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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? |
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 |