Category: Poetry
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Where Has the Horse Gone? The Season of Coming and Going with Tarot: Day 18
Five of pentacles reversed In the Five of Pentacles, a man and woman stumble through a snow storm in tattered clothes. The man hobbles with a staff and the two lean into each other. Behind them dark winter trees stand naked in the night. But they are near a church that offers warmth and respite.… Read more
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Bent Wings: The Season of Coming and Going with Tarot: Day 17
Tarot card of the day: Four of Wands I love how Tarot images open the reader to so many different possibilities, sometimes too many. When I pulled the Four of Wands, upright, my first response was: this is not how I feel today (although I will say every day I pull a card for this… Read more
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Endarkenment: The Season of Coming and Going with Tarot: Day 16
Card of the day: The World reversed In this time of waiting for new light, I keep asking myself: what really are we waiting for? And The World reversed image suggests to me to reevaluate this narrative. The story in The World is, in a sense, what to wait for: the beginning that is intrinsically… Read more
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Thieves: The Season of Coming and Going with Tarot: Day 15
Tarot card of the day: 7 of swords (picture I took of a holy well near the Hill of Tara in Ireland) Has a fairy stolen into your camp? Convinced you to come with him, to dance and sing, to help you obliterate your sense of lack or to let you indulge in “not enoughness”?… Read more
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Fundamentalism: The Season of Coming and Going with Tarot: Day 14
Day 14: Judgment Reversed (from Wardruna’s show at Red Rocks, Oct. 2024) I read the Old English lyrics Judgment I and Judgment II from the Old English Exeter Book while thinking about the Judgment card reversed a second time this season. These daily blogs don’t give me much time to think and absorb the way… Read more
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Carrion Comforts and Mosquitos: The Season of Coming and Going with Tarot: Day 13
Day 13: Nine of wands Reversed He’s resolute and ragged. He grips his staff (a wand) with both hands for support. He’s worn out; he’s done. And yet….he is still standing and the 8 other wands behind him stand as a barricade against any further battle. A bloody bandage covers part of his head and… Read more
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Human Fortune: The Season of Coming and Going with Tarot: Day 12
Tarot card of the day: Ten of Swords The standard Rider-Waite deck shows a man with ten swords stuck in his back as if he were a porcupine. My deck has the cards stabbing his front. At first I was thinking that perhaps the traditional image is one of betrayal by others and mine is… Read more
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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