Author: Narya Rose Deckard
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Imagination: The Season of Coming and Going with Tarot: Day 11
Today’s card: Five of Cups He’s bent toward the ground, his back facing us as he looks toward the river. It’s the ground that holds him up, he almost on all fours now. His posture has more motion than yesterday’s image, the 4 of cups, where the figure sits curled in on herself. Here he… Read more
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Letters to Our Grief: Season of Coming and Going with Tarot: Day 10
Card for the day: 4 of cups The Four of Cups reminds me of one of Rilke’s Letters To a Young Poet. The image is of a woman seated with her back against a tree, her arms crossed and feet tucked in, as if protecting herself, curled up into herself. Her eyes are closed, her… Read more
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Home Behind and World Ahead: Season of Coming and Going with Tarot: Day 9
Card of the day: Eight of Cups What I like most about the eight of cups image is the constellation of a cup in the sky. It’s a ninth cup in the image, though it’s the eight of cups card. The constellation of course holds the symbolism of stars as literal guides by compass; but… Read more
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The Season of Coming and Going with Tarot: Day 8
Tarot card for the day: Three of wands We only see his back and what he’s looking toward. He stands on a cliff facing away, a staff grasped in his hand. The staff is blooming red roses. Two other staffs are to his right, and though they have leaves sprouting, they don’t have flowers. In… Read more
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Burdens: A Season of Coming and Going Day 7
Tarot card for the day: 10 of Wands Reversed He carries all ten wands in his arms. He trudges beneath the weight of it all. Was it that he couldn’t say no? Or that he wanted too much, more than he could realistically bear? It’s not that they’re all bad things, for many of the… Read more
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Childhood: A Season of Coming and Going: Tarot Day 6
Tarot Card for Today: Six of Cups reversed Two children in springtime surrounded by abundance. Flowers are blooming everywhere, the grass and trees are rich green, and it’s a bright day. Behind them sits a cozy cottage with a soldier nearby guarding some fenced in area—there is safety here. Some things are simply off limits… Read more
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The Exeter Book: A Season of Coming and Going with Tarot: Day 5
Advent Tarot Day 5: 3 of Pentacles Reversed Of course it would happen sooner or later: a repeated card. This is the beauty of Tarot: it gives us an opportunity to dwell longer on an image and its story. I want to focus on an Advent lyric from the Exeter Book as it’s about foundations… Read more
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dark business: A Season of Coming and Going with Tarot: Day 4
Judgment reversed: Day 4 They have risen from the dead. How long have they been dead? Does that matter? No—what matters is the call, the trumpet of renewal has sounded by the lips of the angel Gabriel, the giver of divine messages. It’s their second coming, their chance at new life. This card gets to… Read more
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A Season of Coming and Going with Tarot: Day 3
Day 3 : Six of Pentacles Reversed A man dressed in fine robes, blue cape and red tunic, holds a set of scales in his left hand. The scales have three coins on it and they’re perfectly balanced. A fourth coin pins together his cloak—money keeps him together. In his right hand he’s holding two… Read more
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A Season of Coming and Going with Tarot: Day 2
A man chisels at a stone sculpture; he’s finding the beauty of movement and life, a living being, in stone. He’s in a state concentration: relaxed and focused. He’s dressed in the garb of labor, but unlike the four of pentacles, his clothes look worn with use. Two people stand on the other side… Read more