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Reiki Rhaes, Omaha, NE (2025)

10/20/2025

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The Cross: I Am Anchored In Love

“It is believed that after crossing the Mediterranean Sea, Mary Magdalene landed in what is now Saintes-Marles-de-la-Mer, in the south of France. This is why Mary Magdalene is associated with the Guardian’s Cross that originates in this coastal region of France.
It contains a traditional cross at the top, a heart in the middle, and an anchor at its base. This triune composition refers to 1 Corinthians 13:13, “Faith, hope, and love endure—these three, but the greatest of these is love.”
Christ instructs us in Mary’s gospel, “Become content at heart, while also remaining discontent and disobedient; indeed, become contented and agreeable only in the presence of that other Image of nature.
Anyone with two ears capable of hearing should listen!” (Mary 3:12-14)
The Greek word for knowledge or knowing—gnosis—doesn’t refer to intellectual knowledge, or something we can be taught, or information we can be given by someone else. Gnosis is what we know because of direct experience.
For me, Christ here is asking us to become anchored in the direct experience of love, foremost. To become rooted in the presence of love. To listen inward daily. To know love, meaning to experience directly from within you that you are love. So that you can remain discontent with and disobedient to all that is not love.
“The presence of that other image of Nature,” for me, from my experience is referring to the presence of love which I encounter within me, and it’s a presence that is eternal. This love is what’s more than me. And I can only know this presence, this great big unsayable love in my heart, if I am willing to listen and be present to it.
This allows me then to discern when someone or an institution is asking me to do something or to be someone in the world that is not love. This is why love is the most crucial, why love is “the greatest of these,” because love is meant to lead the way.

Soul-Voice Meditation: Where in my life can I anchor more fully into my heart?

10/13/2025

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Silence: I Speak From My Heart

“The most important voice we could ever hear doesn’t have a voice at all. The silence within the heart isn’t devoid of sound or images. The silence within us is often deafening with the volume of its truth. The silence is often so confronting because it asks us to face what we already know.
Silence is mentioned in two significant points in Chapter 9 of Mary’s gospel. First, “After Mary had said these things, she was silent. Since it was up to this point that the Savior had spoken to her.” (Mary 9:30-31) This verse implies that everything Mary shares in her gospel was word for word what she had heard from within her.
Silence is only a virtue when we’re truthful about sharing word for word what we hear in our heart. It’s never virtuous to hold back or silence a truth that lives inside us. No matter how the outside world might perceive it.
It’s not our work to judge a truth within us so critically that we never even express it. This ends up being one of the main regrets of the dying— that we didn’t say out loud what was repeating itself already in the silent knowing of the heart.
Mary says, “From this hour on, for the time of the due season of the aeon, I will receive rest in silence.” (Mary 9:29) This is the silence that comes when all of the seven powers have lost. This is the silence that is a triumph, a tiny, unceremonious, and unseen victory and yet no less monumental.
Imagine each of the seven powers holding a microphone. When we do the work that Mary’s gospel reveals, when we let love reach to where it has never been before, and we release the tight grasp each power has on the mic, silence is our reward.
Silence is when we have overcome all those egoic powers that would have us believe we are anything other than love. Silence is being submerged in love. Silence is when all we hear is the steady stream of what the heart has to say. And joy is the courage to simply express it. Word for word. Saying only what the heart already knows.”

Soul-Voice Meditation: When the ego is silent, what do I hear my heart share?

10/06/2025

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The Legacy: Love Is Always Legendary

“I dreamt once that I was at the bottom of the ocean. I felt the impossible weight on me as if I was holding up the entire ocean with my tiny little back.
Then, this unexpected ripple of light made me It my head. I glanced up to see a huge mirror right in front of me. At first all I could see was the suffeting on my face from the weight. But then I saw my grandfather standing beside me, and he had that glowing look of love that he often used when he was alive.
I noticed that he was just the first in an endless line of ancestors all looking at me with that same love-gaze, and they were all there holding up the weight of the ocean with me.
Whenever I feel this sense of having to do something on my own, or of being alone with my sadness, or with a choice about my life that is creating stress, I remember that I am part of a great unending chain of the love that has come before me. I am just one tiny link.
My life is not linear; it does not just begin and then end. My life is a continuation of all the love that has been passed on to me. Love is always legendary.
Even though a loved one has passed on and is no longer visible, the love that they are lives on with us from within us. Each time we allow love to overwhelm an unforgiving state we’ve fallen into, we are connected again to them. All love lives on through us from within us, hidden and unseen, yet no less real.
This is the form of vision Mary Magdalene practiced. This is how she was able to see Christ within her heart. And maybe this is what Mary shared with Sarah, and all those around her. This is the form of vision that lifts the weight of what we thought we had to do alone. This is the form of vision that connects us to the legacy of love we each come from.
And this is why Mary responds to Peter in her gospel, “I will teach you about what is hidden from you.” (Mary 6:3)” 🌹

Soul-Voice Meditation: Whose love lives on through me?

09/29/2025

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Union: My Self & Soul Are One

“In Chapter 5 of Mary’s gospel, the disciples are terrified in the wake of Christ’s crucifixion, They fear they will be killed as well if they’re caught by the Roman Empire.
I’ve always seen this passage as if it were a scene from a film. I can imagine so vividly the dread they must have felt. I can imagine the comments about the threat to their own lives getting louder until the fear becomes palpable in the air.
“Then Mary stood up,” her gospel reads, and I can see this so clearly. I can see her standing up among a sea of disciples all huddled together on the ground, feeling defeated and afraid.
“Then Mary stood up and greeted them; she tenderly kissed them all and said, ‘Brothers and sisters, do not weep, do not be distressed nor be in doubt. For his grace will be with you sheltering you.” (Mary 5:4-6) Mary stood up for the disciples, in a moment of pure terror, and became a presence of love among them. Mary stood up in the midst of great fear to be the love that Christ had been among them.
This moment from Mary’s gospel demonstrates what it means to be in union. And it’s evidence of her leadership in the earliest form of Christianity. Mary goes on to say that as a community of brothers and sisters, “we should praise his greatness, for he has united us and made us true Human beings.” (Mary 5:7-8)
Christ lived in a state of union. He was Ihidaya, which is Aramaic for “the Unified One.” He had unified his egoic-self, his full humanity, with his divinity, his eternal soul. He had become fully human and fully divine: Anthropos, the child of true Humanity.
Mary, in this state of union, stood up in the midst of panic, to be a presence of love when love was most needed. And this is what Mary reminds us that we can do as well. We can practice living in a state of union by returning again and again to the soul that sits like a treasure here inside our very human hearts.
𝙒𝙚 𝙘𝙖𝙣 𝙥𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙚 𝙗𝙚𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙥𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙡𝙤𝙫𝙚 𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙣 𝙡𝙤𝙫𝙚 𝙞𝙨 𝙢𝙤𝙨𝙩 𝙣𝙚𝙚𝙙𝙚𝙙.”

Soul-Voice Meditation: How can I stand up like Mary to be a presence of love in this moment?

09/22/2025

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The Breath: I Reclaim My Soul

🗣️Repeat card: you can scroll through posts to read the original card reading from May 26. Here’s the connecting message between the two dates.

Both May 26 and September 22 are threshold moments — times of new beginnings and resets. The New Moon in May and the Equinox with Eclipse in September are mirrors of each other: one plants the seed, the other reveals what must be balanced or transformed.

These two dates are bound by breath:

•In May the breath is like the first inhale•
Gemini energy opening the lungs of the mind, curiosity, communication, and inspiration. A soul remembering itself through new ideas and inner whispers.

•In September the breath is like the exhale•
Libra and Scorpio energy calling us to release imbalance, let go of illusions, and reclaim harmony in relationships and within the self. A soul returning to truth, purging what no longer belongs, and breathing in balance.

🌬️ The thread between these two cosmic moments is the reminder that breath is our soul’s doorway— to begin again, to rebalance, and to reclaim.

Soul-Voice Meditation: Take three intentional breaths right now to reclaim your soul.

09/15/2025

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Ascension: Farther Up Is Further In

“It’s such a wild and miraculous moment when we realize that the Good has never been above, or beyond, or fully outside of us.
It’s such a wild and miraculous moment when we arrive at this truth that the great big unsayable love that is the Good is actually right here within us, in this fleeting body, in this bramble of an ego, like an indestructible rose perpetually at bloom in the center of who we are.
It’s such a wild and miraculous moment when we realize that farther up is actually further in.
There’s a legend that Mary Magdalene lived in a cave in the south of France on what is referred to now as Sainte Baume, “the holy mountain.” It is said that she was lifted up seven times a day from the cave to high above the cliffs of the holy mountain.
Artistic depictions of this legend have Mary lifted up physically by at least four angels. One way I used to distance myself from Mary’s humanity was to imagine that this happened for real, that Mary was actually lifted up into the air by a bevy of angels.
It was such a wild and miraculous moment when I realized that these angels met Mary from within her own heart. And that the seven times a day refers to the seven powers of the ego, and the practice of recognizing and releasing them at least seven times a day.
For me, ascension happens by descending deeper into the truth of who we are. The angels lift us up when we forget that the Good is not distant, above and beyond us. As if the Good is way, way up there, in heaven too high for us to reach in these “lowly” human forms.
The angels lift us up and remind us that the Good has always been right here, within, and among us. The Good is what we are and what we do. The Good exists not on a vertical, but on the horizontal—we are eye to eye with the angels, not below or beneath them. The Good is what’s present right here within. Yes, heaven too.
Farther up is further in.”

Soul-Voice Meditation: What happens when I remember that the Good is right here within me?

09/08/2025

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Seven: Vision Comes From Within

“In Chapter 7 of Mary’s gospel, Mary asks Christ, “So, now, Lord, does a person who sees a vision see it with the soul or with the spirit?” (Mary 7:5)
Christ’s answer is fragmented because the following four pages of Mary’s gospel are missing. This is the cryptic start to Christ’s response: “A person does not see with the soul or with the spirit. Rather the mind, which exists between these two, sees the vision and that is what...” (Mary 7:6)
I’ve often wondered if these pages were torn out because, in the scripture that’s missing, Christ reveals to Mary how true vision comes from within. And if how we truly see in this world isn’t ultimately about our eyesight but a spiritual perception that exists within—if how we know what’s true for us, what’s real and lasting-if these answers come from within, then no one can have power over us.
If we contain our own answers, then no one can mislead, manipulate, or distract us by saying that true power or true peace is over here, at a price, or over there, at the cost of our freedom.
There’s tremendous power and immeasurable peace that comes with knowing that all we ever need to do is seek, inwardly, and we will find. All we ever need to do is close our eyes and open to what the heart sees clearly.
The word mind in this passage is not our modern understanding of it. In the original Greek, the word for mind is nous, which is translated more accurately as “the spiritual eye of the heart.” The nous then is the aspect of the soul that allows us to receive a vision from within.
What can cloud over our spiritual perception, according to Mary’s gospel, are the seven powers of the ego. Seven is the spiritual number of transformation—of the stages the soul must pass through in order to reach liberation.
And legends say that seven times a day, Mary was lifted above the holy mountain in the south of France by four angels. Seven times a day, I think this means, she freed herself from the seven powers of the ego. So she could see clearly, again and again, with the eye of the heart.”

Soul-Voice Meditation: What vision am I ready to receive from within?

09/01/2025

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Double card— refer to June 9th reading of “The Heart” to combine with today’s reading. 🤍 “Love never ends”

The Anointed: I Rise With Inly More Soul

“One of the most significant names used to identify Christ by the earliest group of people to document bis teachings was the Greek word Christos, which mess “someone anointed with oil.” or simply, “The Anointed.”
After Mary Magdalene anoints Christ with the spikenard and washes his feet with her hair, before his crucifixion, Christ says in the Gospel of Matthew: “I tell you, wherever, in the whole world, this good news is proclaimed, what this woman has done will be told in memory of her.” (Matthew 26.13) When Judas is horrified that Mary wastes such an excessive amount of oil, Christ explains that it was actually good, and it was intended that Mary save this oil to prepare for his burial. lt was intended. This was what had been intended all along.
Mary Magdalene was the one who was meant to assist Christ in his transition from this life to the next. The ornate jar Mary holds in so many of the paintings and icons of her is filled with holy oil used to anoint the body before burial.
The priests and priestesses of the Egyptian goddess Isis anointed the body as a way to assist in the transition from this life to the next while remaining conscious.
And if we see the resurrection narrative as a metaphor, the anointing ritual becomes the passage from the death of the ego, the limited egoic-self, into the expansive realm of the soul. This is the transformation of consciousness at the heart of the Christian tradition, and Mary Magdalene is the one who shows us the way.
Anointing, then, in its original context, is the act of consciously acknowledging that the physical body passes away, but the soul within the body does not. And each time we consciously die to the ego, each time we allow ourselves to die to what we were, in order to rise more aware of the soul of who we are now, we are anointed.
And we do this in memory of her.” 🏺

Soul-Voice Meditation: What aspect of my soul am I aware of in this moment?

08/25/2025

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Surrender: I Am In Good Hands

“There’s a marble statue of Mary Magdalene in the main cave at Sainte Baume in France. She’s reclining with her head tilted back, her neck exposed, and her eyes closed. And yet there’s no confusion that she might be sleeping. She’s clearly existing very intensely in the open expanse of the universe within her. Her face exudes bliss and pure surrender.
The word surrender in the spiritual context has been confused with relinguishing power over to someone else, or something else, that’s separate from us. Surrender in Mary’s gospel means letting go of the egoic desires and stories that are separating us from the radiance of true love.
The soul says in Mary’s gospel, “What binds me has been slain, and what surrounds me has been destroyed, and my desire has been brought to an emd, and ignorance has died.” (Mary 9-27) This is the experience of surrender. All the seven powers of the ego have died, and what remains is the love the soul knows completely.
Love comes from within. Surrender is when we stop our constant search for love to arrive from outside of us, from someone else, or in the validation of a loved one, or from a career, or an accomplishment we think will cover us in adoration. Love comes from within. Surrender is that sweet and potent ecstasy of returning fully to the Good that we already are.
Surrender is never a giving over, a disempowering resignation of who we are. Surrender is never a giving away of our truth. Surrender is an effort of radical trust, of turning inward, and releasing every egoic idea we’ve had of ourselves to the Good that’s right here within.
Surrender is the bliss that Mary embodies of knowing at all times and in all places that she is in Good hands. She can, at any moment her soul calls her to, relinquish an egoic state that’s oppressing her and allow the great big unsayable love within her to rise up and inundate her, suffuse her mind and body with the bliss of knowing again the truth of love at her core.”

Soul-Voice Meditation: What does it feel like to repeat inside the heart, “I am in good hands”?

08/18/2025

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The Sixth Power: The Body Never Lies

“The body, if we know how to listen, has ancient wisdom that extends back far beyond our own individual lives. As if the life lessons of our ancestors are encoded in the blood. A mystery woven into the molecules of light that we each are, an ever-evolving hope that we can keep moving forward with the story of what it means to be human.
The body never lies. Its whispers can be subtle to many. Its wisdom can be lost to those who wish only to control the body, super-imposing what the ego wants, those inexhaustible unconscious requests, which are often louder than the soul.
We often feel convinced that it’s safer to just keep doing what we’ve always done. What’s in motion wants to stay in motion, whether it’s drinking a lot, working out too much, or constantly sitting on the couch binge-watching TV.
This is the power that, centuries later, is referred to as sloth. It’s a fear I think of having a living, breathing, moment-to-moment relationship with the body. When we are held captive to the sixth power, the fear of our own humanity, our own vulnerability, and our own mortality is so loud we can’t hear the way the soul is constantly speaking to us from within the body.
When we can own and deeply accept that we are also this body, we get to experience the bliss of the other half of what it means to be human: the soul. We can have a living, breathing, moment-to-moment relationship with the body that is based in love, not fear. We can respect the body. Trust the body.
Instead of superimposing what we think the body needs each day, each moment, we can ask.
We can go inward, listen, and know the depths of the wisdom the body possesses.
Remember, the body knows how to create another body from within. The body silently knits another heart within the darkness of the womb, in the silence of the steady heartbeat of the one creating it.
The body never lies, if we know how to listen.”

Soul-Voice Meditation: Beloved body, what is needed in this moment?

08/11/2025

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The Third Power: Humility Is My Greatest Strength

“Ignorance is our ultimate blind spot. It’s the insular thought that we exist somehow as the lead role in a movie the ego is directing. Ignorance is a profound lack of vision. It’s an inability to actually see ourselves and the impact of our actions.
There’s a powerful exchange between desire and the soul in Mary’s gospel. Desire in this dialogue is what the ego craves. It isn’t the desire of the soul; it’s the unconscious needs of the ego.
So, this egoic desire says to the soul in Mary 9:2, “I did not see you go down, yet now I see you go up. So why do you lie since you belong to me?” And the soul responds, “I saw you. You did not see me nor did you know me. You mistook the garment I wore for my true self. And you did not recognize me.”
The ego thinks it is the true self. But the ego is actually only “the garments,” or the layers of identity that the ego acquires. What’s true is the soul beneath all of those egoic desires. What’s true is what remains constant even as our egoic desires shift from one need to the next.
The way to dismantle ignorance is to see through the constantly shifting desires of the ego, It’s to see that the egoic desires are like clouds in the sky, and the soul is the sky itself.
We can try to see ignorance for what it is. It’s not lasting. It’s not permanent. It has the potential to be fleeting, if we have the humility to ask, what is beneath this egoic desire?
Humility is our greatest strength. If we can let the garments of the ego fall, we can see ourselves more fully and recognize what’s lasting.
And if we have the strength to be humble enough to understand that our ignorance is only human, then we get to experience the way that our forgiveness is also divine.” 💛

Soul-Voice Meditation: What am I ready to see that’s deeper than this egoic desire?

08/04/2025

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The Soul: I Am Free

“Deep breath. Even in the midst of the worst that can unfold for us, the soul whispers, “I am free.” It seems so strange that something so infinitely powerful could be accessible, visceral even, right here in the body. It seems so strange that some. thing so otherworldly could be reached with an act that seems so entirely commonplace and mundane. Deep breath.
With the intention, the consciousness of a single deep breath, we can detach from the ego and all its seven powers. With one intentional deep breath, we can return to the heart, to the vast expanse of what’s possible, to the limitless realm of the soul.
In Mary’s gospel, the soul explains, “I have been bound, but I have not bound anything.” (Mary 9:14) The soul has been bound by the seven powers of the ego, but the soul does not bind anything or anyone in return.
The soul, the essence of who we are, will be judged throughout our lifetime by both our own ego and the egoic powers of others, even our loved ones. The soul will be judged, and bound, but the soul doesn’t judge or bind others in retaliation. The soul is free and knows it
The soul says, about the seren egoic powers.
“They did not recognize me, but I have recognized that the universe is to be dissolved, both the things of earth and those of heaven.” (Mary 9:15)
The ego can’t see or recognize the soul. But the soul can see through all dualities. All of those opposites that rule the ego—like day and night, light and dark, heaven and earth—the soul embraces as a unified whole.
The soul is not bound to the egoic desires of what being here on earth might bring, nor is it bound to the egoic desires of what heaven might contain. The soul is content to simply be here now. The soul releases both heaven and earth to exist nowhere else but in the present moment.
Deep breath. Even in the midst of the worst that can unfold for us, the soul whispers, “I am free.”

Soul-Voice Meditation: What does it feel like to repeat inside your heart, “I am free”?

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