Story with the Magdalene
My encounter with Her, The Magdalene ...
About 13 years ago, I felt the energy of the Magdalene literally surrounding me, infusing my whole being. It was so palpable, almost physical. It happened in Her magical forest in Sainte Baume, here in the South of France, not very far away from my home, where I have been living most of my life.
Before that encounter I regularly went to Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, a former fishers' village located on the shore of Camargue in the South of France. It was actually the place where Mary Magdalene landed with Mary Jacobe and Mary Salome after their flight from Palestine. The 3 Maries escaped persecution to which they were subject in the Holy Land and were therefore forced into exile. They were sent away on a makeshift raft that drifted across the Mediterranean. It eventually ran aground on the shore of Camargue at a place which has later been called Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, The Holy Maries of the Sea.
Mary Magdalene is said to have left Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer and to have retired in caves in the forest and mountains of Sainte Baume.
I have always felt her energy in the wonderful village in Camargue whenever I came to visit alone and with my son during several years. One day, I heard the call to stop half way from home and Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer and stay in Sainte Baume before continuing towards my planned destination. I followed the call and stayed overnight in a place called “La Maison de Marie Madeleine”, The House of Mary Magdalene, which no longer exists as such. During that night I had a waking dream about a former life where I had been sacrificed as a priestess. The man who ran the place I was staying told me that he had been a guardian of the Magdalene's Cave for many years. The next morning I recognised him as the cloaked priest ordering me to be sacrificed on the altar … It shook me to the core, to my bones and I intuitively knew that I had to go right into the Magdalene's forest to calm down, breathe and digest the whole experience.
Her energy was so welcoming and guiding me deeper into Her queendom and into one of Her caves. However, it was in the forest where I felt her presence most intensely and where She asked me to connect again with that past life once time would be ripe. So, I trusted Her and so did, but this is another story.
I have been visiting Her for all these years, alone, accompanied by close friends, family, women, whenever and as She asked me to do. The more I entered Her Cave, the official cave, I felt that there was another place, another cave and I asked for Her guidance. And then did I discover the cave I had been looking for, a wonderful Yoni-shaped Earth Cave in honour and celebration of the Mother Herself who therein initiated and blessed the Magdalene. That's what the Magdalene showed me and She has been asking me for quite some time now to accompany women back to their true roots, the Roots of our beloved Mother, through Her, the Magdalene's guidance, to be reinitiated and reborn again as the Daughters of the Mother. She also made it very clear to me that it's deeply and sincerely needed for the feminine to be fully embodied again in her wholeness and holiness.
I have encountered and continue being in touch with a Magdalene profoundly rooted in the Mother and deeply connected to the feminine mysteries through Her own womb, heart and soul.
And so, I have finally answered Her call and listened to the Mother. To both, I deeply bow.
