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Two of Wands

2011-11-02T02:54:00.000-07:00

"Designing and implementing a strategy for change is a waste of time until you have discovered and embraced the current reality."

~Andy Stanley 1958-

...signifies the harnessing of one's personal power...
...the receiving part of the personality is open to learning...
...the active part of the personality is demonstrative...
...the dream vision is intuition awakening, a form of fire that precedes verbal communication...
...the personality may have flashes of insight or understanding of what it is capable of doing....

-motherpeace

...Mind can accept any boundary anywhere. But the reality is that, by its very nature, existence cannot have any boundary, because what will be beyond the boundary? --again another sky.
Don't be content easily. Those who remain content easily remain small...this smallness is your own imposition upon your freedom...

-osho

Ace of Wands

2011-09-15T02:21:00.001-07:00

-Matheus Lopes

pure grounded centered energy

~the source~

"Most of us can easily do two things at once; what's all but impossible is to do one thing at once." ~Mignon McLaughlin 1913-1983

...a rebirth of the spirit is taking place: one is brand new like a baby, and the force of fire streams through the personality. This energy is expansive. It opens us to our abilities...will-power for whatever one's goals dictate...

-motherpeace

Fool

2011-08-05T01:06:00.001-07:00

“A thing
cannot be
delivered
enough times:
this is the
rule of dogs
for whom there
are no fool’s
errands. To
loop out and
come back is
good all alone.
It’s gravy to
carry a ball
or a bone”

-Kay Ryan, “Fool’s Errands”

"In another moment down went Alice after it, never once considering how in the world she was to get out again."

-down the rabbit hole

"A Fool’s journey begins at Zero and concludes at Zero- a complete circle."

-Double Oh Fool

http://blip.fm/listen/Cat+Power

"...the fool is that archetype that turns things on their head, makes us laugh, and for a moment, forget our fear." -colette obrian

"It is freeing to become aware that we do not have to be victims of our past and can learn new ways of responding. But there is a step beyond this recognition. It is the step of forgiveness.
It sets us free.

~ Carolyn Osiek

The Crone Speaks:

To know me, first know this ~
In the beginning, as in the End there is Nothing
There is Nothing
Behind your ordinary world
Behind all manifestation
Lies the Void

I am the emptiness surrounding the universe
I am the uncertainty of the electron
I am the nothingness hiding in your soul

In the Void you have no name
Words do not exist
You have no memory, no past or future
Time does not exist
You find no landmarks, you have no body
Matter does not exist

But You
You may still exist

A mere spark of awareness

But that is enough
That is where you begin

http://www.croneways.com/major0.htm

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Three of Wands

2011-07-25T23:49:00.001-07:00

The fire of the torches allows them the light to make art....
Through manifesting their visions, they learn about life.

-motherpeace

Following your bliss means continuously growing, and expanding and purposefully finding ways of expressing joy, and appreciation. When you get the Three of Wands you need to do the thing that is effortless, that makes you feel good. Find your bliss, and follow it.

3 of Swords

2011-01-29T15:57:00.000-08:00

-julia wolfson embroidery

heart b:eat

In a dance of power, difficulty precedes harmony. -motherpeace

He has cured his tooth ache at the cost of his tongue!

"Akk, if I could only turn back the clock a few seconds..."

But no matter how hard you wish,
once a thing is done or said
there is no going back for do-overs.

It's a done deal.

"Don't be so humble - you are not that great."
~ Golda Meir 1898-1978

from Quirkeries

I ask, if i shall never see you again and fix my eyes on that solidity,
what form will our communication take?
-Virginia Woolf

I can hold pain, without it controlling me.

I take comfort where I find it.

I leave behind old habits, taking with me only what I need.

-inner whispers

Ace of Cups

2010-12-30T18:21:00.000-08:00

THE VESSEL AND THE CUP
from a Hasidic story

What cup knows the distress
of the large vessel, knows
any more than two inches
of the purple? For the cup
everything that fills up
is equal--the little jug,
the pot, the large vessel.
Beyond its own meniscus
nothing's knowable for a cup.
But the vessel wishes
one something
could use it up.

-Kay Ryan

Offering
the Root of
the Powers of Water

( ( ( g o i n g w i t h t h e f l o w ) ) )

After the grace in the dive, a gentle landing is assured, a friendly welcome from the depths of the unconscious. -motherpeace

...prominent emanations of energy
spanning out in a web of connectivity.

I drink in the evening. I drink in the sky.

My heart swells, vast and great as Heaven Herself.

She fills my soul. She feeds my dreams.

And I believe.
-crone

The silver cup is the vessel,
the chalice, the grail....
It promises a joyous experience of letting go into unconditional love,
the spaciousness of the open heart.
-motherpeace

...the movement of water always moves towards depth, it always searches for the lowest ground.
It is non-ambitious; it never hankers to be first, it wants to be last.

-lao tzu

Strength

2010-12-07T00:40:00.000-08:00

Strength, an essential fusion of physical power,
perception from the center and radiant mental energy.
Serene in the midst of chaos, infinity is her womb.

"For they have sown the wind,
and they shall reap the whirlwind…”
~Hosea 8:7a

I am Spirit

Making body
is what I do

I am Body

Expressing spirit
is what I do

I am Primal
I am Sublime

You are strongest
When Both are One
-crone

When this card comes up in your reading, pay attention to what you have passion for and use this passion to further your life. This is a card of enormous courage, vitality and power to achieve anything within your imagining. The power you have is not a power over others but a power from within, a strength you have that is really your own. You do not need to hold it over others, but use this inner strength calmly and by example many others may discover this most powerful strength.

-Connie Lehman

mixed hand embroidery including needle punch

"Conduct your blooming
in the noise and whip
of the whirlwind."

~Gwendolyn Brooks

Eight of Swords

2010-12-01T18:21:00.000-08:00

"...dreamlike and illusory
the wall against which the swords are breaking
is a figment of the imagination.
Freedom lies in
understanding that what is needed is
the more balanced perspective of the crows
who see both sides of the situation with a sense of humor."
-motherpeace

Tower

2010-11-02T19:46:00.000-07:00

“If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.”

-toni morrison

-leonora carrington (the memory tower)

'What am I living for and what am I dying for are the same question.'

-Toby from margaret atwood's, year of the flood

Was there no safety? No learning by heart of
the ways of the world? No guide, no shelter,
but all was miracle and leaping from the
pinnacle of a tower into the air?

-virginia woolf, to the lighthouse

"The lightening bolt of illumination strikes hard, throwing everything into chaos and confusion. This allows for a restructuring based on truth, and releases the personality from false consciousness and depression. The Tower, like the Hindu Goddess Kali, signifies a liberation that hurts even as it frees." -divinewhispers

"...It is no accident that Kali is both sexual guru and destroyer, but she slays whatever stands in the way of true appreciation of what is real. She does not ask to escape 'the wheel of life,' but rides it consciously from the center. When you let her into your life, you will experience an increased sensitivity to everything in existence along with a heightened ability to handle whatever comes your way." -motherpeace

PRAISE! for being alive

"Isabel Snail"-Beth Seilonen

Two of Cups

2010-10-27T23:03:00.001-07:00

DESIRE

There is One whom I could love above all others.
I see Her, smell Her, hear Her voice in my blood.
How can She be resisted when She is my own self singing?

-tarot of the crone

"As unconscious desire merges with the conscious love of the heart, the outcome will be union."

-motherpeace

Six of Cups

2010-10-14T12:16:00.000-07:00

CUPS.

A single example of excellence is in the meat. A bent stick is surging and might all might is mental. A grand clothes is searching out a candle not that wheatly not that by more than an owl and a path. A ham is proud of cocoanut.

A cup is neglected by being all in size. It is a handle and meadows and sugar any sugar.

A cup is neglected by being full of size. It shows no shade, in come little wood cuts and blessing and nearly not that not with a wild bought in, not at all so polite, not nearly so behind.

Cups crane in. They need a pet oyster, they need it so hoary and nearly choice. The best slam is utter. Nearly be freeze.

Why is a cup a stir and a behave. Why is it so seen.

A cup is readily shaded, it has in between no sense that is to say music, memory, musical memory.

Peanuts blame, a half sand is holey and nearly.

-gertrude stein (tender buttons)

....even if the feelings are sad, the active expression of them provides a release that feels good.
some memory of the distant past, like a wave, carries them into the future.
-motherpeace

Two of Swords

2010-10-07T21:38:00.000-07:00

....are as soft as feathers, creating an infinite space of calm....

REFLECTION

perfect balance is sought as well as grounding and privacy

can you tell us the place where
the elders chew the sky soft?
and the place where love is like
a perfectly quilled arrow
flowing from bows of pure willow...

-mariée sioux

"...She is poised in a seemingly prepared, calm stasis. Both feet securely planted on solid foundation. Further, her feet are pointed outward which hints of openness in her nature..."

...there reigns here still
all the seductions of solitude ,
and of oceanic contemplation...

-engène chapus

—Two of Swords (Reversed)>
Things are happening now.
Trust that you are able to make decisions.
Release your fear of involvement now,
release your need for everything to be "perfect"
and in perfect order all the time - allow yourself to relax.
Your affairs may be moving very quickly,
so do not let the pace get you down.

The Signal by Karin Weiner
Collage on paper, 2005
11.25 x 10 in.

Ten of Swords

2010-04-22T23:28:00.000-07:00

"the dive into
deep waters below
may yield
a new experience
of feeling and
emotional sensitivity."
-motherpeace

final fantasy

c o m p l e t e .

can you spot a p a t t e r n ?

r e v e l a t i o n

....the absolute abandonment of a cherished image, plan, or way of life.

...the dramatic end of a cycle, a sudden coming to terms with what really is, rather than what one wanted or hoped would be the case.

.....represents a sacrifice that, once made, allows the personality to get on with it's broader purpose in the world. In a certain sense, one may feel a relief in the certainty that the ten of swords symbolizes-the struggle has ended, the ego has no choice but to let go.

-motherpeace

Hermit

2009-04-21T03:00:00.000-07:00

-William Blake: Hecate, 1795

"Be a light unto yourself"
-osho zen

"We hear the call of our wild. We play games to end their games. Those who have been called bitches bark; pussies purr; cows moo; old bats squeal; squirrels chatter; nags whinny; chicks chirp; cats growl; old crows speech. Foxy ladies chase clucking biddies around in circles. The play is part of our work of unweaving and of our weaving work. It whirls us into another frame of reference. We use the visitation of demons to come more deeply into touch with our own powers/virtues. Unweaving their deceptions, we name our Truth." -hag

"My patroness is the Goddess Hecate, goddess of the crossroads on cold, windy nights when things go suddenly liminal and change is already flowing across the boundary between what couldn't be and what might become. She comes with her several-headed dogs, who look in all directions and She shows up, unafraid, I like to think, but afraid or unafraid, She shows up, and She midwifes both what's being born and what's dying. She stands there, where you have to choose, or where you have to admit that the choice has been made for you, and where two roads diverge in the wood and you, you'll take either the smooth one or the one less traveled by -- and that will make all the difference."
-hecate blog

I Walk Among Others

I Walk Alone

I Look at Life

I Need Knowledge

Of the Inside Out

-crone

Seven of Wands

2009-04-21T02:12:00.000-07:00

I can relax and be.

"Holding her position, she tells the truth as she sees it"

~Significant Communication~

"This is a debate, an open verbal exchange. The energy here makes for sexual exchange or heated debate. There is an underlying feeling of deep purpose--this is not light or superficial interchange, but significant communication."

"One of them confronts her quite directly, holding her wand of power aloft"

Justice

2009-01-10T00:49:00.001-08:00

Themis : collective conscience ~ Nemisis : divine vengeance

~..~

"I coined the term meta-art in 1972 to describe a kind of writing an artist may do about her work that examines its processes and clarifies its sociopolitical context and conceptual presuppositions from the first-person perspective" --Adrian Piper, xix

Decide Who You Are, #1: Skinned Alive

(1992; three silk-screened photos, graph paper,
silk-screened pencil drawing, two silk-screened texts, 72 x 153”)

Left-hand panel text:

SKINNED ALIVE, that last protective skein of illusion

ripped off.

No insulation against acid reality,
flayed meat exposed to searchlight glares,
burning harsh to panic madness.
No respite, no solace, no refuge anywhere

on my grilled raw surfaces.

Only the corrosive cooking smell, the sickening realization that

there is no self-duplicity in your predation,

not even the inner pretension to virtuous disposition.

No idealistic aspirations here;
draw a breath and nothing, no one rushes in to aerate the blood.
There is no one home to come home to, no one home to avoid, no one home to pay homage to,

no home at all,

just emptiness that suffocates my attempts to fertilize it with stubborn hopes.
No one home, only the wheels turning,

the lips moving

to emit sounds that assemble into

perfunctory rationalizations for our benefit.

The abuse of power makes an honest man of you

the addictive thrill of unconcealed contempt
the exhilarating buzz of sadistic anger
the obsessive fascination with victims there to receive your cruelty,

all these throw your profile into sharp relief

and gain your entry to the universal brotherhood.

The travesty would be to pretend among the company you keep

to believe in the appearances you keep up,

the casual appearance of earnest good intentions.

Right-hand panel text:

IT'S FINE. I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU MEAN. I DIDN'T NOTICE ANYTHING WRONG. IT SEEMS FINE TO ME. I DON'T KNOW WHY YOU SAY THAT. I DON'T SEE ANY PROBLEM. I'M AMAZED THAT YOU SEE THINGS THAT WAY. I JUST DON'T SEE IT THAT WAY AT ALL. IT WASN'T INTENTIONAL. I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHERE THIS IS COMING FROM. JUST CALM DOWN. TRY TO GET A GRIP ON YOURSELF. THIS IS A COMPLETE SURPRISE TO ME. THE THOUGHT NEVER CROSSED MY MIND. I REALLY DON'T KNOW WHAT TO MAKE OF THIS. ISN'T THIS A LITTLE BIT MUCH? THAT'S A WEIRD WAY TO THINK ABOUT THINGS. I JUST CAN'T RELATE. WE CERTAINLY DO HAVE DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES ON THINGS. YOU'RE MAKING TOO MUCH OF THIS. NOTHING'S THE MATTER. STOP GETTING EMOTIONAL. YOU'RE BLOWING THE WHOLE THING OUT OF PROPORTION. EVERYTHING'S FINE. WHAT DO YOU MEAN? WHAT'S THE PROBLEM? YOU'RE BEING PARANOID. YOU'RE OVERSENSITIVE. YOU'RE READING TOO MUCH INTO IT. STOP JUMPING TO CONCLUSIONS. IT DIDN'T OCCUR TO ME. YOU'RE OVERINTERPRETING THE DATA. I DON'T THINK IT HAS ANYTHING TO DO WITH THAT. IT WAS JUST A SIMPLE MISTAKE. IT DOESN'T MEAN ANYTHING. YOU'RE SEEING TOO MUCH IN THIS. NOTHING'S GOING ON. I CAN'T IMAGINE WHAT MAKES YOU THINK THAT. I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT. I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT YOU'RE REFERRING TO. I REALLY THINK YOU'RE OVERDOING IT. YOU'RE JUST TIRED. DON'T TAKE EVERYTHING SO SERIOUSLY. IT'S NO BIG DEAL. YOU'RE JUST PROJECTING. YOU'RE OVERREACTING. NOTHING HAPPENED. DID I NOTICE WHAT? I DON'T SEE ANYTHING TO GET UPSET ABOUT. I DON'T SEE WHAT YOU'RE GETTING AT. I DON'T UNDERSTAND THE PROBLEM. WHAT'S THE MATTER? YOU'LL GET OVER IT. DID SOMEONE DO SOMETHING WRONG? WHAT'S GOING ON? WHAT'S THIS ABOUT? WHAT'S WRONG? STOP MAKING SUCH A BIG DEAL ABOUT IT. I DON'T SEE ANYTHING WRONG WITH THAT. EVERYONE DOES THAT. SO WHAT? BIG DEAL. WHO CARES? NO, NOTHING LIKE THAT. JUST A MISUNDERSTANDING, THAT'S ALL. MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING. I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT THIS IS ABOUT. I'M MYSTIFIED BY YOUR REACTION. I DON'T GET IT. SO? WHAT'S THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THAT? IT WAS JUST AN INNOCENT SLIP-UP. I REGARD THAT AS PERFECTLY NORMAL BEHAVIOR. I SEE NO PROBLEM WITH THAT. YOU'RE THE ONE WITH THE PROBLEM. THAT'S A VERY UNCHARITABLE INTERPRETATION. IT'S SO UNNECESSARY TO TALK ABOUT THIS. OH, I DON'T THINK IT HAS ANYTHING TO DO WITH THAT, REALLY. WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? THAT'S SHEER SPECULATION. YOU'RE AWFULLY QUICK TO CAST ASPERSIONS. YOU CAN'T PROVE THAT. I DON'T NEED TO HEAR THIS. HOW DO YOU KNOW? THAT'S CRAZY. YOU'RE IMAGINING THINGS. THAT'S JUST YOUR OPINION. NO, IT'S NOT THAT AT ALL. THAT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH IT. THAT DOESN'T MEAN ANYTHING. WELL, THAT'S A NATURAL REACTION. THAT DOESN'T MEAN WHAT YOU THINK IT MEANS. THAT'S A SELF-SERVING EXPLANATION. WHY BRING THIS UP? YOU SEE EVERYTHING IN TERMS OF YOUR OWN PROBLEMS. WHY IS THAT OBJECTIONABLE? YOU'RE COOKING UP PROBLEMS WHERE THERE ARE NONE. YOU'RE MAKING THINGS UP. I DON'T BELIEVE THAT HAPPENED. I'M NOT SAYING YOU'RE LYING, I'M JUST SAYING YOUR PERCEPTIONS ARE DISTORTED. IT'S NOT NECESSARY TO SEE THINGS IN THAT LIGHT. YOU'RE TOO UPSET TO THINK CLEARLY. WE'LL DISCUSS IT LATER. NO, NOT NOW, I'M BUSY. STOP MAKING TROUBLE. YOU'RE SEEING THINGS THAT AREN'T THERE. THIS IS RIDICULOUS. I DON'T WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT. SO HOW ARE YOU OTHERWISE? I REFUSE TO DISCUSS THIS. WHAT'S SO WRONG WITH THAT? CHANGE THE SUBJECT. PEOPLE HAVE A RIGHT TO EXPRESS THEMSELVES. I'M NOT GOING TO LISTEN TO THIS. YOU TAKE EVERYTHING TOO PERSONALLY. YOU MUST HAVE PERCEIVED THAT INCORRECTLY. I'M SURE YOU'RE MISTAKEN. I'M SURE THAT DIDN'T HAPPEN QUITE THE WAY YOU DESCRIBE IT. SURELY YOU'RE EXAGGERATING JUST A LITTLE. YOU'RE BEING IRRATIONAL. YOU CAN'T MAKE ME BELIEVE THAT. THIS IS SO UNNECESSARY. NOBODY WANTS TO HEAR THIS. ARE YOU TRYING TO RUIN EVERYTHING? STOP INSISTING ON THIS IF YOU KNOW WHAT'S GOOD FOR YOU. YOU'RE REALLY OUT ON A LIMB. YOU'RE WAY OUT OF LINE. IT'S NOT YOUR PLACE TO SAY THAT. DON'T PUSH IT. YOU'RE GOING TOO FAR. GET OFF IT. YOU'RE SPEAKING OUT OF PLACE. LIGHTEN UP. YOU'RE ASKING FOR TROUBLE. YOU'RE BEING INAPPROPRIATE. NOBODY CARES WHAT YOU THINK. YOU'RE LEAVING YOURSELF WIDE OPEN. YOU'RE CRUISIN' FOR A BRUISIN'. PUT A LID ON IT. CAN IT. STUFF IT. BAG IT. FORGET IT. DROP IT. I WOULDN'T PURSUE THIS ANY FURTHER IF I WERE YOU. YOU'RE REALLY ASKING FOR IT. DO YOU WANT TO GET IN TROUBLE? YOU'RE GOING TO GET IT. YOU'RE STICKING YOUR NECK OUT. YOU'RE DIGGING YOUR OWN GRAVE. A REAL GLUTTON FOR PUNISHMENT. YOU CAN'T GET AWAY WITH THIS. YOU'RE DEAD MEAT. I HATE TO DO THIS. I'M REALLY SORRY THIS IS NECESSARY. THIS HURTS ME MORE THAN IT HURTS YOU. I'M DOING THIS FOR YOUR OWN GOOD. YOU'LL APPRECIATE THIS LATER. I'M JUST TRYING TO HELP YOU. SOMEDAY YOU'LL THANK ME FOR THIS. ACTUALLY I'M DOING YOU A FAVOR. IN TIME YOU'LL UNDERSTAND. YOU'LL LEARN TO SEE THINGS DIFFERENTLY.

"Initially, language had nothing to do with words and indeed verbal language emerged only when man had lost a portion of his love, forgotten some of his identification with nature, so that he no longer understood its voice to be his also."
~ Jane Roberts

Listen.

"I am Spider Woman
While you live
You walk my Web

I am your Judge

The Powers of Earth judge you
Have you harmed yourself or others?

The Powers of Air judge you
Are you free from fear and delusion?

The Powers of Water judge you
Do you know love and give love?

The Powers of Fire judge you
Do you know who you are?
Do you know who I am?

How you shall be judged?
The time is now
To judge for yourself"

:The Crone Speaks

Son of Cups

2008-11-16T17:10:00.000-08:00

http://www5.blip.fm/listen/Tori+Amos::Datura

asleep in the womb, sailing over the sunless sea

the a r t i s t uses

the sploosh
of silence

s p l i t b a l a n c e

f o c u s e d d e s i r e

tapping unconscious depths of pleasure

:neptune violet light:

yoga means "yoking" or "union"

...................... (a i r and water)

the space between

..................... ( m i n d a n d f e e l i n g s )

Datura

Is there room in my heart
For you to follow your heart
And not need more blood
From the tip of your star

Is there room in my heart
For you to follow your heart
And not need more blood
From the tip of your star

-t amos

poisonous unless used with knowledge

5 of Cups

2008-11-06T01:48:00.000-08:00

what are you carrying around on your head?

treasured boxes opening one by one
all at once
teeming things
reams and reams of dreams it seams

stars

still

show

watch out,

look up!

tip tip tip t i p t o e

s t a m p e r

gumbooted through

wet leaf muck

hope

Moon

2008-10-28T00:47:00.000-07:00

“There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; There is nothing you can think that is not the moon.”

-Matsuo Basho

~ p a s t l i v e s ~

d r e a m life o p e n ing

(w r i t e about this when you w a k e u p )

(((going in and coming out again)))

"If you get the moon in a reading, there is nothing to do but yield to the feelings.
If you try to figure out things intellectually, you will fail."~mp

The Crone Speaks:

"I am the Queen of Ghosts

I am the path you did not follow
I am your unborn children

I live in your dreams
I am the nightmare you sweat and long for

Let me carry you away
To another world"

3 of Cups

2008-10-20T03:14:00.000-07:00

Félix Vallotton, Three Bathers, 1894, Woodcut on beige wove paper

you are water
I’m water
we’re all water in different containers
that’s why it’s so easy to meet
someday we’ll evaporate together

but even after the water’s gone
we’ll probably point out to the containers
and say, “that’s me there, that one.”
we’re container minders

~yoko ono

~

COMMUNION

We are One.
And we are more.
She is the One,
and I am One
because of Her.

in the river

with the pegasus
(child of medusa)
touchdown yoursweet brim to
my lips
drenched from your
horse s w e l l t e r i n g

you are a willow goddess
as witness to our
pleasure trips

can't deny the blue sky

b l i s s ed

"The Three of Cups has intent - they're never figures thrown together at random, or in conflict, as in many other cards; they have decided to dance together as one, and raise their chalices together. The figures are usually all female, and the card often hints at the purpose of the gathering, but neither of these things are fixed in stone; they flow in water, and may take any route to reach the sea.

This card is a reminder that it is party time if someone says it is party time. That's all it takes."

from taarot.blogspot

Shaman of Swords

2008-10-16T03:19:00.001-07:00

active "animus" of a woman expressed in actions

kite perch ascent
masted ship
swift choice descent
mutiny?

billows propel
oceanic voyage
horus and isis
sent
duty?

lads, hers
ladder up
diving in air

(abstract executed)
asserted
genius' with war and flair
never deserted

"The Shaman of Swords creates her own reality and takes responsibility for her thought forms and the power of the mind"
~mp

"Do you know how...wanting lets your eyes pierce space? How a resolve to act can traverse this atmosphere as quick as light?...despite the threat of fire and our fear of the flames, we burst out through the roofs of our houses. Desire is a force inside us. Our mouths drop open in the rushing air. Our bodies float among stars. And we laugh in ecstasy to know the air has wishes..."Yes," we call out, full of ourselves and delight, "Yes," we sing, "We fly through the night."
~Susan Griffin

"...a strong blend of fiery ("female") emotions and powerful ("male") thought. Let what you feel be said; don't hold back what you know to be true. Through the emergence of your insights, fired by passion of your heart, you have the power to transform reality. The force of your ideas demands that you speak out."
~mp

Ace of Swords

2008-10-15T19:01:00.000-07:00

The Vision, by Karin Weiner, 2004
Collage on paper
11.25 x 10.25 in.

"An eye that shines with stars within, reaches out to a piercing point."

~tarot of the crone

"It is——is it—— ?

heart white sheet !

kiss it

flame beat !

in chest midst

print teeth

bite—— —— ——

this green

ponderous night."

~the Baroness Else von Freytag-Loringhoven
in The Little Review, 7 (September-December 1920)

Priestess of Swords

2008-10-13T17:30:00.000-07:00

"First learning then working, to the exclusion of friendship.
One minded and narrow, to a depth never seen.
A gulf holds me far from the mind of all others.
Confused where I fit in; somewhere in between."
~ Introspection, Adrian Flynn

handsheld
inside the lines
well bound
covered eyes
sees inside
white sheets worn for protection
(for inflection)

I am allied to__________.

~

held up long on the mountain
horizons over horizons

I can picture the snow where you are as
a soft cold canvas for stark shadows to lay upon

~

"She is a writer, definitely a thinker......the Owl can be seen as her thoughts taking flight. On a higher level, the Owl represents the secret of shamanic flight and the potential for the soul to leave the body and take the form of an animal to travel to other realms. The nocturnal Owl suggests the wisdom of the dream world and the collective unconscious. Being the bird of Athene and also of Medusa, the Owl symbolizes healing power as well as the ability to fight for one's life when necessary." -vicki noble

~

43

"Imagination abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters: united with her, she is the mother of the arts and the source of their wonders."
"La fantasia abandonada de la razon, produce monstruos impossibles: unida con ella, es madre de las artes y origen de sus marabillas."

-Francisco de Goya from Capichos

7 of Cups

2008-10-13T17:10:00.000-07:00

inter:net=

busy, frilly
visionary experience
all paths lead to the same place
gather, lather, rinse...

standing still in awe
(everything and forever)
( f a n t a s y )

flapping bird s e e m s like all the rest
s e a m i n g

all cups over floweth to the sea

w h e r e a r e h e r f e e t ?

the firmest grasp mustly loosen
or else
slack tide brings n o s h e l l s

the revealing is l o n g
epic adoration in swoon s o n g
timely
mesmerized

along along
don't wait too long

((( g o n g )))

"She haunts my dreams. I must have Her. And if I cannot, I will dream another. I’ll dream of whom I choose, a hundred other goddesses if I wish."-tarot of the crone

5 of Discs

2008-10-13T14:36:00.000-07:00

"The five of discs is a picture of tension held in the body, the kind of tightness that comes with worry. Probably the mind is focused on survival issues of some kind-money, housing, jobs, where the next meal is coming from. Change is taking place but on the inside, not yet manifest. Inertia threatens. It helps to keep the energy moving-maybe do something physical to keep from sinking into a dark state of consciousness (or unconsciousness). In the Motherpeace image, the woman works with her hands-kneading and rolling, pushing, touching-all these motions help keep her energy from getting stuck.
Worry never does any good anyway. Better to mobilize energy toward positive goals-use the hands to bake bread, make tortillas, sculpt something from clay, plant a garden, or give a massage. While the hands are busy, perhaps the mind can use the Discs in the background as centering devices for focusing calm, magical intentions toward the future." ~mp

4 of Discs

2008-10-12T16:05:00.000-07:00

she is surrounded by precious things
her own space,
sorting out stuff alone by choice

safely shutting out the outside blather, banter, distractions
the incessant voices can be qualmed
to sort out which are which
and what is what
watching
listening without sharing

assimilation is
giving away surplus as your own discretion

~

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These are my things

I have the key

I shut the door

I need my body safe

I need my soul free

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Sun

2008-10-12T01:47:00.000-07:00

I am your Bright Shadow

I am the Goodness you've denied

But I am and will always be
Part of you

"I draw the Motherpeace Sun Card,
I believe this means that at this moment I am fully connected to the Energetic Divine, that right now my thoughts are bright and clear, lucid, iridescent, and unmistaken.
Of course there are people in a spiraling dance in the intense gold heat of the sun, of course there is a giraffe,
A zebra lying down,
A butterfly with yellow stripes
And red wing tips is taking flight, heading northeast.
She has only just now
Emerged from her coccoon

Shrinking now word by word I am falling into the sun card,
into the dance with the others spinning around and through
until each one’s hand is taken and released and taken again
by every other’s hand
spinning around and around I see,
this is the dance to celebrate my rebirth,
because every woman has the right to rebirth
and circle dancing
in the flooding sun.
and when the people of the sun card are done with me
they let me go but not before
the giraffe gives me her blue balloon,
I fly it all the way back home.

These are the days for complete and utter freedom
From performance anxiety,
These are the times for a self confidence
That will stone me, groove me and give me wings.

Let the sun shine in."

~from the solitary witch