Outskirts Press, INC.

Healing your life isn’t about hiding your broken pieces in the dark. It’s about letting them burn.

When her marriage shattered, she thought the divorce papers were the rock bottom. She was wrong. Waking up trapped inside a mysterious, shifting garden cage overseen by an ancient Guardian, she discovers her survival depends on enduring four brutal, elemental trials: Wands, Swords, Cups, and Pentacles. To survive the fire of the Wands, she must do the unthinkable-relinquish her desperate need for control and surrender her heaviest burdens to God. But the moment she steps onto the next path, the real war begins. Ambushed by a toxic tornado of mental loops, anxiety, and the sting of modern rejection, she is forced backward into the frozen prison of the Swords trial. To win her freedom, she must use the truth of a sacred golden egg to unmask the deception of her past, confront the smug ghosts of those who took her for granted, and find the courage to face the raw, unedited trauma of her childhood. Only by transforming her silent grief into a weapon of absolute frequency can she shatter the daggers aimed at her heart. But a heart kept in a sterile glass box will eventually wither and die. The butterfly cannot exist without the total destruction of the caterpillar’s old form. Deeply therapeutic, fiercely spiritual, and visually breathtaking, this allegorical journey maps the path from devastation to absolute sovereignty. Walk alongside a woman who stops running from her shadow, integrates her divine masculine and feminine energies, and learns that the intense changes meant to break her were actually evolving her into a powerful co-creator of her own reality. The night is over. Step into the sunrise.