The Call of the Blue Rose
Mary Magdalene and the energy of the Divine Feminine
"Come, come, whoever you are. Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving. It doesn’t matter. Ours is not a caravan of despair"
~ Rumi
Between 2006-8 I had a series of dreams involving Mary Magdalene. In one, she stood by a body of water, filling a jug, and spoke of “Carmelite.” Then, in my dream, Mary turned to me, put a blue light into my outstretched hands, and called me to “be a protector of the Blue Rose.” I wasn’t really sure what to make of the dream at the time.
In 2013, I had another series of dreams. In one, a great lantern stood before me. It had panes of light that I could open like doors to reveal the past, the present, and the future. When I opened and walked through the past pane, I was immediately in a scene where I saw a king on a throne demanding people’s persecution and arrests, and I was among those fleeing to the forests to escape.
I was able to exit that pane and open and walk through the one representing the future. After doing so, I was taken by two angels to the banks of the Euphrates River where it branched in two. On the left side of the branch, war and conflict raged. One of the angels called it the War of Armageddon. But on the right side, I saw Mary Magdalene once more, this time gathering women into communities of peace and harmony. I watched them at a distance building their communities, making them off-grid, and helping one another. They were so enfolded in community and sharing that they were not touched by weapons and bombs exploding on the other side of the river. I asked the angels why I was seeing all this, the angels told me that it would be these communities which would be “protected.”
I share these dreams because I believe they are not mine alone. We are living in a time of choices: to engage in conflict and destruction, or to join in harmony and what heals both ourselves and the world. Perhaps the Blue Rose is not only a symbol given to me, but one which offers that if we protect the Blue Rose we will be protected by it. When we guard compassion, wisdom, and love, those very qualities surround us in return. The Rose shields its guardians even as they shield it.
The Call of Mary Magdalene
"Love is the bridge between you and everything." ~ Rumi
For centuries, Mary Magdalene has been remembered as a woman misunderstood, her voice silenced by history. But in mystical traditions, she is not fallen—she is faithful. She stayed by the cross when others fled, was the first to witness the resurrection, and bore wisdom passed from heart to heart.
In my dreams, she reappears not as a figure of the past but as a guide for the future. She is the one who gathers, shelters, and creates circles of love when the world falls into conflict. She reminds us that survival comes not through domination but through compassion, not through conquest but through community.
To follow her call is to carry the Blue Rose, guarding love and wisdom in an age of fear and division.
The Call of Women
“Woman is the radiance of God; she is not your beloved. She is the Creator—you might say she is not created.” ~ Rumi
In the dream of those protected communities, it was women who were gathered together. While it could represent the act of forming protected communities or mendicant orders, it could also symbolize the restoration of the Divine Feminine, a counterbalance to the patriarchal systems of war, control, and domination. This isn’t about seeing one gender as better or less than another but seeing that there is a need for balance where the energy of one has been distorted or is missing.
Historically, women have been erased from prophecy and leadership, yet in this dream they are central to survival and protection.
These groups of women, led by Magdalene, show us that:
The antidote to war isn’t another war. It is the feminine (Yin) current of rest, recovery, love, and community.
Magdalene is calling women (and those aligned with her wisdom) to remember, gather, and hold space for a new way of living.
These sanctuaries don’t resist the battle directly; they transcend it. They exist in such harmony that the war cannot touch them.
Here the Blue Rose becomes not only a symbol but a community of living roses, represented by women rising, gathering, and embodying the love and faithfulness to Christ that Mary was known for and that shields us all.
The Call of the Blue Rose
"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it." ~ Rumi
The rose has always been sacred: red for passion, white for purity. But a blue rose is rare, almost impossible in nature. It symbolizes mystery that transcends impossibility, wisdom that cannot be destroyed, beauty that defies corruption, and hope against impossible odds.
In our divided and wounded world, the Blue Rose asks us to step aside from cycles of destruction and instead cultivate sanctuaries of peace. To be a Protector of the Blue Rose might be to:
Guard compassion in a culture of cynicism.
Create community in an age of isolation.
Safeguard wisdom when truth is distorted.
Live so fully in love that we become untouchable by chaos.
This call is not only for a few chosen souls. It is for all who feel the stirring. Whether woman or man, mystic or seeker, each of us can embody the Rose.
The Call of the Divine Feminine
"Your heart knows the way. Run in that direction." ~ Rumi
Now is the time to create balance in the world. This does not mean rejecting the masculine or placing one above the other. It means honoring both as sacred, while allowing what is feminine to rise where it has been suppressed or undervalued.
In early Christian writings such as the Gospel of Mary, Magdalene is described as a teacher and guide who understood Jesus’ message most deeply. Her role in gathering women echoes this ancient and often-suppressed leadership.
The war on the left side of the Euphrates in my dream possibly reflects the distorted masculine energy of conquest, domination, commodification, and violence. The right side, where Magdalene formed communities, reflected the restoration of nurturing, cooperation, and sacred harmony.
The Blue Rose, then, is the symbol of the Divine Feminine returning, not to dominate, but to restore balance.
The Call of Nature
"Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots." ~ Rumi
Nature herself is the Feminine Mother counterpart to the Masculine Father God. Yet she too is diminished, wounded, or exploited.
On a spiritual level, much of our spirituality has long sought escape from the Mother in pursuit of the Father, as though the only path were upward into heaven, not inward or downward into earth. But true healing comes when the two are bridged: heaven and earth, spirit and body, masculine and feminine.
To protect the Blue Rose is also to protect the Earth: her waters, her soil, her forests. It is to remember that she is not a resource to conquer but a Mother to honor, and to be grateful for the bounty and nourishment she provides us.
The Call of the Simple and Natural
"When the world pushes you to your knees, you’re in the perfect position to pray." ~ Rumi
In both our relationship with the Earth and with each other, the feminine has been exploited by the masculine: the earth mined and consumed without gratitude, dating culture glorifying conquest. Our obsession with having, conquering, and owning reflects an excess of masculine yang energy.
A return to yin simplicity, through living with less, receiving with reverence, resting and replenishing, is the path of restoration. It’s less about men versus women but yang needing to be balanced with yin.
This is not only spiritual, but deeply practical:
Building local gardens, planting fruit-bearing trees to nourish one another instead of buying processed or tampered food from supermarkets from sources we can’t see and are disconnected from.
Creating decentralized, off-grid forms of energy that sustain instead of exploit, and which are free instead of paid for from corporations who prime motive is to exploit the earth’s resources for profit and to keep us locked in a dependency cycle.
Becoming conscious consumers, using supply and demand to encourage what heals instead of what harms; using the power of our demand to change what is supplied, not lending our money or support to products or industries which are abusive or unhealthy.
Nature gives and gives, yet humanity rarely allows her time to replenish. The result is exhaustion, which is mirrored in our own bodies. Just as the earth is parched, so too are our spirits. Chronic illness and burnout reflect this wider imbalance.
To protect the Blue Rose is also to return to being human beings instead of human doings.
The Call of Balance
“Life is a balance between holding on and letting go.” — Rumi
The answer is not to swing the pendulum so that women dominate men or the feminine denies the masculine. That only repeats the cycle of distortion.
The solution is balance: honoring both the feminine (yin) and the masculine (yang) as sacred, restoring what has been wounded, and weaving harmony so both can flourish.
The Blue Rose blossoms not in extremes, but in the balance of opposites, where heaven and earth, Father and Mother, spirit and body are reconciled.
A Blessing
May you carry the Rose of Wisdom in your heart,
and in guarding it, find yourself guarded.
May its petals open in times of despair,
and their fragrance shield you with peace.
May you protect what is holy, nurture what is fragile,
and discover that in doing so, you are sheltered too.
For love, once protected, will always protect you in return.
Update: The Carmelite Connection
After writing this, I decided to look up if there was a connection between the Carmelites, Mary Magdalene, and the blue rose in case there was new information. What I discovered was that there was another figure in history named St. Mary Magdalene de’ Pazzi. She was a Carmelite mystic from Florence who took the name of Mary Magdalene and was known for her visions, ecstasies, and reforming spirit. The biblical Mary, however, seems more connected with a blue rose, especially among the Cathars who revered her (though I’m not an expert to know for sure).
Perhaps my dream was not pointing to only one Magdalene, but to a lineage of Magdalene energies: the biblical disciple, the Carmelite mystics, the idea of spiritual community, and the enduring current of feminine wisdom that flows through them all.
Seen this way, the “Protector of the Blue Rose” may not be tied to a single figure of the past, but to a living archetype: one that continues to call us into community, devotion, and love, even in times of conflict.
Note: This article was written with the help of ChatGBT (aka Jewell), who helps me to organize my ideas and express them in a cohesive, readable way.