France Itinerary

A Journey To The Celestial And Earthly Portals In The Sacred Places Of The Magdalene In Southern France

11 Day Journey September 28 – October 8, 2007 Cost $2900

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Day 1 – Sept. 28, Friday

We will pick you up in Toulouse at the airport between 12 and 1 pm. Depart for our B&B in Rennes Les Bains, stopping in Limoux for lunch and grocery supplies en route. On arrival in RLB we will relax, settle in and then explore the famous outdoor thermal healing waters. We will create a simple dinner in our cooking facilities, then have a brief introduction and overview of the area before retiring early to catch up from the long flights. We will stay 4 nights here.

Day 2 – Sept. 29, Saturday

Breakfast. Group centering, meditation and setting of individual intentions for the journey before establishing a group intention at the Little Cascade, by the magical waters which were once attended by priestesses here. Mars is moving into Cancer at the Galactic Edge, energizing the Divine Father principal assisting us to create a safe place while opening to receive with gratitude the gifts of the land and waters. Lunch at a nearby cafe. Then we will walk to the ancient 5000 year old stone Seat of Isis next to a spring. This site is a place for quiet reflection and personal attunements. It also marks powerful lay lines passing through the seat. Then a special dinner.

Day 3 – Sept. 30, Sunday

Breakfast. Group centering. Spend morning at historic marketplace in Esperaza which gives a wonderful feeling for the French open market traditions. We can shop for clothes, jewelry, gifts and fresh local products. We will visit the church of Archangel Michael here, before lunch and departing to experience the ancient fairy forest nearby, long recognized as being the “real thing”. The Gemini Moon invites us to have fun remembering to play - not only on the land, but with the magic of our imaginations. What better place to play than in a fairy forest. Pan himself (Peter Pan) could fly only when he remembered his happy thoughts and used his imagination. Dinner

Day 4 – Oct. 1, Monday

Breakfast. Morning visit to the mysterious holy Mountain Bugarach said to be an inverted volcano. It is known as a place where Jules Verne lived and wrote many of his stories, including “Journey to the Center of the Earth” and “20,000 Leagues Under The Sea”. We will align with and meditate on the energy here, an important intergalactic doorway known to have much UFO activity. We will have a picnic lunch here. This is the beginning of a three day Lunar Standstill (also known as the “out of bounds” Moon) gives us access beyond the boundaries of ordinary reality. Can we imagine creating a new perspective for our lives, perhaps something that we might never have imagined before, as Jules Verne may have offered in his stories?

We will then stop briefly in RLB, before departing for the afternoon and evening at the famous hilltop village of Rennes le Chateau where we will visit the Tour Magdala, and the Magdalene Church. It is this church that Abbe Sauniere was renovating when he mysteriously discovered coded documents he claimed held a treasure greater than any owned by the Vatican. After he went to Paris and returned with a great amount of money, he built the Tour Magdala and completed renovation of the church, both of which he dedicated to Mary Magdalene. There is also an ancient Isis Temple deep within the earth here.

We will then be guests at the home of a wonderful couple who are members of the French Templar Order, still practicing today. They will share their beautiful home and garden near the Magdalene church. We will have dinner and a special presentation by them about what it is to be a Knights Templar today.

Day 5 – Oct. 2, Tuesday

Breakfast. We depart for Les Saintes Maries de la Mer, with a possible stop at the Cathar Castle Queribus along the way. Les Saintes Maries de la Mer is a picturesque fishing village located on the Mediterranean coast. Here, according to legend, Mary Magdalene arrived by boat from the Holy Land with a small party of people, greeted by the gypsies. The group included two other Marys, and possibly Mother Mary and then Sarah, who some legends say was the daughter of Magdalene and Jesus. The gypsies are said to have been the Priestesses of Isis who fled the temples in Egypt when they were closed down, carrying with them secret knowledge hidden in their Tarot deck. We arrive for lunch. We will explore the 6th century church with a statue of the black Saint Sarah in the crypt, along with relics of the two other Marys. This was once an ancient pilgrimage site for the Celts who came to receive healing from the Goddess of the ancient spring located here. It is now located in a small place within the church. Les Saintes Maries de la Mer, in the Camargue, is known as the cowboy country of France, where the horses once ran wild. We are free to explore the small town and beach area.

The Moon has now moved into Cancer (the astrological sign of the Divine Mother) at the Galactic Edge and conjuncts Mars (the masculine principal), to create a feeling of safety with the mother and father principle. This symbolizes that our “divine parents” within us are embracing us - no matter what. Some of us have experienced feeling shamed by our earthly parents, and these feelings may have penetrated us so deeply within, that we felt wrong at the core, separated from divine source. Now, by the soothing, healing waters of the Mediterranean we are being given an opportunity to release any lingering pain or limitation. . The black Saint Sarah, present in the church here, offers you compassion. Dinner in town. We will spend two nights here.

Day 6 – Oct 3, Wednesday

Breakfast. Morning on own to walk and be by the beach. The Cancer Moon has reached its last quarter phase, meaning that it is time to complete with any old feelings of shame or not being good enough. As Venus in Leo trines Pluto in Sagittarius we are experiencing the still point energy where past and future meet before anything comes into form. It is the feminine place of Being. We will co-create a ceremony to call forth, embody and lovingly accept a way of living and being from our hearts. Then we will purify ourselves in the sacred waters of the Mediterranean Sea. There is wonderful shopping here, including aromatic products from Provence for gifts and personal enjoyment. Lunch on your own There is wonderful shopping here, including aromatic products from Provence for gifts and personal enjoyment. Lunch and dinner in town.

Day 7 – Oct 4, Thursday

Breakfast. Take one last visit to Saint Sarah before we depart for our beautiful B&B near Rennes Le Chateau. Lunch en route. We will stop in Limoux at the famous Notre Dame de Marceille church to experience the Black Madonna and then receive clarity and guidance at the Well of Visions next to the church. This is where the Black Madonna appeared to a farmer tilling his field several times before the church was built to house her. The Moon is in Leo, giving us an opportunity to feel whole, embracing a new sense of purity from within. We arrive at our lovely B&B facing the village of Rennes Le Chateau. We will enjoy a wonderful dinner here and stay for three nights.

Day 8 – Oct. 5, Friday

Breakfast. Group centering and sharing; take morning to rest, relax and explore the grounds of our beautiful B&B. It is nestled beside the river of colors in the valley of colors where women once washed clothes together in earlier times. There is a very strong Magdalene energy here. Picnic lunch on the grounds. We are entering the Temple of Venus Pentagram area. The Venus Temples are nodes or energy points on the Earth where the Venus frequencies enter the Earth Grid. We will attune to the Venus Temple energies as we walk to the Magdalene Cave across from Rennes Le Chateau. There we will ceremonially align to the Soul of the Magdalene, the Priestess and Her Planetary Purpose. Dinner at our B&B.

Day 9 – Oct 6, Saturday

Breakfast. Centering and sharing. For the next three days Venus is conjunct Regulus - the Heart of the Lion - at the “first gate” (representing the seventh chakra release) giving us an access point to the Hall of Records and our divine knowing of who we are. In the morning we will visit Bezu, one of the points of the Venus Temple mountaintop chateau, a Knights Templar commanderie. It was also an early “initiation” place for those who were ready. Lunch at Rennes Le Chateau. Return to prepare for afternoon ceremony at The Source de La Madeleine, an intergalactic portal with two sacred springs flowing initiatory waters from the mother earth. We will co-create a ceremony to release any inert codes of light that guide our life purpose and experience of wholeness. Return to pack and have farewell dinner before we depart for Lourdes in morning.

Day 10 – Oct 7, Sunday

Breakfast.We will have an early departure for Lourdes, the famous place where Mother Mary appeared to Bernadette sixteen times in a sacred grotto and from which holy waters have flowed ever since. Millions have come to partake of these waters in hopes of physical, mental and spiritual healing - for hundreds of years. Venus, Saturn and the Moon will be in Virgo, activating the mysteries of the Priest/ess here. The Priest/ess was the one who kept the Earth, Humanity and the Other Worlds in harmony with Creation. She was the one who remembered the ceremonies and the sacred pattern of life.As we experience our last day here in southern France we have the opportunity to magnify, energize and expand our Divine alignment with our souls purpose.

The grotto in Lourdes is a powerful intergalactic portal, so important in the region, that Our Lady of Lourdes is represented outside of many churches, including several on our journey - Rennes Le Chateau and Notre Dame de Marceille. Mother Mary has also been known to make appearances to some people during their stay here. Preparation for early morning departure to Toulouse. We will have lunch and dinner in town.

Day 11 – Oct 8, Monday

Breakfast. Honoring our powerful journey and the deep attunements each have called forth after walking into and experiencing the ancient portals on the land, many marked by the Magdalene and feminine energies. Say goodbye to the area before driving to Toulouse for departures to the USA or to other individual destinations.

May the circle be open but unbroken
May the love of the goddess be ever in your heart
Merry meet and merry part and merry meet again.
Blessed Be!

Our Facilitators:

Nancy Safford is a High Priestess of the Magdalene Mysteries and a founding member of the Sacred Order of the Venus Templars. She is a practitioner of ancient Shamanic healing techniques, an intuitive counselor and clairvoyant. She guides people to know themselves more deeply through vision quests, ceremonies and personal retreats. She has been a professional guide in Sedona for 11 years and leads international journeys to France. She is based in France and Sedona, AZ.
Email: nativeshawl@Yahoo.com www.nancysafford.net
P.O. Box 3711, Sedona, AZ 86340
France: from US 0 11 33 468 31 41 67
US: (928) 204-5753

Cayelin Castell is the co-founder of the Shamanic Astrology Mystery School, co-author of The Shamanic Handbook with Daniel Giamario and author of the Celestial Timings ezine since 1996. She has co-facilitated many journeys in the US and around the world in places such as Scotland, Peru, Egypt, Costa Rica, Canada and Mexico. Cayelin is a High Priestess of the Magdalene Mysteries and a founding member of the Sacred Order of the Venus Templars. Cayelin is based in Tucson Arizona and Oconomowoc, Wisconsin
P.O. Box 222, Okauchee,WI 53069
tel: (262) 567-0657

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