Some more Poem Tarots

Thread originally posted on the Aeclectic Tarot Forum on 22 Feb 2004, and now archived in the Forum Library.

Charles Stein	22 Feb 2004
Okay--Here's a couple more cards. The Magician In Me the stony Zoroaster speaks again… What's that up the sky though? A twig-in the suit and tie of an ordinary bank manager (local branch) aerially absconding with an entire tribal culture's totemic apparatus recently foreclosed upon. The blackened blue-capped mountains loom over Cartier-Bresson invisible waiting for his moment before an onrush of absolute signs. With face paint, hard-on, and finger english he budges the bushes (a-flame) into coming to be. He ladles soup. (While the bugs at the bottom of everything eat the dust from the sky.) *** A couple of notes. Zoroastrianism is the source of our word Magic. Reme,ber the Magi at Christ's nativity? Zoroastrians. The first line is a slight corruption of a line of a poem of Robert Dunncan's, a great but not terribly well-known poet who wrote much about magic, the tarot, and such. Cartier-Bresson is a photographer well-know for an approach to the art of photography based on setting up for shots and waiting for the right moment. *** They have taken nine stones from the hearth leaving a space the shape of an owl. And now from that space an owl springs forth and takes its place upon the stony mantle. The Owl is the Only Bird of knowing from the source of knowing herself and thus an enormous ignorance glowers about her. Everything that knowing isn't is eclipsed by her. *** This one eerily invokes the process of magical invocation or sigilization. Do you see how? It also comments on the danger of knowledge or intelligence itself in regard to the ultimate aims of enlightenment. Remember that my tarot poems are based on Rachel Pollack's Shining Tribe Tarot. Actually, they were written to the earlier version of that deck, Shining Woman Tarot. I notice that Shining Tribe is reviewed and on our list of tarot decks. I'll post a bit later the poems that corrrespond to the six cards that are presented there, so you can see how much I abuse her deck! Charles Stein Nine of Birds

Ivy Rhiannon	13 Apr 2004
very beautiful! I love the second one. Ty for sharing!

Moongold	13 Apr 2004
Hi Charles ~ I enjoyed these very much. Moongold

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