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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? *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

August 30, 2023 at 12:57pm
August 30, 2023 at 12:57pm
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Don't Answer Me

Don't answer me in words
what I want is whale song
high-pitched cries
mourning Lolita, Tokitae the Orca.
Captive for fifty-four years
now free to join the Lummi, her tribe.
Don't answer me with words.


7 lines



Oracle of the Mermaids-- 5--Song of the Siren---Find your true voice
August 28, 2023 at 10:35am
August 28, 2023 at 10:35am
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Windmill

My thoughts go
humming like a windmill
but grinding no grain
baking no bread.
Loose, nonsensical imaginings
pollute my bones
drag my body down.
Loose, fresh dreams
offer no respite.
I pray
that the driving winds
may cease.


Hurricane Idalia on my mind.

12 lines--prompt--windmill
August 27, 2023 at 11:29am
August 27, 2023 at 11:29am
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A Column of Saints

Things you didn't see
were there all along,
helping hands, people past,
ancestors and ancients all the way down.
Our dead aren't done.
They live in our bones, marrrow,
strings of DNA.
They murmur the prayers
that we forgot.
Listen for the words
that make your heart sing.
Remember to look
for the things you didn't see.


13 lines


The Sibyls Oraculum--Praesdio--Detachment--When loss is an investment in peace, defeat is illusory.
August 26, 2023 at 12:16pm
August 26, 2023 at 12:16pm
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Mary

Mary
divine Mother of all
mediates for humanity
miraculous
is she

Form: Marianne

Today is the feast day of our lady of Czestochowa Poland-- a black scarred Madonna. May the memory of evil be washed away.
August 21, 2023 at 4:18pm
August 21, 2023 at 4:18pm
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VEGETALISTAS

Vegetalistas
Engage
Guide
Entire
Tribes
And
Living
Interconnected
Systems
Touching
All
Souls


A vegetalista is a shaman/healer that works with the properties of plants.


The HerbCrafter's Tarot--Seven of Earth--OAK--Live with the rhythms of the Earth.

12 lines---form:: acrostic

August 14, 2023 at 8:57am
August 14, 2023 at 8:57am
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Sanibel LightHouse

She lost a leg
to Hurricane Ian
but her iron skeleton tower
held strong.
I'd like to climb
her central spiral staircase
ascending the metal kundalini
rising to the light
of her brilliant third eye.
She guides people home
away from the shallows
her invitation
to live in the depths.


The Sibyls Oraculum--Inceptum/ Initiative---Remain upright and give it all you've got.
 
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August 12, 2023 at 1:49pm
August 12, 2023 at 1:49pm
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Meet Me at the Castle

Meet me at the castle,
St. Teresa's interior one,
no dragons please.
Bring your best tattered self,
come in drag if you like,
paint your face with flecks of gold.
There is no out there, only in here.
Born after 1945, Oppenheimer's gifting
gives you tiny amounts of Carbon-14.
We are radioactive, glittering.
But this , this is Barbie land,
sparkling and pink,
moonlight and starshine.
We can be anything here.
So, meet me at the castle.


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The HerbCrafter's Tarot--20--Tulsi--Awakening---Devotion to your calling is devotion to your world.
August 7, 2023 at 3:26pm
August 7, 2023 at 3:26pm
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Summer Haze

It's too hot to be this stupid.
Climate change is real folks,
a spillage that devours
claims to fixed names.
A glimmer is not a trigger
but the sidewalks shimmer with heat.
Laborers and homeless
crumble and wither.
Monstrous storms brew
off the coast of Africa.
The kids start school on Thursday
and pray for hurricane days.
The electric bill keeps rising
despite the kirtan of ceiling fans.
Thoughts are muddled.
Is it a fever, creeping mold
or just the summer haze?

HerbCrafter's Tarot---12--The Hanged One--Burdock---Let go of control. Lasting change takes time.

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