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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

July 29, 2019 at 2:31pm
July 29, 2019 at 2:31pm
#963380
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.








July 22, 2019 at 12:54pm
July 22, 2019 at 12:54pm
#963001
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.
July 16, 2019 at 2:44pm
July 16, 2019 at 2:44pm
#962726
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.
July 8, 2019 at 1:06pm
July 8, 2019 at 1:06pm
#962304
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/

July 1, 2019 at 9:43am
July 1, 2019 at 9:43am
#961861
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.
 
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