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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?  |
Halloween Yes, the leaves fell faster thaen I imagined but it is October after all. Sometimes you need broken magick: a nest of fog a ghost cat drag queen pumpkins. The news from real life is hard and horrible. My Halloween spell will carry on the breeze, Enchantment for everyone. 12 lines prompt: use the words pumpkin,cat, fog Oracle of the Essences--Clove--Determination, Empowerment |
Time A bounty of time allows the mind to wander, to enter stories beyond control of the algorithm. A plenitude of time exists to serve us apart from the state of nations, away from carrying the world on our shoulders. An abundance of time is medicinal. Time to step away from the screen. 13 lines prompt: time Haindl Tarot--VII--The Chariot--steer your own course |
Into the Woods I went deep into the woods today, further than I have ever been. I flung away the ridiculously heavy, sweaty red velvet hooded cloak. I stood naked as Eve before Jehovah told her it was shameful. I had forgotten the bliss of my own skin. I began to roar, nay HOWL. I felt prickles on my scalp. The mother wolves joined my chorus. I will never believe that old, damn fairytale again. 15 lines prompt: an image of ridinghood and the wolf Animal Speak--Wolf--Trust your own instincts. |
| Harvest Moon 2025 My rag top is down this night open to moon and sky and the stars, singing and bright. It is my makeshift sukkah a celebration of delight. My fidgeting and fluttering memories are slinking and stretching to make right my ancestral, feral cry: "Make me good soil tonight!". 9 lines Form: Magic 9 Dark Goddess Tarot--XVII--Stars--Spider Woman--Small things hold the Earth to Heaven. |
Yom Kippur 2025 With luck I will return to the place of my last dream and will find it is the place of my first dream. With luck I will wake raw and unadorned, atoned, shriven born into a blameless world. This is no catastrophe. It is beginner's luck. 14 lines prompt: write a poem about luck Dark Goddess Tarot--0--Fool--Sheila Na Gig--Dare to come back to where you began. |
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And I absolutely love getting a glimpse into how people's minds & inspiration work - who'd've thought you'd end up with a lovely piece about a bird from a picture of a restaurant 
This is the type of free verse that in my opinion suits Shadows & Light.