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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?  |
| Quintessence Rainbow ponies dance at the edge of space and time. Our life is a patchwork picture quilt. Death is a gift, a staircase star trip bringing us closer to the heavens than the cold Karman line. |
| Waves I want to smell like a dry martini made with expensive gin. Brisk alcohol, juniper berries, fresh pine winds and crashing waves that dry down to oblivion. |
| Placida Strap bound and cracked red calligraphy dark and named tap and cry dusty grimoire. Dark Goddess Tarot---Cerridwen--Witch of Fire--Craft anew with the bones of the old |
| Edgework When I see her on the street pushing her beat up Publix cart looking for cans and bottles to recycle I stop to say hello, ask how she is, look deep into her eyes and wait for the knots in my chest to dissolve. We are both ghost particles blazars of edgework impermanent humans fielding life's chaos. Dark Goddess Tarot---Seven of Air--Laverna--Roman Goddess of Theives--In silence and darkness you may find the answer that has been eluding you. |
| Fields The fields are dancing, oscillating atoms of sorghum and wheat. Electric bees lie down on a pillow of grass, drunk with pollen lust. All objects fall in the same way despite mass and substance. Sometimes you need a shove to move inertia out of the way, to stop the turbulent clock's minute hand, and just lie down, in the yellow heat, beside the abandoned shed. Dark Goddess Tarot--Witch of Earth--Inanna--Make magic in partnership with natural forces. |
| I am tired of the world. Tired of Trump and his dismantling of democracy. Tired of FaceBook. Tired of everyone and their petty preoccupations. My arm still aches a great deal of the time. I pray. I meditate. Former neighbors are suing our insurance company for 12,000 in damages. I hate them. This long and winding road is too long and winding. I am glad the boys in Thailand are rescued. What about the immigrant children here? |
| Lady Liberty Rise and resist my heart said go. Among her robes I sought shelter. For Patricia Okoumo--the brave activist that scaled Lady Liberty. Pathya Vat form Dark Goddess Tarot--Six of Air--Scathach--Celtic Goddess of the Sacred Isle--Accept guidance and find your purpose. |
| Daughter of the Desert In the Negev the Jahalin had a thousand words for sheep and goats. I cannot utter one for freedom. I love the earthy ocher of my land. Our homes are nylon, tin, and wood. Our schools are made of mud and tires. Men have walked on the moon. Who will make a planet for me? Dark Goddess Tarot--Siren of Fire--Qadesh--Egyptian Goddess of Pleasure---love what you love deeply Author's Note: A response to a picture prompt. I imagined this woman as a Bedouin living in East Jerusalem. |
| Mister Rogers There may have been other saints in Pittsburgh, but I did not meet them. He walked the wards of Children's Hospital, tying kid's shoes lessening their pain. He tended the knowing field anointed others with an elixir of love. He never had to chase the moment but was just there. He sang to his Lord and the least of us, and knew everyone was our neighbor, no matter how they arrived. Tarot of the Saints--St. Francis--the Fool---humble novice, enlightened Master |
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And I absolutely love getting a glimpse into how people's minds & inspiration work - who'd've thought you'd end up with a lovely piece about a bird from a picture of a restaurant 
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