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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? |
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 |
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 |
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. |
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. |
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 |
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. |
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. 15 lines The HerbCrafter's Tarot--20--Tulsi--Awakening---Devotion to your calling is devotion to your world. |
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. |