Mary Magdalene has long been known as the Apostle to the Apostles. On the Christo-Hekatean path, I have come to understand her as something more: the Midwife of Souls, guiding us through the mystery of dying before we die.
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- Yesterday I Asked Yeshua a Question
- This Morning’s Reading
- Why Mary Magdalene?
- Hekate-Sophia and the Birthing of Souls
- The Dragon Mysteries
- The Qedeshah
- The Myrrhophore
- The Revealers
- Hidden in Plain Sight
- The Gospel of Mary
- The Tarot Path of Mary Magdalene
- Mary Magdalene and the Christo-Hekatean Path
- Standing at the Threshold
- Midwife of Souls Tarot Spread
Yesterday I Asked Yeshua a Question
Yesterday morning, during my quiet time, I asked Yeshua a question that had been quietly growing in my heart for many months.
“Will you walk this Christo-Hekatean path with me?”
It wasn’t a question I asked lightly.
Over the past few years, my spiritual life has become an ever-deepening dialogue between Esoteric Christianity and the Pagan Mysteries. Rather than pulling me in opposite directions, both have drawn me towards the same living Presence. Yet before taking the next step, I felt I needed to ask the only One whose opinion ultimately mattered.
The answer came as a deep, unmistakable sense of peace. From there, I knew I was ready to ask the same question of Mary Magdalene.
Her answer came through the Mystique of Magdalene Oracle and the astro-dice.
Together, they gave words to something I had been sensing for a long time: Mary Magdalene is not simply another saint or biblical figure in my devotional life.
She is the Midwife of Souls.
Let me explain what I mean.
This Morning’s Reading
The card I drew from the Mystique of Magdalene Oracle could hardly have spoken more directly.
“Meditate on Mary Magdalene and connect with her transcendent field of love. She is there to help you.”
The accompanying astro-dice cast was equally striking:
Venus in Capricorn in the Second House.
Venus speaks of love, beauty, relationship, and the Divine Feminine.
Capricorn is the sign of embodiment, discipline and building something that endures.
The Second House concerns our values, our resources and the way we incarnate those values in everyday life.
Taken together, the message felt unmistakable.
Mary Magdalene was not inviting me to become someone else or adopt another belief system.
She was inviting me to embody Holy Wisdom more fully.
As I sat with the reading, something clicked into place.
For years, I have been exploring the relationship between Yeshua, Mary Magdalene and Hekate. I had explored them historically, symbolically, devotionally and through the Tarot. Yet it wasn’t until this morning that the pattern finally revealed itself.
Within my own Christo-Hekatean theology, I understand Hekate as Holy Sophia, Divine Wisdom and the eternal Creatrix through whom the creative impulse continually flows into manifestation.
If Hekate-Sophia is the Birther of Souls, then Mary Magdalene is her earthly embodiment: the Midwife of Souls.
She accompanies us through the great mystery that Christ himself continually pointed towards: dying before we die so that our true life may begin.
This understanding is not a historical claim, nor is it a doctrine I expect everyone to share.
It is the theological lens through which my own devotional life has gradually unfolded.
It has emerged through years of prayer, study, Tarot practice, contemplation and lived experience. This article is my attempt to weave those threads together for the first time.
Why Mary Magdalene?
Few figures in Christian history have been so profoundly misunderstood as Mary Magdalene.
For centuries, she was portrayed as a repentant prostitute despite there being scant evidence for such a claim. More recently, she has often been reimagined through modern esoteric lenses that sometimes lose sight of the woman we encounter in the Gospels.
My own understanding has been shaped by both scholarship and contemplative practice.
The historical Mary Magdalene matters deeply to me.
So does the mystical Mary Magdalene.
Rather than seeing these as competing narratives, I believe they illuminate one another.
In this article, we’ll explore the historical sources, the Gospel of Mary, her role as the Apostle to the Apostles, her symbolism in the Tarot, her connection with Holy Wisdom, and why I believe she has become one of the most important guides for anyone walking the Christo-Hekatean path today.
Hekate-Sophia and the Birthing of Souls
To explain why I have come to see Mary Magdalene as the Midwife of Souls, I first need to say a little about Hekate.
Most people encounter Hekate as the goddess of crossroads, torches, ghosts and witchcraft. While all of these associations are valid, they barely hint at the depth of her mysteries.
My own understanding has grown slowly over many years through prayer, contemplation and the study of the Chaldean Oracles, Neoplatonic philosophy, the Greek Magical Papyri and other ancient sources. Gradually, I began to recognise Hekate as Holy Sophia: Divine Wisdom herself.
This is not a historical claim, nor do I suggest that the early Christians understood Hekate in this way. It is simply the theological framework through which my Christo-Hekatean practice has unfolded.
Seen through this lens, Hekate is far more than a guide standing at the threshold between worlds. She is the eternal Creatrix through whom the Father’s creative impulse continually flows into manifestation. She is the primordial womb of Divine Wisdom, the hidden matrix from which all true spiritual life is born.
For this reason, I have come to think of Hekate-Sophia as the Birther of Souls.
The Dragon Mysteries
Understanding Hekate in this way also transformed my relationship with her Drakaina aspect.
Modern culture tends to portray dragons as monsters to be feared or fantasy creatures to be admired. Ancient traditions often tell a different story. Dragons guard springs, sacred groves, temples and hidden treasures because they represent powers that cannot be approached casually. They stand at the threshold between ordinary consciousness and the Mysteries.
Within my own theology, the dragons of Hekate-Sophia are neither monsters nor mere guardians. They symbolise the primordial creative currents stirring within the womb of Divine Wisdom before creation unfolds.
The Chaldean Oracles speak of the fiery Iynges, intermediary powers that carry the first movements of Divine Mind into manifestation. Reading these Oracles devotionally, I began to recognise a profound resonance between the Iynges and the dragon mysteries of Hekate Drakaina.
If you’re interested in exploring this tradition more deeply, I’ve written a separate article about the Iynges and Hekate Drakaina.
Mary Magdalene as Qedeshah
One of the most illuminating perspectives I have encountered in recent years comes from the work of Seren Bertrand, who invites us to reconsider the ancient concept of the Qedeshah.
The Hebrew root q-d-sh simply means holy, consecrated or set apart. Unfortunately, the term has often been reduced to the controversial idea of the “sacred prostitute,” a translation that many scholars now question. Whether or not there was ever such a role in ancient Israel remains a matter of scholarly debate.
What captivates me is something much deeper.
The Qedeshah is a woman wholly consecrated to Divine Wisdom. Her authority does not come from religious office, social status or institutional power. Instead, it flows from the depth of her relationship with the sacred and the quality of her presence.
Reading the Gospels through this lens, Mary Magdalene begins to make profound sense.
She remains at the foot of the Cross after many of the disciples have fled. She keeps vigil beside the tomb while hope itself appears to have died. Then, before any of the apostles, she becomes the first witness to the Resurrection and the first person entrusted with proclaiming the Good News.
Each of these moments is remarkable in its own right.
Taken together, they reveal a woman prepared for mystery—a woman capable of remaining fully present while one world dies and another waits to be born.
That, to me, is the calling of the Qedeshah.
The Myrrhophore
The Eastern Church honours Mary Magdalene as a Myrrhophore—a myrrh-bearer.
Personally, I find this title even more evocative than Apostle to the Apostles.
Myrrh was far more than a fragrant resin. It healed wounds, consecrated the holy and prepared the dead for burial. In the ancient world, anointing carried tremendous weight. It was the act by which priests and kings were set apart for sacred office. Without the anointing, the role was not fully recognised, embodied or activated.
This matters because Christ means the Anointed One.
Before the crucifixion, Yeshua is anointed by a woman. Read through a Magdalene lens, this is not a minor devotional detail. It is the moment the High Priestess performs the sacred act that reveals and consecrates him as the male Christ.
The later myrrh-bearing at the tomb echoes this mystery. The woman who anoints before death is also the one who comes to tend the threshold of Resurrection.
If Yeshua is the Logos made flesh, Mary Magdalene is the Hekate-Sophia priestess whose anointing qualifies and reveals him in that role.
The mystery of the male Christ is completed through the anointing of the feminine Christ.
The Revealers
Understanding Mary Magdalene as the feminine Christ transformed the way I read the Incarnation.
If Yeshua is the incarnation of the Logos—the Divine Word made flesh—then Mary Magdalene is the incarnation of Hekate-Sophia, Divine Wisdom made flesh.
Together, they reveal the fullness of the Divine Mystery.
The Logos gives voice to the creative impulse of the Father. Hekate-Sophia conceives, nurtures and brings that impulse to birth. Word and Wisdom are not opposing principles but complementary movements within the same eternal mystery.
For this reason, I have come to think of Yeshua and Mary Magdalene primarily as Revealers.
They reveal what becomes possible when Logos and Sophia are fully embodied in human life. Their vocation is not simply to be admired from a distance but to awaken in us the same divine potential.
The Christo-Hekatean path is therefore far more than a devotion to two extraordinary spiritual figures.
It is an invitation.
Through the example of Yeshua, we learn to embody the Logos. Through the example of Mary Magdalene, we learn to embody Holy Wisdom. As these two currents become united within us, the sacred marriage unfolds in the depths of the soul.
The goal is not to remain followers who look back at the Revealers with reverence.
The goal is to become Revealers ourselves.
In this sense, initiation is not about acquiring secret knowledge or attaining spiritual status.
It is about allowing the Word and Wisdom to become so fully incarnate in our own lives that our thoughts, words and actions reveal the Divine to the world.
Hidden in Plain Sight
If Mary Magdalene truly embodies Divine Wisdom, why has this understanding remained hidden for so long?
For me, the turning point came through studying the history of the New Testament canon around the time of my first Saturn Return. I discovered that the Christianity we have inherited was shaped not only by the teachings of Yeshua but also by centuries of theological debate, imperial politics and the priorities of those in power.
That realisation became the final nail in the coffin of the religious version of Christ.
I hadn’t grown up in a Christian home. My relationship with Yeshua began with a profound conversion experience at the age of seventeen. Realising that the faith I had embraced was, in many ways, inseparable from the political and institutional forces that had shaped it sent me into an unexpected wilderness. If you’re interested in that part of my story, I’ve written more about it in my essay on my Chiron Return and religious trauma over on LisaEddy.co.uk.
For many years afterwards, my relationship with Yeshua became an on-again, off-again affair as I struggled to separate the living Logos from the institutional Christianity that had grown up around him.
Everything changed again when I encountered the Gospel of Thomas, the Gospel of Philip and, above all, the Gospel of Mary. Multiple readings of these texts gradually rewrote the story I thought I knew. Familiar stories suddenly revealed an altogether different picture of Mary Magdalene and her place within the Christ Mystery.
It was there that Mary Magdalene stepped out of the margins.
Not as a forgotten disciple waiting to be rescued by modern scholarship, but as the Revealer she had always been.
The Gospel of Mary
If the canonical Gospels reveal Mary Magdalene as the faithful witness, the Gospel of Mary reveals another dimension of her vocation. Here she emerges as teacher, visionary and Revealer, strengthening the disciples after Christ’s departure and reminding them of what he had already taught.
That is precisely what a midwife does.
A midwife does not create new life. She helps bring it safely into the world. In the same way, Mary does not replace Yeshua or ask the disciples to follow her instead. She simply encourages them to trust the Divine Wisdom already stirring within them.
Not everyone welcomes her voice. Peter questions her authority, while Levi defends her, exposing two very different understandings of spiritual leadership: one rooted in hierarchy, the other in direct spiritual experience.
For me, this is the enduring gift of the Gospel of Mary. It reminds us that true authority is recognised not by rank or office, but by the life it awakens in others.
That is the work of a Revealer.
And that is why Mary Magdalene remains the Midwife of Souls on the Christo-Hekatean path.
Mary Magdalene in the Tarot
For many Tarot readers, Mary Magdalene is naturally associated with the High Priestess. I understand why. She is the guardian of hidden wisdom, the contemplative disciple and the keeper of mysteries.
Yet the more I have prayed with Mary Magdalene, the more convinced I have become that she cannot be contained within a single archetype.
She is not simply the High Priestess.
She is the journey.
If you’d like to explore her relationship with the Tarot de Marseille in greater depth, I’ve written a dedicated article about why Mary Magdalene is linked to the Tarot de Marseille. Here, I’d like to focus on the archetypes that have become most significant on my own Christo-Hekatean path.
The High Priestess — Water
Every journey begins in silence.
The High Priestess invites us beneath the surface of appearances into the hidden wellspring of Divine Wisdom. Like Mary Magdalene, she teaches that revelation is received before it is proclaimed. Her wisdom is contemplative, intuitive and deeply receptive.
The Empress — Venus
The feminine Christ is not passive.
Like the Empress, Mary Magdalene embodies Divine Love in its creative, life-giving form. Venus is not merely the planet of romance but the force that draws creation towards beauty, relationship and incarnation. Through the Empress, Mary reminds us that Wisdom longs to become embodied. Here she teaches us the sacred art of romancing life itself.
Strength — Fire
Standing at the Cross required a courage few others possessed.
Strength is not domination but steadfast love in the presence of suffering. Mary Magdalene teaches us that true spiritual power is revealed not through force but through the willingness to remain present when everything else is falling apart.
Justice — Air
As a Revealer, Mary continually calls us back to truth.
Justice asks us to discern wisely, to separate inherited beliefs from living experience and to align ourselves with what is true rather than what is merely familiar. It is the card of right relationship, clear perception and spiritual integrity.
The World — All Four Elements
Ultimately, Mary Magdalene cannot be contained within a single archetype because she embodies them all.
The World represents completion, integration and wholeness. Earth, Water, Air and Fire are no longer experienced as separate forces but as a single harmonious reality. In the same way, Mary Magdalene reveals what becomes possible when the Logos and Hekate-Sophia are fully embodied.
Seen together, these five archetypes trace the path of initiation itself.
It begins in contemplation, where Wisdom is received in silence. Love then seeks embodiment, courage carries us through transformation, and truth continually refines our understanding. Ultimately, the soul awakens to the wholeness it has been seeking all along.
That, to me, is the Tarot path of Mary Magdalene.
Mary Magdalene and the Christo-Hekatean Path
The more I have come to know Mary Magdalene, the less I see her as a figure confined to the pages of history. She has become a living companion on the Christo-Hekatean path.
This path does not ask us to choose between Christianity and the Pagan Mysteries, faith and reason, contemplation and action, or the masculine and the feminine. Instead, it invites us to hold these creative tensions until a deeper unity begins to emerge.
Walking with Mary Magdalene has taught me that initiation is not about acquiring hidden knowledge or claiming spiritual status. It is about learning to embody Divine Wisdom in the ordinary moments of daily life. Every act of courage, every moment of honest self-examination, every choice to respond with love rather than fear becomes part of the Great Work.
For me, that is the true meaning of becoming a Christ.
Not a figure to be worshipped, but a life so thoroughly anointed by Logos and Sophia that it begins to reveal the Divine in the world.
Mary Magdalene shows us that this is not an impossible ideal reserved for a chosen few. It is the vocation of every soul willing to die before it dies, to be born again into a life shaped by Wisdom, and ultimately to become a Revealer in its own right.
Perhaps that is why my own Christo-Hekatean initiation begins and ends on Mary Magdalene’s Feast Day.
Every path has to begin somewhere.
For me, it begins with the woman who never asked anyone to follow her, yet never ceased pointing others towards the Divine Mystery waiting to be born within them.
Standing at the Threshold
If you’ve read this far, you may already have realised that this is not simply an article about Mary Magdalene.
It is an invitation to reconsider the nature of spiritual initiation itself.
For me, Mary Magdalene is no longer only a historical figure, a misunderstood saint or even the feminine Christ. She has become a living companion on the Christo-Hekatean path, continually pointing beyond herself towards the mystery of Divine Wisdom waiting to be embodied.
That is why I began this article by sharing my conversation with Yeshua and Mary Magdalene. I wasn’t asking for permission to found a new religion or revive an ancient mystery cult. I was asking whether I was ready to walk a path that had been quietly unfolding beneath my feet for many years.
The answer I received was disarmingly simple.
Walk.
Not because every question has been answered or every theological tension resolved. Quite the opposite. The path itself continues to reveal what needs to be known, one faithful step at a time.
That, perhaps, is the greatest lesson Mary Magdalene has taught me. A Revealer does not hand us certainty. A Revealer invites us into mystery, trusting that Wisdom will continue to unfold as we walk.
The Tarot has long been one of the ways I listen for that next step. The spread below is therefore not designed to tell you who Mary Magdalene was, but to help you discern how the Midwife of Souls may already be at work within your own life.
Approach the cards prayerfully. Listen with an open heart. Then trust whatever begins to unfold.
Midwife of Souls Tarot Spread
The Midwife of Souls Tarot Spread is designed to help you discern where you are on your own initiatory journey. Inspired by Mary Magdalene’s role as Midwife of Souls and the fivefold Tarot path explored in this article, it mirrors both the Five Wounds of Christ and the sacred geometry of the Venus Rose.
Rather than predicting future events, this spread invites you into deeper relationship with the mystery of Divine Wisdom as it unfolds within your own life. Take a few moments to quiet your mind, light a candle if you wish, and invite Yeshua and Mary Magdalene to guide your reading before shuffling the cards.
1. The High Priestess — Water
What hidden wisdom is asking to be received?
Every journey begins with listening. This card reveals the insight, intuition or invitation that is quietly waiting beneath the surface of everyday awareness.
2. The Empress — Venus
How can I embody Divine Love more fully?
Here we move from contemplation into incarnation. This position shows how Wisdom longs to take flesh through your relationships, creativity, values and daily life. It invites you to practise the sacred art of romancing life itself.
3. Strength — Fire
Where am I being called to remain present in love?
Initiation always asks something of us. Rather than seeking escape or control, this card reveals where courageous, steadfast love is required. Like Mary Magdalene at the foot of the Cross, it reminds us that transformation begins by remaining fully present.
4. Justice — Air
What truth is waiting to be revealed?
Justice clears away illusion and restores right relationship. This position reveals the truth that is seeking expression in your life and invites you to align yourself with Wisdom rather than fear.
5. The World — Earth & Spirit
How am I being invited to become a Revealer?
The final card brings the journey full circle. It reveals how the Logos and Hekate-Sophia are seeking to become more fully embodied through you, so that your own life may quietly reveal the Divine to the world.
Walking the Path
Don’t rush to interpret the cards in isolation. Spend time noticing how they speak to one another. Where does the journey seem to flow easily? Where does it hesitate? Which position feels most alive, and which one asks for your deepest attention?
Above all, remember that this spread is not asking you to become someone else.
It is inviting you to become more fully yourself.
The Christo-Hekatean path is not about acquiring secret knowledge or reaching spiritual perfection. It is about walking faithfully with Logos and Hekate-Sophia until Divine Wisdom is no longer merely something you seek, but something you embody.
That, ultimately, is the work of every Revealer. 🌹
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