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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?  |
| 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 |
| Thrall Love today just halfway if that is all you can afford to pay of memories you can recall of a thousand creatures both great and small the tiniest molecules to the birds above hold you in a thaumaturgical thrall. Powers of this deeper world crawl, shimmer and fade away. Mystery calls it a play. I say, love. Form: diatelle Pholarchos Tarot---Dreamer of Wings--Who is being dreamed? |
| Rosary She didn't know I prayed the rosary but sent me one from Poland made of Job's Tears. My affliction don't number Job's but I crawl bead by bead to the Great Cosmic Mother and sometimes just to Mary with my petty concerns. Sometimes I pray without petition dissolving into mystery and synchronicity. Tarot of the Crone--10 of Wands--Transformation--I went as far as one could, then went farther. |
| Stuff My sister is a minimalist. I am not. She says, "We never had money for stuff, I don't want stuff." I say, "I want more." My sister collects memories. I collect vintage clothing, teddy bears, Depression glass, nun dolls, Bakelite jewelry. She who dis with the most stuff, still dies. I don't need retail therapy, just therapy. My sister is a minimalist. I am not. Tarot of the Crone--Witch of Disks--Lady---I have all I need and can get what I want. A world of riches surrounds me. |
| Pole Dancer I confess I write from prompts from Katya and the Sunday Whirl. My poetry needs a framework a pole on which to twirl. I send them out into the world without a thought of plagiarism. If AI can do it, so can I eschewing rhyme and rhythm. Pholarchos Tarot---9 of Spirals--Keep Learning |
| Woke What is this word woke? A name for dancing, rising bodies becoming willing to risk gender bending. Learning, granting, building a new world where mystery is the only dogma. Pholarchos Tarot--3 of Wings--Gather the seeds of wisdom, the storm will be over and the teachings etched within. |
| Queen of Wings I sang with the birds today the air still cool and tender. Mourning doves, a raucous hawk, moor hens by the river. A thrum of wings and feathers an ave to forever. Form: heptasyllabic Pholarchos Tarot--Queen of Wings--The path is full of scattered poems brought in by wind storms. |
| King of Coral My father was a water sign. Full fathom five my father lies his bones are made of coral. A cluster made of coral becomes a man. The corals spawn in unison by the flux of the August full moon. I can hear the King singing. full fathom five--from Shakespeare's The Tempest--Act ! Scene 2 Pholarchos Tarot--King of Corals---Listen for the watery songs |
| Mother Tree My doppelganger is a mother tree and a banyan most specifically. Supportive embrace of the wood wide web mycorrhizal fungi and all are fed. The Tree of Life is about belonging the nesting birds and the morning calling. Lichens writing missives in her soil cultivate magic instead of toil. Mother Tree is not a stable creature her cracks and crevices are my teacher. Her dreaming is aligning a new birth a world of rapture ,playfulness and mirth. So we must meet her here among her roots inside this house of worship seeking truth. Form: couplet sonnet Pholarchos Tarot--XX!--The World--Come out of the anthropocene and live! |
| Adulting Fully human rational, responsible adult I'm not there yet Form: Patina--created by a writing.com member--https://www.writing.com/main/redirect?htime=1682078767&hkey=f37a670ec42079223d36... Pholarchos Tarot---XX--Judgement--Deepen the dialogue, expand your conciousness |
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