#Meggan Watterson

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Mary Magdalene Revealed, Meggan Watterson

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“The first form is darkness; the second is desire; the third is ignorance; the fourth is zeal for death; the fifth is the realm of the flesh; the sixth is the foolish wisdom of the flesh; the seventh is is the wisdom of the wrathful person. These are the seven powers of wrath.”

- Mary 9:18 - 25, The gospel of Mary Magdalene

The “powers” “sins” or “demons of the ego. Meggan Watterson, Author of “Mary Magdalene revealed” believes these are the seven demons that Jesus expelled from Mary, referred to in Luke 8:2.

Mary’s Gospel is an ascent narrative as it describes the path navigated to liberate the soul during life. Mary is regarded as the first apostle because she followed in Jesus’s footsteps and witnessed his death and resurrection. The Gospel reveals the wisdom that Christ gave only Mary, and features her telling the Disciples what they spoke of.

The powers are the states we humans embody through life, that keep us stuck, and separated from God. They are regarded as sins only by their nature of adultery. I interpret this as betraying God. They are what makes us human. Christ was both equal parts human and divine, he went on this journey to ascend, and shared his wisdom with Mary.

Then Peter said to him, “You have been explaining every topic to us, tell us one thing. What is the sin of the world?” The Saviour replied “There is no such thing as sin; rather you yourselves are what produces sin when you act in accordance with the nature of adultery, which is called ‘sin’. For this reason, the Good came among you, persuing (the Good) which belongs to every nature.”

- Mary 3:1 - 5

Radical, huh? No wonder this gospel was hidden underground for safety, and not considered canon. Discovered in Egypt in the late 1896, written in Coptic and said to have been written in the second century, before the bible was complied in the third century. There are three known copies found. It’s a gnostic text and is part of the Berlin Codex.

Meet the Demons: a deep dive

When someone says they’re “facing their demons” these are what I think of. If it’s our humanness that makes us sin, then are we inherently sinful? I’m not sure I agree with that. We’re humans, that isn’t wrong or shameful. This is what the Gospel is telling us. These “demons” are parts of our identity we shed when we become more like Jesus. It’s not a infinite state we’re always in. We’re not God. We return to ourselves every time we return to God. We become more like Christ when we return to God. Our Salvation is within us all along.

Learning about these powers made me feel seen, humble and grateful to not be alone. This perspective allows me to see my behaviour and allows me to confess and forgive and pray. I’m less likely to judge others, and it gives me hope on my journey of faith.

Darkness

- hopeless, lack of faith, despair, depression, heaviness, trapped, stuck, loneliness

Desire

- clinging, craving, attachment, not accepting what you have and how things are, wishing for things to be different, greed, insecurity, lack

Ignorance

- lack of awareness, voluntary ignoring, small mindedness, unconscious state we fall into and act from. not indicating to the deficient of character or intelligence, ignorance can save us (only handle so much at once, freeze response, disassociation- not moral failing)

Zeal/Craving for Death

- not necessarily suicide, but gluttony. Making choices that neglect and endanger the health of others or ourselves. Extremes of pleasure that harm body. Destruction and hurt to ourselves. Soul is forgotten.

Realm of Flesh

- enslavement to physical body, when we fully identify with body and forget we are more than that, a soul, not just a physical body with needs. Relates to lust and greed when we put our temporary gratification over someone else’s. Forcing physical needs on someone who dost not consent.

Foolish wisdom of Flesh/False peace of flesh

- sloth. Patterns of inaction, lead to not wanting to do anything. Procrastination, fear, reluctance to Change, stagnation, would rather suffer than accept the reality and make a change.

Wisdom of Wrathful Person

- anger is healing, responsibility to not hurt others with it. Not see others as worthy of disrespect, worthy of harm and pain.

Isn’t the power that is harmful, but the presence of the power and absence of the soul.

I live my life based on the Bible, The Gospel of Thomas, Philip and Mary, and the Love Ethic described in bell hooks book ‘all about love’

God Bless <33

[thesacredself]

Got myself a little treat!! So excited to use them 🥰🥰🥹🥹

[jheanelashlee]

“Justice is what love looks like in public”

[dijidweeeb]

Because according to Mary's gospel, we will find "the child of true humanity" if we search for it "within." We don't have to compromise, ever, and settle for an "almost" version of who we are. We do not have to conform to some external truth, some version of what someone else is telling us is better, or more right, more holy, more human. We don't have to fit in. Isn't that the most blessed thing we could ever be told, or could ever remember? We don't have to fit in. We don't have to contort who we are in order to fit a mold that was never ment for us.

-Meggan Watterson, Mary Magdoline Revealed

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🤍Top book recommendations for folk Catholics🤍

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~The book of ancestors, by Claire Goodchild

~Honoring Your Ancestors: A Guide to Ancestral Veneration, by Mallorie Vaudoise

~Sister Karol's Book of Spells, Blessings & Folk Magic, by Sister Karol Jackowski

~The Way of the Rose: The Radical Path of the Divine Feminine Hidden in the Rosary, by Clark Strand and Perdita Finn

~The Magical Power of the Saints: Evocation and Candle Rituals, by Rev Ray T. Malbrough

~The Gospel of Mary Magdalene

~The Gospel of Thomas

~Mary Magdalene Revealed, by  Meggan Watterson

~Jesus Through Pagan Eyes: Bridging Neopagan Perspectives with a Progressive Vision of Christ, by Rev Mark Townsend

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Another year, another 110 books read! I don’t love organizing books by genre because I feel like so many of the books I read are a mix of fantasy/horror/queer romance/mystery/etc, but I like to see how it all falls into place. I had started 2022 with the goal of reading more poetry but otherwise had no specific goal except to read whatever I wanted. There were some disappointments, some books I have been meaning to read forever, some new favorites, and some comfortable rereads of old favorites. Overall, a good year!

List of books read + my ratings under the cut

Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Males of the Gay World, 1890-1940 by George Chauncey ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner ⭐️⭐️⭐️

No Voyage and Other Poems by Mary Oliver ⭐️⭐️⭐️

The River Styx, Ohio by Mary Oliver ⭐️⭐️⭐️

All’s Well by Mona Awad ⭐️⭐️⭐️

You’ll be the Death of Me by Karen M. McManus ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Summer Sons by Lee Mandelo ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Twelve Moons by Mary Oliver ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones ⭐️⭐️

American Primitive by Mary Oliver ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Dream Work by Mary Oliver ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

House of Light by Mary Oliver ⭐️⭐️⭐️

New and Selected Poems: Volume One by Mary Oliver ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

White Pine by Mary Oliver ⭐️⭐️⭐️

West Wind by Mary Oliver ⭐️⭐️⭐️

The Leaf and the Cloud by Mary Oliver ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

What Do We Know? by Mary Oliver ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Owls and Other Fantasies by Mary Oliver ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Long Life by Mary Oliver ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Why I Wake Early by Mary Oliver ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Boyfriend Material by Alexis Hall ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Conventionally Yours by Annabeth Albert ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Dune by Frank Herbert ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Blue Iris by Mary Oliver ⭐️⭐️⭐️

New and Selected Poems: Volume Two by Mary Oliver ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Thirst by Mary Oliver ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

These Violent Delights by Micah Nemerever ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Red Bird by Mary Oliver ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Out of Character by Annabeth Albert ⭐️⭐️

The Truro Bear and Other Adventures by Mary Oliver ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Evidence by Mary Oliver ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

I Kissed Shara Wheeler by Casey McQuiston ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Then She Was Gone by Lisa Jewell ⭐️⭐️

The Woman They Could Not Silence by Kate Moore ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

The Charm Offensive by Alison Cochrun ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Swan by Mary Oliver ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

A Thousand Mornings by Mary Oliver ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Dog Songs by Mary Oliver ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Blue Horses by Mary Oliver ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Felicity by Mary Oliver ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

The Woman Beyond the Attic: The V.C. Andrews Story by Andrew Neiderman ⭐️⭐️⭐️

So It Goes by Isis Molina ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Slippery Creatures by K.J. Charles ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

The Sugared Game by K.J. Charles ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Subtle Blood by K.J. Charles ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

To Trust Man on His Oath by K.J. Charles ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

How Goes the World by K.J. Charles ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Band Sinister by K.J. Charles ⭐️⭐️⭐️

The Gentle Art of Fortune Hunting by K.J. Charles ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Mary Magdalene Revealed by Meggan Watterson ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Le Petomane 1857-1945 by Jean Nohain and F. Caradee ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Carry On by Rainbow Rowell ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Wayward Son by Rainbow Rowell ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Any Way the Wind Blows by Rainbow Rowell ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell ⭐️⭐️

Magdalene: Poems by Marie Howe ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Love, Hate, & Clickbait by Liz Bowery ⭐️⭐️⭐️

All Eyes on Us by Kit Frick ⭐️⭐️⭐️

The Song That Moves the Sun by Anna Bright ⭐️⭐️⭐️

The House Across the Lake by Riley Sager ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Michelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling by Ross King ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

The Family Remains by Lisa Jewell ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

The Secret Wisdom of Nature by Peter Wohllben ⭐️⭐️⭐️

The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley ⭐️⭐️

Hell Followed with Us by Andrew Joseph White ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Cult Classic by Sloane Crosley ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Lock Every Door by Riley Sager ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Every Other Weekend by Abigail Johnson ⭐️⭐️⭐️

You Only Die Twice by Brynn Kelly ⭐️⭐️⭐️

The Nineties by Chuck Klosterman ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

The Snakehead by Patrick Radden Keefe ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

The Dead Romantics by Ashley Poston ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Cultish by Amanda Montell ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

The Dream Thieves by Maggie Stiefvater ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Blue Lily, Lily Blue by Maggie Stiefvater ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

The Raven King by Maggie Stiefvater ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Opal by Maggie Stiefvater ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Call Down the Hawk by Maggie Stiefvater ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Mister Impossible by Maggie Stiefvater ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Greywaren by Maggie Stiefvater ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

The Feeling of Falling in Love by Mason Deaver ⭐️⭐️

Nothing More to Tell by Karen M. McManus ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Daisy Darker by Alice Feeney ⭐️⭐️⭐️

The Heroine with 1001 Faces by Maria Tatar ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Red White and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Just Like Home by Sarah Gailey ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Dracula by Bram Stoker ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Boyfriend Material by Alexis Hall ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Husband Material by Alexis Hall ⭐️⭐️⭐️

What If It’s Us by Becky Albertalli ⭐️⭐️

Here’s to Us by Becky Albertalli ⭐️⭐️

JELL-O Girls: A Family History by Allie Rowbottom ⭐️⭐️

My Policeman by Bethan Roberts ⭐️⭐️

Love in the Time of Serial Killers by Alicia Thompson ⭐️⭐️

Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth ⭐️⭐️⭐️

The Wicker King by K. Antrum ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

The Monster of Elendhaven by Jennifer Giesbrecht ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Cremains of the Day by Misty Simon ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Icebreaker by A. L. Graziadei ⭐️⭐️

Skin Deep by Sung J. Woo ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

The Foxhole Court by Nora Sakavic ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

The Raven King by Nora Sakavic ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

The King’s Men by Nora Sakavic ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng ⭐️⭐️⭐️

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“If this is all you read, if you put down this book at the end of this sentence, know that this is the most important message of Mary’s gospel: we are inherently good. Now, if you’re still with me, that goodness can never be lost. We can feel lost to it. But it is woven into the fabric of who we are; it’s our nature. Goodness. And the word that for me describes this experience, of knowing this inherent goodness, is soul. The word soul to me describes that eternal aspect of our being; an aspect that allows us to feel loved, and to experience that we are love. And that our humanity is not intrinsically sinful, or shameful. This human body is the soul’s chance to be here.” ― Meggan Watterson, Mary Magdalene Revealed: The First Apostle, Her Feminist Gospel & the Christianity We Haven't Tried Yet

FAIRYTALE by Karádi Zita

[the-book-raven]

Mary Magdalene Revealed by Meggan Watterson was a game-changer for me. Growing up in a conservative evangelical environment, my understanding of Mary Magdalene was limited to a fallen woman redeemed by Jesus. I never questioned this narrative, but Watterson's book challenged everything I thought I knew.

She delves into the Gnostic Gospels, particularly the Gospel of Mary, to paint a picture of Mary as a powerful spiritual leader and close confidante of Jesus. This Mary is not the submissive, repentant figure I was taught about, but a bold and insightful woman who questions the established religious order.

Watterson's writing style is accessible and thought-provoking. She weaves together historical context, theological analysis, and personal reflection to create a compelling narrative. Her insights into the patriarchal structures of Christianity and the suppression of feminine spirituality resonated deeply with me as I was navigating my own deconstruction from evangelicalism.

This book not only challenged my understanding of Mary Magdalene but also forced me to re-examine my views on women in general. I began to see the ways in which women have been marginalized and silenced throughout history, both within and outside the church. Watterson's work inspired me to become an advocate for gender equality and to challenge harmful stereotypes about women.

If you're open to a fresh perspective on Mary Magdalene and the role of women in Christianity, I highly recommend this book. It may challenge your beliefs, but it will also open your eyes to a more inclusive and empowering vision of faith.

Authors Website:

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#Writings: Can you see above yourself? 

“I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky; then I awoke. Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man?” - Chuang Tzu. 

During a Jungian therapy session years ago in London, my then-therapist had a vision of me as the Magician in Tarot. An important symbolism of this card is the Magician pointing one finger up towards the sky (higher/heavenly realms) and another down towards the ground (earthly/chthonic realms). The magician is the ultimate ‘manifestor’: as above, so below. Second in the deck, but numbered at one, the magician represents the ability to channel and convert mental energy, such as one’s deepest desires, into physical reality - which the Fool, first in the deck but unmaterialised at zero, cannot. However, my therapist asserted that, in my case, I had one finger pointing upwards and another pointing towards myself. Like a lightening rod, I was electrocuting myself. 

The Magician reversed has often been interpreted as suppressed or unfocused energy. Upright he is a shaman, reversed he is schizophrenic. I myself started Jungian therapy after experiencing a psychotic episode. It was only until recently, that despite her best intentions, I realised my former therapist had it wrong. There were no fingers pointing upwards; I was pointing one towards myself and the other down towards the ground. I was surviving by ‘rehashing’ and ‘recycling’ polluted water, ruminating over the “shit” (manure) in the soil. So, while it appeared I was up in the clouds as nothing was really materialising, I was actually ‘stuck in the drudge’ of modern-day living. 

I sometimes use the Labyrinthos App for daily tarot readings, and in the past few months, the eight of swords has been a reoccurring card. Pictured here is a butterfly trapped on all four sides. The creator Tina Gong writes, “the butterfly is not caged [by the swords] since it can fly upwards, but it may not be able to see above itself”. To see above oneself requires an opening up or a surrendering to a higher power.If you watched Disney films growing up, you will know that higher powers, i.e. the fairy godmother in Cinderella, come to the rescue and get the main characters out of their dire predicaments. Now, before a butterfly’s metamorphosis, it is a caterpillar with no wings. There has to be a surrender to stillness (the cocoon), followed by a rebirth, for it to obtain the wings needed to fly and reach a higher plane of existence.No plastic surgeon can attach these ‘wings’ to the butterfly or to you, because they are found and grown inside the heart. To quote theologian Meggan Watterson, “If I could start again, I would know that the only cathedral I’ve ever needed to find, to enter, to return to again and again, is this humble red hermitage [the heart].”

The higher powers, planes or realms of existence are within oneself - trying to get out(-side) in all cardinal directions of the imprisoned labyrinth doesn’t work. I really struggled with making this connection, because I felt that if I was not doing something to try to get out ‘out there’, I was going to be stuck with the concurrent pain and injustice. Again, in Disney films, Cinderella, Aurora, and Prince Phillip are all on their ‘knees’ when they finally receive divine help. Thus, returning to the Magician, pointing a finger upwards meansaccepting and surrendering to one’s humility to finally see above oneself (and gain wings). As the great Sufi poet Rumi says, there is hidden mercy in suffering. 

Yoga practitioner Stacey Ramsower describes that “in the beloved Hindu text, The Bhagavad Gita, there being no greater freedom than stripping away the layers and surrendering all to a divine, timeless, imperishable force (Brahman). Surrendering is a crucial component of yoga practice, called isvara pranidhana.” Descriptions in other religious and mythical texts, such as the Biblical Dance of the Seven Veils or Goddess Inanna’s descent through the seven gates of the Mesopotamian underworld, are akin to isvara pranidhana. A naked ‘stripping’ to a state of truth, the unveiling of the ‘Divine’. Philosopher Plato talks of this in his Analogy of the Divided Line: there is knowledge known to humans and knowledge intelligible beyond the line, where ‘forms’ and the ‘Gods’ reside. It is through ritual practices of isvara pranidhanathat one crosses the divided line. Ramsower argues again, “we can renounce the world, restrain the mind from the senses, fulfill our daily duty, but, until we give it all up to that benevolent, supreme force, we will still suffer a cyclical existence of believing we are in control.” 

The Sanskrit word Prapatti (प्रपत्ति) refers to ‘throwing oneself down’ (see, Sleeping Beauty after she pricks her finger on the spinning wheel). This surrender, prapatti, leads to an embodied state of buoyancy, reverence, and awe of the present infinite moment. Another Yoga Practitioner, Sandra Anderson, agrees that “authentic spiritual practice brings us to a radical shift in how we see the world — a rebirth as religions call it. For most, it’s an ongoing reworking and revision of actions and beliefs until, like the Ancients, we see the world as enchanted. Yoga is the map for this evolution, but we are in danger of forgetting that as we focus on hot yoga, water yoga, this yoga and that yoga.” Her first point touches on what I mentioned previously: for a butterfly to be reborn and get its wings, there must be stillness (the cocoon) through ongoing yogic ‘works in progress’ of isvara pranidhana. Her last point hones in on the modern Western World’s colonisation and misappropriation of Hindu traditions. Note, yoga literally translates to yoke or union with a higher power, plane, energy, you get the point. This is something Philosopher and Neuroscientist, Sam Harris - a controversial figure in his own right - speaks of in his meditation App, Waking Up: 

“Many begin meditation for the purpose of solving a problem in their lives. Embraced as a tool, meditation becomes a trap and another way of staying ‘asleep’. Your very effortsto improve your lived experience through meditation are what prevent you from recognising the depth and beauty of the ordinary moments. To seek happiness is to overlook it now. It is as if each of us is dreaming that we are in a prison, but we don’t know that we are dreaming, and how much our thoughts are structuring the bars of this prison. The advice for practicing meditation often gets assimilated by the logic of the dream itself - some say to saw the cell bars in the morning when the guards are asleep, while others offer blueprints of the prison to dig a tunnel. So many people spend their lives struggling to escape from the dream prison rather than simply waking up. When you learn to mediate, you begin to realise you didn’t have the problem you thought you had and life becomes a far more interesting game. Like, have you noticed that you never quite arrive?”. 

[herbaklava]

“If I could start again, I would install an altar within me. I would place the most sacred object inside it: my own heart. If I could start again, I would know that the only cathedral I’ve ever needed to find, to enter, to return to again and again, is this humble red hermitage, this mystical space that holds all the answers. I would begin again inside my heart. And I would live this way. Speaking from it.”

- Meggan Watterson, Mary Magdalene Revealed

[cleliacleliadatura]

“Never forget that once upon a time, in an unguarded moment, you recognized yourself as your friend.” ― Meggan Watterson, Mary Magdalene Revealed: The First Apostle, Her Feminist Gospel & the Christianity We Haven't Tried Yet

“The mothers who remind us, no matter who we are, that our first country was a woman’s body, and our first element was water, and that our first reality was darkness.” ― Meggan Watterson, Mary Magdalene Revealed: The First Apostle, Her Feminist Gospel & the Christianity We Haven't Tried Yet

“And we’ll remember that an angel is simply a thought that lifts us up from out of ourselves, from out of those cages the ego would prefer for us to remain within.” ― Meggan Watterson, Mary Magdalene Revealed: The First Apostle, Her Feminist Gospel & the Christianity We Haven't Tried Yet

“Angels are the thoughts, the memory, the sensation of love. They are whatever comes and shifts us from being lost within ourselves, to seeing again, not with the ego, but with the eye of the heart.” ― Meggan Watterson, Mary Magdalene Revealed: The First Apostle, Her Feminist Gospel & the Christianity We Haven't Tried Yet

“You remember too much, my mother said to me recently. Why hold onto all that? And I said, Where can I put it down?”

― Anne Carson, Glass, Irony and God

[falangesdovento]

"Onde se origina a raiva?

Primeiro foi quando o seu melhor amigo foi embora. Aquele que se lembrava de você. Aquele por quem você se apaixonou. Aquele em quem confiava mais do que em si.

Não, não foi onde começou.

Não a primeira traição é toda vez que você permanece em silêncio quanto ao que ouve no próprio coração. Essa é a decepção mais primal, essa inabilidade ou indisponibilidade para confiar no que ouve dentro de si, nessa voz que não tem uma voz sem você.

Ninguém do lado de fora de você deveria receber o poder de lhe dar um nome. Você carrega o peso de saber quem é. Essa é sua responsabilidade e honra. O tempo para quando você sabe quem é e se autodenomina. O momento presente volta ao passado e cura, agora, aquilo que o machucou lá atrás.

Não existe tempo no amor. Existe apenas intenção. Há apenas a promessa de redenção. Quando nós deixamos esse amor chegar aonde ele nunca esteve antes, aonde estamos machucados. É quando nós reivindicamos o que sempre foi nosso.

Somos dotados dessa presença do amor em nosso interior, e a primeira e a última traição é o momento em que paramos de escutar. É o momento em que perdemos nossa fé nessa presença que prova que somos mais do que apenas os nossos equívocos, somos mais do que apenas humanos".

Meggan Watterson em "Maria Madalena Revelada" (p. 184).

[didanawisgi]

“Marguerite Porete is the essence of divine love and the truth that all we are is love. Marguerite was a French Beguine born in the mid-13th century.. She wrote a spiritual masterpiece titled The Mirror of Simple Souls. It reveals the spiritual process she went through to be transformed by divine love.Marguerite was arrested as a relapsed heretic and a Free Spirit. The Catholic Church conducted an unprecedented trial to decide her fate. Like Joan of Arc, much of her life is recorded because of the transcripts of her lengthy trial. She maintained her truth that the soul has no other will but God’s, and that when the soul is united with God’s love this state of union causes the soul to transcend the contradictions of this world. She suggests that we can be transformed by divine love into love itself, which isn’t separate from God. And that ultimately no outside source is needed in this transformation. It’s between the soul and God alone. Marguerite was burned at the stake in 1310 along with her book The Mirror of Simple Souls. It continued to gain in popularity but was distributed as an anonymous text, until 1946, when Romana Guarnieri identified Latin manuscripts of the Mirror in the Vatican. Marguerite’s name returned to the text when it was published for the first time in 1965. Marguerite is a courageous truth teller. And the truth of her experience is that love alone can free us. Not the love another might give us, not the love of family, or of friends. All of this is powerful, and significant. But, the true source of love for us is in the fact that we are a soul, and that the soul is in union with the divine. She reminds us when we’ve forgotten that love is the essence of who we are. And that true love is found within. Marguerite says, “Love has no beginning, no end, and no limit, and I am nothing except Love.” This is a time to own and to know this truth more fully. It is the most profound and radical act we can ever take: knowing the love we already are.”  

Excerpted from "The Divine Feminine Oracle" by Meggan Watterson; Art and illustration by Lisbeth Cheever-Gessaman"Marguerite Porete" Mixed Media 2019

[rebeccagoesblogging]

Lurk mode deactivated by @phantomspren !

Last song: Hell Together by David Archuleta or something from Steven Universe.

Favorite color: Yellow

Currently Watching/Reading:

Once Upon an Eid edited by S. K. Ali and Aisha Saeed

The Hands of the Emperor by Victoria Goddard

Mary Magdalene Revealed: The First Apostle, Her Feminist Gospel & the Christianity We Haven't Tried Yet by Meggan Watterson

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

Brooklyn Nine-Nine (rewatch)

Relationship status: Married with children.

Sweet/savory/spicy: Sweet always. Savory usually also yum. Spicy, not too much but a little is nice. In summary, yes.

Current obsessions: Tarot. Becky Chambers' books.

Last thing you googled: instant pot garlic mashed potatoes. I have an amazing recipe for crock pot rosemary garlic mashed potatoes, but it takes 3-4 hours minimum cook time, and I'm not getting home until about 3 hours before I need the mashed potatoes. So I'm looking for a good recipe that doesn't take so long.

Tagging @photonmike and @bethanyactually if you feel like doing it!

Lurk mode reactivating in 3... 2... 1...

Thanks, @profoundidiot :D

Last song: Sinners by Barns Courtney

Favorite color: Blue

Currently watching/reading: The Sandman show, The Wake (Sandman comics), and Skyward Flight by Brandon Sanderson

Sweet/savory/spicy: I'm not usually down for spicy, but I love both sweet and savory things equally. Just depends on my mood.

Relationship status: In a committed relationship with The Owl House. (Over three years! :p)

Current obsessions: The Sandman, Good Omens, The Locked Tomb, and The Owl House. (Currently absolutely distraught over the ending of The Kindly Ones.)

Last thing you googled: Can rabies be sexually transmitted? (The answer is theoretically yes.)

No pressure tag: @adeetaprime @conniedensazation @chilikit @eleilinnrallin @fancybac0n @gildedcryptid @knightofiron17 @ketchupstrain @questioning-blob-of-fog @rosaeldi @rebeccagoesblogging @taketwoinink @zell-ion

(I know so many people! This is a wonderful revelation!)

[mysticsandmatter]

You will have to find the journey, pilgrimage, or spiritual practice that will forge a meeting with the soul-voice inside you. You will have to go through your own discernment process to distinguish the voice of fear from the voice of love.

Meggan Watterson ♥️