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? 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? |
Dark Goddess Tarot--Amazon of Water--Scylla--accept yourself, be youself, but know that behavior has consequences. |
Amaranth Flower of immortality, earthy must no random, uncertain disorderly entropy. Herbal Tarot--Ace of Pentacles--Whole Grains--nourish your body, mind, soul |
Mangrove Salt excreted salt on leaves a mermaid's tears Form: the kural--4 above, 3 below I am fascinated by black mangroves that excrete salt through their leaves. Recently cooks from A Rosy Tomorrow farm collected the salt, and processed it for table use. Tarot of the Saints--Nine of Coins---Loaves and fishes.Multiplication and abundance. |
PachaMama Corvids are intelligent birds. My Pachamama was wiser than most ravens. She wasn't a pet, nor quite my familiar. She was simply, Pachamama, the Incan world mother, and my friend. She was a wild bird but would visit daily when I set out sunflower seed and cracked corn. She gifted me with street treasures: bits of glass, a lost bead, colored paper clips. I was creating a mandala of the bits and baubles she offered on my front stoop. It was January and the dry season in Florida and the design had remained intact for weeks. This afternoon I was placing a rare spotted owl feather on the flowers and stones already in position. I heard thunder and noted growing puffy moisture laden rain clouds. Pachamama landed for a daily visit a slip of paper in her beak that she carefully placed at the center of the mandala. It was a fortune cookie strip and read: All is impermanent. Just then the skies opened with a pounding downpour. Indeed, Pachamama, indeed. 184 words The Herbcrafter's Tarot--21. The World----Pachamama--weave a rainbow that makes the world whole |
Shimmy When you shimmy and you're old there are caveats I'm told. If you fall upon the ground 9-1-1 is found. A dodoitsu--Japanese form of 26 syllables--usually humorous. The HerbCrafter's Tarot--Two of Air--Chicory--Be receptive to guidance. |