on a mission from
Goddess

One goal I have set for myself this year is to finally learn the Tarot as well as I have always wanted. I've done readings for myself and others (sometimes even for a few sheckels) since I was in high school--many, many years ago.  But I've always felt as thought I were winging it rather than really competent.  So I'm taking a couple classes to really hone my skills and my connection with the cards. I have a few decks now--the ubiquitous Rider set, the Thoth, a book of the Dead set that I got free with a purchase, but I really like them and a set of Universal Goddess Tarot cards.  I try to draw a card from one wet every day or every other day to really study them.  The Goddess cards I'll post here.

So to start, I'll pick . . .

X  The Wheel
The goddess represented here is Arianrhod, lady of karma.  One minute her silver wheel turns for you, another against. And from the gleeful way she frolicks, it doesn't seem she minds her role.  The wheel in most decks represents the operation of fortune in the querent's life or perhaps a turning point where one must take a new tack.  It's interesting that this card comes for me the day after my first semester in graduate school ended. What does this card say for you?

Subject: When women lie

One day, when a seamstress was  sewing while sitting close to ariver, her thimble fell  into the river. When she cried out, the Lord appeared  and asked, "My dear child, why are you crying?" The  seamstress replied that her thimble had fallen into the
water and that she needed it to help her husband in  making a living for their family. The Lord dipped His  hand into the water and pulled up a golden thimble set  with sapphires.


"Is this your thimble?" the  Lord asked The seamstress replied, "No."
The Lord again dipped into  the river. He held out a golden thimble studded with  rubies.


"Is this your thimble?" the  Lord asked. Again, the seamstress replied, "No."
The Lord reached down  again and came up with a leather thimble.


"Is this your thimble ?" the  Lord asked. The seamstress replied, "Yes." The Lord was  pleased with the woman's honesty and gave her all three  thimbles to keep, and the seamstress went home happy.

Some years  later, the seamstress was walking with her husband along  the riverbank, and her husband fell into the river and  disappeared under the water. When she cried out, the  Lord again appeared and asked her, "Why are you crying?"  "Oh Lord, my husband has fallen into the river!"

The Lord went down into the  water and came up with George Clooney. "Is this your  husband?" the Lord asked.


"Yes," cried the  seamstress.. The Lord was furious. "You lied! That is an  untruth!" The seamstress replied, "Oh, forgive me, my  Lord. It is a misunderstanding. You see, if I had said  'no' to George Clooney, you would have come up with Brad  Pitt.


Then if I said 'no' to him,  you would have come up with my husband. Had I then said  'yes,' you would have given me all three. Lord, I'm not  in the best of health and would not be able to take care  of all three husbands, so THAT'S why I said 'yes' to  George Clooney.
And so the Lord let her keep  him.


The moral of this story  is:
Whenever a  woman lies, it's for a good and honorable reason, and in  the best interest of others.
That's our story, and  we're sticking to it.

Signed,
All Us  Women, Amen