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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?  |
| Insolent This moment of shudderation and loss, I listen for a god's insolent word: Everything ends.. Pholarchos Tarot--16--Tower--Trial by fire, water, earth, air---all the above? 24 syllables prompt: insolent |
| Birthday Cake It's hard to believe how much blood can spew from a vein cut by a paring knife. My smart watch tells me it's only been 15 minutes, still there must be half a glass full pooling on the tablecloth. The room is unspeakably quiet and still. Eight chairs encircling the table, all empty. Eight candles, one for each decade, unlit in a birthday cake decorated with roses and sunflowers, my favorites. There are open engraved name cards at each place setting. But none of the children have come. My friends are all dead. I am old, and lonely. I have the birthday cake all to my self. The Cook's Tarot: Eight of Wands--Empty chairs, and empty tables. Prompt words: glass, open, watch |
| Zephyr Fulll snow moon a zephyr murmurs, tickles inner lairs where wild prayers rekindle my faith and fire. 24 syllables Prompt: Zephyr The HerbCrafter's Tarot---5 of Earth--Slippery Elm--Even in hard times we have access to resources if we do not lose faith. |
| Half-Time Two women shimmer in the ring chisel form across minds. Tongue and pole twerk and grind, this enchantment. Pholarchos Tarot--Queen of Sparks--Intent is as important as action.  |
| Saint Muirgein I am forgetful. The storm in the waves far below, I rise for sun, for air a sainted mermaid. Today is the feast day of Saint Murgan, an Irish mermaid. She is a saint of transformation. Pholarchos Tarot--6 of Wings--A still point for revelation.  |
| Water Birds I pray the Rosary of the Seven Rays. There are seven decades of beads, seven joyful mysteries, seven colors for the seven chakras. At each Ave today I offer prayer for a water bird. I pray for the night crowned herons, the osprey, anhinga, the odd Muscovy ducks, for swans, flamingos, sandpipers and gulls. Watching the egret till it falls from my sight line A psalm in motion. Pholarchos Tarot--6 of Coral--a gift of water. Author's Note: A haibun, combination of prose and a haiku.  |
| Surmount I can surmount terror and trial by earth but not a Soleimani fingering prayer beads. 24 syllables prompt:surmount Pholarchos Tarot--Ten of Spirals--Where are the lavish gardens for children to play in? Because this is such a hot-button political issue I expect some negative feedback. Carry on. I saw a picture of Soleimani with prayer beads--it inspired this thought.  |
| Epiphany In life we welter and writhe through rituals of height and descent falling to earth rising with dust. 24 syllables--prompt: welter Pholarchos Tarot--Eight of Coral--Let yourself fall. |
| New Year's Eve 2019 Ten minutes before midnight no revelry here only rest and stillness going deep within. Negotiating the terms of this incarnation my soul travels to the matrix of the stars. Patterns spiral in and out. I am well anchored here bones, blood, skin and nothing will stop me. 12 lines Pholarchos Tarot--9--Hermit--Be Saturnine--the old goat god within. |
| Christmas Eve This night I jam with Mary, yes, that one, mother and virgin. She had no midwife, no myrrophore to help her birth, to help her babe latch on just dour Joseph. Did he know to cut the cord to bury the placenta to rub her belly with lavender and cardamom her skin hungry for sun and soft things. This night I celebrate safe passage for them all. 11 lines Oracle Essences--Cardamom--Fairness, Equality--take a deep breath and let all the anger go-- |
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