The Magdalene Awakening Is the Hero’s Journey of Our Time On her feast day, perhaps the most sacred thing we can do is stop hiding the stories that brought us back to life. Every day, I encounter another one. Someone who survived an illness that rearranged everything they believed. Someone whose marriage collapsed and took her identity with it. Someone who lost the job, the house, the parent, the plan, the future they thought they were building. Someone who hit rock bottom face-first, paid an unspeakable price, and somehow crawled out carrying wisdom. They are young. They are old. They are religious, atheist, wealthy, broke, educated, ordinary, skeptical, and occasionally the last human being on earth you would expect to start talking about spiritual awakening. But they are talking. About synchronicities. Intuition. Trauma. Purpose. Energy. God. The soul. The strange sense that the worst thing that ever happened to them was also the event that finally cracked their life open. This shit is happening everywhere.😬 And I have begun to wonder whether we are watching millions of private catastrophes, or whether humanity itself has entered the Hero’s Journey. The pattern is ancient. First comes the call. Sometimes it arrives as longing. Sometimes as restlessness. Sometimes as a quiet knowing that the life you are living is no longer the life you came here to live. More often, we ignore it. So the call becomes louder. The body breaks down. The marriage ends. The career disappears. The belief system cracks. The identity we spent decades constructing begins to collapse under the weight of everything it can no longer contain. We call this failure. We call it bad luck. We call it illness, divorce, grief, burnout, betrayal, rock bottom. But our ancestors may have called it initiation. The Hero’s Journey begins when the old world can no longer hold the person we are becoming. It leads us away from the familiar, down into the underworld, through fear, loss, confusion, and confrontation with everything we have avoided.

The current book 📕 that I am reading in circle ⭕️ has brought up lots of emotions and remembering, and much inquiry, Question, what does true forgiveness of missing the mark feel like? 🌹🙌🏻❤️

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In Petitions today we honored vision. Our Vision, the one we know is in there that seems too big to ever be possible. In book club we are talking about birthing our vision into the world like Mother Mary. The closing message from Carrie today was about how if we "know" the way of our "vision" then it is not big enough. Then this oracle card came through for us this morning- "the word wants to be written" with #42 which reduces to 6. The 6 can be viewed as helping us in dropping illusions and allowing contrast to be our teacher. There is a healing message on page 3 if it calls to you to speak out loud- (the picture of the card, all 3 pages of the guide book - and the deck cover are attached). May we all tap into our true vision, the one that is not just of the physical world, and allow it to exist here and now. ❤️🌹❤️

I thought I was researching Mary Magdalene. Then I realized she had been explaining what had already happened to me. ✨📚If you'd rather read this in my Substack: The Magdalene Heresies “If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you.” I’ve read that passage from the Gospel of Thomas for years. I’ve quoted it. I’ve taught it. I’ve highlighted it in books and nodded knowingly whenever it appeared in discussions about Gnosticism, consciousness, and spiritual awakening. And then recently I had one of those strange moments where a familiar idea suddenly revealed an entirely different meaning. Not because the words changed. Because I did. Have you ever had that happen? A phrase you’ve heard a hundred times suddenly lands in a completely new way. You don’t learn something new as much as realize you’ve been looking at the same thing from the wrong angle, and all at once, something becomes obvious. That happened to me while I was thinking about the Magdalene Method. For years, I assumed this passage was talking about hidden gifts, spiritual purpose, or some untapped divine potential waiting to emerge. Now I think it is talking about something much more immediate, much more personal, and honestly, much more uncomfortable. I think it is talking about the things we refuse to see. The fears we inherited. The beliefs we absorbed. The wounds we buried. The stories we keep repeating because they have become so familiar that we mistake them for reality. The parts of ourselves that quietly shape every decision we make while remaining largely invisible to us. And as I sat with that realization, another one arrived right behind it. The entire Magdalene Method grew out of this exact process.