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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? ![]() 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? ![]() |
Time Lines My lines, they are ley lines, crooked, they are not straight. Labyrinths are coiled and kinked. Two steps forward, one back, Circular time is now. 7 lines prompt: Eintou form Tarot of the Crone--V--Tradition--I am the Door of Time. Tradition is what survives time. |
Three Tiny Happy Things 1. Today is National Unfriend Day. Yesterday I Googled you and learned you passed in April. 2. Last night I dreamed of you. You unfriended me years ago 3. but here you are vibrating the strings of my space time. Politics divided us. Now, we walk in spirit. We exist in a web of relations that ripples outwards into the intimate ocean of time. I pray you have found your heaven. You are what you have abandoned. 14 lines prompt: 3 little things that make you happy Tarot of the Crone--GrandMother of Wands--Matriarch--Time to recognize our common bonds. |
Eaglets for Epiphany I am on egg watch. M15 and his Lady, paired eagles are nesting now. Their ancestors birthed in this same space for generations. Time echoes for them in endless loops of instinct, of Earth and nature. I measure the angles of my life by a string, a prayer, and a memory I haven't yet named. There will be eaglets by Epiphany. Another birth in a clock time I do not comprehend. 13 lines prompt: a poem about birds Pholarchos Tarot--4 of Wings--Make a through line for your ancestors. |
Heretic Coffee His (trump) greed is infinite and cruelty is the point, injustice is raison d'etre. Can our words, faith, ideas, and strength defeat him and help us escape this plague? Empathy is not a zero sum game. Come in unity and have a coffee with me, we will dream we will remember together, perhaps we will pray. What didn't I do? What didn't you do? What will we do? 14 lines prompt: none--but at least 12 lines Tarot of the Crone--VIII--Justice--Know your responsibility and you will know yourself. Weave a web of justice. Note: Heretic Coffee is the name of a cafe in Portland giving out free breakfast to those in need. |