Renee has always wanted to make jewelry for years and has been collecting pieces (pendants, amulets and stones) from her travels around the world. She has used them in other art forms—from canvas to driftwood—but when she transitioned some of her passionate ideas to jewelry, it was as if she had been making pieces for hundreds of years, not hours. It wasn’t long before Anthony began to add his creative abilities into the mix and soon, the Magdalene Collection was born.
Our inspiration is entrenched with Mary Magdalene and the Divine Feminine in mind—Sophia. Shekinah . . . the Goddess aspect of who we are. In the collection, there are currently nine lines: The Sophia, The Creatrix, The Alchemist, The Mystic, The Artist, The Warrior, The Light and The Mentor, which all correlate to Miriam of Magdala and the seven sisters. The ninth line for men is called The Peace, which is connected to the Yeshua energy of serenity, peace and inner calm.
Although The Peace is dedicated to men, any piece may call to you. The necklaces weave the energies of specific archetypes with all the aspects that each of the stones hold. Because we are all beautiful fragments or off-shoots of the whole but we are also the whole itself, there’s also overlap between the archetypes and you may feel that merging when you wear one. In other words, we are the drop of the ocean, but we are also the ocean. We are stardust but we are also the Universe, which lives inside us as much as we live inside it. Once you start wearing the piece, you too will be putting your energy into it. Energetically, this combination is incredibly powerful.
The Process
Our process is very individualized and unique. Each piece is handmade by Renee and Anthony and infused with the energies of the archetypes as well as the frequencies they work with: Sophia, Unity Consciousness, Shekinah, Goddess and the I Am Who I Am frequency. Below is a little background on the lines.
The Sophia: Sophia means wisdom in Greek and is often depicted as various incarnations of ancient and sacred female knowledge and wisdom. Sophia is also deeply connected to Gnosticism, seen as a fractal of energy of the whole, of God, of Source. We are all fractals but we are also the whole. In other words, Source is not separate from us.
Sophia, whose name in Greek means “wisdom,” is connected to the different incarnations of sacred female knowledge and to those goddesses listed above. Sophia is one of the central figures of Gnosticism, a Christian philosophical movement with uncertain origins that most likely originated in ancient Rome and Persia.
Gnostics believe in the Sophia Code, or the Sophia Energy which is a fractal energy, an all-encompassing energy field which is God. An energy where the creator exists which in quantum mechanics its holographic in nature. That energy is feminine that’s why I believe God is woman. Sophia appears in many passages of the Bible as the female personification of wisdom, though her roles and popularity in Judeo-Christian traditions have changed throughout time. She is also celebrated in Kabbalah, a form of Jewish mysticism, as the female expression of God.
The Creatrix:
The Alchemist:
The Mystic:
The Artist:
The Warrior:
The Light:
The Mentor:
Learn more about our work and check out our latest book, Magdalene’s Journey.