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My blog--I pull a card--if it doesn't speak to me...perhaps it is for you?
I pull a card...if it doesn't speak to me...perhaps it was meant for you? *Heart*


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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

May 2, 2018 at 4:55pm
May 2, 2018 at 4:55pm
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Ode to Harionago

Less goddess than monster
I still shall praise her pale
pretty face beneath pink cherry blossoms.
Daring boys to laugh,
taunting men to touch
she hides bloodied blades
in her hair.
This is no serene Mona Lisa,
but an anime icon
a trumped up punk
for the #metoo movement.
When the p-word (here kitty, kitty)
may be uttered in public
and porn stars
frolic on the six o'clock news
here cold world
is your post-modern Madonna.

Author's Note: Harionago in Japenese mythology is a beautiful, though ghoulish female.


Dark Goddess Tarot--5 of Air--Harianago--engage at your own peril
May 2, 2018 at 8:15am
May 2, 2018 at 8:15am
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She Who Watches

How do we practice
what is forever?
Am I closer than the young,
supple ones on zafus
here in my stiff-backed chair?
Watching my breath
In:peace for myself
Out:peace for all others.
Losing count
I think of cold, fruit soup
the unpaid bills,
begin again.
Slowly, each silence
strips away
a patina of memory,
anger, fear, envy
all floaters in my mind.
The chime sounds.
What is lost dissolves
like sugar into water.
I drink its sweetness.


Dark Goddess Tarot--Hag of Earth--carry the stories along


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