1. THE GODDESS – POWER
   Everyone thinks the Goddess card is the critical card in the DreamTarot deck, because it represents power – the force – to get things done and to bend unfriendly circumstances to your will. Isn’t that what we all want – a little magic?
   YOU ARE ICONIC – But the Goddess card is about more than magic, it is about the inherent magic that came into the world uniquely through is irreplaceable You. You have a power no one else has, incorporated in your being, your possibilities, your desires and your memories. This takes a lifetime to accept because we all want to be Someone Else and experience existence through the armor of Having only an Outside instead of just the very vulnerable Inside in which everyone feels imprisoned. Your dreams bring all these passions together as psychic poetry, elucidating what you think you want, what you hope you want and what you are afraid you want. The ultimate magic is to seize conscious control of this potent power source.
   CHALLENGE – The challenge is to truly connect with the inner beings of others, reveal to them our inner world, and avoid blasting their apparently impenetrable Outside to smithereens with our terror, our longing and our fear.
   DANGERS – we cannot take hostages and we must never become a hostage. Freedom is a fine line to walk. If we wish to reach out, we must treat others with respect and claim like respect for ourselves. Accept your dreams as “experiments”; and ‘maps”; do not fear them but allow them to take you where you need to go.
   OPPORTUNITIES – There will be stumbles and terrors aplenty, also successes that LOOK like stumbles and terrors, but which we only realize on reflection were real leaps forward. This is why we must carefully assess our daily efforts without being harsh with ourselves. Speak gently to yourself as you would to a most beloved child. You are your own Most Beloved Child. It is not selfish to commit to this belief, it is simply placing the oxygen mask over your own face FIRST so that you can administer this life-saving force to others. Find someone with whom you can share your journey, without fear or judgment. This connection will teach us everything we need to know about how to connect with others.
   

#Haiku: The Goddess

Manifest your
Brave,
Burnished; brutalized
Carapace.
Gaze. Accept.
Love.