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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?  |
| Entomology Ants are useful creatures, just not at my picnic. Bedbugs must serve some purpose, but what? Dung beetles navigate by the Milky Way, looking for love. Earwigs don't really burrow in your ears. Fireflies are always welcome in my yard. Gnats are Gnot so welcome. Horseflies have bloodsucking females. Imago is the term for all adult insects. Jerusalem cricket is hump-backed and slow moving. Katydid, but perhaps she didn't. Locusts are quite biblical. Mosquitos are the bane of Florida. Nectar scarabs eat pollen and nectar from flowers. Onion maggots, a cosmopolitan pest of crops. Pretty pinion moth captured my fancy. Question mark butterfly has no questions. Rat fleas caused the bubonic plague. Scorpion, my sun sign, such a nasty creature. Tarantula's are not my idea of a pet. Uliodan is a vagrant spider. Vaginulus plebius......oops! White ants are termites...a termite goddess in India. XerXes butterfly Yellow butterfly Zebra swallowtail butterfly. 26 lines Prompt: write an abcdarian poem about animals The Insect Tarot--7 of Cups--Western Honey Bee--Consider the consequences of your actions. |
| Prayer 2025 When I am too weary, or too ill, or too muddled to pray I go to the lake's edge and sit. Not truly a lake, a man made retention pond born twenty years ago. But grandmother oak and grandmother cypress hold and remember my pleas. With brother egret and sister heron I stretch and release, I ruffle and settle. My word for this year: intercommunication. Is that not prayer enough? 12 lines prompt: a picture of a lake The Herb Crafter's Tarot--6 of Air--Cattail--open yourself to new ways to pray. |
| Garden This year I will plant beans and greens, tiny luscious lettuces, sturdy purple pole beans. The ancestors and hungry ghosts visit my garden. I am grateful for their guardian presence. Because of light pollution I cannot always see the Milky Way's path. But, I can always find the North Star. The edge of my garden has sunflowers and roses. a perfect match to bring heaven and honey to earth. 16 lines prompt: use the words bean, can, match, grateful The HerbCrafter's Tarot--3--Empress--Rose--see beauty and abundance in every stage of life |
| La Santa Muerte I have seen her twice. Once, reflected in a mirror hung opposite a dying patient's bed. The first time, as a girl of ten walking alone on a neighborhood street at dusk. I did not know her then. She is not a mythical creature but a citizen of non-ordinary reality. I have learned that she belies our belief that we are in control of anything, that, in the future, we will figure it all out. Our ashes are a reckoning. But then, there are constellations. 13 lines Prompt: Write about a mythical creature Dark Goddess Tarot--13--Death--La Santa Muerte--Be grateful for the gift of each moment. |
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