With new moon energy, I continue.

It is suddenly as if all the chaos and riot of ideas that have been swimming in my head for nearly 20 years have suddenly amalgamated into this rolling wave of creative energy.

It seems that sword that I stuck in my own back (metaphorically speaking), since withdrawn, has become a tool for personal power and creativity rather than a weapon of self-destruction.

I compared a previous tarot reading to one I received today. The 9 of Swords (self-torture) has given way to a reversed 10 of Swords, meaning that an anticipated goal, previously aborted, has been renewed. I am triumphing over forces larger than myself. This was followed by the Ace of Swords, implying the use of creative resourcefulness to reveal opportunities unseen by others. That is exactly what is happening in my life right now.

In 1993, after my second and final separation from my husband, I birthed the idea of establishing my own religious order (I was a Christian then). A Catholic nun friend of mine, my favorite wisewoman of all time, looked at my hand-written plan and chuckled -- "I see. You want to be the Pope of the Peninsula." (I was living on the Key Peninsula in Washington State.) Not really Pope, just Mother Superior. ;-) Hildegard of Bingen was my inspiration. I was still Evangelical Protestant then.

Now, nearly 20 years later, my vision is becoming reality. Well, not exactly Mother Superior -- my ego has been replaced with confidence and understanding. The opportunity was set forth on the full moon, and today (from the burgeoning effulgence of the new moon) I announced the inception of Bona Dea Temple. It has come to pass. It has been put into my hands, and I grasp it, not with a desperate clinging but with the wonder of a child being handed something to experience for the first time.

Much is done. Miles to go before I sleep. More soon.