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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?  |
| 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 |
| Serendipity-- Two volumes arrived yesterday Book of our Divine Mother MariaTheos. Thick and spiral-bound they were offered gratis. MariaTheos I fall into mystery answer my prayer Nikki Giovanni died yesterday. Feast day of Our Lady of Guadalupe. She wrote that no one ever says what they mean. How can we know our heart's true desire? I am skeptical of channeling, but heard a strong feminine voice. I asked for guidance She answered with one word, "Stay" and thus, I abide. Form: Haibun, 14 lines Prompt: Serendipity Mother Mary Oracle--Our Lady of Answered Prayers |
| Thankful I am no longer a woman of the 24-hour news cycle but becoming a being of the long sacred story. In our shattered world, in a body deranged by genocidal technostates there are shifts and waves safe caves. It is there in your bones and skin, a place where your ancestors live. Come, be a wide-eyed wanderer. 12 lines prompt: Thankfulness The HerbCrafter's Tarot--6 of Earth--Pine--Recognize the bounty in your life. |
| Thanksgiving 2024 Like carbon and gravity the sun behind an eclipse we are an eternity not a momentary blip 4 lines Prompt: A Tanaga rhyme scheme: ABAB The HerbCrafter's Tarot--11-Justice--Cannabis--Stand on the side of truth and fight for what is right. |
| Do Whales Pray? It was just a typo that read, "I have a rosary from Whales", I thanked her for spellcheck and tumbled down that rabbit hole. Whales wouldn't pray like us but with their songs clicking and whirring. Spiders dream, dolphins have accents. We are one teetering, entangled, endless thread dangling by prayer. Form--free verse 12 lines prompt: a thank you note The HerbCrafter's Tarot: Five of Air---White Sage--protect what is holy |
| Armistice Day Today, ostensibly, we celebrate peace. But in a stunning word Recrudescense we are back to a Trumpian dystopia. No nuance here just the icy wind of autocracy. He is not colorful but bathed in blood and hate. Amerikka's first dictator, America's last president. 12 lines prompt: use the words stunning, nuance, colorful, last, first in a poem Pholarchos Tarot--16--The Tower--A trial by earth, air, fire, water. |
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