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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

December 31, 2019 at 9:51am
December 31, 2019 at 9:51am
#972301
New Year's Eve 2019

Ten minutes before midnight
no revelry here
only rest and stillness
going deep within.
Negotiating the terms
of this incarnation
my soul travels
to the matrix of the stars.
Patterns spiral in and out.
I am well anchored here
bones, blood, skin
and nothing will stop me.



12 lines


Pholarchos Tarot--9--Hermit--Be Saturnine--the old goat god within.


December 24, 2019 at 9:14am
December 24, 2019 at 9:14am
#971964
Christmas Eve

This night I jam with Mary,
yes, that one, mother and virgin.
She had no midwife, no myrrophore
to help her birth, to help her babe latch on
just dour Joseph.
Did he know to cut the cord
to bury the placenta
to rub her belly with lavender and cardamom
her skin hungry for sun and soft things.
This night I celebrate
safe passage for them all.

11 lines


Oracle Essences--Cardamom--Fairness, Equality--take a deep breath and let all the anger go--
December 16, 2019 at 9:06am
December 16, 2019 at 9:06am
#971543
Fool

If I stepped out of my mind
I would burst into starlight
coalesce
to atoms of the multiverse.


Pholarchos Tarot-0--Fool--Follow your dream guide across the tracks.


24 syllables
Prompt: coalesce
December 11, 2019 at 10:08am
December 11, 2019 at 10:08am
#971293
Willow

A sprig of willow
woven for a bracelet
an amulet
reminder
to be flexible and strong.



The HerbCrafter's Tarot--Willow--4 of Earth--Be flexible and strong.


24 syllables
December 10, 2019 at 10:38am
December 10, 2019 at 10:38am
#971244
December 10, 2019

Onerous day
impeachment announcement
perhaps an alembic
transmuting
refining
to what?

24 syllables--prompt:onerous

Pholarchos Tarot--5 of Sparks--use your body as an alembic--to change you--trial by fire.
December 2, 2019 at 10:48am
December 2, 2019 at 10:48am
#970852
Advent

I always go back to December
for there is something about December,
a cosmic ache for things to be made right.
Through a long December
we know we are equally the wounded
and wielders of evil.
I can see the sun in late December,
though pale and cold
as we are gathered in the warmth
of our swollen tents,
as we tell an ancient tale of frankincense and myrrh.
I wish for a permanent December
where there is always enough for all
and always enough space in the heart
for all.

Written for the Writer's Cramp
15 lines
Prompts: Titles of Songs--Back to December, Something about December, I Can See the Sun in Late December,A Long December. Permanent December


Pholarchos Tarot--6 of Spirals--gifts come to light, great generosity

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