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I pull a card...if it doesn't speak to me...perhaps it was meant for you? How to Read the Tarot Begin by brewing a cup of tea, a nervine, lemon balm or chamomile, this is after all, your future. A reading at the dark of the moon is best, before the night creatures crawl and bad humours fill the air. Pick a circular deck, with a fairy-tale motif, and no reversals. Hold a question in your heart, shuffle the cards and place them on the table. Choose only two. Like the ancient Israelites, these are your seer stones, Urim and Thumimm, black and white, yes or no. Isn't that all you were asking? |
Full Pink Moon--Earth Day 2024 There is muck under the bridge under the sky. Sly, secretive slugs tell stories of the sea. Cracks and fissures in the Earth, in our minds draw chthonic monsters to our sleep. Dream deeply under this Scorpio moon. Shall we dream together? Prompt--picture of a trestle type wooden bridge Dark Goddess Tarot--Ten of Earth--Ala--Igbo Goddess of the Ground--Kin and kind, living and dead, all are part of one another. |
Stripes The flag is upside down today. the stripes black, broken lines. the stars X.s on a field of blood. My ancestors, my divines shudder under this banner. I rage at the orange creation responsible for this desecration. He wallows in evil and wakes in shame. My memory is long, these stripes will not fade. 12 lines Prompt---stripes 360 degrees of wisdom--Cancer 1--If you want a symbolic gesture---don't burn the flag--wash it. |
Faith I believe that breath is a prayer YAh--in WAH--out my bones, my blood are sacred creations. The curve of the sky, the turtle's shell all that slithers, roots, shakes and nibbles are my relations. Seeds are spells, constellations of divine love. 12 lines Prompt--Faith Dark Goddess Tarot--Six of Air Scathach--Accept guidance and find your purpose. |
Fool I, a fool have one rule, always follow your dreams to the end of the line. Spontaneity, synchronicity are mine. Ecology, not theology is my creed. Mother Earth transcends, fulfills, heals every need. Watch and wait. Heaven's gate. Form: Tiger Jade |
For Jill--passed February 6, 2024 If the Tibetans are right Holy Monday was your last day in the Bardo. Does resurrection have an expiration? My doors are open, no stone to roll back. My rooms are holy chambers where you may spiral and sow ancient seeds. There will be no more weeping here. You have shed your mortal skin. You are free. 12 lines Prompt: Picture of a closed up house 360 Degrees of Wisdom---Capricorn 12--Revealing the truth of something can lead to wonder and awe. |
Six Mile Cypress Slough Come autumn bald cypress trees drop their leaves in the swamp decompose, split their flesh in the murky, opaque water. Everything is cypress knees and long shadows. Then, in December, an errant shaft of sunlight dances across the darkness and all sparkles into color of pearl, rose, clay, vermillion. Everything is rainbow. A tale of winter becomes a tale of hope. 12 lines Prompt: Hope Pholarchos Tarot--12--Hanged One--Allow control to flood away |
Shadows They say air has no shadow. When a storm is coming the air is thick with subtle energy, wild and melancholy. Perhaps it is Oya whipping up a whirlwind. I call her with conjuring prayers my shadow self erupts smudged and stained whispering in the dark. There is power here dancing up a new world. Dark Goddess Tarot--Oya--With of Air---Santeria Goddess----Let your shadow self out. 12 lines Prompt: Shadow |
Love Remembered Once upon a time ago I loved you in my frenzied youth I chose another. Fifty years gone by and still, dreams of you. Two marriages in, and yet, I wonder. Would my life be better, saner, clearer had I held you fast and not let you go. Old memories are sweeter and dearer. I cannot change the past, I cannot know. I sense you out there in the multiverse a click away on Facebook and Twitter. Not for me this social media curse, all that's shiny is fool's gold and glitter. I will continue to remember you. But that is all this old dreamer will do. 14 lines form: sonnet Every Tarot Everywhere--VI--The Lovers----love is love is love |
Bridges I'll cross that bridge when I come to it. Well, I have come to it. Good fences make good neighbors and good bridges make good crossings. I am moving from this life into the next uncertain what I'll find there. I have joined the dull woman's club and my bucket list is small. All I want for now is to sit and feel the sun on my face. 12 lines Prompt: Photo of a covered bridge Dark Goddess Tarot--XX--Liberation--Persephone--The past is not forgotten--yet life begins anew. |
Gateway I do not know if there is a gateway to the afterlife. After you passed I bought earrings engraved with your thumbprint. When I lay down in a field of wild grass I hear you whisper. I am with you in your memories. Love is all that matters. And that is gateway enough. 12 lines Prompt: gateway Herbal Tarot--XIV--Echinacea--Temperance--In the end--all will be healed. |