Hey Loves,
I’ve been following the story of Thecla in the New New Testament since December.
Through a monthly gathering, hundreds meet with Meggan Watterson to discuss what it means to weave the feminine in the story of Christianity. It could not be more applicable and integral to the work I do with the feminine.
On a personal note, it’s come at a time I couldn’t have even dreamt of and I wanna explain why this is the case later on. The mirrors if ya will.
The red thread that binds us together as one.
The red thread that travels through every story about the empowered feminine through the ages, stories, goddesses and legends that were.
Thecla was a young maiden who was being forced to marry a rich guy, Thamyris, while her mother stood by in awe of the whole idea. Because- patriarchy. Thecla, meanwhile, was listening to the words of God. In the story, the words come via Paul, but we could question if Paul is even part of the story and simply a representation of something particular, but that’s another discussion.
The story follows the strength it takes for a young girl (remembering that these girls were being married and impregnated at like, 14 just like Mother Mary), to stand up and say no to what society deems to be the correct path.
As we follow the story, we pause on each section and bring in visualisation around what that section may mean.
In my work, I weave in Mary Magdalene all the time. She is with me pretty much constantly and since diving into the New New Testament, it’s opened my world and cracked open my heart in a way I can’t explain right now.
I’m in a tizzy, to be honest.
I’m fucking angry. Raging.
I have so much feminine rage.
When someone says one slightly off thing to me at the moment, I can’t handle it in a regulated way, and not because I am dysregulated as such. But because of the constant work it is taking for me to move through my cocoon of these darker months.
I am trying to unpick my life of conformity.
Am I someone who conforms? I thought not. But I realise in many respects, I do.
Thecla's mother announces to the courts that her daughter, Thecla, should die. Kill her to ensure others don't follow Thecla’s path. Because-patriarchy.
Her mother is part of a system that binds and her shadow is angry that her daughter could even contemplate a life of freedom vs. a life of...rape and patriarchal binding.
To allow the feminine to be heard. To strip it back to the love that exists within the soul. To remove the binds placed on the feminine. To let go of the ego.
Our heroine's feminine depictions of the years gone by have all had to go through a similar journey.
They have to strip naked. For example…
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