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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? |
Ocatillo The woman came to the desert to camp, and though I am prickly and poke and scratch she settled by me. I offered my blossoms, she carefully plucked and made a sun tea that she drank pouring a libation for my roots. I spoke with her beneath the clouds and the sky. "My thorns, defend my tender inner bark, as you must set boundaries to protect your heart." As the daylight faded and the coyotes began to howl the woman and I joined our harmonies to the world song. The HerbCrafter's Tarot--Adelita of Water--Ocatillo--Protect your heartwood, but let your love blossom. |
Hope In Tucson, in the desert, a friend builds a stone labyrinth. I pick a river rock from the Caloosahatchee to send her, palm-sized, flat, grey scribed with healing symbols. I will walk that spiral someday. Astronomers listen for signals of gravitational waves, census collectors of black holes in the invisible shaking of space. Labyrinths and signals all charms of hope, prayers to extend our finite knowing. We cannot know who hears us, but it is Someone. free form--16 lines Tarot of the Crone--Five of Disks--Hope--Move beyond isolation. Reach out with hope and faith. |
Love found me Love found me under a summer sky a full moon pulsing in the dark. I leave my bed and go to the window and grow still to hear whispering through the palms the stories and prayers my grandmothers offered to their Black Madonnas, Czestochowa and Bistrica, I humbly set my petitions to Guadalupe, Mother of the Americas for the migrants in camps asking for respite, for change, for justice. We are all immigrant souls. Love found me under a summer sky. Tarot of the Crone--Shadow of Disks--Bones--Sometimes life is just tough all the way, and you're forced to get down to the bones. |
Growing Happy I used to wear Torrid hoping to look hipper, slimmer. Now I rock curiosity, laughter. HerbCrafter's Tarot--6 of Water--Borage--Treasure friendship and celebrate community https://www.torrid.com/ |
Mercury Mercury-in retrograde: truth bombs travel snags love lost rewind,review a stick and poke tattoo. Tarot of the Crone--II-Priestess--The knowledge will be found in silence and stillness, patience and devotion. |