Mythic Mary Magdalene
Reconnecting Divine Feminine myth tradition with the Bible stories we know and exploring the myth of Miryam Magdalene + link for Exploring the Divine Feminine ~ Heretic Happy Hour
Today is Mary Magdalene’s Feast Day in the Catholic tradition.
Through the centuries, this sainted biblical figure has been worshipped… maligned… studied… persecuted… misunderstood… used… loved…
She leaves us with more questions than answers. She begs us to look deeper but never satisfies our most base queries.
Who is Mary Magdalene?
Mary of Bethany? A woman from the town of Magdala? A priestess? A sinner? A disciple? The apostle of apostles? Jesus’s wife?
The hard truth is that we will never know the answers to these questions in the historical sense. Biblical scholars have written and rewritten interpretations, but none can say who this woman really was.
I’ve spent half my career haggling over details of Miryam’s life—
Maybe she was the beloved disciple… maybe she wasn’t.
Maybe she understood things none of the others did… maybe she didn’t.
Maybe they hated her for the way Jesus loved her… maybe they didn’t.
Maybe she was married to Yeshua… maybe she wasn’t.
After all these years of studying and exploring Biblical histories and the Divine Feminine, the controversial truth is—
I don’t care.
I don’t really care anymore what happened in Mary Magdalene’s story on a historical level, because there’s too much that we simply can’t know. We can argue… haggle… debate… believe… interpret… but we can’t actually know the history.
What we can know and understand deeply is what’s happening at a mythic level.
Despite the fact that in a patriarchal society, we tend to value facts over feelings and history over mythology… a mythic reading of Miryam’s place in the Biblical story stirs my insides like butterflies on a first date.
This year, on Mary Magdalene’s Feast Day, I’m feeling inspired by a story from
and Clark Strand’s book The Way of the Rose, which explores the way that Divine Feminine worship has been passed down through the ages hidden in the Christian faith and the practice of the rosary.The Goddess & The Gardener
As if by coincidence (and no coincidence at all), this morning I listened to a chapter of The Way of the Rose that told the story of Miryam coming to the tomb to find the resurrected Yeshua.
Now… rumors through the centuries have conflated our Miryam with the unnamed sinner in Luke and the anonymous woman in John who anointed the feet of Jesus…
But this moment where she arrives at the tomb that first Easter morning is definitively Mary Magdalene.
It is this moment in the Bible that earned her the epithet “Apostle of Apostles”—for she was the one who spread the Good News of the resurrection to the other disciples.
The Biblical story tells us that when she first sees a man in the garden, she mistakes him for the gardener.
And while modern readers don’t notice anything strange about it…
This is the part in the story were is where our skin should start to tingle and our nipples grow ripe!
If we were of the old world—from a time before single and celibate God took over our spiritual lives…
If we lived and breathed two thousand years ago in the rich and fertile basin of the Mediterranean…
If we grew up surrounded by stories of the Earth Mother and the Goddess of the Land who is ploughed in the spring…
If we were close enough in Time to remember when the King was sacrificed every year so that the land may be renewed…
We might have instantly recognized that single poignant and impossible word:
“GARDENER”
For She—the Goddess of the Land—is the great garden…
… and the gardener is the one who works the land (if you know what I mean).
Together, they bring fertility, life, growth, rebirth, and resurrection each spring.
Here, in the heart of our so-called modern religion, all the old stories play out again in perfect secret symmetry—Inanna, Isis, and all the other ancestors of Mary Magdalene are right there in our psyches, waiting to be acknowledged.
What has now become occult and heretical would once have been plain to See.
The whole world dies in winter… just as Yeshua died on the cross, the King is sacrificed and given over to Death. But in the Spring—on Easter morn—the Goddess arrives to bring Him back to life that they may bring eternal Life back to the world.
Through the centuries, this timeless story of death, rebirth, and the loving consummation of the Great Goddess and the Spring King has remained unaltered.
And in the Biblical version, the role of the Goddess is played by none other than Mary Magdalene!
Wishing you all a blessèd celebration of Mary Magdalene!
May you be raised from the dead…
May your fields be lovingly ploughed…
And may you find solace in the arms of the Beloved.
Me tangere, Dea.
If you are called to explore the Path of the Divine Feminine or to recover the lost Feminine as we move toward a future of Divine Partnership, I invite you to join us tonight…
Exploring the Divine Feminine - Heretic Happy Hour
Tuesday, July 22 @ 5:30pm PDT / 8:30pm EDT / 10:30am AEST (+1 Day)
Since our Heretic Happy Hour this month will be on Mary Magdalene’s feast day, we’ll be exploring the Divine Feminine!
What place does She have in our world in our lives?
What kind of relationship is possible with Godde, the Mother?
Who are we in relation to an All-Loving Mother, as opposed to an All-Powerful God?
Bring your favorite brew for an hour of magical inspiration with kindred souls in a safe-to-be-yourself space. These conversations are not only powerful and thought-provoking, they open new spaces of Magic and possibility for all who participate.
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