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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? |
Pendulum I though I wanted ecstasy but that was not to be. I wanted joy a toy of mind. Let me be kind Small pleasures day and night, and now I settle for delight. 8 lines Form: Pendulum poem Pholarchos Tarot---3 of Sparks--Trust sweet blessings and the urge to amplify. |
Ecclesia Toss the robes and incense forget the aves and amens, give me a feral church an ecclesia of black madonna mad womyn. Our vestments are seaweed our liturgy whale song our commandments guided drift. We will pilgrimage to Saintes-Maries-de-LaMer and place St. SaraKali on our dashboards. We will honor all water divinities in exultations of song and dance. Water is life. Water is life. 14 lines Prompt: a woman lying face up by the seashore. Gaian Tarot--Guardian of Water--trust your dreams and intuition Author's Note--the Feast of SaraKali is May 24. |
For Andy on Mother's Day You are my sunshine, the first song I taught you. We would sing in the car though we never sang the sad, second verse. I sing it now at the adult dementia day stay where I work. We sing the sad, second verse. Someday, I imagine you and I will sing it again, together along that long, bumpy road to old age and beyond. 13 lines Prompt--Sun Gaian Tarot--5--The Teacher--What do I have to teach? What do I have to learn? |
Dreams At night you must read a bedtime story. How else will your dreams know where to begin? You'll want a tale laden with shiny creatures perhaps a scatter of shadows. Find a fable with forests, angels and dragons, river stones that can sing. Come up from your sleep gasping for more. 12 lines Prompt: dreams Pholarchos Tarot--4 of Wings--You are the eye of the storm--the still point for revelation. |
Angelology How many angels can dance on a pin. Have you entertained angels unaware, Can angels help with our sorrows and care? I ask, are there break dancing seraphim or hip-hop and loud rapping cherubim. Do they hear and answer our prayers. help us to carry what we cannot bear. Where do I and the universe begin? Jacob wrestled with an angel, both lost. St. Mary answered yes to Gabriel. Metatron rules the heavenly host. I'd rather believe in angels than not., a mysterious world and magickal. My highest , my best, my uttermost. 14 lines Petrarchan sonnet Angel Tarot--7 of Fire--Defend your beliefs. Stand your ground. |