This weekend, the Magdalene Network co-creators are heading to Omega Institute in New York for Meggan Watterson’s retreat, and we are so excited for a few days of immersion, conversation, and Magdalene sisterhood. While we’re there, we’ll also be spending some time with Clark Strand and Sofie Strand, two authors and thinkers whose work we have loved and followed for years. If any of you are going to be at Omega for the retreat, please let us know! We would LOVE to arrange a Magdalene Network meetup while we are there. ❤️ Because we’ll be away, there will be ✨NO Sacred Petitions this Friday through Monday.✨ And speaking of Sacred Petitions... Carrie has now been holding this practice for an incredible 650 DAYS. 650 days of women writing what they are carrying. What they are asking for. What they are grieving. What they are ready to release. What they are becoming. Over time, we began noticing that something was happening in the writing itself. There is actually research around this. Expressive writing has been studied for decades, and the evidence suggests that putting difficult emotions and experiences into words can help us process what we have lived, create meaning around it, and support emotional well-being. But we have also witnessed something the research papers can't quite capture: the power of another woman witnessing your words. There is medicine in being heard. There is medicine in discovering that someone else understands. And there is medicine in finally giving language to something you have carried silently. That realization is part of what inspired our newest monthly circle, Write Right Medicine, beginning in September. And we also want to remind everyone how Sacred Petitions works: ❤️ Every Saturday at 7 AM PT / 10 AM ET, Sacred Petitions is open to our entire Magdalene Network community. ❤️ Magdalene Initiates have access to Sacred Petitions throughout the entire week, along with our growing collection of members-only circles, book circles, teachings, replays, discounts, and experiences.

The Gate Opened on 8/8. Today, We Reclaim. Four days ago, the Lion’s Gate cracked something open. I know it did for me. After our 8/8 ceremony, I was exhausted, emotional, scattered, and confronted by anger and frustration I almost never allow myself to feel. Underneath all of it was one question: Who am I becoming, and what can no longer come with me? Whatever surfaced for you over the last few days, pay attention. Today brings a total solar eclipse and New Moon in Leo. In astrology, Leo speaks to the heart, creativity, courage, self-expression, and our willingness to be seen. And because this eclipse falls on the South Node side of the Leo-Aquarius axis, I’m especially interested in what we are ready to stop carrying. The old role. The smaller identity. The version of ourselves built to survive something we no longer live inside. So today, I want us to do something together. The Reclamation Declaration Take out a piece of paper. At the top, write: I RECLAIM Then name what you are taking back. Your voice. Your creativity. Your body. Your desire. Your confidence. Your time. Your authority. Your joy. Your right to be seen. Your right to create the life that is yours. Be specific. Then underneath it, write: I AM Now declare who you are because you have reclaimed it. I RECLAIM my voice. I AM a woman who speaks. I RECLAIM my creativity. I AM a creator. I RECLAIM my authority. I AM sovereign. I RECLAIM the parts of myself I made smaller for other people. I AM visible. Not someday. Not when you feel ready. Now. Decorate the page. Paint it. Write all over it. Make it yours. Then put it somewhere you will see it every day. And here is the important part: 📝Post a photo of your declaration page below. Or write your two statements directly in the comments: I RECLAIM ________. I AM ________. I want this entire thread filled with women naming what they are taking back and declaring who they are now. Because there is power in writing it. There is power in saying it out loud.

Your Voice. Your Story. Your Medicine. Beginning on the first Wednesday of every month, Magdalene Initiates are invited into a new members-only circle: Write Right Medicine Writing & Healing Circle There is a wisdom within you that is waiting to be heard. Inspired by the writing and spiritual legacy of Mary Magdalene, we enter a space where the feminine voice is not silenced, diminished, or asked to become something else. Mary Magdalene is our guiding presence, reminding us that we are women who, like her, can witness deeply, love fiercely, trust our own knowing, walk through transformation, and have the courage to speak what we have seen and experienced. Through writing and authentic connection, we will explore the stories that have shaped us, not simply to tell them, but to transform them. You don't have to be a writer. You simply need a willingness to explore and to listen to what is ready to emerge. Within the circle, vulnerability is honored, stories are witnessed, creativity is nourished, and every voice has a place. First Wednesday of every month 5 PM PT / 8 PM ET INCLUDED in Magdalene Initiates (Premium) Membership. All others $17 Bring your journal. Bring your story. Bring the words that have been waiting to be written. Where your sacred stories are witnessed. Where your voice is reclaimed. Where your words become medicine. And there is even more on the horizon. Magdalene Network has some exciting publishing opportunities taking shape for 2027, and we’ll be sharing more about that soon. 📚

The more I’ve prepared for tomorrow’s Soul Voice Activation, the more excited I am about this one. If the past week or so has felt heavy, reflective, emotional, or like old stories have suddenly come back around for another look, there may be a reason. We are moving through a period that astrologers associate with reflection, release, and seeing familiar things from a new perspective. And I’ve been feeling that personally. I’ve been thinking a lot about the way we label people and experiences as “good” or “bad,” especially when we’ve been hurt. Sometimes healing asks us to see more of the story. To remember that something painful may also have contained love. That someone who hurt us may also have been acting from their own wounds. That a difficult experience may have changed us in ways we now value. Understanding doesn’t mean excusing. Compassion doesn’t mean reopening a door. It can simply mean we are finally able to hold the whole story without being trapped inside the wound. And that is such a powerful place to enter tomorrow’s 8/8 Lion’s Gate. The Lion’s Gate is associated with courage, visibility, sovereignty, power, abundance, and manifestation. So tomorrow we’re going to work with both sides of that threshold: What am I ready to release? and What am I ready to create now? And our guide is going to be Thecla. If you don’t know her story yet, you are in for something incredible. Thecla was an early Christian woman who refused the life that had been chosen for her. She was eventually thrown into an arena with wild animals. A lioness was released toward her. And instead of attacking Thecla, the lioness ran to her, lay at her feet, and became her protector. I cannot stop thinking about this image. Thecla did not tame the lioness. The lioness recognized her. Tomorrow we are going to meet our own lioness. The part of us that carries instinct, boundaries, anger, creativity, authority, desire, discernment, and the courage to choose differently.

For our August book circle, we’re taking a little summer detour. Sign up here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TC_w8om76cljZFDGmUx3ZBYK9-lTewUqWelzmhSN2Fk/edit?usp=sharing Instead of one of our deeper, more esoteric studies, we’ll be reading The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd, a beautifully imagined novel about Ana, a courageous and intelligent woman whose life becomes intertwined with Jesus. This one is meant to feel lighter. More beach read than theological excavation. More conversation, reflection, and curiosity than study notes and assignments. We’ll meet for four weeks beginning August 6, rather than our usual eight-week format. Read at your own pace and come whether you have finished one chapter or the entire book. There is nothing to prepare and no pressure to keep up. We’ll simply gather to talk about the story, the women within it, the questions it raises, and what it awakens in each of us. This book circle is included for all Magdalene Initiates, our Premium membership at $27 per month. Bring the book, something lovely to drink, and your thoughts. Sand between the pages is entirely acceptable. ☀️ Sign up here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TC_w8om76cljZFDGmUx3ZBYK9-lTewUqWelzmhSN2Fk/edit?usp=sharing Go to the bottom of the spreadsheet Make sure you are on August '26 page