Flight
~ Jorge Guillén
Translated from the Spanish by Reginald Gibbons

Through summer air

The ascending gull

Dominates the expanse, the sea, the world

Under the blue, under clouds

Like the whitest wool-tufts,

And supreme, regal,

It soars.

All of space is a wave transfixed.

White and black feathers

Slow the ascent,

Suddenly slipping on the air,

On the vast light.

It buoys up the whiteness of the void.

And suspended, its wings abandon themselves

To clarity, to the transparent depths

Where flight, with stilled wings,

Subsists.

Gives itself entirely to its own delight, its falling,

And plunges into its own passing##—

A pure instant of life.

The Giants’ Tarot, Raven Kaldera

Draw for January 15, 2017
Active Influence: Jormundgand/The World
Rune: Perthro/Chance
Hidden Influence: Mani/The Moon

Two Major Arcana cards indicate a significant shift today. Perthro, the rune of the dice cup, of random chance, suggests that it will come out of the blue. Something completes, something ends, without warning. Your intuition and emotions can guide you through the transition that is suddenly upon you. Trust yourself, and trust the Universe, even if nothing makes sense today.

Wait
~  Galway Kinnell

Wait, for now.
Distrust everything, if you have to.
But trust the hours. Haven’t they
carried you everywhere, up to now?
Personal events will become interesting again.
Hair will become interesting.
Pain will become interesting.
Buds that open out of season will become lovely again.
Second-hand gloves will become lovely again, their memories are what give them the need for other hands. And the desolation of lovers is the same: that enormous emptiness carved out of such tiny beings as we are asks to be filled; the need for the new love is faithfulness to the old.

Wait.
Don’t go too early.
You’re tired. But everyone’s tired.
But no one is tired enough.
Only wait a while and listen.
Music of hair,
Music of pain,
music of looms weaving all our loves again.
Be there to hear it, it will be the only time, most of all to hear, the flute of your whole existence, rehearsed by the sorrows, play itself into total exhaustion.

The Giants’ Tarot, Raven Kaldera

Draw for January 14, 2017
Active Influence: Billing/King of Coins
Rune: Algiz/Protection (reversed)
Hidden Influence: Garm/Nine of Swords

Do not yet try to go where you are not ready to venture. Garm challenges you to honestly and objectively consider your situation, and to make clear choices based on reality. Billing advises you to take inventory of your resources (tangible and intangible), and make sure that you have what you need to undertake the journey. Algiz is reversed, suggesting that you are overlooking something, or something critical is missing. Take stock of the situation, take inventory on your self, and take the time to revise your plans before proceeding.

Vision
~ May Thielgaard Watts

To-day there have been lovely things
I never saw before;
Sunlight through a jar of marmalade;
A blue gate;
A rainbow
In soapsuds on dishwater;
Candlelight on butter;
The crinkled smile of a little girl
Who had new shoes with tassels;
A chickadee on a thorn-apple;
Empurpled mud under a willow,
Where white geese slept;
White ruffled curtains sifting moonlight
On the scrubbed kitchen floor;
The under side of a white-oak leaf;
Ruts in the road at sunset:
An egg yolk in a blue bowl.

My love kissed my eyes last night.