# Elayne Kalila A cultural and spiritual reckoning for midlife women navigating power, perimenopause, sovereignty, and the reclamation of the priestess path. Page: Feed: --- ## [The Magdalene Codes: Heart of the Sun](https://elaynekalila.substack.com/p/the-magdalene-codes-heart-of-the) _2026-07-30 · Elayne Kalila_ The astrology this week asked two things at once. Will you step into what you are actually here to do. And will you go down into the dark first, to reclaim it. Which was the Magdalene's question too. ## [Magdalene](https://elaynekalila.substack.com/p/magdalene) _2026-07-22 · Elayne Kalila_ Today is her feast day. For fourteen hundred years the Church called the apostle to the apostles a repentant whore, because a woman carrying that much power and worth had to be cut down to fit. To be ## [Your Wild Knowing Is Waking](https://elaynekalila.substack.com/p/your-wild-knowing-is-waking) _2026-07-03 · Elayne Kalila_ There is a wisdom that wakes in a woman as she crosses peri and menopause. This is what it is, why the culture buried it, and why I am no longer willing to let women meet it alone. ## [Unburied](https://elaynekalila.substack.com/p/unburied) _2026-06-25 · Elayne Kalila_ Perimenopause can bring buried trauma flooding back, even the trauma you were sure you'd healed. Here's why, and what it's for. ## [Fathered](https://elaynekalila.substack.com/p/fathered) _2026-06-21 · Elayne Kalila_ My father is disappearing, an ocean away, by stroke and then dementia. A Father’s Day letter about the long wait for him to see me, the gift of finally seeing him, and the gratitude I am left with. ## [Avert Your Gaze](https://elaynekalila.substack.com/p/avert-your-gaze) _2026-06-17 · Elayne Kalila_ They built a fighting cage on the White House lawn for the emperor's birthday, and then told us to look away. On bread and circuses, and the end of an empire. ## [I Am No Longer Available for Dimming](https://elaynekalila.substack.com/p/i-am-no-longer-available-for-dimming) _2026-06-14 · Elayne Kalila_ And neither, as it turns out, are you. The Radiant Queen is the instinctual knowing you were domesticated out of, the one menopause is busy handing back to you. ## [Surrendered](https://elaynekalila.substack.com/p/surrendered) _2026-06-12 · Elayne Kalila_ The tradwife is selling women a beautiful cage and calling it the divine feminine. Here is what surrender really means. ## [What Nobody Told You About Your Period](https://elaynekalila.substack.com/p/what-nobody-told-you-about-your-period) _2026-06-05 · Elayne Kalila_ Your menstrual blood contains pluripotent stem cells. Regenerative cellular gold. The science has known for twenty years. ## [Countdown to Getting Paid (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/tqFDApOzvMCs) _2026-06-05 · **Sponsored**_ Create a shareable wallet timer — deposits buy back time and pay debt down ## [The Menopause Guide for Men](https://elaynekalila.substack.com/p/the-menopause-guide-for-men) _2026-06-02 · Elayne Kalila_ What is happening to the women in your life. What she needs from you. And what you get on the other side.