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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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July 22, 2023 at 10:09am
July 22, 2023 at 10:09am
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Brave New World--apologies to Aldous Huxley

We will be brave
embrace our pain
cry and shine
stray from the crafty line
that only humans matter.
We will escape the trap
of the anthropocene
settle in the cracks
of slime molds, fungi, leopards.
We will watch our worries
sparkling anxieties
drain away.
We will trim AI to a nubbin.

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Pholarchos Tarot--10--Wheel of Fortune--Throw the dice, I Ching coins, read the runes, pick a card.

July 15, 2023 at 2:38pm
July 15, 2023 at 2:38pm
#1052639
Poetry Week


poems are made by fools like me
storytellers create potions
on the road fashioned out of dreams
out of time and mind solutions
and fostering revolutions
conjoining heart and head and hand
an ascending absolution
raise your voice, sing loud, take a stand

Form: Huitain

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The HerbCrafter's Tarot--Abeuelita of Air--Oregano--Declare your truth loudly and without fear
July 14, 2023 at 10:38am
July 14, 2023 at 10:38am
#1052599
Manifestation

I dreamed a fantasy bird
six feet long
dropping three perfect white feathers
woke with one on my pillow


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Sibyls Oraculum--Sapiential--Wisdom----Wisdom is evolution
July 9, 2023 at 11:15am
July 9, 2023 at 11:15am
#1052375
Christmas/Yule in July

New gods are born in the cracks and crevices,
not the shallows where the light gets in.
So a spell for Yule of damp, dim words.
I believe in the night, even as the light returns.
Mother Night split me, make me twitch with pain and joy.
I answer your call to my shattered mind.
I will hold your gaze for as long as I dare.


Sibyls Oraculum--Castitate--Purity--Initiate yourself into the Mysteries
July 7, 2023 at 4:32pm
July 7, 2023 at 4:32pm
#1052294
Ten Again

A black hole
invaded my brain,
my body became a child's.

Molecules
of hearing in red,
the paraterranean.

Young again,
open potentials,
a soundtrack of politics.

Anarchy, a perfect solution.
Young and old meld in Divine union.

Form: Troiseme

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Gaian Tarot--Child of Air---Learn new things by keeping an open mind and heart
June 18, 2023 at 12:50pm
June 18, 2023 at 12:50pm
#1051249
An Ovi Prayer

May you find springs of deepest rest
And know all your desires blessed
and downy feathers for your nest.
This is the symbiocene.

We are past the anthropocene
of only humans and their mien.
Plants, animals , rocks, winds all seen
and Earth spinning with hope and mirth.



Authors Note: The anthropocene indicates an age the is human centric. The symbiocene indicates an age where all creation is the center.


The HerbCrafter's Tarot--8of Water--Valerian--Herbs, moonlight, flowers, and a sleeping cat.
May 15, 2023 at 1:59pm
May 15, 2023 at 1:59pm
#1049639
Mother's Day--A Sybylla story


It has been over a year since I have spoken to Sybylla. Sybylla is a veiled mermaid that resides in the retention pond behind my condo. She came to live there when toxic algal blooms poisoned the Gulf of Mexico and she remained through the height of the Covid pandemic. She helped me keep my sanity with her oracular statements during the Covid times of isolation.


I had gone down to the pond Mother's Day at sunset to watch the cerulean sky turn to purple and pinks. I was still wearing my white carnation
corsage. Growing up, it was a tradition to wear a white carnation on Mother's Day if your mother had passed, or a red one if she was living.

I wasn't expecting to see Sybylla after so much clock time had passed. I knew though that the trickle and glimmer of thought and feeling across time and space kept us connected.

I heard a scraping sound in the shallows of the pond accompanied by the smell of singed grass and knew she was there. Sybylla had become more verbal with each meeting, but was always curt and to the point.

In her gravelly voice she blurted, "CuriousWhat's with the white flower?". I explained to her the symbolism of the flower. I also added that my mother's life had been a catastrophe marred by mental illness and an early death from cancer. I knew that I still carried a mother wound in my body and soul.

"Give your pain," chanted Sybylla, "to the Great Cosmic Mother, She who births all, She who nurtures all."

With a splash she disappeared into the depths of the pond.

Watching the last rays of sunlight dappled over the water I removed my carnation and placed it at the water's edge. Slowly, imperceptibly I watched as the flower petals changed from white to red.

"Good night, Mama", I whispered , "I love you".


Oracle of the Mermaids--Motherhood--46--Protection, inner child, nurture
May 8, 2023 at 4:54pm
May 8, 2023 at 4:54pm
#1049371
To My Grandchildren

I want you to know
that all larvae matters
and all firefly larva glows.
But don't mistake them for fairies
that shimmer and shine.
Don't trap either in jars,
they are meant to be free.
And don't believe the folklore
that fairies can harm you.
Be kind, that's all
Believe in fireflies, fairies
and flower mites that thrive
in the nostrils of hummingbirds.
Believe that this Earth is a good place to live.


The Herbcrafter's Tarot---Curandera of Earth--Sweetgrass--The living earth is our greatest teacher.
May 5, 2023 at 9:27am
May 5, 2023 at 9:27am
#1049234
Patchouli

Patchouli perfume takes me back
to a time when there was no lack
and all was open in my heart.
Only peace and love could emerge,
harmony at the very verge
of sundering my world apart.
I had a flash of that again
surrendering all of my pain.
This old hippie again unblocked.

Form: none otto

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Author's Note: Patchouli was a favorite scent of flower children in the 60's and 70's.

Oracle of the Essences---Patchouli--I am one with the earth. I am one with my body.
April 30, 2023 at 12:59pm
April 30, 2023 at 12:59pm
#1049035
Aphanipoiesis

I entered this poetry pharmacy
for thirty days of healing.
I exit with a glory,
friendship, expansion, sharing.


Pholarchos Tarot--2 of Coral--cleanse the hostage heart, give it back to joy

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