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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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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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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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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
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On Healing and Story
On Healing and Story There are many levels of healing when we tell our stories. We externalize that which we hold in. What we hear ourselves say and what another hears us say validates our story. We speak ourselves into being. Sometimes we don’t know our story until a person listens to it. It… Read more