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Mary Magdalene

The roses and the bees are leading me down a path to a hidden well, as the water gently bubbles up to the surface, whispered threads are revealed.

I have been developing a scent for Mary Magdalene commissioned by Shiva Rose titled Myrrhophore. Weaving aromatic molecules that embody this divine feminine from our past is complex, feeling a bit like a quest supported by invisible guiding forces.

It was in the 90's that I became interested in Mary Magdalene's story beyond what I had been taught in Catholic school and accepted as truth. As we have collectively been realizing, stories we are told are not necessarily an accurate representation of events. In most circumstances there are shades of the truth thrown in with agendas. In Mary's case it was his agenda, thus his story instead of hers.

The perfume will debut as an anointing oil on her feast day July 22nd, with a ceremony inside the Lamy Chapel at the Auberge Bishops Lodge Resort here in New Mexico, attendance is very limited.

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"I took a deep breath

and listened to the old bray of my heart.

I am. I am. I am."

Sylvia Plath

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I bow, acknowledge and offer gratitude, respect & love to Oghá P'o'oge, the land here that I call home and create on. The name comes from the Tewa people and means "white shell water place.". The first known ancestral people of the area were here in about 1050 to 1150, but abandoned it around 200 years before the Spanish arrived.

In 1610, Spanish governor Don Pedro de Peralta renamed the area Villa Real de la Santa Fé de San Francisco de Asís, which translates to "Royal Town of the Holy Faith of Saint Francis of Assisi". The name "Santa Fe" is Spanish for "Holy Faith".

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