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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? |
Holding Ground It has been a lean hard year, but my husband David and I are still holding ground. A local Naples artist, Monsieur Paul Arsenault has created signs for the entrance to our beaches featuring a masked mermaid. I hope it works but Naples is littered with anti-maskers and anti-vaxxers. Sybylla, the veiled mermaid that lives in the retention pond behind our condo approves of the signs. I am lusting for one of these posters. But I am a good citizen, I mask in public, and I don't steal public signs. I wrote a letter to the editor suggesting that Arsenault make these available for sale and donate the proceeds to a local food bank or Covid relief fund. We can all benefit from a bit of whimsy this year. Pholarchos Tarot--8 of Sparks--Help is always at hand--do you recognize it? |
Survival of the Fittest At Arby's such a garboil tossed french fries fighting crows winner gets avian indigestion 24 syllables prompt: garboil The Secret Language of Flowers--Sweet Pea---blissful pleasure--follow your bliss |
Mask My mask reads Luke 6:31 the golden rule do not abnegate your responsibility. HerbCrafter's Tarot--3 of Fire--Calendula---Calendula is good medicine--golden--like the Golden Rule |
Cabal What's needed now is a cabal of the masses. No one left out heaven in a zeptosecond. Prompt: cabal 24 syllables Author's Note;; zeptosecond--the time it takes a light particle to cross a hydrogen molecule--smallest known unit of time Pholarchos Tarot--14--Temperance--Cosmic order through communication |
Age I live in this flawed bag of skin, wrinkles and sags no visage of loveliness except within. Tarot of the Crone--Ten of Disks--Age--Know that life mostly occurs inside you. 24 syllables Prompt: visage |
Wander No corn mazes or stone labyrinths for me spatially impaired I wander and sometimes am lost 24 syllables prompt: labyrinth The HerbCrafter's Tarot--Six of Air--Find new ways of praying |
Rosary My mother's rosary glows the polished beads a patina of lifelong prayer. There is comfort here. 24 syllables prompt;patina Tarot of the Crone--Ace of Wands--There is Power burning in this world. |
Hex Kitchen witch scrubs the floor on her hands and knees malific curses slowly ooze from the filthy sponge. Tarot of the Crone--5 of Disks--Work--You have work ahead of you. 24 syllables--prompt: :malefic |
Justice So operose theocracy, ecclesiarchy old patriarchy Supreme Court Nominee prompt:operose 24 syllables POMO TAROT--5--The Hierophant--Mr. Religion----when facism comes it will be cloaked in the flag and the Bible |
RBG RBG passed on Rosh Hashanah. She lives on as guide, crone, tzaddik, into this surreal New Year. promt: surreal---one of my most unfavorite words The Herbcrafter's Tarot---4 of Fire--Elder--Invoke the aid of holy helpers, like the crone that lives within the elder tree,guarding the portal between the land of the living, and the realm of the dead. Author's Note: I have an elderberry plant in my wee garden, not yet a tree. Today I will leave offerings to RBG, magnificent crone. |