It is necessary to understand that after the child ascends to rule the nations with an iron of rod , the woman can no longer symbolize the Virgin since the next public event is merely her assumption , which which means that after this, she has no public presence in divine revelation in history following the Ascension.
In other words, after that the Christ ascends , effectively the virgin's role in public relations ceases except for the knowledge of her assumption.
This is in part because no Christian is ever obliged to believe in any private Revelation even Fatima
not that we should deny it out right but technically technically , even Fatima is not part of public Revelation and therefore Mary has no public rolee definitively after the Ascension
Hence effectively after the Christ child ascends into heaven to rule the nations with an rod of iron ,
the woman can no longer be mary in any context if we are to remain in a simple chronological context. This is because immediately after the the Ascension of the Christ child
Nothing good happens in terms of the woman coming to heaven but rather a terrible war in heaven after which the dragon is cast down
Consequently, she can only be the church and therefore we must interpret the rest of Apocalypse 12 as the ages of the church where the dragon is persistently trying to harm her.
The only other way to see her as the Virgin would be to argue that it is not chronological but this really then nullifies any mysticism to the apocalypse because it could only tell us things that are already known in the gospel which is not help us really
Hi father, this isn't really what I meant.
Of course Mary plays personal roles within the redemption of Christ and within our personal lives and so forth.
What I mean is that the rest of Apocalypse 12 would clearly refer to ages of the church and Mary does not positively gude ages of the church nor does her son through a direct revelatory presence and human history after the death of the last apostle.
This is rather odd, and I fear, not very Catholic. The Church made several DOGMATIC assertions about Our Lady that show she is active in our lives, particularly the doctrine that clarified she is Mediatrix of all grace. A quick jaunt to "Mary, Mediatrix of All Grace" at Wiki shows the following: "as the Mother of God, it includes the understanding that she mediates the Divine Grace. In addition to Mediatrix, other titles are given to her in the Church: Advocate, Helper, Benefactress.[1] In a papal encyclical of 8 September 1894, Pope Leo XIII said: "The recourse we have to Mary in prayer follows upon the office she continuously fills by the side of the throne of God as Mediatrix of Divine grace."[2] The references are from a Papal document that dogmatically declared for all Catholics this title and role of Mary, namely, that she actively assits her Son in dispensing God's grace for our salvation. Which means she is active up to the very point that the last person is saved and the Pearly Gates no longer accepting souls.
As for whether devotion to Our Lady or any of the saints detracts from our worship of Jesus/the Trinity as God, see this new podcast from Catholic Answers posted just this morning. https://www.catholic.com/audio/sp/does-devotion-to-mary-draw-us-away-from-jesus