The Magdalene Journal · Issue No. 1 · July 2026

The Month of Soul Remembrance

A Monthly Publication of The Magdalene Method

Exploring the wisdom of Mary Magdalene through history, consciousness, scholarship, and lived spiritual practice.

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This Month’s Contemplation

What part of me have I mistaken as lost, when it has only been waiting to be remembered?

Opening Reflection

A Note from the Circle

This July, we invite you into a month of remembrance.

Not the remembering of facts or history alone, but the quiet recognition of something your soul has always known.

For centuries, women have searched outside themselves for permission, belonging, and truth. Yet Mary Magdalene’s teachings point in another direction. They remind us that wisdom cannot be given. It can only be remembered.

Every gathering this month is an invitation to return to that remembrance. Whether you are joining us for Soul Voice Activation, Red Thread, the Magdalene Rising Summit, or simply reading these words with an open heart, you are participating in something much larger than a calendar of events.

You are participating in restoration.

The Red Thread

Soul Remembrance

There comes a moment on the path when awakening stops feeling like becoming someone new and begins to feel like returning to someone ancient within us.

Soul Remembrance is the quiet turning back toward the inner authority that existed before conditioning, before fear, before the world taught us to doubt what we knew.

Mary Magdalene’s teachings do not ask us to abandon our humanity. They ask us to listen beneath the noise of the divided mind and return to the wisdom of the soul.

Why July Matters

Mary Magdalene, July 22, and the Long Memory of the Sacred

On July 22, Christians around the world celebrate the Feast of Mary Magdalene.

In 2016, Pope Francis elevated her memorial to the rank of a Feast, formally recognizing her unique role as the Apostle to the Apostles.

Yet July 22 also carries a more haunting memory. On July 22, 1209, Béziers fell during the opening campaign of the Albigensian Crusade. Thousands were killed, including many who had sought refuge inside the Church of Saint Mary Magdalene.

History has a strange way of layering meaning upon meaning. One day now holds the remembrance of the woman whose voice was nearly erased and the memory of those who suffered in struggles over spiritual authority, belief, and power.

From the Research Desk

What Survives Erasure?

Every tradition leaves traces.

Sometimes those traces appear in manuscripts, liturgies, feast days, legends, paintings, pilgrimages, and the stories women whisper to one another long after official histories have moved on.

This month, we begin with July 22 because it asks an uncomfortable and necessary question: What happens when the sacred feminine is celebrated in one breath and silenced in another?

The work of remembrance is not about romanticizing the past. It is about learning how to read what was hidden, distorted, or buried, and asking what still lives beneath the surface.

Magdalene Rising Summit

Featured Voices Joining Us This Month

We are deeply honored by the generosity of these extraordinary teachers, whose work has helped restore Mary Magdalene’s message for a new generation.

Tricia McCannon

Author, teacher, and researcher whose work explores Mary Magdalene, the Divine Feminine, and the ancient mysteries.

Andrew Harvey

Mystic, scholar, and author whose devotion to the return of the Divine Feminine has inspired seekers around the world.

Marguerite Rigoglioso

Scholar, author, and teacher whose work on Mother Mary, divine birth, and priestess traditions opens profound doorways into feminine lineage.

Around the Circle

This Month Inside The Magdalene Network

Soul Voice Activation

July 8

Learn to distinguish the voice of fear from the voice of the soul and return to the inner knowing that has never left you.

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Red Thread Live

July 15

A monthly gathering for conversation, reflection, and remembering ourselves through one another.

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Magdalene Rising Summit

July 22

Our Sisterhood gathering this month will take place within the Summit as we honor Mary Magdalene’s Feast Day together.

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Join us for a sacred day of remembrance, scholarship, and community.

The Magdalene Method

The Path of Soul Remembrance

The Magdalene Method is a guided journey through awakening, healing, and embodiment, inspired by the teachings preserved in the Gospel of Mary.

Soul Remembrance

The first stage of The Magdalene Method. A return to soul voice, inner authority, and the wisdom beneath conditioning.

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Unbinding the Soul

Begins July 28

A live journey through the Seven Powers of Mary Magdalene and the patterns that separate us from our deepest knowing.

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Sacred Union

The final stage of integration, embodiment, and union with the soul’s wisdom.

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Book Circles

Returning in September

Our current Book Circles are now full.

We will return in September with new guided studies featuring the writings of Tricia McCannon and Andrew Harvey, continuing our exploration of Magdalene scholarship together.

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Living the Method

A Soul Remembrance Practice

Place one hand over your heart and one hand over your lower belly.

Take three slow breaths.

Ask inwardly:

What have I been trying to become that I am actually being asked to remember?

Let the answer rise gently. Do not chase it. Do not edit it. Let the soul speak in its own language.

Closing Blessing

May remembrance become stronger than fear. May the voice beneath the noise grow clear. May each gathering, question, and quiet return become another thread in the restoration of wisdom.

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Walk With Us This Month

Choose the doorway that feels most alive for you.

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