Wheel of Fortune

Little Devils

I pulled The Devil card today. Certainly, not a favorite--but in the Tarot of the Saints this card is represented by St. Margaret calmly standing at the mouth of Hell. The symbolic meaning is that of a bad situation, something that enslaves or traps us, something that is harmful or destructive.

No big devils around today---just the little ones that arrive with niggling doubts of insecurity. Today, feeling uncreative and uninspired, deciding that my writing is pointless...and then I receive an unexpected e-mail---from posting on another's blog. Someone recognized my name from another site that posted my poems...and she was moved by them, and wrote to tell me this. Well...it just made my day!

So, I need to drive those nasty little devils away. I need to remember the joy I find in writing and remember the reason I do this in the first place--and that's not for recognition, or publication, or personal validation. I write for the pure, unbridled joy of language and story. My evangelical Christian friends would tell me that the Devil loves to steal our joy away. I think more often, it is our own petty
foibles that muck up the pure water of our bliss.

And yes, I have evangelical Christian friends---because even though we are miles apart theologically, and politically, there runs a deep chord of understanding that what is truly important in life are the spiritual issues and the living out of a life that has a Divine purpose and calling.

Check these links ...https://www.EllynPeirson.com

At Ellyn's site she touches briefly on the importance of dreams. It ocurred to me that I used to have frequent dreams of working at St. Margaret's Hospital in Pittsburgh---though I never worked there, or even certain if one existed. St. Margaret is the patron saint of women, pregnant women, women in labor,
nursing mothers, peasants, and those who need to escape from the devil. Perhaps these dreams were revealing to me the sense that I often have when writing that I am trying to express God's feminine face--to reveal the Divine from a woman's life experience...or perhaps it is just St. Margaret helping me to run away from my little demons...

the links to my poems---https://wwww.gggg.ca