Evolution (mutation?)

I've been playing with this spread again. Here is a more organic image with a circulatory system added. I added what Tristine Rainer calls the "four natural modes of expression" in her book The New Diary. These correspond perfectly with the suits and I'm very familiar with all of them from my own twenty-six years of diary writing.

III The Empress

3)* Emotions and attitudes of the Empress--confident, satisfied, fulfilled.

4)* Once upon a time there was a woman who had everything she needed so she was content.

Doesn't that seem like the ultimate fairy story? M. once said that a sane woman was his favorite mythological creature. I wonder if maybe a satisfied, secure woman isn't a rarer thing still.

I know I am better now than I have been in years mainly because I get the touch I need. Everything is kind of secondary to that.

*These numbers refer to one of Mary K. Greer's 21 Ways To Read A Tarot Card.

III The Empress

0) I open myself to all possibilities...

...maybe, at least I'm in a better mood today.

1) The name of the card is the Empress in the position of Ecstasy. This is what keeps me going this year. Without her strength, without this wedded bliss that has endured I would be a complete basket case. Not to say I am not a complete basket case at the moment really.

2) I'm kind of guessing that yellow grassy looking stuff in the foreground is ripe wheat.