Tarot #55: Truce, not peace but compromise or retreat from struggle in order to regroup.

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Which opponents will you choose not to engage and which allies will you decide are too costly to support?Bargaining to save a beleaguered position with terms that are only temporary.

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Exhausted from unceasing labors toward a cause you consider worthy, you must rest and recharge in order to reenter the fray refreshed, although it may cost you a lot of gained ground in the end.

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You have chosen to take an easier path to your goal in order to avoid struggling now that may end up bringing you more trouble later on.

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You must weigh the benefits and costs of a major undertaking that you cannot hope to succeed at if you take on the whole burden. You must decide which pieces are either more likely to come to fruition or which are worth too much not to fight for and which to give up in order to move forward.

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Autumn poems #5

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Mary Oliver from New and Selected Poems

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Tarot #54: Prince/Knight of Wands, forever lighting torches on the long dark road.

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 People who are represented here are likely to see all angles of an issue, using debate and arguments to clarify a position. They may defend one point of view passionately one day and then its opposite the next simply to test the validity of each.

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They may seem distant and arrogant because they are working on a long time frame with plans far down the road. They are in it for the long haul and are looking to expend the right amount of energy, at the right time, for the best effect.

They will be generous most of the time, outgoing, and gain admiration and loyalty through their boundless energy and magnetic charm. They are all about thought and action in combination, and will not abide boredom in themselves or others, or small-minded limitations on inquiry. They move toward mysteries and puzzles, applying all their intellect, will, and energy to resolving these. When they lead, they tend to generate interest through communicating passion rather than directives. They are inspirational rather than commanding. At times they can be irresponsible and dangerous as they are rarely inhibited by a moral code or cultural norms, though they are not ruthless or mean, they can possess a wicked sense of humor when taking frustrations out on those they view as overly moralistic.

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You are, or will find yourself, in a situation in which you must devise a long-range plan for a project that you have a passionate stake in and you must use your passion to inspire others.  Or you have a goal you can only achieve with the help of others, but have no authority to compel partnerships,  just your enthusiasm, will, and intense curiosity that you must communicate to others in order to make it so.

You may be involved in an issue that absorbs or intrigues you to the point that you may become forgetful of your commitments to others. Your intellectual or artistic or political pursuits may not be balanced by other aspects of your life like family or friendships that may help you to remain more grounded and in the long run more satisfied with your life.

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 This card represents the vision quest undertaken to gain spiritual power and maturity.

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This is drummer, drumming and dancing to rhythms of the world, bringing the flame back to light the darkness and warm the blood.

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Tarot #53: Knight/King of Cups, the bearer of gentle messages of peace from the water and fire.

Blessed are the peacemakers,
    for they will be called children of God.

Jesus of Nazareth : Matthew 5:9

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There is in you an active and passionate love of peaceful relationships that bring joy and light to lives of those close to you. You are a gift bringer and loyal support person to those more assertive or with more need of glory. You are the peacemaker who holds the coalitions together, the groups that give agency to humble and unnoticed who need a voice in the world.

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Your family or friends or both may have need of your loyal support in the coming months as an ally and communicator, more than a leader. You may in the end get little credit for a positive outcome even though your support will be key in a successful resolution to the crisis.

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You will have a need to work behind the scenes of a project, letting those who are more extrovert take the lead, but remaining actively key in the outcome. You will begin to notice the strengths and weaknesses of others and find ways to maintain peace among strong personalities.

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The master of the underwater realms of the subconscious, dreams and visions will be key guides to move you on your next step. This card represents the ability to move in and out of dreams and mastery at communicating and understanding the language and topography of the hidden lands below the surface of our waking minds.

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Autumn Poems #4

October

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There’s this shape, black as the entrance to a cave.

A longing well up in its throat

like a blossom

as it breathes slowly.

 

What does the world

mean to you if you can’t trust it

to go on shining when you’re

 

not there? And there’s

a tree, long-fallen; once

the bees flew to it, like a procession

of messengers, and filled it

with honey.

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I said to the chickadee, singing his heart out in the

      green pine tree:

 

little dazzler,

little song,

little mouthful.

 

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the shape climbs up out of the curled grass. It

grunts into view. There is no measure

for the confidence at the bottom of its eyes—

There is no telling

the suppleness of its shoulders as it turns

and yawns.

 

                               Near the fallen tree

something— a leaf snapped loose

form the branch and fluttering down— tries to pull me

into its trap of attention.

 

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It pulls me

into its trap of attention.

 

And when I turn again, the bear is gone.

 

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Look, hasn’t my body already felt

like the body of a flower?

 

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 Look, I want to love this world

as though it’s the last chance I’m ever going to get

to be alive

and know it.

 

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Sometimes in late summer I won’t touch anything, not

the flowers, not the blackberries

brimming in the thickets’ I won’t name the birds or the trees,

I won’t whisper my own name.

 

                                                         One morning

the fox came down the hill, glittering and confident,

and didn’t see me—and I thought:

 

so this is the world.

I ‘m not in it.

It is beautiful.

 

 

Mary Oliver, New and Selected Poems

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