
Mary Magdalene’s Feast day is the 22nd July this is always an exciting time for me because this is when many of my favourite speakers come together to retell hidden and known stories about Mary Magdalene. The story of the red egg has always fascinated me yet it required some detective work over the years to part the veils of its mysteries and even now I have only touched fragments of her rich story. The story of Mary Magdalene and the Red Egg mirrors the story of the Lady Of Guadeloupe and what really keeps me captivated is that the stories are of a Marie. If you’ve read or seen some of my other work then you know I have been working with Goddess energy and spirituality for some time now and the Marie, are the sea priestesses, the anointers with Holy Waters and Oils, they are the women who knew the mysteries of the goddess and who embodied the archetype that has been with us for thousands of years.
In the Eastern Orthodox and Catholic tradition it is said that after Christ rose and resurrected Mary Magdalene traveled to Rome to tell the Emperor Tiberius that Christ had rose and been taken to Heaven. When Mary Magdalene goes to see Tiberius he is holding a egg, he does not believe what Mary Magdalene is saying and he sarcastically says that Christ’s rising was as likely as the egg in his hand turning red. As he says this the egg in his hand turns red.
What could this story represent?
Jesus The Son of God had risen from the cave in which his body had been buried after his crucifixion. The cave in the stories thousands of years before this had the womb as the goddess. The cave represents the womb of mother earth. Christ had been buried in the earth in the cave. The cave is the place of initiation many spiritual figures received their initiations in a cave. The cave is like the tomb and the grave. The tomb is a place where we breakdown and decay, the flesh or old self dies and we are reborn. When people are said to go into a cave it means they seclude themselves, they go into themselves. On the emergence from a cave we are always changed if we have been there for long enough. The story of Christ’s Life and Death is first and foremost to teach us to return back to a right relationship with the Creator who created everything and to teach us that all things are possible through the one who gave us our breath, our spirit, our prana.
From the Womb to the Tomb
We are born or incarnate onto the planet whichever way you look at it arriving through the womb. There is no one on planet earth who is human who did not incarnate in the womb of a woman. Every man came through a woman. When a woman unites with a man and they create a child the egg and the sperm unite. The egg represents the woman, it also represents new life along with the representation of the penis together unite to create life. The Sacred Union of man and woman is represented in all of these religious text, stories, myths and legends. The egg can be seen as the eggs in the fallopian tubes, the potential for new life. All eggs for millenia have represented The Mother Goddess who was always depicted as large full bodied and often pregnant, she birthed the world through her round life giving belly. The woman carries her child in the womb for 9 months and then the child comes through the waters to earth. The older Egyptian story of Ra the Sun stepping out of the Watery Chaos of Nun in my opinion also represents the Creator God existing before all and then creating from itself others that emerge from the cosmic egg. The story is as old as time and it was absorbed into the Easter tradition. Evidence of this is seen during Lent when Christians fast like Jesus did in the wilderness and eggs have been one of the things they were not allowed to eat during this time.
The Red Egg represents the blood of Christ. Christ is the representation of the fully enlightened man who knows who he is, and who has shed the ego.The red egg represents Christ’s resurrection as well as it symbolizes the rebirth of consciousness and the return of the sacred balance between masculine and feminine. In Gnostic circles, the red egg is seen as her badge of spiritual authority, as she taught the mysteries of ascension, anointing, and sacred union.
In the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, Mary Magdalene is honored among the Myrrh-Bearing Women, celebrated during the Paschal liturgy with incense and traditional chant. Mary Magdalene is revered for her role as first witness, channel of myrrh, and divine messenger during Resurrection celebrations. She shares the news that Jesus is risen as someone bestowed with the gift of being the first to see him.
HOW TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE RED EGG ON MARY MAGDALENE’S FEAST DAY (JULY 22)
You can create a ceremony, retreat, or ritual offering incorporating the red egg symbolism in various ways:
1. Altar Setup
Use red-dyed eggs, red roses, white lilies, myrrh, rose oil, and a candle representing her flame.Add symbolic objects: a chalice, salt bowl, crystal egg (rose quartz), or painted icon. Place the egg at the center as the womb of awakening.
2. Sacred Anointing Ritual
Blend red rose oil with frankincense or myrrh.Anoint the third eye, womb, and heart saying: “As the egg turned red, so too does my soul awaken.I remember the mysteries, and I return to the Rose.”
3. Red Egg Meditation Journey
Guide yourself through a meditation where you:
Enter the Magdalene cave in France or Egypt. Receive a red egg from her hands. Spend time in her presence in a meditative state and ask her for a message. Visualise a Golden White flame in your heart centre see this flame as your inner flame of resurrection within your heart your womb and your third eye resurecting your connection to yourself, to your faith and to your intuition.Journal what is being resurrected in your life at this time.
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