Since 2012, I have been working with Mary Magdalene's wisdom and the energy of the Divine Feminine in my Spiritual Healing and Womb Awakening work. I feel this work was guiding me to it as part of a divine plan for my life, though I did not fully understand why.
In early 2020, I followed my guidance to accept an offer to go on a retreat to Israel. My heart was drawn to it and so I booked my flight. It was due to take place in March 2020, but Covid-19 broke out and the retreat had to be cancelled due to travel restrictions. It went ahead online anyway during lockdown. It was a series of Zoom meet-ups, working with meditation, teachings, and deep healing processes with the energy and wisdom of Mary Magdalene. This work is not based on any religion; it is a process of spiritual growth and development.
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I learnt a lot about her and had an insatiable desire to know more. In my search, I stumbled upon Megan Watterson's book Mary Magdalene Revealed and The Gospel of Mary Magdalene, which gave me great insight into who she was and what she stood for.
Mary Magdalene was not a prostitute. She was an apostle and a visionary, a highly trained womb priestess. She was one of the first to witness the resurrection. She is the one Jesus, a great spiritual teacher, chose to announce the good news and spread his message of love on Earth, and help us to find the light within ourselves. This was her mission. She became the love that he embodied. She had the courage to go and fulfil this mission despite the challenges faced by a woman of her time.
The quote below from Mary Magdalene Revealed touched me profoundly:
"This love she became is what our world needs most desperately. It's a love that renders all things sacred, from the animals to the angels, from the poorest to the most powerful. It's a love that sees the inherent worth in all living things. Mary Magdalene is the embodiment of a love that reaches where it never has before."
Mary Magdalene had done her inner spiritual work and had become the "Anthropos", which means "fully human and fully divine". We are light and we are shadow, and we need to allow ourselves to integrate our shadow selves and become whole. We are all both human and divine, and this is what has been lost to many. It has been lost due to hierarchical structures that have shut us off from the fact that each of us is a being of light, living in a 3D reality. We are a bridge between heaven and Earth, and most people don't realise they have this power and divine potential within themselves.
When I say heaven, I understand it to be a state of higher consciousness that we can reach while living on Earth as opposed to what all abrahamic religious hierarchies have taught, that somehow we are "sinners" and shameful & need to answer to higher authorities that restrict our sovereignty & access to the divine. This has been how we have been controlled for thousands of years.
Mary Magdalene's wisdom is an aspect of Divine Feminine consciousness which is on the rise at the moment. It is an emanation of the Divine Sophia. This is awakening in both men and women. To become whole, we need to embrace our divinity and allow it to be integrated into our humanity. We also need to balance our masculine and feminine qualities, the creative force of the feminine along with the driving force of the masculine, in balance.
Both men and women have a lot of work to do to achieve this balance within themselves. If they are out of balance, we have chaos within ourselves and in the collective. It involves looking honestly at our shadow, the parts of us we try to hide and learning to meet these aspects of ourselves with acceptance and love.
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What has been deepening over the years through Sacred Womb activation and healing is my connection to Mary Magdalene as an aspect of the Divine Feminine and also an emanation of Sophia, the feminine creative force of the universe. We are all connected to this source, to our creative potential, to love as a force that connects us all. We are the embodiment of this within the temples of our own bodies.
What has unfolded through this connection is that the Divine Feminine was honoured by many different cultures and religions in the world, and they all shared the same vision and sovereign connection to the divine and to love. In the past, there have been many wise female mystics from the mystical aspects of different religions who taught and lived this message, but were ignored, punished, and even killed for speaking about it.
Different people all over the world are now working with this consciousness to unveil the truth of how the feminine has been suppressed. The ultimate aim is to raise the collective consciousness from one of fear and control to a more nurturing way of being, with love as a guiding force.
How has this connection helped me so far?
My feminine and masculine energies are more balanced. I have developed the ability to surrender to the flow, trust my inner wisdom and creative impulses, while also being supported by my inner masculine in putting myself out there. It has been a journey back to greater wholeness.
I have a deeper understanding of how masculine and feminine distortions can prevent us from feeling whole within. Addressing these imbalances and the trauma that are at the root of them has been life-changing.
I am connected more deeply to my womb wisdom and authentic self and have found the courage to honour my truth despite resistance from those around me.
I have learned to embody the Divine Feminine within rather than seeking it outside myself. It was never about worshipping that which is outside us.
I have learnt to honour my boundaries as an act of self-care. We are worthy of protecting our own life force energy. In this way, we become more stable space holders for those in our lives, personally and professionally.
It helped me to have the courage to do the deep inner work of looking at and releasing deep shadow layers from this life and past lives that were influencing how I showed up in my life.
It helped me to appreciate the interconnectedness of all of life, to become aware that every species on Earth is part of this great web.
I have embraced the fact that we are all unique, beautiful beings of light, no matter what traumas we have gone through in life. We are all worthy of finding our way back to love.
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About the Author: Nóra Therèse Leahy
