I love this sacred practice. Also wrote quite a bit about it last year. It was Yeshua who taught me, or reminded me, of how we all used to anoint one another long ago. Even before the public ministry began, we’d gather in small circles around the fire in the olive groves and pass around a bowl of oil, blessing and anointing each other. It was a way of naming the holy. As soon as I remembered this, I ordered a bottle of spikenard from Jerusalem. Yeshua said the earth still remembers… and now, anointing is part of my practice again. I use it in ceremonies and rituals, and the scent alone opens my heart to the Presence.
Thank you for writing this beautiful post!
Oh, also, what you wrote about Magdalene witnessing—this echoes the code of witness I wrote about in the series on the Magdalene Codes…
Ritual doesn’t survive because it’s written down. It survives because someone loved enough to make it visible.
Keep writing… keep making it visible…
I love this sacred practice. Also wrote quite a bit about it last year. It was Yeshua who taught me, or reminded me, of how we all used to anoint one another long ago. Even before the public ministry began, we’d gather in small circles around the fire in the olive groves and pass around a bowl of oil, blessing and anointing each other. It was a way of naming the holy. As soon as I remembered this, I ordered a bottle of spikenard from Jerusalem. Yeshua said the earth still remembers… and now, anointing is part of my practice again. I use it in ceremonies and rituals, and the scent alone opens my heart to the Presence.
Thank you for writing this beautiful post!
Oh, also, what you wrote about Magdalene witnessing—this echoes the code of witness I wrote about in the series on the Magdalene Codes…
Thank you for sharing your practice here. Beautiful gifts to offer those who seek…
This one: https://open.substack.com/pub/nadianeriya/p/the-third-magdalene-code-the-code?r=2x70y&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=overlay