Card for the Day

I chose my Tarot card for the day

from a recommended site online,

glad to see it was the beautiful Empress.

But the accompanying reading

was bullshit. (Oops, my French – pardon me!)

Why reinterpret the card that way

when the meaning is perfectly fine

as it is: Earth Mother / Mother Earth / Goddess.

Maybe charlatans think they’re needing

to be different to earn their money?

I ignore the rot they had to say –

rot that diminishes the Divine

which the Empress card is designed to express.

I know what it really says, seeding

a way that I can be, and shall be.

A way for me more fully, this day,

to embody Divine Feminine:

filled with Her unconditional Love, no less,

Her nurture and compassion, leading

to oneness with nature, strong and free.

I’m glad to walk in Her grace today,

receiving the gift as wholly mine 

by which I am blessed, and by which I can bless

others I meet, who may be needing

to be loved, nurtured, allowed to be.

(Not the card I pulled. This is the Empress from my Tarot Muchas deck, 

shared here according to Fair Use.)

Inspired by a prompt in Words Count by Mama Zen at 'imaginary garden with real toads' – but this fails to conform to the 60-word limit for that one, because I decided to use it for the rimas dissolutas challenge at Poetic Asides instead.

(Then I did write one in 60 words, on a different card. It's here.)

Btw, did I mention that I'm a professional Tarot reader? Far from helping, it probably limits my flexibility with such a prompt, LOL.