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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?

the golden mean

April 25, 2018 at 10:38am
April 25, 2018 at 10:38am
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The Hermit

I saw her last at the minister's funeral.
She always sat in the front row at church,
wearing a flowered shirt and khaki shorts.
It was Florida, after all.
At the coffee hour we tolerated
her episodes
of inappropriate laughter
indelicate remarks.
The minister had no desire
to banish her.
We offered unasked for help.
After the minister's death, she disappeared.

I sometimes see her in the morning
heading east on Radio Road,
clutching a shopping bag
in each hand
headphones on
listening to the Turtle Island String Quartet.

She once had been a diver
scraping barnacles from boats.
Someone said there had been an accident.
She couldn't work anymore.

She went to ground
in the hammocks
living with toothless men and racoons.

I stopped going to church some time ago.
She and I are still searching for truth.


Dark Goddess Tarot--IX--Hermit--Baba Yaga--
ask invisible friends to be your companions


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