Irony

As a Christian, I know its rather taboo to be messing around with tarot cards. However, I have a certain affinity for my Dragon Tarot deck simply for the artwork. I bought the deck 4 years ago where it has remained quietly, and unused on my bookshelf for years. I picked them up recently, just to play with them again after so long and the first card that came up was....

DEATH.

But if you look at the card, the poor fictional creature is shedding its skin while reaching its head toward the light. The interpretation of the card reads: "A significant transformation approaches. An unplanned event requires you to make dramatic or radical change. Illusions are stripped away, leaving you with only the bare truth." The description of the card states that "What was perhaps looked upon as a painful death or great loss has been revealed as a rebirth into something better."

This potently describes what I am going through - to a TEE! Shedding old skin (behaviors) and being reborn into something better. While I have not yet experienced the radical change or unplanned event (LORD - please let it be something I can handle), I feel a strong sense of its approach. Things ARE changing for me. I am reaching toward the light and shedding my skin so I can be reborn as a new woman, hungry and thirsty for God.

Its ironic, really.

I didnt need a tarot card to tell me that I am growing up, the fact that it was the first card to appear was rather ironic. I have a phoenix tattooed on my side as a reminder that I will ALWAYS triumph over hard times. Out of the proverbial dark ashes, rises a gorgeous creature, reborn from the muck. This is how I must think of myself and I approach this new chapter of my life.