The Mary Magdalene Lineage

As I prepare to open the gates to The Year of M, with my epic storytelling, incantation, teaching and transmission event on July 22nd, I have been pondering why this lineage is so important - and why the concept of spiritual lineages of feminine magic is crucial to modern women to create legacy, and to understand how to embody true feminine energy in our lives.

Womb Awakening was a book about cosmology, herstory, and practice.

It embodied the journey I had been on for almost twenty years, and for ten years in a very conscious way, to heal the deep feminine, her cycles, and the womb. It was a pilgrimage to awaken the feminine center, and the daily practice of what it took to transform the body into a sacred ceremonial site, rather than something that was numbed out, forgotten, shamed, or full of unresolved ancestral energy imprints.

And in that journey, I realized that you couldn’t heal if you were held in the wrong story and the wrong cosmology. I noticed that in many types of practices or therapies, the story or cosmology that held them was not conducive to the deep feminine way.

I remember having a massage with a guy who followed Buddhist practice, and as I Iay on the table, semi-naked, I looked up to see a poster glaring down on me, with bullet points of Buddhist prayers, one of which was to ‘not be born in a woman’s body’.

So the cultivating of feminine embodiment practice opened up into the herstory; the narrative and energy templates that are a prism through which we even approach our healing. This becomes awakening.

Story is a container, story holds us, story is a shape that we take, a womb that we inhabit, so we can not really heal the womb of the feminine if we are held in the womb of the wrong story. So the herstory came, and beyond that the cosmology - the creation myth, the why, the big context, why we are here, why we are in these bodies, why do we have a womb, why is there magic in the womb, why we are these inceptors of creation. The journey needed to reclaim and reweave our feminine cosmologies.

The deep feminine can’t heal if she is held in the wrong creation story or the wrong cosmology. Cosmology is also a womb; it’s how we perceive our universe and our purpose and our creator. We cannot heal in a cosmology that is hostile to our magic.

So that was a big endeavor, and a supernova that was birthing through me.

But there was more.

Afterwards, the placenta comes.

The wisdom keeper, the energy that nourished the new creation.

This was the story and transmission of Magdalene.

As the Magdalene Mysteries came in, I had thought it was an addendum maybe, something more simple and easy (plot spoiler, it certainly wasn’t - it’s a kind of magic you need to wear a bullet proof vest to write about).

As we were researching the practices, the herstory, and cosmologies, a couple of lineages kept popping up - The Dakinis, Witches and Mary Magdalene and Jesus, who all had so much connection to this history and practice of feminine magic. So we had all these folders of orphan text saved, but there wasn’t room for it in our first book. So we just filed it all away.

Then we held a Mary Magdalene pilgrimage in France in 2015 and an online Vision Quest, and with the research we did for that, even more energy and knowledge came through. Soon we had almost thirty thousand words on Magdalene stored away, and a treasury of amazing images of her in red capes and robes of the priestess traditions, with a knowing smirk on her face.

That became the seed of the book. The point that it incepted as a book of its own, was when we arrived in Hawaii to visit Pele. As I was thinking “I’m going to immerse in this Hawaiian lineage.” I was instead guided to start writing the Magdalene Mysteries and so I spent the first week in Hawaii gathering all my notes for this new work, under the watchful eye of a fire goddess mountain.

I had no idea we had written that much. And a few months later, we pitched the book to our publisher, and this incredible thing happened - because I think we sent it in on Friday and by the Monday, we had already received a yes. It’s kind of not possible, but it happened like that. New stages of the book kept coming in, first the addition of the Ghent alterpiece came in stewarded by Azra, then some of my personal narration came in, and then this kind of European amanita, folklore, fairytale, plant priestess, forest magic came in.

Ultimately the Magdalene Mysteries is a book all about lineage.

It’s about reclaiming a lineage of magical women and not just Mary Magdalene - this is a fractal lineage, it’s in Africa, it’s in Tibet, India, Pakistan, Greece, it’s in the Nordic and Brythonic traditions, and the essence of it is the same.

What I had not understood is that lineage is THE biggest piece. It’s the sacred thread, that ties us into an ecosystem of practice, expertise and support.

My calling is to unite the secrets and the magic and the lost truths of this lineage with the lived reality of modern women who are reclaiming their magic.

To connect the secrets of magic and lineage, with with realities of our lives, relationship, sex, motherhood, body, grief, money, and ancestral memory.

There are different aspects of this lineage to speak to, there is the aspect of sexual and womb magic to speak to, which is huge, and there is also the crucial subject of Sacral Wealth work, which I’m speaking to now, as women’s magic needs funding.

The concept of wealth was inherent in this lineage in different ways, and going forward I will be holding Feminine Magic School AND Feminine Wealth School to integrate the split between our money and our magic, to incept our magical money.

As I see it, the feminine lineages branched into two. The priestess queens who were oracles and ceremonialists branched off from the more folkloric medicine women, in the same way that Magdalene lived a life in the temples and lived a life in the forest. There is a duality in this lineage that must be addressed. The Mermaid motif. A woman who lives in two worlds, of land and sea.

The archetype of the Enchantress bridges both branches of this lineage.

It includes the high ceremonial priestess type who holds the memory of power. You’ll see these women in the modern world, wearing white flowing dresses, traveling the world to sacred sites, having photoshoots, holding space for others. They live in homes that look and feel like temples, the way they speak and carry themselves is regal, they are much more comfortable with being seen or placed on pedestals. They are able to receive 7 figure rewards for their magic gifts, and know money is sacred.

The Enchantress also invokes the path of the female folk magicians, who branched off into elemental magic, hidden in forests, following instinctive ritual and wild spell craft.

These are the women who do their magic under the moonlight at midnight, in their hidden cottages where the magic wands of foxglove have created mists of silence and invisibility to protect the secrets of a feminine magic that was once hunted down. These women work extensively with plants and potions and poisons and balms and unctions and incantations. They veil and cape themselves, to protect their essence.

Of course, at the root, these two lineages are the same lineage - and I know most of us carry both these essences inside us - but there has been a real-world divergence.

Under the banner of the Enchantress, I plan to reunite this lineage and also incant its story back into the world as the final missing piece and soul retrieval of the feminine womb. So we can claim the sacral wealth and magic that is our legacy.

Join me on July 22 for my Inception Point event, for the The Year of M