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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

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March 15, 2024 at 9:12am
March 15, 2024 at 9:12am
#1066304
Shadows

They say air has no shadow.
When a storm is coming
the air is thick with subtle energy,
wild and melancholy.
Perhaps it is Oya
whipping up a whirlwind.
I call her with conjuring prayers
my shadow self erupts
smudged and stained
whispering in the dark.
There is power here
dancing up a new world.


Dark Goddess Tarot--Oya--With of Air---Santeria Goddess----Let your shadow self out.


12 lines

Prompt: Shadow
March 6, 2024 at 4:36pm
March 6, 2024 at 4:36pm
#1065732
Love Remembered

Once upon a time ago I loved you
in my frenzied youth I chose another.
Fifty years gone by and still, dreams of you.
Two marriages in, and yet, I wonder.

Would my life be better, saner, clearer
had I held you fast and not let you go.
Old memories are sweeter and dearer.
I cannot change the past, I cannot know.

I sense you out there in the multiverse
a click away on Facebook and Twitter.
Not for me this social media curse,
all that's shiny is fool's gold and glitter.

I will continue to remember you.
But that is all this old dreamer will do.

14 lines
form: sonnet

Every Tarot Everywhere--VI--The Lovers----love is love is love
February 26, 2024 at 2:10pm
February 26, 2024 at 2:10pm
#1064931
Bridges

I'll cross that bridge
when I come to it.
Well, I have come to it.
Good fences make good neighbors
and good bridges make good crossings.
I am moving from this life
into the next
uncertain what I'll find there.
I have joined the dull woman's club
and my bucket list is small.
All I want for now
is to sit and feel the sun on my face.

12 lines

Prompt: Photo of a covered bridge

Dark Goddess Tarot--XX--Liberation--Persephone--The past is not forgotten--yet life begins anew.
February 21, 2024 at 9:59am
February 21, 2024 at 9:59am
#1064596
Gateway

I do not know
if there is a gateway to the afterlife.
After you passed
I bought earrings
engraved with your thumbprint.
When I lay down
in a field of wild grass
I hear you whisper.
I am with you
in your memories.
Love is all that matters.

And that is gateway enough.

12 lines

Prompt: gateway

Herbal Tarot--XIV--Echinacea--Temperance--In the end--all will be healed.
February 17, 2024 at 2:26pm
February 17, 2024 at 2:26pm
#1064344
Lost

I know lost things
for I am broken now
untethered and fractured somehow
with shattered wings.

What are my rights?
I burst with empty words
like fledgling new born baby birds
afraid to rise.

A star winked out
the day of your passing.
Memories are everlasting
I dream, I shout.

12 lines


Prompt; Lost

Form: Retournello


Darg Goddess Tarot--Ace of Air--Nemesis--perceive what exists=discernment
February 6, 2024 at 7:47am
February 6, 2024 at 7:47am
#1063625
Dolt 45

There once was a dunce named Trump
He was a low class chump
who though he looked like Elvis
cause of all the fat around his pelvis.
He had a golden toilet for his dump.

5 lines

Prompt: a limerick


360 Degrees of Wisdom--Pisces 25--Purge the bastards. Vote blue!
February 5, 2024 at 2:38pm
February 5, 2024 at 2:38pm
#1063564
Jill is beginning to make her transition from this world to the next. Many birds outside today---one I'd never seen---a Carolina chickadee. I know she represents Jill's spirit and I will look for chickadee in the coming days.
January 31, 2024 at 10:34am
January 31, 2024 at 10:34am
#1063234
Apple

Eve's apple
was likely a pomegranate
juicy, fleshy, seedy
but patriarchy wrote this story
for it's own benefit.
Lilith was Adam's first wife
but too fierce and defiant
men made her into a demon.
I like to imagine
Lilith and Eve
hand in hand
crude, curious, impudent
pomegranate juice
dripping down their faces,
no mealy, wormy apple
for them.

16 lines

prompt: phot of an apple orchard

360 Degrees of Wisdom---Virgo 14----Everytime a baby is born, so is a grandmother
January 27, 2024 at 10:07am
January 27, 2024 at 10:07am
#1063044
For Jill

For everything that you've withstood
could it be you've misunderstood
that you have crashed into the wood?
You are dying.
There is such a thing as done for good.
Please , stop trying.

My best friend is dying. She is under hospice care and still refuses pain meds, help, things to provide comfort. Her iron-will is exhausting.
January 27, 2024 at 10:02am
January 27, 2024 at 10:02am
#1063042
Ash Wednesday and V alentine's Day fall on the same day this year


Heart Ash

I want the priest
to draw a heart
on my forehead
this Ash Wednesday
this Valentine's Day.
You may have passed by then.
I will remember you
with love and ashes.


Gaian Tarot--15--Bindweed---Break free of what binds you.

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