Mary Magdalene and the Divine Feminine
Has the name “Mary Magdalene” been showing up randomly? This message is for you.
Mary Magdalene is a fiercely powerful spirit guide the represents the divine feminine. She wasn’t a just a loyal follower of Jesus, but Jesus himself even touted Mary as his feminine counterpart – highlighting the nearly limitless potential of the harmonizing of the masculine and feminine.
Unfortunately, patriarchal biases woven into the retelling of the stories of the bible overtime buried Mary’s prominence and many say that her guidance shows up to spiritually attuned women to reclaim their divine feminine. Not just the “love and light” aspect of the divine feminine, but the dark feminine as well.
If her name is showing up in your life on more than one occasion, you’re being called to reclaim your divine femininity, which means leaning fully in to the feminine energy body or the “right brained” approach to life –
- trusting your intuition, making decisions based on what feels right in your heart
- placing yourself at the center of your life so you can better show up for others (vs. putting others at the center of your life and losing touch with your own needs)
- embracing the dark feminine – which means giving yourself permission to feel rage or contempt
- not ignoring prominent red flags and using them as clear indicators to cut ties, let go, and opening yourself to receive more and better
- practicing discernment and not being afraid to call out “false idols”
- raising your self worth and what you think you deserve to a goddess level
And over all, recognizing that by simply existing on the physical plane as a woman means you’re deserving of way more than you settle for.
Go Deeper
The Gospel of Mary Magdalene reveals a very different love story from the one we've come to refer to as Christianity. Harvard-trained theologian Meggan Watterson leads us verse by verse through Mary's gospel to illuminate the powerful teachings it contains.
A gospel, as ancient and authentic as any of the gospels that the Christian bible contains, was buried deep in the Egyptian desert after an edict was sent out in the 4th century to have all copies of it destroyed. Fortunately, some rebel monks were wise enough to refuse-and thanks to their disobedience and spiritual bravery, we have several manuscripts of the only gospel that was written in the name of a woman: The Gospel of Mary Magdalene.
Mary's gospel reveals a radical love that sits at the heart of the Christian story. Her gospel says that we are not sinful; we are not to feel ashamed or unworthy for being human. In fact, our purpose is to be fully human, to be a "true human being"- that is, a person who has remembered that, yes, we are a messy, limited ego, and we are also a limitless soul.
And all we need to do is to turn inward (again and again); to meditate, like Mary Magdalene, in the way her gospel directs us, so that we can see past the ego of our own little lives to what's more real, and lasting, and infinite, and already here, within.
With searing clarity, Watterson explains how and why Mary Magdalene came to be portrayed as the penitent prostitute and relates a more historically and theologically accurate depiction of who Mary was within the early Christ movement. And she shares how this discovery of Mary's gospel has allowed her to practice, and to experience, a love that never ends, a love that transforms everything.
