The Sacred Muse | A Card Pull

A woman, her story, and so much wisdom and inspiration - for you!

Today’s card: Anna

Her story: Hers is not a tale most of us turn to; she’s usually only mentioned around Christmas and even then, subsumed by a much larger story. But had we known her better, heard her story told at bedtime, known her to be part of our matrilineal line, we would be the better for it, to be sure.

She was widowed at a very young age, after only seven years of marriage. At that time, widows were often left homeless and without any resource of support. It was undoubtedly because of this that she went to live in the temple. Her response to such was hardly just surviving; in fact, the text tells us she never left, but worshiped night and day, fasting and praying.

I wonder: What must it have been like for her to have her life so dramatically upset, the story she’d imagined for herself upended, everything she’d hoped and planned suddenly gone?