ACADEMY OF ORACLE ARTS PRESENTS
PILGRIMAGE OF THE ROSE
WALK IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF MAGDALENE
LED BY AUDE BARRAS
Pilgrimage Guide, Devotee of the Rose & Tantric Lineage Practitioner
SUPPORTED BY MARCUS REICHER
"Hail Magdalene! Filled with Light, the way of Love is with you and me… Awaken the Path of the Rose in us now and forever”
COURSE DETAILS
11 Live Sessions over Zoom
On Wednesdays, beginning October 2, 2024
6pm - 7:30pm Pacific Time
Presentations, Rituals & Deepening Exercises
Private Community Group
Lifetime Access to Replays
Why is there a surge of interest in Mary Magdalene and the PILGRIMAGE of the rose in times of such upheaval?
This is not just a journey; it's a surrender.
This is not a path of seeking but of incarnation.
This is not a path of manifesting but of remembrance.
It is a symbolic death and resurrection.
For this we need a guiding light: Mary Magdalene.
Known as the "Apostle of Apostles," and the witness to Jesus' resurrection, Mary Magdalene's boundless love, renewing fire, and anointing hands are a balm for so many today. She is a beacon of trust in the return of the consciousness of love – The very heart of Reality.
AWAKEN THE ROSE AND BECOME A LIVING EMBODIMENT OF LOVE
Heart of Devotion
Hands that Anoint
Eyes of Fire
Voice of the Rose
PILGRIMAGE IS A RITE OF PASSAGE
Times are changing. As the world undergoes a great transition, it is essential for those who hear the call to respond and step on the path. Embracing the energy of love and devotion is crucial for the shift in consciousness we're experiencing.
Magdalene is the announcer of the resurrection. As she comes into your life, she arrives not as a mere teacher, but as a herald. Her presence announces a resurrection within you, a transformation so profound it feels like death itself. Yet, this is not a grim reaper, but a sweet surrender. It's the death of the fear of union, the thread that stands between you and the boundless love you truly are.
IIn a sacred container, over 11 weeks we come together in trust, offering our hearts in devotion. 9 Symbols, 9 rituals, 9 rites of sublime engagements, all in preparation to dissolve the fear of union and be embodied pilgrims.
As the rose blossoms and the flame of Magdalene's devotion awakens, every step becomes perfumed with a love so needed in our lives and in the world today.
Your intuition guided by a brilliant star beyond knowledge.
Your body, an overflowing chalice of offerings and nectars.
Your awareness, standing vigil in the tower of unwavering presence.
Your heart, an ever-blooming rose of blessings to all you encounter.
What previous students say about Aude's courses & Pilgrimages...
"If you’re walking the path of the rose making your way home towards Mary Magdalene, Aude is the most brilliant guide. I couldn’t have picked a better teacher if I tried to. Aude is a fountain of wisdom and walks this path like a true high priestess, with grace, humility & love. Her teachings have left me in awe, wonder, and inspiration. Grateful that the Goddess Herself conspired us to meet.
Maria Amiouni – Dubai
“Our journey with Aude was a beautiful gift to my pregnancy. There was much space for contemplation, ritual, prayer, and silence with the ancient mysteries. I trust Aude’s honor of the sacred sites and her heart’s intention to hold them sacred in great reverence for years to come. She made the journey a place to get to know Mary Magdalene in our hearts and bodies by providing us the framework and structure, and then letting the spirit of love take over. Highly recommend.”
Alexandra Roxo, Bestselling Author of F*CK LIKE A GODDESS + DARE TO FEEL
“Pilgrimaging in the South of France with such a grounded, devotional guide as Aude was an incredible once-in-a-lifetime experience. She holds incredible space and her commitment to her own practice and the Mother shines through in simply being in shared presence. Pair that with the wisdom of the land from the sacred sites we traversed and the transformation that is available within a journey like this is truly exponential.”
Luna Battalia – USA
Overview of Sessions
For how many eons has a yearning for the source echoed in our being? The call of a star.
This 11-week course invites you to answer that call. We'll embark as pilgrims, barefoot on sacred ground, leaving behind the familiar to embrace the unknown. Humbly we discern and answer the beckoning of Stella Maris along a path of precious remembrance - tender, powerful, poetic, fiery, and tremendously alive.
Designed as a poetic cartography mapping the journey towards the Anthropos, each week a symbol will serve as an invitation to delve deeper within. We'll step into the liminal realm, where trust guides us, transformation unfolds and a red flame of devotion illumines the dark.
Over ELEVEN sessions, this course will cover the following topics:
SESSION 1: Pilgrimage of The Rose - An Inner Transformation
- Introducing the essence of pilgrimage and its role as a rite of passage for inner transformation and embodiment. Exploring Mary Magdalene's journey as footsteps to follow. Unveiling the poetic cartography of the upcoming weeks.
SESSION 2: Stella Maris - The Calling
- The beginning and the end. Answering the call of the star to a long awaited and deeply sensed journey. A journey that reverberates with such familiarity, with such 'bone memory', it feels like nothing less than a home coming. A starry remembrance that beckons us beyond known lands to return to the Rose.
SESSION 3: The Forest - Guardianship & Offering
- Following the star, we step into the forest. Giving attention is one of the greatest acts of love and in the forest, as we learn to attune, hear, and offer back, we sharpen our senses and enter a reciprocal dance with nature. Through this practice, the interconnectedness of all life unfolds and our shared responsibility awakens, fostering a deep sense of guardianship and reverence for the world around us. We are brought into a journey of connection, adoration, and living presence.
SESSION 4: The Cave - The Heart Womb
- In the heart of the forest, we are brought into the realm of the cave. Here we plunge into heart-woven introspection through the ancient practice of rosary prayer. Approaching this practice as tapas and self-discipline, we kindle the transformative fire of devotion that nurtures the seed of divine love within where all is prepared to hum as the sacred.
SESSION 5: Alabaster Jar - Anointment
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Magdalene is known as the one who has anointed Christ (literally the anointed one). We anoint sacred objects, we anoint as a means of recognition, we anoint to prepare and seal the vessel for the work to come. We anoint to prepare for death and rebirth. A drop poured into the vessel of the universe.
SESSION 6: The Skull - Death and Re-birth
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What is not born of wisdom and devotional love cannot be carried over into the new life we have been prepared for. Surrender the fear of union, offering yourself to be a vessel of the magic and wonder that is SHE.
SESSION 7: The Book - Wisdom Beyond Death
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Seeing through the heart with eyes of fire we write an invocation to the Rose, expressing our deepest longing realized. This is the wisdom of our star and the world unified.
SESSION 8: The Chalice - Vessel of Love
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Love unifies. In the chalice of love that is your body and mind - the opposites of human and divine, mundane and sacred, imminence and transcendence, masculine and feminine, all come together. The white and the red come together in the Pink Rose.
SESSION 9: The Tower - Vigil
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Now we hold vigil. Cultivating unwavering devotion and dedication in honour of all the gifts received, the visions had, the realizations made, and the blessings held along the way of the Rose. This is a vigil of loving discipline. A tending to the Rose.
SESSION 10: The Rose - The Gift - the Return to the World
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All the ways we walk and express through life, all we touch and all we are touched by, become a showering of rose petals on sacred pathways. An awakening of forgotten song lines. The star embodied as the rose and the beauty way realized.
SESSION 11: Walking the Rose - Pilgrimage an Outer Expression
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As we conclude our journey together we will offer a taste of pilgrimage in Southern France following in the legendary footsteps of Mary Magdalene along the hidden trail of the rose in the Cathar land and Provencial Region. We will also introduce the upcoming in-person pilgrimage in Spring 2025.
Prepare to surrender to the Rose and the flame of beauty within.
Beloved, the path of the Rose awaits. Will you answer its call?
MEET AUDE & MARCUS
Aude
A Darshan of the Rose
Through many paths, traditions, and seeming lifetimes of exploring feminine embodiment, Aude found her way in an ancient, living, tantric lineage of Goddess worship, where in an instant of profound recognition, it was revealed that the Rose had always been the way.
Born Christian, the divine mother had called her outside of her own cultural context to be touched by the holy, before returning back to her original faith in the mysticism of Magdalene. Led to the cave of Sainte Baume on the feast of Mary Magdalene, Aude eventually realized she was unknowingly following in the footsteps of the legends of Magdalene’s walk through the rose ways of southern France.
Beyond the mind, beyond her own understanding, beyond comprehension, in a depth of mystery still unveiling itself today, she began to follow a longing and relentless call to live and walk the trails where Mary Magdalene is said to have come after her exile from the holy land.
Years later, on a winter solstice in Avebury — a Celtic site dedicated to the Goddess — a call was heard, a stone whispered, “It is time to bring people on the land to simply be Love.” Ever since Aude has guided intimate pilgrimages of remembrance, where each who walk offer recognition, as petals of beauty, reawakening the long forgotten lines of the Rose in southern France.
Marcus
A Love Story
After years of following a flame inside, beyond his own understanding, expectation, plans, or even will — doing it ‘the old school way’ — Marcus found himself living in Catholic Portugal (despite not being formally Christian at all) preparing.
Hearing about the skull of Magdalene housed somewhere in France, and not being able to shake the thought, despite knowing nothing about it and very little about her, Marcus booked a 28 hour bus ride across two country borders on an expired visa. Setting out, as if on a boat without oars, knowing nothing of what he was stepping into or the immense impact it would have on his life.
Years and many pilgrimages, sacrifices, myths, rituals and offerings later, having spent more than a yoga teacher’s training’s worth of hours emptying in front of Magdalene, he knew something was about to change; and was called out of the cave to share some of what she gave.
May you remember it’s a love story after all
Following The Rose
After unexpectedly meeting, in silence, for the 2nd time, walking in perfectly matched steps and rhythms of love and worship together following the relics of Mary Magdalene up the mountain of Sainte Baume, Aude and Marcus were clearly about to continue the procession hand in hand.
Intertwining their lives, and love, in humming devotion,
Schedule of Classes
ALL CLASSES ARE FROM
6:00PM - 7:30PM PT ON WEDNESDAYS
SESSION 1 | OCTOBER 2, 2024
SESSION 2 | OCTOBER 9, 2024
SESSION 3 | OCTOBER 16, 2024
SESSION 4 | OCTOBER 23, 2024
SESSION 5 | OCTOBER 30, 2024
SESSION 6 | NOVEMBER 6, 2024
SESSION 7 | NOVEMBER 13, 2024
SESSION 8 | NOVEMBER 20, 2024
SESSION 9 | NOVEMBER 27, 2024
SESSION 10 | DECEMBER 4, 2024
SESSION 11 | DECEMBER 11, 2024
For those unable to make the live Zoom sessions, all classes will be recorded and uploaded into the Academy Portal. You will have lifetime access to replays.
ADDITIONAL IN-PERSON PILGRIMAGE OPPORTUNITIES
Mary Magdalene 11-Day Pilgrimage in Southern France
Join Aude on an intimate pilgrimage into the Mystery of the Rose and Mary Magdalene on Cathar Land & Provence.
Spring 2025
Sunday May 4th to Wednesday May 14th, 2025
Fall 2025
Sunday October 5th to Wednesday 15th, 2025
More info on the pilgrimage will be provided in future months.
Space is limited. To secure your place, please email us at [email protected] to join the waitlist. Priority will be given to students for the pilgrimage.
More praise for Aude's courses & pilgrimages
"I had the great honor of being accompanied by Aude on the pilgrimage of Mary Magdalene. It is first of all the encounter with Mary Magdalene, who is taking an increasingly important place in my life, as a figure of "woman of body and soul". I was deeply moved to walk in her footsteps, to feel her presence under the trees of Sainte-Baume, in the cave, in a luminous vibration. Protected by Mary Magdalene, I was able to lay down burdens I had carried for so long and find a light and joyful peace. Aude's accompaniment on this path is always an immense happiness, on a path of devotion and very simple bonds.
I was overwhelmed by the visit to the Galamus Gorge and I will never forget the ceremony in the hermitage, the songs and the devotion that I was given to experience at that moment. I cannot finish this testimony without trying to put words to my total emotion in the crypt of the Holy Marys of the Sea and my almost paralyzing encounter with Sainte Sara. I still don't really understand what happened to me. A upheaval of my being.
During the pilgrimage, thanks to Aude's great knowledge, I was able to visit other holy and significant places and celebrate the presence of Mary Magdalene through numerous rituals and ceremonies. Pilgrimage, devotion, teachings, practices, rituals, connection to the divine are now for me the only possible way to live a sweeter, more poetic, slower and more savory life."
Aline- Sion, Switzerland
"Our Mary Magdalene pilgrimage was a captivating adventure, made truly special by our guide, Aude. More than a guide, Aude is a priestess dedicated to helping couples reconnect with the essence of divine union. Her beautiful work helped us connect deeply with both the divine feminine and masculine, fostering greater intimacy. Aude's presence enriched our journey, making it a blend of beauty, mystery, and spiritual connection. This adventure left us forever touched by her wisdom and compassion. We feel blessed to have experienced such a transformative retreat."
Samsara & Rhyz - Peru
Payment Options
Each Payment Option Comes With:
11 Live Sessions over Zoom
Presentations, Rituals & Deepening Exercises
Private Community Group
Lifetime Access to Replays
"In the process of birth we may not know what is on the other side; but in Magdalene and The Way of the Rose, we trust."
Aude Barras
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