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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

February 24, 2025 at 11:18am
February 24, 2025 at 11:18am
#1084319
Ode to February

We are all ruins here
though no dramatic changes
or revolutions afoot.
Just a slow burn through February.
The power elites ignore our voices
that echo from these mean streets.
In time, all bodies crumble and fade.
Still, our unheroic acts keep things
better then they might have been.
Here in February
I hear only the voices
of my friends.

12 lines
Prompt: Ode to February

Oracle of the Essences--Cassia--Strength, Confidence--antimicrobial, antiviral--Be sure to put your feet in the right place, then stand firm. Abraham Lincoln
February 19, 2025 at 3:23pm
February 19, 2025 at 3:23pm
#1084100
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.
February 14, 2025 at 3:56pm
February 14, 2025 at 3:56pm
#1083858
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.
February 7, 2025 at 11:35am
February 7, 2025 at 11:35am
#1083476
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
February 1, 2025 at 9:55am
February 1, 2025 at 9:55am
#1083109
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.

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