Activate the Divine Masculine with San José
St. Joseph calls your Soul to Leadership.
Some of you may know that I used to live in the back of a gay porn studio in Times Square. It’s where I started Musical Theatre Factory, and it was an awesome New York experience. When we lost the space in 2016, I ended up moving into St. Joseph’s Immigrant Home, a Catholic home for women on 44th and 9th, place I still lovingly call “the convent,” right in the heart of Hell’s Kitchen.
I was still relatively early in my transition. I had recovered from gender confirmation surgery in the back of that porn studio, but I didn’t have a permanent hair/wig solution, and I hadn’t done any body feminization aside from what hormone replacement therapy achieved. I was what you might call “visibly trans,” and the women at St. Joseph’s—mostly older ladies from the Philippines and a few younger, international students, didn’t bat an eye.
The convent has a gorgeous chapel inside on the second floor, a music room, a communal kitchen, a conference room, and a lovely grotto to the Virgin where I would sit, pray, and journal through many late nights.
When I moved in, sitting on the pillow of my springy twin bed (more of a cot, really) was a little pamphlet containing a novena to St. Joseph. A novena is a catholic prayer ritual where you say a prayer 3 times, 3 times a day (so 9 times total) for 9 days. I didn’t know St. Joseph at all, other than that he was the husband of Mother Mary and the earthly father of Jesus and his siblings. I learned from the pamphlet that he is the patron saint of laborers, of fathers, orphans, and married couples, of persons living in exile, and of the sick and dying, and of a happy death.
I have witnessed a happy death in my family, and believe all of us deserve that peace.
I decided to pray the novena in order to build a relationship with St. Joseph (who I now often connect with in Spanish as San Jose). I felt his loving, paternal presence almost instantly, and as someone who carries a lot of wounds from previous father figures, it was new for me to discover what holy, paternal love could feel like.
In this message, St. Joseph encourages us to cultivate a relationship with divine masculinity, to allow the men in our lives (or the man that you may be) to rise to a new calling of service, to have confidence in the sacred folly of parenthood, and to prepare for our soul’s calling into leadership.
May you be blessed by his words today.
A message from Saint Joseph:
How many times have you clung to my care, even without knowing?
The divine feminine is experiencing a sacred resurgence, but so too with the divine masculine, too long shrouded in sinful disregard of the higher task of man; to protect, to provide, to gather and to guard.
A man must earn. It is part of his biochemistry. It is not about labor or servitude, it’s about enriching one’s experience of life by placing oneself before a task requiring completion and saying, “Okay, go!”
We understand that in this now moment, it seems as though there isn’t a place for masculinity anymore. We wish to assure you that a new type of man is coming forward, one freed of the shackles of his unconscious desires.
Place your cares upon the sacred men in your life. Allow them to shoulder burdens for you. For men have chosen a path of dutiful support, just as women, just as third and fourth genders. All of you have a drive to carry out a singular and a collective mission.
Men must know to whom they are called. The goddesses are back, but so are the angels, Saints, and ascended masters. Who are the masculine forces that guide the men in your energetic field? Because that’s who you are truly hanging out with.
Bodhisattvah don’t give up on the world, they return to it again and again, ferrying passengers from one shore to another. That shore is consciousness, from unconsciousness to all-knowingness. And soon the passenger becomes the ferryman. This is the cycle. This is the spiral ladder. Step-by-step we work our way up.
If you wish to be a leader, you need to learn how to follow, how to be led, let’s say, so that you can in turn appeal to the ones who have lost their way, and don’t know who to turn to. Because you have been led, you will be able to lead. You do not need to seek out this leadership, it will be assigned to you in the moment it is called for—the moment you are called.
You wish to ask about survival but I wish to encourage you, beyond subsistence and into substantial gain. For with reserves you can re-serve. With reserves you can re-serve. So what if you save more souls than money, you will have provision enough to lavish wealth on your neighbors.
Each of us has an internal father and an internal mother. Often we get the messages confused because our signals are crossed between the higher sense of these divine parents, and the human failings of your earthly guardians, who must fail in some capacity in order to motivate your souls growth.
Hear me now, every parent on the earthly plane must fail. Because perfection is not your job. Try your best but release the pressure of perfection. That belongs to God alone, and it is ease and pleasure for the divine to create in such a fashion.
But the failures of parenting are the gifts of a loving creator, who wishes for you to improve upon the story, to write a better chapter in the book of life. So take on the challenge to reparent yourself, and then be the one who knows what divine council looks and feels like. Be the one who can say, “I am my mother, and I am my father,” and mean so in the heavenly realms.
With this activation, you will see a new sense of responsibility, not insofar as a host of burdens, but as a drive to attend to the matters of the day with authority and principled management. It won’t be difficult to do what needs to be done. The emotion, stagnation, confusion can all be replaced by a clarifying song, a sense of purpose that rings through all distraction and pulls you closer to a satisfying completion of your highest task– to serve with authority and grace in the power of the Lord and the wisdom of the Holy Spirit.
Allow it to be so, my child, and you will see that it will be. You will see that it is.
All my love,
Josecito, your Papa who loves you forever.