Mary Magdelene and her Motha in Law
What I've been up to working through Christianity's Wounds
Happy Tuesday, Loves!
If you're wondering where I've been, I've been exploring my upbringing and faith as a Christian. I was raised as a Pentecostal Christian, and am recently working through the conditioning around Christianity, the Bible, Jesus and Mary (historical, cultural, and religious). This has been a really eye opening, heart opening journey. I feel like so many of us can use it-no matter what other esoteric concepts we do or don't work with.
Mary Magdelene, and the Gospel of Mary have been beautifully eye opening to me. Through her, I’ve learned a lot about censorship, vulnerability, devotion, and intuition. Even Jesus’ disciples in part were not about Mary Magdelene’s specific relationship with Jesus.
Mary the Virgin has also been a deep reflective symbol. I recently learned that while my biological mother and grandmother were alive, Christians and Catholics were being persecuted in Vietnam. A specific group of Christians fled into the jungle, and between illness, infection, starvation, lack of sleep, and wild animals they were prepared to die for their faith out there. Then, a Vietnamese woman holding a baby appeared in light, two angels at her side. The Lady of La Vang was a Marian figure (form of Mary the Mother of Jesus). She taught them over more than one day how to use the plants as medicine, and there was even a cathedral and basilica in her honor built there. Two years ago, a huge statue was erected in her honor about 20mins away from my house.
As we go forward, I’ll probably be coming at things from my current faith (Christianity), though I am not someone who’s done a complete 180 to condemn all things meditation, ancestors, candles for money prayers, etc. A lot of what I’m learning, actually, is the unbearable compassion of allowing all things to be.
My background history with Christianity is…weird. Complicated. Full of pain, trauma, guilt, and abandonment. It is also a long linage of very in touch people energetically, prophets who speak healing. I want to do my job for those like me, who know there’s SOMETHING there in what we came from, but we also know that what we’ve experienced is not A) What God wants or B) What we want.
I've been called to help those who want to do the same. I believe it is not evil to use the gifts that God gave us, and, I also believe that sometimes we need someone who's gone through the journey on both sides to give a helping hand-and a holding hand through what's a very hard thing to do for us spooky and spiritual people. If you come from this background, and have been feeling the call to understand that part of yourself instead of feel guilty, admonish, misunderstand, or bury it deep down, I highly recommend this.
—-** I am not trying to convert anyone. I still honor my ancestors and ancestral veneration-which the Vietnamese Catholic church has approved as "not being contradictory to the teachings of the Church". This is A SAFE SPACE TO EXPLORE your spiritual history, understand its lessons, heal the hurt and find a new way forward.
I love Mary <3