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    There once was a branch that saw a lot of hangings. Those that deserved dying and those that were unjustly hung. This went on for a very long time until the people revolted and put an end to the public hangings, demanding proper justice through trial. Well, this branch was no longer being used and through a change of hands, someone got a hold of this branch and fashioned it into a scythe. This  was used for harvesting every year  until it was stolen. Now, the robber was a robin hood type, a vigilante. He began using the scythe for his righteous killings, eliminating the entitled and the abusive rich. This vigilante went on this way for a very long time, no one knew him and he was never caught. Eventually, his exploits passed on to become legend. One day, a lone woman came upon an old scythe hidden in an abandoned farm. Don’t ask me what she was doing in the abandoned farm, I do not know. She picked up the old scythe and decided to put it to use again not as it was but as a wand. She fashioned the scythe into a wand, and when finished held it in her hand, proud of her work. She picked up the wand and put it to use. As time passed, she became quite an adept wizard, the wand her ever faithful companion.

     

    La Maga Tarot Mist and Ether

  • So many things have been going on recently that I haven’t done much dailies. Today I decided to rectify that. I asked the cards to tell me what is currently going on. As always, their response was direct.

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    Camoin-Jodorowsky Marseille

    There is a transition culminating, from thought to action. With the valet de deniers pondering decisively upon the coin in his hand a thought is coming into fruition. This spread is about the materialization of ideas parting from changes in work and in the heart. Resistance and hardwork is met with harvest. I feel an ushering in of the heart’s desire and an opening that leads to prosperous endeavors.

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    Camoin-Jodorowsky Marseille, wooden runes

    Sometimes the message of the cards is harsh and confrontational, other times, such as this, the cards are affirming. Given the changes looming on the horizon this summer, the message is pertinent and empowering. It tells me to continue the work, keep my eye trained on the goal, my heart open, and my will directed.

    On another note, I recently sold some of my decks, the Cosmic, the Gorgon’s, the Golden Universal, and the Hermetic. I was very sad to see them go but I wasn’t using them and felt that it was better for them to be in a home where they will be used. Giving away the Gorgon’s was the most heartbreaking. Inversely, I received the Wildwood Tarot, one which I am very excited to be incorporating into my sacred space. I am waiting for Le Tarot Noir to arrive and I just bought a used Jean Noblet Marseille. I have been pining for a Jean Noblet for too long and someone kindly saw my call for help and sold me their spare copy. Evidently, quite a bit of goodies await my attention. For now, I will be using Camoin-Jodorowsky’s Marseille Tarot, exploring how it reads. Given that I am also reading Jodorowsky’s tarot book, I might do a review at some point. I will continue doing the storytelling posts, I really enjoy those.

     

     

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    Halfway between making the decision, Alice knows she has to proceed. Her willpower is waning from the mental exertion of debating which path to take. On one side, the path she initially wants to take pulls her arm and promises riches and happiness. Yet, truthfully, she hides secrets under sleeve. What she promises is stale and unfruitful, vacuous dreams that later turns into despair and constraints. Alice doesn’t know this but again she is tired. Cupid is about to play a trick and make the decision easier for Alice. Cupid points his arrow towards the other option, the undesired road, the woman that is showing Alice the way while taking off her cloak, lightening her load. Alice, of course, falls under the designs of cupid and follows the road that leads to the unknown.

  • Thinking on tarot as an imaginative game of wits and poetry I found this just in time. It’s fun and inspiring. Get you cards out and create, my friends, a wonderful colorful world awaits.

    Camelia Elias's avatarTAROFLEXIONS

    Some cartomantic folks like to use cards for poetic purposes. Such as finding inspiration for writing, or finding inspiration for how to live more poetically. We have played before in the context of Taroflexions where we have created exquisite corpses, or followed a visual idea through another set of images. Here is a recent take on a poem that started as an exchange between Fortune Buchholz and Enrique Enriquez and ended as a collaboration between the 2 plus myself, Bent Sørensen, and Robert Place.

    Fortune wrote a poem entitled Maura’s Pantoum, based on tarot images.

    MAURA’S PANTOUM

    “Most people are not something one thinks about.” ⁓ Vreeland

    Elegance requires refusal ⁓ but oh beauty:

    You cannot be denied your tattered trifles of desire

    From a stern appeal to caustic prudence or vampiric duty.

    How each event rekindles experience’s unstable fire. . .

    . . .

    You cannot be denied your…

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