I sometimes ask to be told a story by the Tarot cards I draw just for the fun of it. I draw five cards.

Here is the meaning of the positions from left to right.

1. First card drawn = The beginning of the story
2. Second card drawn = what is going on because of it.
3. Third Card drawn = Important information
4. Fourth Card drawn = Advice
5. Last Card drawn = Conclusion or outcome.. end of story.

For the first story, see next post.

The cards:

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The Story: This is a story about the economy.

1.)The tower: (Beginning of story)

The stock market took a dive and kept on diving.

2.)Four of Pentacles: (What is going on.)

This is the Miser card. It represents attachment to material things and money. In our story, people stopped buying things and started pinching their pennies. Loans are hard to get. Recession sets in. People loose their houses and jobs. Times are tough. The advice from this card is to be frugal.

3.)Seven of Cups: (Important information)

In business you need to be more practical and you need to narrow down your choices. This seven sometimes warns of dubious behavior, sham transactions, and dirty deals. Beware of the snake-oil salesman, burglary, robbery and other disparate acts. Now is not the time to day dream, it is time to make a decision and act.

4.) The World (Advice)

It is time to free yourself from your restrictions and shed your burdens. Everything in life starts within and radiates outward. Now it is time to transcend the ordinary and learn what the deeper meaning of life is about.

5.)The Sun (Conclusion, outcome or end of story)

This card is a portal, an opening in your life. It is the beginning of a new story that brings exuberance, enthusiasm, attainment, success and material wealth. All things associated with the sun are indicated.

The sun, Like Leo, the sign it rules, deals with leadership and with the center of attention.

People will feel empowered because the truth has been uncovered and their goal and purpose has become clear to them. They will embrace their destiny.

What ever it is, it looks like this story has a happy ending.

Narrow down my choices? No way!

Buying stocks left and right while they are cheap

Have a great day Jeannie and very interesting layout. One can clearly see you are very good in Tarot Readings.

You can't buy them all! You have to narrow your choices until you find the right ones.

Thanks for stopping by.

Until Death do us…
By Jeanniebean on Marriage




In the above picture, the death card shows a vampire man, and a “dead” woman getting married. He has already sucked the life’s breath out of her soul, or he plans to, so she is represented by a skull. That is her future and her energy. It could just as well be the other way around. It is not always the man who consumes the woman, but that is what society accepts as “normal.”

Marriage kills the soul and the joy of autonomy for both the man and the woman but mostly the woman. Can two people really “become as one” without loosing their own soul and who they are? I don’t think so. If two people become one, then it is because one of them has consumed the other one.

Most of the time married people spend their life in battle trying to change each other. They do this for most of their marriage until they are in so deep financially they can’t escape. The STATE charges a fee to marry you and they charge even more to let you get divorced. And for what? What business does the government have making rules for a personal relationship of any kind?

Down with marriage I say!! It is evil. It is not “a man, a woman and God.” It is a man, a woman and THE STATE.

If you are married, my advice is get a divorce. It is worth the money. If you are “in love,” you should see a shrink. Being “In Love” is the same as being “Insane.” If you are thinking about marriage ask yourself why would you want to bring the government into your life that way? If you must, just live together. If you want to share property just buy it in both of your names. If you want a contract, draw one up, but for your sake, and your partner’s, do not get married.

If you invite me to your wedding I will send a sympathy card. I will come dressed in black, and when the man asks if there is anyone who knows why these two people should not be bound together in the institution of matrimony, I wlll stand up and give a speech you will not forget.

Oh I believe people can love one another! But true love needs no bondage. It is free love. (Free love is not free sex either, like so many hippy’s used to think.) It is just divine love.

But marriage is all about money, property, and raising children. A man always pays for sex whether he knows it or not. He either hires a professional or he buys an idiot who agrees to bare his children if he marry’s her. Then the battle begins. Marriage is also about owning another person. You are MY wife, I am YOUR husband. If you think your are free, think again.

If you are older, there is no reason to get married. If you are young, chances are you, as a women, will end up alone with three kids and no child support trying to survive working two jobs and neglecting your children. If you are a man, your eyes may wander and your wife will sue you for divorce and take your kids, your home and your dog away from you, or else the government will hound you for the rest of your life for child support payments just because you did not know anything about birth control.

Need some advice? Drop me a line. But you know how I feel about marriage already. I see nothing wrong or sinful about sex with another consenting adult, but to do it only with each other until death do we part? In your dreams!! Marriage contracts should be for five or ten years at best, beyond such time they will expire if not renewed. Decisions about the children can be written up in a contract.

As for gays getting married, the advice is the same. You are idiots to want to get married. If gays start getting married they won’t be “gay” anymore. They will be “miserable” like the rest of the married population.

To any man I may date in the future: I will loose all respect for your intelligence if you even suggest that we get married. (Not that any man would, I’m just giving advanced warning.)

P.S. (Added Later)
This is not to say that no marriages work. Some can and do. But what if you could form workable partnerships without all the baggage of marriage? I think that would be nice. Partnerships should be an equal give and take and a win win situation for each person. Both should be happy.

Reverend Priestess Gloria Jean
Single and loving it.

Oh, I so agree with you, JB! Partnership is the way to go. I've been owned and there is nothing worse than that feeling!

Just imagine what a partnership between a man and a woman would involve when it comes to having sex, raising children and owning property etc.

Their may have to be a price agreed upon for his and her duties.

What would you charge to have a man's baby, do his dirty laundry, clean his house, be his secretary, cook his meals, and raise his children? There would also have to be a price tag on the actual sex act, as no equal partnership would include the mandatory having of sex at any time. You would have to decide if the partnership is monogamous or open. You would have to decide who the children would stay with if the partnership breaks up.

Jackie Kennedy basically sold her self as wife to Onassis with a written contract declaring how much money she would get for her married years if the marriage ended in divorce. He, the richest man on earth, bought this woman for a status symbol to get him into high society circles. He had money but no class. So he bought a classy wife. He treated her like crap. He had no respect for her, and she was America's "Queen."

This may very well be true for you personally. But that doesn't make it true for everyone.

Everyone is not the same as you.

Nothing is true for everyone dear.

Two people do not ever become one.

That is a myth put forth by the kind of religious dogma you don't like so much.

Thank God for that.

All those exact carbon copies of me would drive me nuts.

If that's true then why did you even mention such a thing.

I assumed that you meant it metaphorically.
(the only way it makes sense )

Metaphoricially it simple means that they live in harmony with each other.

I know married people have have lived in harmony with each other for many decades.

That's not to say they never had disagreements or rough moments.

But let's face it, it's natural even for solitary people to kick their own self in the butt because they are in disagreement with their own previous behavior.

Nothing is in 'perfect' harmony.

Not even a solitary soul.

In fact some individuals aren't even happy being married to themselves.

I mentioned it because that is the myth spewed out by religious dogma in pressing everyone to get married.
It is even preached in some churches. It is part of the brain washing we grew up with. I reject the whole idea because it is often used by one spouse to attempt to mold and change the other one into what they think they need.

My experience with marriage has been that JB's analysis is correct. It is not something I could ever do again. I don't see any need for it either.

I must have slept though that part of the sermons.

I do remember them saying that the church is the body of Christ.

I was always wondering where we were exactly sitting. They also told us that we were sitting in the pews so I guess we were in his bowels.

That makes sense if the preacher was supposed to be standing behind his podium thingy I spose.

What about a symbiotic relationship? There's always compromise. Though I think it's more about finding a combination of what you need and of what you want in a partner.

But you know what's both fun and depressing? Doing calculations based on religion, age, intellect...etc. and finding about how many of the people on earth you would even consider for marriage. Based on generalities, I've got about a 1 in 10000 chance. That means I'd have to date a woman a day for the next 28 years.

I'm totally screwed.

Stay single. Stay autonomous. Fall "in love" and you will loose your spiritual power and she will make your life a living hell.

(I know I would )

Advice from the Rev High Priestess of the Universal Life Church of Brutal Truth and Honesty, Jeanniebean

I guess that all depends on what "in love" means to you.

I wouldn't hesitate to marry a woman I am in love with.

I've never been "in love" in my life. This is precisely why I have never married.

I think most people who get married are "in lust" and not in love at all.

I've been "in lust" with a lot of women. But I would never marry a woman that I was merely "in lust" with.

There is a difference.

Being "in lust" with someone simply means you are sexually attracted to a person. That can be a matter of chemistry. It has little to do with love or even liking the person.

Being "in love" with someone portends to being obsessed with them and being obsessed with them is the same as being hypnotized. In a case like this you are in love with your idea of them and you are blind to their faults and dysfunctions. (It is also temporary and it is called infatuation)

The best possible situation is to meet someone with whom you have similar values and beliefs, perhaps even similar interests, and also the chemistry and sexual attraction that will keep the lust going for a long time.

That could grow into a true and lasting love.

You have to like each other, love each other, and have the right chemistry for lusting for each other.

Finding all of this would be the ideal relationship.

You like them for who they are, you lust for them, and you love them in spite of their 'faults.' (or what you perceive as their faults.)

A great test for real love is to ask yourself if you love that person enough to let them be who they are and who they want to be without trying to change them to suit your needs.

Do you love that person enough to love them when they don't love you?

Do you love that person enough truly want them to be happy above all else?

True love does not try to change you, or control you or possess you.

True love is divine love, it does not mean that you have move in together, get married, have sex or have children and grow old together.

That kind of love is romantic love. Even romantic love is temporary and if true love does not kick in at some time you will find yourself married to someone you don't really like.

So while romantic love will bring you together, it will not last. If you don't know and like the true person behind the mask, and are not compatible, and you are not a chemical match, you will not be happy in marriage and the kindest thing to do is to go your separate ways.

Why live your precious life in conflict and misery making someone else miserable?

I had an interesting one. It was my girlfriend, at the times, good friend. She pulled out the cards and after turning them over, said there was not a bad card in the batch and that was unusual. Mind you, This was my girlfriends good buddy. She asked Janet to leave the room and Janet refused. She looked directly at me and said "Get rid of her" Needless to say that relationship was over???