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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?  |
| Mangrove Salt excreted salt on leaves a mermaid's tears Form: the kural--4 above, 3 below I am fascinated by black mangroves that excrete salt through their leaves. Recently cooks from A Rosy Tomorrow farm collected the salt, and processed it for table use. Tarot of the Saints--Nine of Coins---Loaves and fishes.Multiplication and abundance. |
| PachaMama Corvids are intelligent birds. My Pachamama was wiser than most ravens. She wasn't a pet, nor quite my familiar. She was simply, Pachamama, the Incan world mother, and my friend. She was a wild bird but would visit daily when I set out sunflower seed and cracked corn. She gifted me with street treasures: bits of glass, a lost bead, colored paper clips. I was creating a mandala of the bits and baubles she offered on my front stoop. It was January and the dry season in Florida and the design had remained intact for weeks. This afternoon I was placing a rare spotted owl feather on the flowers and stones already in position. I heard thunder and noted growing puffy moisture laden rain clouds. Pachamama landed for a daily visit a slip of paper in her beak that she carefully placed at the center of the mandala. It was a fortune cookie strip and read: All is impermanent. Just then the skies opened with a pounding downpour. Indeed, Pachamama, indeed. 184 words The Herbcrafter's Tarot--21. The World----Pachamama--weave a rainbow that makes the world whole  |
| Shimmy When you shimmy and you're old there are caveats I'm told. If you fall upon the ground 9-1-1 is found. A dodoitsu--Japanese form of 26 syllables--usually humorous. The HerbCrafter's Tarot--Two of Air--Chicory--Be receptive to guidance. |
| Ocatillo The woman came to the desert to camp, and though I am prickly and poke and scratch she settled by me. I offered my blossoms, she carefully plucked and made a sun tea that she drank pouring a libation for my roots. I spoke with her beneath the clouds and the sky. "My thorns, defend my tender inner bark, as you must set boundaries to protect your heart." As the daylight faded and the coyotes began to howl the woman and I joined our harmonies to the world song. The HerbCrafter's Tarot--Adelita of Water--Ocatillo--Protect your heartwood, but let your love blossom. |
| Hope In Tucson, in the desert, a friend builds a stone labyrinth. I pick a river rock from the Caloosahatchee to send her, palm-sized, flat, grey scribed with healing symbols. I will walk that spiral someday. Astronomers listen for signals of gravitational waves, census collectors of black holes in the invisible shaking of space. Labyrinths and signals all charms of hope, prayers to extend our finite knowing. We cannot know who hears us, but it is Someone. free form--16 lines Tarot of the Crone--Five of Disks--Hope--Move beyond isolation. Reach out with hope and faith. |
| Love found me Love found me under a summer sky a full moon pulsing in the dark. I leave my bed and go to the window and grow still to hear whispering through the palms the stories and prayers my grandmothers offered to their Black Madonnas, Czestochowa and Bistrica, I humbly set my petitions to Guadalupe, Mother of the Americas for the migrants in camps asking for respite, for change, for justice. We are all immigrant souls. Love found me under a summer sky. Tarot of the Crone--Shadow of Disks--Bones--Sometimes life is just tough all the way, and you're forced to get down to the bones. |
| Growing Happy I used to wear Torrid hoping to look hipper, slimmer. Now I rock curiosity, laughter. HerbCrafter's Tarot--6 of Water--Borage--Treasure friendship and celebrate community https://www.torrid.com/ |
| Mercury Mercury-in retrograde: truth bombs travel snags love lost rewind,review a stick and poke tattoo. Tarot of the Crone--II-Priestess--The knowledge will be found in silence and stillness, patience and devotion.  |
| Security Some exurb in hell, No beds No blankets No brushes. Trump's stench. His paradigm: kids in cages. Tarot of the Crone: Eight of Disks--Security--What is true security? |
| Fourth of July 1960 Fireflies in a jar atop the television. We wake to a blaze. 12 words Haiku "June 19, 2019"  |
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I had to look up 'ecclesiarchy' ... probably a more appropriate word than 'theocracy' which is my go-to word. Patriarchy is also appropo as women who support god>church>man>wife>child>dog buy into a hierarchy lead by a man; it's not only men who do so. 