Healing the Magdalene Wound
Are you living life to the fullest? Do you express your true authenticity in your work in the world and with the ones you love? Are you fully, truly, whole-heartedly living your life on purpose?
Or do you feel like you’re living a life not truly yours, a spectator in your own life? Are you afraid, deep down, of being seen and heard for the truth of who you are? Do you feel constrained? Living small. Hiding your light. Not speaking your truth. Trying to fit in.
Is this unconscious or conscious fear ruling (and ruining!) your life?
When I first started this journey with Mary Magdalene in 2018 I realised she was showing me so much more than just her life so I could truly appreciate the magnificence of her.
Mary Magdalene was exposing the lies of Western society, the erasure of her-story, and the the magnificence of women, myself included!
By deciding to learn about this one woman – Mary Magdalene – I discovered the Church attempted to wipe out her story. I discovered holy scriptures the Church tried to destroy, including her own gospel.
I discovered the threads that go back through the female lineage from mother to daughter. I discovered the mystery School teachings of birth, life, death and rebirth. I followed the trail all the way back to the Great Mother and her great goddesses – a religion that lasted much longer than any patriarchal religion.
And I came face to face with the hypocrisy of the Christian Church.
To understand ourselves we need to learn the truth of who we are as women and the embodiment of the divine feminine. We need to embrace the truth of who we are.
The Lies We Were Told
We can only do this by going back to learn the lineage of the Divine Feminine.
In the process we release two thousand years of lies.
For two thousand years women have been misjudged and manipulated. We have been gaslit by the Church! Lies were projected onto women. Somewhere along the line we began to believe the lies. We internalised the lies and illusions. We believed that we are not enough, never enough.
This photo is by Matheus Bertelli.
These stories are so old they are unconscious. We can’t say exactly where, why or how we came to feel this way. Often it feels like it always has been there, and always will be there.
If we cannot name it we cannot see it for what it is. We cannot see the stories and the hold they have on us. It feels irrational. It feels like our burden to carry, that we somehow deserve the shame and guilt that no one else has, no one else could possibly understand.
We cannot give voice to it. So, it remains in the shadows of our inner world, unmet and unacknowledged.
The Church gaslit us to keep us silent, ashamed, compliant. We are told we are not good enough, not smart enough, not pretty enough, not slim enough, not tall enough, not fit enough, not fit enough, not the right shape, not the right colour, the right sex, not loveable.
For two thousand years, women were told they were told their bodies were dirty, sinful, not to be trusted. Women were told they were incapable of gaining spiritual wisdom and knowledge. Women were in capable of becoming realised (Anthropos), enlightened, through the female form.
Childhood Conditioning
We might believe this doesn’t affect us. If our childhood was not heavily involved in a Church, we might think we’ve sidestepped this lie. But this lie is enmeshed into our families, our education system, and our society.
From childhood we have been taught to second guess ourselves, to doubt our inner wisdom and knowing. We were taught that our inner sensations, our body’s intuition, was not to be trusted. Our bodies, our minds, our inner wisdom and knowing cannot be trusted.
This photo is by Matheus Bertelli.
We were taught to obey an external voice of authority instead – those older than us in positions of power.
Whether consciously or unconsciously our parents understood that our intuition was dangerous, and this imaginary world would get us in trouble. Our mothers taught us well to keep us safe. Staying small, silent, invisible is what kept women safe from danger.
We were taught to trust an intermediary between ourselves and the spirit realms, ourselves and our spirit guides ad teachers. Men’s religion became supreme, and women were told they had no place within its sacred walls.
These lies are stored inside our bodies. They fester and contaminate us. They corrupt our thoughts, words and actions. These lies are at the heart of our insecurities.
Women are told we are too emotional, too sensitive, too outspoken, too assertive, too sexy, too provocative, too much. We are made to feel small, feel less, feel less than ourselves, less beautiful, feel disempowered, incompetent, unworthy or not enough.
We are told it is our own fault. When we feel our inner wisdom and knowing is out of sync with the external world, we are told we are crazy. And it is up to us to fix ourselves.
The Amnesia of Western Culture
Long ago Western culture forgot women. Only the men are remembered. Her-story was erased for His-story. We lost the stories courageous women who tread their own path. Mary Magdalene is one of millions of strong, powerful women wiped from living memory.
On a deep cellular level, we feel attacked or in danger if we access our inner wisdom and knowing intuition. When we honour and revere our bodies, our minds, as sacred portals to the divine we feel deeply unsafe. When we access our inner sensations, our body’s intuition, we feel rebellious and wrong.
This photo is by Oleg Magni.
The fear is not irrational. For thousands of years women were attacked. The Mystery Schools were destroyed, and the temple priestesses were raped and expelled. The lineage of the spiritual paths of women were erased.
The Great Witch Hunt is in our cellular memory. Women were silenced, shamed and shunned, paraded naked and humiliated, taunted and tortured, burned and drowned.
We all hold the epigenetic and past life memories of generational trauma. We are told we are weak, flawed and broken. We are irredeemable, corrupted, ruined and dangerous. Women need to be controlled, contained, and managed by men, least we wreak havoc with our sinful body, mind and emotions.
We are afraid to speak what we know, sense and see.
No wonder we are afraid to reclaim our intuitive and empathic gifts!
No wonder we are afraid to trust in our intuition and inner knowing!
All these stories are held within our physical bodies, weighing us down, deflating our self-confidence, self-worth and our self-trust. Collectively, Western society treats these stories of womanhood as facts.
Heal the Magdalene Wounds
The Magdalene wounds alive within our bodies. All women carry these wounds and express them in our lives. When we mistrust our intuition, we lose access to it. Most of us have shut down our intuition as a child because it wasn’t safe to have it. We are told what we saw and understood to be true wasn’t real.
The wisdom taught in Mystery Schools and temples is returning. We return to our feminine power, our sovereignty, aligned with our own inner wisdom and knowing.
This photo is by Oleg Magni.
We remember the ancient Great Mother and the goddesses who came after her. We remember the wise women, teachers, preachers, witches and healers who came before us. We stand on the shoulders of these women. We see the old ways that can be a map for a new way of being.
We choose a role model and mentor for woman, like Mary Magdalene. Mary Magdalene represents the Divine Feminine in human – rather than divine – form. Mary Magdalene is an ascended master who continues to enter our thoughts, dreams, and meditations to assist us.
Mary Magdalene represents her powerful integration or enlightenment, and the path toward inner balance and holistic well-being. Jesus referred to this as Anthropos; being fully realised human.
Mary Magdalene is a role model and mentor for woman reclaiming her voice, her power, and her divine connection. Mary Magdalene serves as a powerful mirror for self-reflection, inviting us to recognise our own inner wisdom and knowing for ourselves.
Mary Magdalene tells us not to give away our power to outside systems, external authority figures. This is also an invitation to explore our intuitive gifts and to begin to develop an intimate relationship with Mary Magdalene and other beings in the spirit realms for ourselves.
Reclaiming Our Birthright
Mary Magdalene symbolises a journey of spiritual growth and reclaiming the sacred feminine. Mary Magdalene is a powerful embodiment of feminine energy, that whispers of ancient sacred feminine mysteries.
The archetype holds deep wisdom and inner guidance, like an ancient priestess who guards sacred mysteries. Mary Magdalene embodies the divine feminine, honouring intuition, cycles, and the healing power of presence.
She teaches that the divine can be experienced in the body and through acts of devotion. Her story encourages embracing one’s intuition and recognising the sacred within the physical realm.
We carry the ability to sense, feel or see beyond the veil. This is the feminine wisdom through our intuitive inner knowing.
This photo is by Jayson Hinrichsen.
Mary Magdalene represents love, compassion, wisdom, and a powerful source of Divine Feminine energy healing. She can help us reveal our soul’s purpose and sacred destiny and empower you to embrace our strength, beauty, and sexuality.
Through her, we learn that the divine is not something distant or abstract. It is felt in the body, in the breath, and in the act of devotion.
Access Spirit For Ourselves
In the ‘Gospel of Mary’, Mary Magdalene reminds the disciples that the path to truth is not external – it is found within. We stop relying on others to access intuitive messages and guidance for us. We tune into our own inner wisdom and knowing, healing the lies and untruths we believed about ourselves.
By tuning into Mary Magdalene’s energy, we can merge the universal energies of the feminine and masculine within ourselves and the external world. Her energy has the potential to break down the barriers between the two energies, paving the way for reconciliation.
This photo is by Oleg Magni.
We reclaim our voice, our power, and our divine connection found within.
We self-reflect, recognising our own inner wisdom and knowing for ourselves.
We do not to give away our power to outside systems, external authority figures. Respect is earned. We explore our intuitive and empathic gifts and to begin to develop an intimate relationship with Mary Magdalene and other beings in the spirit realms for ourselves.
We are all capable of forging our own path to spiritual enlightenment without intermediaries. This ends our dependence on others to access intuitive messages and guidance for us and helps us find what is true for us.
We embrace our own inner wisdom and knowing, healing the lies and untruths we believed about ourselves. We celebrate our feminine strength, our unique way of seeing the world, our collaborative approach to leadership and teaching by example.
We reclaim our innate soul gifts and urges. We trust our body’s intuition and our mind’s inner knowing. We pay attention to dreams, visions, synchronicity, signs and symbols. We embrace unmet, unacknowledged shadow aspects of ourselves.
We listen to our own inner wisdom and knowing.
We stand in our power.
We reclaim our soul gifts, our intuitive and empathic gifts and remember how to feel, sense and see.
We reclaim our soul gifts, our intuitive and empathic gifts and remember how to feel, sense and see.
We reclaim our intuition, magic, alchemy, seership, sacred sound, divination. When we awaken our feminine gifts, we remember this ancient role of holding space for birth, life, death, and rebirth.
We learn to walk between worlds, contacting the spirit realms for ourselves. We act as oracles, seers to help others receive spirit guidance. We act as mentors or guides to help others access their intuitive and empathic gifts to receive spirit guidance for themselves.
This photo is by Matheus Bertelli.
We remember that we live within a cyclical process of birth, life, death and rebirth. We guide others to embrace transformation and new life possibilities. We help guide souls across the threshold so that no one walks this path alone.
We reactivate our body wisdom and our instinctual, sensual, sexual power. Sacred union and devotion used as a spiritual tool. Devotion, forgiveness, and compassion is the alchemy that unlocks freedom.
We make love, dance, sing, sway and express through our body without a script or an authority to control us. We chant, pray, bless and see the godliness in all things.
We access the wisdom of the heart, the gut and the womb. This is wisdom that feeds our mind, our head down rather than neck up intelligence.
We unblock our throat, allowing us to speak up for ourselves. We express our truth using our voice to speak what we know, sense and see. We stand in our truth and be who we truly are.
We live life to the fullest. We express our true authenticity in our work in the world and with our loved ones. We fully, truly, whole-heartedly live our life with power, passion and purpose!
Featured Image: This photo is by Jayson Hinrichsen.