The Giants’ Tarot, Raven Kaldera
Draw for April 11, 2017
Active Influence: Groa/Nine of Wands
Rune: Fyruedal/Inspiration (reversed)
Hidden Influence: Ymir/The Fool
There’s much to do, yet you don’t feel inspired, or even particularly interested. Step back and see if you can approach it as someone new to the work as a way of reviving your energies. You have the experience, knowledge, and skills to do it well; it’s up to you to muster the enthusiasm.
Ultimate Metamorphosis
~ Miquel Martí i Pol
Translated from Catalan by Wayne Cox and Lourdes Manyé i Martí
Maybe it will be a bird that has stopped
its flight forever, maybe a sprig
of rosemary that strangely blooms
all year and every year, maybe a persistent
and tenacious note that everyone hears,
maybe a great river of tranquil water.
Maybe the silence, this heavy silence
of right now, maybe it will be the darkness
maybe the oblivion, subtle, invading,
that emanates from the earth and uproots
the stump and frees it, and does not rot
the branches and the leaves. Anything
that does not destroy that which lives
and I love so much, that does not disturb
friendly people, that does not blur
the clear, deep eyes of young girls.
Anything that does not turn the fire
to ashes, that does not diminish the drive
to live and love; any gesture
that does not leave any trace, any fear.
I will be ready, clean and tidy,
with my eyes open wide and my hands empty.
The Giants’ Tarot, Raven Kaldera
Draw for April 10, 2017
Active Influence: Hela/Death
Rune: Wolfsangel/Hook
Hidden Influence: The Nornir/Wheel of Fortune
The Wheel is turning, change is happening, but some part of you is still stuck on something. Identify what is keeping you stuck so you can remove that hook. Removing it is going to hurt, no matter what, but it’s far less painful if you deal with it now and give yourself a chance to heal before the Wheel rolls onward. Make the choice before it’s made for you.
Crazy Courage
~ Alma Luz Villanueva
Why do I think of Michael….
He came to my fiction class
as a man (dressed in men’s
clothes) : then he came
to my poetry class
as a woman (dressed in women’s
clothes, but he was still
a man under the clothes) .
Was I moved in the face of
such courage (man/woman
woman/man) ….
Was I moved by the gentleness
of his masculinity; the strength
of his femininity….
His presence at the class poetry
reading, dressed in a miniskirt,
high boots, bright purple tights,
a scooped-neck blouse, carrying
a single, living, red rose, in a
vase, to the podium (the visitors
not from the class, shocked-
the young, seen-it-all MTV crowd-
into silence as he’s introduced,
‘Michael….’) And what it was, I think,
was his perfect dignity, the offering
of his living, red rose to the perceptive,
to the blind, to the amused, to the impressed,
to those who would kill him, and
to those who would love him.
And of course I remember the surprise
of his foamy breasts as we hugged
goodbye, his face blossomed
open, set apart, the pain of it,
the joy of it (the crazy courage
to be whole, as a rose is
whole, as a child is
whole before they’re
punished for including
everything in their
innocence.)
The Giants’ Tarot, Raven Kaldera
Draw for April 9, 2017
Active Influence: Mordgud/Judgment
Rune: Fyruedal/Inspiration (reversed)
Hidden Influence: Fafnir/Four of Coins
You’re not at your best today, and neither are most of the people around you. Everyone seems to feel tired, uninspired, and like they’re just going through the motions. Things Are Happening in the big picture, beyond your control; however, you can control how you respond to these events. Focus on what you can do (and it might be more than you imagine), and think about what’s best in the long-term, not just what works today. As the saying goes, do something today that your Tomorrow Self will thank you for.
