Author: Narya Rose Deckard
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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
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A Season of Coming and Going with Tarot: Day 1
He sits on a stone throne, and grasps a single coin in both hands, clutches it even as if his life depended on it. Two coins rest at his feet, and the fourth is etched into the chair above his head. He wears a serious expression. His chair elevates him off the ground, as if… Read more
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Integration of Self into Soil
I’m thinking about the difference John O’Donohue describes in Eternal Echoes between tools and technology. Technology, he says, does not extend human presence but rather turns it into function. Our technology shapes who we are and how we interact with our world. Conversely, tools like a shovel, a rake, a pen, we actively participate in… Read more
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Instinct, or Some Thoughts on Jung
I wrote this while thinking through Carl Jung’s Memories, Dreams, Reflections. If god isn’t an invention of consciousness, so I can neither make god more remote nor eliminate god, I can bring god closer to the possibility of being experienced. God is an instinct. Our instinct is diminished when we have to prove something… Read more
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Poem “So Many Meadows” published!
Thanks to Tiny Seed Journal for publishing my poem “So Many Meadows” on their website: So Many Meadows It will be printed in an anthology in October. Read more