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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? |
Ethel Rosenberg I would like to have lived to wear a pink pussy hat and gone to that march. But I was collateral damage.. A communist, just a Jew, just a woman who had no secrets to sell. Funny how collusion is now such a common word. I hear that Roy Cohn's protoge stalks the White House. I hear Ivanka is a Jew. Better dead then red the masses jeered as they threw the switch. They had to do it twice. I had no secrets to sell. I was just a wife and mother. I would have voted for the woman. 19 lines Prompt: write a poem from the point of view of a convicted criminal Dark Goddess Tarot--VII--Chariot--Ishtar---Go for it. Take bold action. |
In the Beginning That poem is a beginning. It is the beginning. In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God. My God is a Mexican Madonna at the border. My God wears a do-rag and is a rapper. My God wears a hijab and honors Ramadan. My God is Palestinian, kosher, vegan, omnisexual. My God is large. Terrestrial,celestial, amphibious,intertidal. That poem is a beginning. 11 lines Prompt: Use the last line from the nearest book at hand to begin your poem. From Ursula K. LeGuin's translation of the Tao Te Ching. Dark Goddess Tarot---III-The Black Madonna--Compassion and devotion make the impossible, possible. |