FIRST COMES THE MIDLIFE SPLIT.
THE BEGINNING OF THE END.
THEN COMES THE MIDLIFE CRISIS.
THE END.
THEN THE MIDLIFE AWAKENING.
THE BEGIN AGAIN.
MIDlife rights of passage
6 live calls w/ Sarah
march 22 - april 10, 2023
Celebrating & ceremonializing
the alchemization of the
Crisis of Midlife to the Awakening.
HER SECOND ACT IS A series of 6 live Calls THAT BEGINS WITH THE MIDLIFE SPLIT AND SPIRALS THROUGH TO THE midlife AWAKENING.
IT AIMS TO MIDWIFE WOMEN FROM THE FIRST ACT OF LIFE,
often a life built from ego trauma and others’ dreams for them
TO THE DARK CACOON PHASE
between the First and Second Act.
(It’s time to give yourself permission
To take your midlife intermission)
Where we pause to grieve and leave behind
Our long term identities
Learn to live and even dance in the black
The dark, the unknown
And then birth the new life inside
Into our world that is our own
A world where we no longer have to hide.
coven conversations and circle work around:
The Last Patriarchal Man.
Sleeping with the Enemy.
Addressing Our Inner Masculine and Inner Dominator.
The True Grief of Age.
Aging out of Patriarchy.
Walking the Ageist Hall of Invisibility
to a Place Where You Are Loved for Who You Are -
to a Place Where you are Free.
Confronting the Inner Death Mother.
Grieving Patriarchal Friendships.
Mapping the cracks in our masks and our world -
listening to the Darkness calling from Below.
Healing the Persona (who we present as) / Person (who we actually are) split.
Finally, fully “failing,” at the isolated, anti-relational, transactional, hyper-individual life.
Fearlessly scything out of our cage,
reverently destroying what we built in the First Act,
honoring the Woman who has brought us to this place.
“Destroying Our Reputations and Living Where We Fear to Live,”
Building the RunWay out of our First Act,
and walking as ceremony as that First Act dies around us.
Deconstructing Celebrity in patriarchal Culture and Spirituality.
Navigating and Trusting the Darkness,
Tracking the True Us like a Huntress.
Unlocking our Rage,
Leaving our Cage,
Finding our True Voice—
and being amazed.
Letting the First Act die,
losing the need to explain yourself or ask for external permission, and letting go of the need for them to understand, agree, or even like you.
Deconstructing Patriarchal Beauty and Inner Ageism & Misogyny,
And redefining beauty for ourselves.
Orienting toward Elder, from Mother to Crone.
Moving from an isolated, transactional woman,
to a communal, relational woman,
and the crises that lead to the community we need.
Building intimacy, love, even romance, outside of traditional, hetero patriarchal, relationship roles.
The art of Mature Feminine Friendships.
Becoming the Witness to our Life.
Allowing the new life and the flow towards destiny.
I’m Back in the Body: The Endless Well of Wisdom of walking and breathing as the Mother Tree.
Mapping the Second Act with Coven as witness
and being held to the Second Act Dream with Loving Accountability.
First Act Vigil & Offerings.
Building the Second Act Us.
"Men are from Earth, and so are Women." - Marion Woodman
Meeting the Internal Mother & Father: Setting the Dancer & Lover Free.
WELCOME TO THE RITE OF PASSAGE AFTER MAIDEN TO MOTHER!
THE MIDLIFE CROSSING;
FROM SPLIT
TO CRISIS
TO AWAKENING
AND ALL THE DARK PARTS IN BETWEEN
This work is built upon 13 years of teaching with women on the Primordial Sacred Feminine and guiding the Maiden to Mother passage.
Come move with us through the next furious glorious & fiery threshold of the feminine wheel of life.
LIFE WAS ON
AUTOPILOT
I HAD NO FIRE
LEFT INSIDE
IT WAS LIKE
I HAD DIED
BUT WAS STILL WALKING AROUND
PRETENDING I WAS FINE
ON THE OUTSIDE
EVENTUALLY
I WAS FORCED
TO LAY DOWN
IN THE
COCOON
OF THE CRISIS
I LOST ALL FORM
& FOUNDATION
LOST ANY DESIRE
FOR CREATION
MY FIRST LIFE
WAS COMPOSTING
INTO THE
GREAT BLACK LAP
OF THE BLACK MADONNA
I COULD SEE IT NOW
THAT I WAS OUT OF IT
I NO LONGER LIVED
A LIFE I HONORED
MY LIFE WAS STILL
FOR EVERYONE ELSE
MY TRUE SOUL’S PATH
STILL SAT ON THE SHELF
FROM BED IN HER LAP
MY CHILD ON MY CHEST
I COULD DO NOTHING
BUT LET
THAT FIRST ACT DIE
NOTHING BUT JUST KEEP
MYSELF &
MY DAUGHTER ALIVE
FROM THE BOTTOM
OF THE MIDLIFE SEA
WHILE THE TIDES WASHED OVER HER & ME
EVENTUALLY A NEW LIFE
CAME TO BE
ONE THAT I DREAMED
FROM
THAT FIRST ACT DEATH BED
A LIFE OF MY OWN
IN MY WISE BEAUTIFUL MOTHER BODY
FREE FROM
MY OPPRESSIVE PATRIARCHAL HEAD
& UTTERLY
SOUL- LED
TO CALL IT A
MIDLIFE AWAKENING
MEANS I HAD
TO HAVE BEEN
SLEEPING
IF STELLA
GETS HER GROOVE
BACK
IT MEANS SHE HAD
TO HAVE
LOST IT
IT TURNED OUT SUCCEEDING
IN PATRIARCHY
WAS NO SUCCESS AT ALL
I DIDN’T WANT TO CLIMB
ANY HIGHER
ON ITS HIERARCHAL LADDER
IN FACT I’D RATHER FALL
INTO THE MOTHER’S DARK EARTH
I WANTED TO LIVE
NOT JUST WORK
THIS WAS NO LIFE AT ALL
THE MOTHER STARTED
TO BURN IT ALL DOWN
THROUGH ME & SETTING FIRE TO EVERYTHING AROUND ME
TO SET ME FREE
BURNING ALL
MY FALSE SKINs
UNTIL I WAS
NAKED AGAIN
SOMETIMES I LOOK BACK
ON THAT FIRST ACT
& BY THE END
I WAS
THE WALKING DEAD
I SO LOVE LIFE
ON THIS SECOND ACT SIDE
IT’S WHEN WE
TRULY COME ALIVE
Midlife is not
What they told us before
It is so much better so much deeper so much more
When the Women
come back to life
So does the earth
Are you ready
for your Second Act rebirth?
the midlife split starts with the cracks in your mask.
“Sooner or later —if we are lucky— the mask will be smashed.
What a relief to be human.”
- Marion Woodman
LIVE CALL DetailS
SCHEDULE:
MONDAYS AT 12 PM EST -
Teaching calls with Sarah starting 3/22/24 - 4/10/24
WEDNESDAYS AT 12P EST:
Integration calls with Sarah & Guest Teacher starting 3/22/24 - 4/10/24
INCLUDES:
▽ 6 LIVE Teaching calls with Sarah Durham Wilson: Woven with Stories, Song and Ceremony around the Cauldron of Collective Wisdom from the Midlife Split
▽ 3 LIVE & recorded integration calls with Sarah & Guest Teacher
▽ Membership in the Mammune Community Circle for connecting with other women doing this work worldwide (please note: Sarah is available during live calls only)
Questions:
Will it be recorded?
Absolutely. Though we invite and encourage your participation for our short time together, it is welcome and not mandatory. All call recordings. including teaching calls and integration calls, will be housed within the private community for your convenance.
Do I need to have done Maiden to Mother Work with you before?
We always ask that the women who come to this work start with our Foundational Maiden to Mother Bloom Course.
Please reach out to hello@sarahofmagdalene.com with your questions.
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MEET YOUR GUIDe
SARAH OF MAGDALENE
Hi. It’s so great to meet you here.
It’s so great to meet me, truly, finally here, too,
at this Midlife Crossing.
I’ll try to make a full life brief : I lost my Mother at 17. She was 45. I am 44, in what was the last year of my mother’s life. And I have vowed to make the most of it, to her, to my soul, to my daughter, and to this Earth. To this one Precious Life I am in.
Which brings me to you, or you to me.
I was deeply Unmothered in the Wasteland of the Patriarchy, mired in what I call the Triple Mother Wound. Without my own mother, without the Great Mother and without connection to the Earth Mother.
While I dove into a life of Rock N Roll as a journalist and fan of the one thing I could understand in this world: music, I only grew more lost and astray from my path. I ended up attempting my own death by pills at 30 after my indie rocker fiance left me in my Saturn Return.
Gratefully and humbly I can claim I was Awakened and saved by the Goddess through an instant Kundalini Awakening and Activation. I began the work Chronicling my own Awakening of the Divine Feminine through the penname of my Maiden life: DOITGIRL. I began to teach courses, retreats and one on ones on awakening the Divine Feminine in and through our Bodies and the Earth.
I then dove headfirst into my own Heroine’s Journey through the work of Marion Woodman and Maureen Murdock. I healed the feminine split within and integrated my Primordial Feminine back to the UpperWorld.
Feeling a sore absence of the archetypal Great Mother, a deep wound of immaturity poisoning myself and the patriarchal women I was sitting with and seeing on a daily basis, I was led to resurrect my own Rites of Passage from my Maiden life - the spring of my life, the waxing moon phase - into the Summer of my life - the full moon phase.
These resurrected Rites of Passage into our Primordial Feminine Maturity are called the Maiden to Mother work and if you are new to this work you can find my course and book on it here.
My love for my mother and The Mother is undying: My Mother was patriarchalized, but I can now see and love her through the Great Mother’s Eyes.
I am not mad at my Mother, but For her. I understand and have lived the patriarchal oppression she and all women are under. I am here to love the women of the Great Mother and help us remember and return to the Mother of Us All.
To all the Women Feeling Her Call,
Keep Heeding it, it is the realest deepest call you will ever follow, it is your own, your Soul’s and the Earth’s. I live and love to help you Birth the Great Mother Dream Seeded Inside of You.
Maiden to Mother Work as a missing Rite of Passage into Maturity and to Midwife women positioned by patriarchal immaturity and infantilization into outward facing brave women, standing on their own two feet, giving of their gifts, fully bloomed to a world that is starving for them.
Necessity, after all, is the Mother of Invention.
The Midlife Midwife work is birthed from to the deep desire to honor, ritualize and ceremonialize the midlife crisis. In Maiden I burned every bridge. In Mother I realized I am the bridge to the Midlife Awakening I was always dying to live for.
In Love,
Sarah Durham Wilson
LOVE NOTES FROM PAST WORKSHOPS & RETREATS
“Thank you so much for the incredible container you created and provided for us; it was nourishing for my body, mind, spirit and soul. It was such a pleasure and an honor to receive your medicine. I definitely feel the effects of our powerful work today and I can feel it resonating in me toward my future as well.”
Liz
“Thank you for your leadership. magic, and generosity this weekend. What a shift for ALL. A much needed women’s retreat so ferociously led.Trying to describe what alchemizes when women circle in support of each other is futile. there are no words to capture the essence of the experience, it is magic.”
Rose Mary
“My Midlife Split. The Death of Act One. Blood, fire, and bones. Sacred circle with Sarah and a coven of dangerous woman. Held. Holding, Witness, Tending, Celebrating this Death. Loud. Catastrophic. A rising, arising.”
Krista
“Fuck Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. My gratitude to you for creating and opening this space cannot be expressed enough. So many more things have happened, so many more insights and truths have been revealed since our retreat. My ember is glowing, My desire to set fire to life is HUMONGOUS. I say yes and acknowledging a phenomenal weekend.”
Diana
“I HIGHLY recommend this immersion for any woman who wants to say goodbye to their first act and begin their second act with a loving guide and whole coven of mature women surrounding her. I cried, I laughed, I GRIEVED, and was held so lovingly through it all. I am also held in loving accountability to integrate and continue the work. It is hard to use words to describe the experience because it is so embodied. I returned less than a week ago and will be integrating for a long time.”
Libbie
“Working with Sarah and mature feminine souls in this sacred space was an incredible experience. It was pure magic. During this gathering, I finally came back home to myself and to my wild feminine power. I would attend EVERY one of Sarah’s retreats if I could.”
Julie
there was so much
repressed rage
to claim
there was so much harm
of mine and others
to name.
there was so much, shame,
there was so much pain.
I would have run from it forever if i could,
but thank goddess,
i fell through the cracks
and thank GODDEsS,
i could never go back.
With the Space that Sickness Makes, I soon found even if I could, I didn’t want to go back, that I didn’t want to keep something alive that had been trying so hard to die.
I surrendered in that dark, small back bedroom.
I watched my life leave me as the world spun madly on.
I surrendered even more, and was brought to a lower floor of the world
I’d never been before, it was so low and dark and deep,
and it was there that I took a very long, very sick, very scared
and then very peaceful nap,
on the darkest, the safest, and the most loving of Laps.
After the darkest part of my midlife crisis I began to see the cracks of light
through the night and
I began to truly orient toward Elder.
I began to lead from my wisest, deepest, truest parts.
And with the ferocity of a Mother Wolf, I tore my old life and identity apart.
Many women have gone before, leaving their old life, walking out its too small door- - doing what Mary Oliver foretells so well in the Journey-
“One day you finally knew. What you had to do, and began,
Though the voices around you
Kept shouting
Their bad advice…”
THIS MIDLIFE MIDWIFE WORK
IS DEVOTED
TO THE WOMEN WHO HAVE
AND CONTINUE TO- GO FIRST.
If I was going to live, I was going to have to fight.
I burned my patriarchal life.
To the chains surrounding me, I took a knife.
If I had to be Lillith, looking like the bad woman
To leave the false paradise of patriarchy,
If I had to be the bad woman, the exiled one, again,
to get free -