Rachel Jackson

05/04/2026

“The waiting is the hardest part — but also the holiest.”
– Caroline Myss

She sits veiled in white beside the tomb, because she has “nowhere else to go”. There is no map for what happens next. How many times have we been in that place, where one thing leaves, the next has not yet come and we are feeling lost and a bit hopeless? Knowing so much, we can’t possibly go back, but the fog is thick and moving up the mountain could find us in absolute disaster.

And so we sit, and we wait. This is the threshold.

Key Principles:
Liminality, holy waiting, surrender, sacred unknowing, faith beyond vision

Context:
This card is Magdalene at the empty tomb, the moment before revelation. She doesn’t yet know resurrection is near. She is suspended between loss and miracle, between what has died and what will rise. In this image, her back is turned to us, but we instinctively know how she feels. She has nowhere else to go but into the stillness.

Jungian/Alchemical Insight:
The threshold is the nigredo, the dark stage of the soul's alchemy. It is the moment when we have lost our bearings but not our essence. Magdalene here represents the sacred state of “not knowing,” which opens us to divine transformation. The ego cannot resurrect what it has not surrendered.

Artwork Description:
Magdalene is seen from behind, cloaked in white, seated before a barren, abstract tomb space. The simplicity is intentional: it reflects how the sacred often appears as absence, and serves to remind us that waiting consciously is a holy act. She is still, but the image carries a charge — something is about to happen. It is a reminder that all is not lost, that Love is not gone.

Card Meaning:
You are in a holy pause. There may be no answers, no direction; only stillness. But beneath the silence, something is quickening. Do not try to rush across this threshold. Wait, listen, trust. You are being transfigured.

Mantra:
I remain at the tomb, not because I have certainty — but because I have love. And there is nowhere else on this earth for me to go, so I shall wait.

“Awaiting the Gardener (Magdalena)”, from the upcoming “SheWhoIs” oracle
Mixed Media
2025

Prints:
8X10 Matted & Signed: https://shewhoisart.etsy.com/listing/4326021602
4X6 Altar Art: https://shewhoisart.etsy.com/listing/4326016439

28/03/2026

21/03/2026

Spring equinox marks the return of the Sun. Tulips, daffodils, hares and lambs are the messengers of Spring signalling new life is ready to emerge.

The light is only beginning to increase and everything is in its infancy form, tender, vulnerable and innocent. All of these fledgling forms would appear to be fragile, not able to protect themselves in this dog eat dog world. Hopeful but weak, soft.

We associate hope with a child’s naivety, most of us think shrewd savviness is strength and the prerequisite needed to get ahead, especially to know how to beat the game.

Perhaps, the opposite is true. Cynicism, bitterness, and resentment are weaknesses born out of eyes going dark refusing to recognise love’s presence and a heart closing to the Divine.

It is easy to lose faith.
It is easy to bow down to resignation.
It is easy to enjoy malice and blame.

It is far more courageous to stand in the eternal Spring of Spirit which has endured the winter’s doom, knowing full well the light always returns and the light always wins.

It is not the savvy adult that can stand in despair with a bloom still intact in one’s heart, it is only our innocent nature that knows light is victorious.
Undefeatable, impenetrable, infallible, Innocence.

To travel this world and meet darkness in ourselves and others is part of this path. But no amount of darkness will ever extinguish our Innocence.
It is our Innocence that allows us to stand in resistance to all that is dark and declare there is another way.

When we disconnect from our inherent innocence we believe and activate such things such as shame, guilt, judgement and punishment.
We no longer believe in the transformational power of the Soul and cling to the contradictions of the personality of ourselves and others.

Returning to our conscious innocence is the most powerful stand to take because it is a declaration of what the Soul truly is,
Undefeatable, impenetrable, and infallible.

It is the seemingly meek act of surrender to what we truly are that allows victory in this lifetime and beyond.

Like the lamb this Spring Equinox, May we all experience the joy of remembering who we are.

Artwork by Rasa Tamošiūnienė

18/03/2026

On this New Moon.

Sometimes we forget when the world goes dark that Love ever existed. In the world, among us, or even in ourselves.
When brutality peaks it is easy to turn away from the fact that fundamentally within us all is the capacity for genuine friendship, compassion, and courage.
That within the messiness and myriad of choices we have as Humans, it is always possible to choose Love. It is always possible. It is always available. And it is always received.

We are conditioned to think in terms of our success of who we are as people, by how much we have materialistically gained. We associate being a “good” person with the acquisition of nice things, the power to buy, and that includes spiritual knowledge. But the materialistic world isn’t run by God’s Laws and pinning our integrity to whether we succeed in a false reality leaves an emptiness which invites the possibility of it being filled by a multitude of different energies.
Who are happy to deliver to us false sermons of righteousness, judgement, and even “truth” .

In the lead up to this New Moon, which has been an intense period of both confrontational and dissolving energies, while also simultaneously showing the old structures have indeed been built on sand.

The question appears, what is it that we truly seek in this Life?
What is the genuine fabric that underpins all of Life and are we aligning our Life with it?
Or are we still banking our self worth and identity on being able to succeed in a false economy(reality)?

Do we truly treasure Love as the ultimate success?
Do we seek its bounty above and beyond all else?
Are we willing to lay down our arms to hear Love’s council or is the seduction of power still too sweet?

I am not an astrologer, but every astrologer has emphasised the massive opportunity in this new moon, and equinox.
The opportunity to choose.

Choose Life not Lies.
Choose to bear Witness to Love at every opportunity.
Choose to step in when it is the most terrifying and let Love dictate the outcome.

Make Love the pinnacle of your personal success as a Human Being.
And by doing so, turn your eyes and energy away from everything else.

If we do not have ourselves and each other, do we have anything at all?

Photo taken March 18, 2013
Renewal of our vows, Elysium Sanctuary.

10/02/2026

Old you: “They’re acting this way because they’re hurt. I should be patient.”
Current you: “They’re hurt and responsible for their behavior. I’m allowed to step back.”

You can understand someone’s pain without letting it become your prison.
Compassion doesn’t require self-abandonment.

You’re not cold—you’re finally including yourself in the list of people who deserve protection.