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Did I fail the test of love, or was I meant to continue wandering?

Do you ever feel as if the Gods/Goddesses are testing you? Goddess Aphrodite sitting amongst the clouds and placing obstacles and games in my path to see which is chosen?

Sara Burdick
4 min readNov 5, 2022
Photo by engin akyurt on Unsplash

Will she choose paths A, B, or C. Choose doors 1, 2, or 3? Sitting up there with Hermes discussing which door she would choose, but failing to shed a little light as to which direction is the path that leads to, to what?

That is the first mistake; where am I headed? What do I want?

I have always been good with my work goals, money goals, and anything tangible I can handle. Figure out a complex situation I can put my hands on; I got it; I will put my nose to the grind and go, a good workhorse. Working hard has never been my issue in life.

However, I have much bigger fish to fry, the intangible, the parts of life that I can not see, the area where Goddess Aphrodite is the ruler. The Goddess of Love, Fertility, and Beauty. The place I struggle with is the concept of love.

When it comes to love, I am clueless, and I feel lost right now. My divine plan was to stay and live where I am now, and that plan has now become…

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Sara Burdick
Sara Burdick

Written by Sara Burdick

I quit the rat race after working as a nurse for 16 years. Travel and Storyteller. I live in Colombia. https://substack.com/@saraburdick

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