Exile, Resurrection and the Wisdom of The Magdalene
“At the time of evening, when the women go out to draw water…” (Genesis 24:11)
This verse, mysterious and tender, guides us to the deeper cosmic cycle of exile and return, of descent and resurrection, and of the Divine Feminine rising to draw forth the hidden waters of wisdom. As the Zohar teaches in Chayei Sarah, this moment corresponds with Shabbat Eve, the sixth millennium, the twilight of history, the time when the world prepares for resurrection.
According to the Book of Genesis, the world exists for 6,000 years. The sixth millennium is the “Erev Shabbat” of history, the time of preparation for the Messianic Age, often experienced as chaos, confusion, and spiritual dryness. “At the time of evening” refers to this very moment, the moment we find ourselves in today, globally and individually.
This is the time when the souls, like the women in the verse , are called to go out and draw water. To leave the limitations of exile, the exile of consciousness, of presence, of wholeness, and draw from the hidden well of Divine Understanding (Binah).
Exile, in the mystical sense, is more than being cast out of a land. It is the soul’s forgetfulness of its origin. It is when the Shekhinah, the Divine Presence, is fragmented and hidden. Exile is when we feel far from our essence, scattered in tasks, identities, wounds, and illusions. It is when we try to live from the outer self rather than the soul.
Collectively, exile looks like injustice, environmental destruction, spiritual amnesia, polarization, and a world chasing shadow instead of light. Individually, it manifests as depression, confusion, disconnection from purpose, or a deep inner longing for something we cannot name.
But exile is also the sacred terrain where the soul learns to yearn, to pray, to remember. It is the very soil where resurrection begins.
In the verse, “the women go out to draw water,” the sages see the image of righteous souls, often feminine souls, who draw the Mayim Chayim, the Living Waters, from the mystical well. The women symbolize the Shekhinah herself, rising out of concealment, returning to draw and nourish the world with hidden wisdom.
This is the work of the mystic, the prophetess, the inner Magdalene.
Mary Magdalene’s journey is one of the deepest archetypes of holy exile. She was cast out not only by society but also from the canonical narrative of early Christianity. She is the silenced witness, the woman who saw the Lord and was told not to speak. But she did speak. She carried the Living Waters of the Risen One, the teachings of the soul’s ascent, and the gnosis of divine union. Her voice is a living vibration that reawakens the memory of Divine Presence in our time.
Her exile was not simply physical, it was mystical.
She lived the Shevirat haKelim — the breaking of the vessels — when her world shattered in the moment she saw Love crucified, and again when she was erased from the spiritual inheritance of the Church. Yet within this breaking, she became the very vessel of Tikkun haNefesh: the repair of the soul, the gathering of holy sparks.
Her “going out to draw water” happened not at a literal well, but in the desert of the heart, in the cave of silence, in the womb of a hidden earth where the soul gestates in mystery. She drew wisdom not from scrolls or temples, but from the living currents beneath creation, from the womb of the Earth, from the voice of the Spirit, from the breath of Yeshua still vibrating through her cells. And she returned with a Gospel not of law, but of light, the inner knowing of divine embodiment, the radiant path of return.
Today, as the Magdalene voice returns, we are witnessing a collective resurrection from exile. The water is being drawn once again. The sacred feminine is rising not in opposition, but in revelation, as the breath, the beauty, the Spirit of God in motion.
And you…
Are you feeling in exile?
Not merely cast out from a land or a home,
but exiled from the sanctuary of your own being?
There are seasons of the soul when the Holy feels far,
when the ancient well within feels dry,
and the echo of our own voice sounds foreign in the chambers of our heart.
This is the exile of Shekhinah within us,
the Divine Presence hidden in the dust of forgetfulness.
Yet even in this exile, there is a call.
Like the women who go out at twilight to draw water,
we are summoned to the wellspring of our inner knowing,
to the hidden place where wisdom sleeps beneath the silence.
To feel exiled is not a sign of abandonment,
but a sacred ache that calls us back to the Source.
Can you feel it?
The memory of a wholeness you once knew,
stirring again in the soul’s deep waters?
This is the beginning of return.
Of remembering who you truly are.
Of gathering the scattered fragments and forming a new vessel,
one that can hold the light of your origin and the song of your becoming.
Let Magdalene walk with you there.
Let her show you the way of the water,
the light hidden in the dark,
the path of the Beloved
who never left.
As we light our Shabbat candles this evening and re-enact The Wedding Feast that Yeshua blessed us with, may we continue to draw the water from the well.
A beautiful Aramaic Mantra to bring into your practice today:
Eenana Assyuot Leba
Assyuot Leba
Assyuot Mamoona
Assyuot Arha
Assyuot Adama
Meaning:
I am the healing of the heart.
Healing of the heart.
Healing of trust – faith.
Healing of the Earth.
Healing of the body, the sacred ground, humanity.
You can chant along with my music at then end of this writing.
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AHAVA,
Ana Otero
Artwork by Lars.
