Anti-Christ: A Handbook for the 2024 Election, pp. 99-104, 81-84.

And Fox, Confessions: The Making of a Publish-denominational Priest, pp. 221, 281, 311, 356, 419.

And Fox, “The Female Face of Divinity,” in One River, Many Wells, pp. 117-143.

To learn the transcript of Matthew Fox’s video instructing, click on HERE.

Banner Picture: “Notre Dame du Port,” a Black Madonna determine (c. 1185) within the Cathedral of the Assumption in Clermont-Ferrand, France. Not solely is its Madonna black, so is the whole church, being made from volcanic lava rocks. Picture from the Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries at Vanderbilt College. Wikimedia Commons. 

Queries for Contemplation

Are you in contact with the Black Madonna? In that case, what does she signify to you? Do you sense her rising in our time?  If you’re not but in contact together with her, possibly it’s time.

Really helpful Studying

The Hidden Spirituality of Males: Ten Metaphors to Awaken the Sacred Masculine

To awaken what Fox calls “the sacred masculine,” he reveals ten metaphors, or archetypes, starting from the Inexperienced Man, an historic pagan image of our basic relationship with nature,  to the Non secular Warrior….These timeless archetypes can encourage males to pursue their larger calling to connect with their deepest selves and to reinvent the world.
“Each man on this planet ought to learn this ebook — to not point out each lady who desires to know the struggles, usually unconscious, that form the lads they know.” — Rabbi Michael Lerner, writer of The Left Hand of God

Trump & The MAGA Motion as Anti-Christ: A Handbook for the 2024 Election

Matthew Fox tells us that he had at all times shied away from utilizing the time period “Anti-Christ” as a result of it was so usually used to unfold management and worry. Nevertheless, given immediately’s rise of authoritarianism and forces of democracide, ecocide, and christofascism, he turns the tables on this ebook using the archetype for the reason for justice, democracy, and a renewed Earth and humanity.
From the Foreword: If there was ever a time, a second, for analyzing the archetype of the Antichrist, it’s now…Learn this ebook with an open thoughts. Good and evil are actual forces in our world. ~~ Caroline Myss, writer of Anatomy of the Spirit and Conversations with the Divine.

Confessions: The Making of a Publish-Denominational Priest (Revised/Up to date Version)

Matthew Fox’s stirring autobiography, Confessions, reveals his private, mental, and religious journey from altar boy, to Dominican priest, to his eventual break with the Vatican. 5 new chapters on this revised and up to date version deliver added perspective in mild of the writer’s continued journey, and his reflections on the present modifications happening in church, society and the atmosphere.
“The unfolding story of this irrepressible religious revolutionary enlivens the thoughts and emboldens the guts — should studying for anybody taken with braveness, creativity, and the way forward for faith.”
—Joanna Macy, writer of World as Lover, World as Self

One River, Many Wells: Knowledge Springing from World Faiths

Matthew Fox calls on all of the world traditions for his or her knowledge and their inspiration in a piece that’s excess of a listing of theological place papers however a brand new approach to pray—to meditate in a world religious context on the knowledge all our traditions share. Fox chooses 18 themes which can be foundational to any spirituality and demonstrates how all of the world religious traditions supply knowledge about every.“Studying One River, Many Wells is like coming into the wealthy silence of a masterfully directed retreat. As you learn this textual content, you mirror, you pray, you embrace Divinity. Actually no phrases can absolutely specific my respect and awe for this magnificent contribution to up to date spirituality.” –Caroline Myss, writer of Anatomy of the Spirit