four winds

scrimshaw & snowfell
whalebone & morrow
driftwood & debris
grey clouds & sea

green ice & tombstone
needfire & sojourn
windswept & ruin
crack ice & hearth

hunger & marrow
antler & sparring
skull & succumb
four winds hollow

wildcraft my heart

wildcraft my heart
wrapped in briar and
agaric, scrape the
velvet from my winter bone

do you smell october's
imminent arrival?

shadowcræft my spirit
slip nightshade
my tea, oh! belladonna
kiss me, again, oh! please

tick tock the years
burstchest my song...

sticks
we must have sticks
we must have stone
we must have meat
we must have bone

tacit

i shed bone
on meagre forest
trails meandering

i am feather
onyx caught in
undergrowth & dream

flint & steel
i peel away my
red fur black & white

moving glacial
i am the old oak
shifting through the night

Tarot for Fun || 10 march 2022

Once again feeling a little more obtuse for the day. I have a personal query, which I don’t particularly care to divulge and so I won’t. And it isn’t one that requires much knowledge of the cycle of time or ørlǫg (I mean, it could, but I phrased it as a “How do I go about…?” type of query), so I will not be “invoking” Nornir on this one. In this case, I’ll use a “Current situation / Obstacle / Advice” interpretation without any preface to the query, as I think these are self-evident areas.

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Tarot for Fun || 21 Feb 2022

Something a little more obtuse for the day. I have a personal query, which I don’t particularly care to divulge and so I won’t. And it isn’t one that requires much knowledge of the cycle of time or ørlǫg (I mean, it could, but I phrased it as a “what is the significance of XXX?” type of query), so I will not be “invoking” Nornir on this one. In this case, I’ll use a “Current situation / Obstacle / Advice” interpretation without any preface to the query, as I think these are self-evident areas.

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Tarot for Fun || 18 Feb 2022

Jump to the reading if you have already read my prelude rubbish.

It’s been a spell since I tossed down some cards for a tarot reading. Mid-September, in fact. After moving things around in my working space (writing, paying work, shallow thoughts masquerading as deep thoughts, etc.), my tarot deck came to the forefront of my new “writing on paper” space and I thought… hmmm, that seems like something I should do just so I don’t get rusty on looking at this kind of archetypal symbolism.

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