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These are prose poems intended to be used either as creative inspiration & guidance or for entertainment purposes. They are based on a set of cards, runes, and numbers I pull intuitively every Wednesday.
They are timeless, which means they are relevant to whenever you feel drawn to them rather than to the date they are written.
I’ll post an old message from the website every Monday at 8AM and a new message every Thursday at 8 AM.
Now you know.
Perhaps a child merely shared a poignant thought with you in innocence. Or maybe your friend turned the television on, and a scene played that gave you answers you weren’t even looking for.
Maybe the waterfall spoke to you the name of your beloved.
You didn’t realise you had the searchlights of your heart turned on until they started coming to you in dreams, until poems of them rolled through your mind like a wild river teeming with life and mystery.
And now that you’ve seen it, now that the divine messengers themselves have revealed themselves to you in unmistakable ways, you can’t unsee it anymore.
You can’t unsee your own lies. The ones that convinced you that you were better off alone, meant to be alone, perfectly fine–even happy–alone.
Now you know.
You know who keeps the porch light on so that you can find your way home.
The path forward is clear.
Before moving forward with vision once clouded but now cleansed, take refuge in this moment of stillness. To be born again is to surrender to the bewilderment of seeing a familiar world for the very first time. You are a child in the arms of the universe once more.
You always were. Now you know.
The world demands we find our kin. It demands we fall to our knees together. We are being called back into our rightful responsibility as stewards of the earth. Continuing to neglect our promise to her will have grave consequences beyond what anyone could imagine.
The next 50-100 years will see humanity judged by the forces we have neglected to feed. Every wall you defend will be a mark against the purity of your heart. Every outcry you ignore will haunt your sleep. Every virtue you signal will no longer allow you to feel absolved.
No one needs to hear your hot take.
What they need is for you to feel it all and show up with the strength of will to fight another day.
Fight not the evils of the world, nor the shadows of your own psyche.
Fight only the temptation to dull your precious humanness, to turn away when another soul pleads to be seen, to build fences in the places where bridges belong.
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Number
11. Intuition. Decisiveness. Dreams and visions.
Runes
Othala. “Homeland.” Legacy, inheritance, tribe. Setting down roots. Responsibility to the larger ecosystems.
Kenaz. “Torch.” Tradition. Attraction & sex magic. Also related to familial legacy, but in a more practical and individual way.
Kitchen Tarot
Potluck (The World). Completion, manifestation, nonduality. Beginnings and endings. Culmination of efforts.
The Silverware Drawer (Judgement). Absolution. Forgiveness. Revelations, insights, messages from the divine.
Astrological Oracle
Gemini (rx). Communications may be delayed. In the past, there may have been a lack of clarity about this situation, or a feeling of trying to escape through mental games, flirtation, or surface-level interactions with the situation. These coping mechanisms are being stripped away as the situation deepens in complexity and the rightness of the choice to commit becomes clear.
Capricorn. Commitments, long-term goals, strategies. Ambition. Planning ahead. Familial legacy.
Lord of The Rings Tarot
The Hanged Man. A new perspective. Consequences. Acceptance of one’s fate.
Ten of Wands. Responsibilities, burdens, culmination. The final stretch of a creative cycle. Reaping rewards.
Five of Pentacles. Lack, longing, unfulfilled desire. Something is missing, but some may not even be willing to acknowledge this. Others know, but don’t feel called to do anything about it at this time. Still others are not fully focused on this energy, it merely hovers in the back of their awareness. Some may not feel worthy of having the aforementioned rewards that are coming to them.
Seven of Swords. Feeling a need to go it alone. Suffering in silence, stoicism, otherwise being afraid to face one’s true thoughts and feelings. Hiding away, not wanting to be seen in one’s perceived weakness.
Affirmators
Get Centered. When it gets to be too much, whatever it is, I close my eyes and return to my center. In my center, I have the wisdom and tranquility of a (favourite animal), holding a (magical item), floating through space on a (piece of furniture).
Divine Timing. Everything is timing, and timing is everything. Gladly, I release my concern over timing and let things happen when—and as—they will. I trust that the divine schedule-makers know what they’re doing. It can take a long time to reach divine middle management.
Manifestation. If you could have anything you wanted, what would it be? Get specific and get greedy. You are holding a magic wand, and you can conjure up anything. Could it be that when you declare your wishes out loud, you’re actually casting a spell for your dreams to come true? Or is it just that, in a very practical sense, the more people you speak with about your desires, the more folks there are who know what you want and might have the means to help you make them happen? Either way, stop waiting and start manifesting. (But don’t use that word if you don’t want to.)
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