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Reiki Rhaes, Omaha, NE (2025)

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”?

07/29/2025

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The Fourth Power: I Am Beloved

“The mystic William Blake believed that
“roads of excess lead to palaces of wisdom.” Why? Because when we allow ourselves to get thrown out of balance with an excessive amount of anything-too much work, food, s*x, or alcohol-we also have the opportunity to encounter that aspect within us that calls us to come back from the extremes, so that we can rest again in the stability of what lets us thrive.
The fourth power in the Gospel of Mary is described as “the craving for death.” And after Christianity was institutionalized in the 4th century, the fourth power was referred to as gluttony. The excess is seen as a death wish; however, it’s often deeply unconscious. It’s a compulsion, something we feel compelled to do, and that we do not know how to stop or change.
Within Mary’s gospel, the power of excess is not a “sin,” it’s not a “demon,” it’s simply a power. It’s a power of the ego, like the other six powers, that can derail us from what the soul has come here to do.
Often, we treat ourselves in ways we would never dream of treating someone else. Often our fear of not having a purpose, of not making some sort of contribution with our brief lives, leads us to sabotage any chance of doing so.
When we remember that we are as beloved as the friend we want every good thing to come to, we are as beloved as the partner we adore, we are as beloved as the child that brings us joy just by breathing, we are as beloved as those we love so fiercely around us, it becomes less and less possible to be excessive with this body, because we remember that the body is the soul’s chance to be here.
When we remember that we are beloved, we want to spend what little time we have here simply sharing the love we are.
We no longer need to dance around the fires of love at our core; we become it. And we can tolerate that much light, that much love, because we know it’s not separate from us.”

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

07/21/2025

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The Eye Of The Heart: We Contain The Treasure

“What we so desperately seek outside of us, we actually contain. We contain the treasure. This truth has been told to us in so many parables and myths throughout the history of humankind. So, what keeps us from experiencing this truth directly? We have to believe it in order to see it; we have to believe we could be this powerful, this sacred, to contain divine love within us.
In Mary’s gospel, Mary tells the other disciples about a vision she had of Christ: “I saw the Lord in a vision and I said to him, ‘Lord, I saw you today in a vision. He answered me, ‘How wonderful you are for not wavering at seeing me! For where the mind is, there is the treasure.’” (Mary 7:1-4)
First, let’s focus on the last sentence, “For where the mind is, there is the treasure.” The word that’s translated as “mind” in English comes from the word nous in Greek. And a more accurate translation of nous is “the spiritual eye of the heart.”
The nous is the highest aspect of the soul. It is the aspect of the soul that we can actually experience and encounter, truly know, while in this human body.
We don’t have to die to this body to encounter the soul. We can die to the ego in this lifetime, again and again, so that we can experience the nous, the eye of heart.
Now, let’s focus on the first part of what Christ says to Mary: “How wonderful you are for not wavering at seeing me!” This exchange has always moved me. Christ is praising Mary’s bravery —her willingness to be present to this capacity to see with the vision of love directly, from within her.
She’s wonderful because she has freed herself from the seven powers of the ego to be able to receive a vision of Christ. She’s wonderful because her love for him allows her to be greater than what she could be on her own. She’s wonderful because she’s experiencing this truth, this secret, that everyone knows: we contain the treasure.
Mary’s wonderful because she has become a bridge between this world and the next by seeing with the eye of the heart.” 👁️❤️‍🔥

Soul-Voice Meditation: What am I ready to see with the eye of the heart?

07/14/2025

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Remembering: I Know Who I Am

“In Chapter 4 of Mary’s gospel, Christ says as he greets everyone gathered around him, “Peace be with you! Acquire my peace within yourselves!” (Mary 4:1-2)
This peace is not exclusive or reserved only for the most holy and ordained. This peace that Christ speaks of is a state of being that each of us can “acquire” within ourselves. Every time we can find the strength and the courage to remember who we are, we know again the peace that is always ours to claim from within.
It takes remembering the truth of who we are in the midst of the worst possible circumstances, when someone is screaming at us, when we’re feeling tremendous loss, or when deeply held beliefs about ourselves are being shattered. It takes remembering the other half of what it means to be human right in the midst of the most difficult realities of what being human demands.
When we can know who we are—a soul and an ego, an eternal spark of the divine and a messy, mortal, human self, both—we can bring this memory to the moments when we used to forget, when we used to act on rage, or ignorance, or clinging. This is when we begin to acquire the peace that is within. The peace that has always been with us.
The path of the ancient Christian was the practice of anamnesis, or living remembrance. It’s a practice of trying, not perfectly but consistently, and with as much conviction as compassion, to remember who we are when we are bound by one of the seven powers of the ego.
And also, it’s a practice of remembering, when we’re judging ourselves for a loveless action we took, or something we now feel regret and guilt about, that we are here to be human.
Knowing who we are, an entirely unique, imperfect expression of limited ego and eternal soul, frees us from the pressures of being “perfect.” Living remembrance means hearing, in the midst of the hardest moments life can hand out, a dulcet whisper from within your heart, reminding you, “I know who I am.”

Soul-Voice Meditation: What do I remember is true about myself in this moment?

07/07/2025

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The First Power: Darkness Makes Vision Possible

“Darkness is a power of the ego that can convince us we’re alone, separate, and disconnected. Sometimes darkness comes so we can practice a form of vision that becomes possible only when all sources of external light leave us.
In the Gospel of Mary, after Mary has revealed the secret teachings that Christ gave to her, Peter doesn’t believe her. He says, “Has the Savior spoken secretly and not openly so that we would all hear?
Surely, he did not want to show that she is more worthy than we are?” (Mary 10:3-4)
Then Mary weeps, and responds, “My brother Peter, what are you imagining? Do you think that I have thought up these things by myself in my heart or that I am telling lies about the Savior?” (Mary 10:5-6)
Darkness is hard. It’s the pain of betrayal. It’s the fear of being truly alone. It’s the heaviness that comes when we sincerely believe we are not connected anymore to those we most love.
Darkness is a very difficult power to be bound to. Within darkness, though, there’s a form of vision that becomes available, the most powerful form possible, that comes from the light sourced from within us.
When those we love the most leave, when we feel cut off from hope, the ensuing darkness gives us the chance to practice seeing the light that originates from within.
How do we learn to see in the dark?
We use the darkness, that feeling of being cut off from all external sources of love in our lives, to harness the tremendous love that’s right here within us. Always.
We see then our own source of love. And we feel again the deepest power that exists in this world: the power of the love that’s innate to us. The love that seeps out from within the heart as if from another world, and as if with the potency of every being that has ever lived before us.
The love that reminds us of our worthiness just for existing, just for being human. The presence of love that knows us by heart. The presence of love that some of us only find, or find again, when every other source of love has left us.” 🕯️❤️‍🔥

Soul-Voice Meditation: What vision does this current darkness make possible?

06/30/2025

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The Egg: Everything Comes From Within

“According to the Gospel of Thomas, “If you bring forth what is within you, what is within you will save you.” The Gospel of Thomas was excluded from the formation of the bible in the 4th century along with the Gospel of Mary Magdalene. The emphasis in the Gospel of Thomas is similar to the spiritual path revealed in Mary’s gospel of uniting the self and the soul, of becoming fully human.
In many paintings and icons of Mary Magdalene, she’s depicted as holding an egg. This relates to the legend that she gave testimony before the court of Tiberius Caesar after witnessing the resurrection. She picked up an egg in order to teach them about the body, and resurrection.
After two decades of scholarship and devotion to Mary Magdalene, I think this is the message Mary offers in pointing us to the egg: everything comes from within.
All life exists within us, rather than external to us, which is how so many of us live our entire lives. Focused outward, to the beautiful, lovely things of this world, and to the painful, heartbreaking things of this world that could, if we let them, occupy every second of every day.
I believe that when Mary witnessed Christ’s resurrection, it was not with her eyes, but with the spiritual eye of the heart. I believe she received visions of him from within her long before he was crucified. I believe Mary learned how to live from the inside out. I believe Mary embodied and mastered the truth that everything comes from within.
I believe Mary understood that the heart is a mediator between the worlds. I believe Christ revealed to her the love she can always source there, from within the heart. I believe that she brought forth what was within her, a love that never dies, a love that never ends.”

Soul-Voice Meditation: What am I ready to bring forth from within me?

06/23/2025

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The Dove: Spirit Speaks Through The Body

“The body never lies. If we know how to listen, the body affirms for us when someone is telling the truth. Or the body affirms when the divine is communicating to us, not through words, but directly through the wisdom of the heart.
The symbol of the dove has been associated with the Holy Spirit, that intangible and yet visceral experience of being moved from within, of being inspired directly as if through the bloodstream, as if our bones can speak, as if the heart itself is actually a receiver, or a radio, and spirit sometimes suddenly makes our connection to the divine radiantly clear.
The body receives messages directly from spirit if we’re open to perceiving what holy proximity we have to the divine. Sometimes it’s a surge of hope, like a deeper intake of air, an expansion of the rib cage. Sometimes it’s in a chill that races down the spine and makes all the tiny hairs on our forearms stand straight up. Sometimes it’s in an irregular heartbeat, as if the heart could communicate to us in Morse Code.
Mary Magdalene has been associated with the dove, as a symbol of the beloved and as an affirmation that it’s through the feminine within us all that we receive divine messages. This passage from the Song of Songs has always made me think of Mary: “My dove, in the hidden places of the rocks, in the secret places of the cliffs, show me your form, and let me hear your voice.”
Mary in essence is the dove, because she could perceive Christ from within her, she could hear the language of her own heart, her own body. The dove reminds us to listen to the affirmations the body gives us, all throughout the day, about what’s most true for us, about what resonates, and about how to be led from within.
The dove is about listening inwardly to those discrete sensations that can’t be validated from anyone outside of us, but that we just know, because we sense what’s true. And because we trust this beloved body. We trust what spirit tells us, miraculously, in the hidden places, the secret places of our own heart.” 🕊️

Soul-Voice Meditation: What is spirit communicating to me right now through my body?

06/16/2025

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Golden Light: Healing Comes From Within

🪞Reflection card: What were you doing the last week of January? What were your thoughts, goals, aspirations? There is a mirror pulling you to reflect to what was then into the here and now. It usually indicates the work you began is now ready for integration. Your work has been noticed and rewarded.

Soul-Voice Meditation: What does it feel like to be bathed in golden light?

To see the original full card reading, go to the January 27th post. Hint: We have the power to use our imagination in the effort of healing.✨

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