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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?  |
| Prayer to the One out there Earth our home dirt, blood, bones create new birth Double helix DNA we pray Fix 8 lines Form and Prompt: Quadrette The HerbCrafter's Tarot--5 of Earth--Slippery Elm--Soothe the pain of those in need. |
| Mudflat Love Despite what you think there are many ways to love a mudflat. Trudge through the sludge, it is nature's magic gel, capricious, dynamic, malleable, thixotropic. Discover microbes, mollusks. orthopods, worm, a few sodden human acolytes. Didn't the Buddha say, "No mud, no lotus." I'll take my chances. 13 lines Prompt: Love Dark Goddess Tarot--Hag of Water--Ran (Nordic Goddess)--Deep in your soul you know where you belong, and where you do not. |
| Project 2025 Wendigo spirit infects all the government now, apocalypse cannibalistic rapacious, greedy, evil humans of power they have hearts of ice narcissistic women, men terrorists writ large we will always fight tyranny and oppression freedom is at stake 12 lines--Haiku chain The Herbcrafter's Tarot--16--The Tower--Mushrooms--Build resilience through strength |
| Concatenation There is a tear in the fabric of my reality. I am patching Indra's net with mosses, roses, daises, tulips and wild Fakahatchee Strand orchids. Great Mother, show me your thin places where the world is still being made, where I can speak the language of the flowers. My mind is a beastly bell jar. Help me to mimic the words of the seas and the stars. Everything is concatenated. 13 lines Prompt: use the words roses, daises, tulips. Oracle of the Essences--Rose--Follow your heart's desire. |
| Entomology Ants are useful creatures, just not at my picnic. Bedbugs must serve some purpose, but what? Dung beetles navigate by the Milky Way, looking for love. Earwigs don't really burrow in your ears. Fireflies are always welcome in my yard. Gnats are Gnot so welcome. Horseflies have bloodsucking females. Imago is the term for all adult insects. Jerusalem cricket is hump-backed and slow moving. Katydid, but perhaps she didn't. Locusts are quite biblical. Mosquitos are the bane of Florida. Nectar scarabs eat pollen and nectar from flowers. Onion maggots, a cosmopolitan pest of crops. Pretty pinion moth captured my fancy. Question mark butterfly has no questions. Rat fleas caused the bubonic plague. Scorpion, my sun sign, such a nasty creature. Tarantula's are not my idea of a pet. Uliodan is a vagrant spider. Vaginulus plebius......oops! White ants are termites...a termite goddess in India. XerXes butterfly Yellow butterfly Zebra swallowtail butterfly. 26 lines Prompt: write an abcdarian poem about animals The Insect Tarot--7 of Cups--Western Honey Bee--Consider the consequences of your actions. |
| Prayer 2025 When I am too weary, or too ill, or too muddled to pray I go to the lake's edge and sit. Not truly a lake, a man made retention pond born twenty years ago. But grandmother oak and grandmother cypress hold and remember my pleas. With brother egret and sister heron I stretch and release, I ruffle and settle. My word for this year: intercommunication. Is that not prayer enough? 12 lines prompt: a picture of a lake The Herb Crafter's Tarot--6 of Air--Cattail--open yourself to new ways to pray. |
| Garden This year I will plant beans and greens, tiny luscious lettuces, sturdy purple pole beans. The ancestors and hungry ghosts visit my garden. I am grateful for their guardian presence. Because of light pollution I cannot always see the Milky Way's path. But, I can always find the North Star. The edge of my garden has sunflowers and roses. a perfect match to bring heaven and honey to earth. 16 lines prompt: use the words bean, can, match, grateful The HerbCrafter's Tarot--3--Empress--Rose--see beauty and abundance in every stage of life |
| La Santa Muerte I have seen her twice. Once, reflected in a mirror hung opposite a dying patient's bed. The first time, as a girl of ten walking alone on a neighborhood street at dusk. I did not know her then. She is not a mythical creature but a citizen of non-ordinary reality. I have learned that she belies our belief that we are in control of anything, that, in the future, we will figure it all out. Our ashes are a reckoning. But then, there are constellations. 13 lines Prompt: Write about a mythical creature Dark Goddess Tarot--13--Death--La Santa Muerte--Be grateful for the gift of each moment. |
| Zenith The Zenith tea room is my spot for a book club of strong women, a restaurant and antique store. Old madonnas and sacred hearts line the shelves, kitsch is a given. The vegan cuisine we adore. A monthly meeting set aside for poetry and politics. We aim to kill all doom and gloom. Not for us prejudice and pride, we have outgrown close-minded cliques, at the funky Zenith tea room. Form: Zenith 12 lines Herb Crafter's Tarot--Eight of Fire--Ginger--Fire up your imagination! There is an actual Zenith Tea Room in Pittsburgh, PA. I visited many years ago but do not live there now. |
| Naples Solstice 2024 We don't have snow in Naples, Florida except the machine made stuff. We have lots of sunshine and glistening white sand. I string lights and dust off the electric candles. At the beach a full cold misty moon and a fresh star to follow.. Seaweed washes onto shore. I gather some to take home and dry. I will sprinkle seaweed and a dash of Gulf water into my Yule bread. Life is good here from now to Epiphany. 17 lines prompt: snow, sunshine, glistening The Herb Crafter's Tarot--Curandera of Water--Seaweed--restore your connection to the sea |
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