01/27/2026
Just absolutely gorgeous…in every way. I think this piece will be a birthday gift to myself.
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“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