RESENT= what comes around ( Read more... )

FEAR= attacks on life ( Read more... )

I will begin a series of essays on AngeLynx cards and there are 52. The first is word/wyrd/weird. The idea is that one casts a spell and this sends out a ripple in the karma that affects the destiny. The word has magical power and is already a determiner and narrower of infinite possibilities. Wyrd was Old English for destiny; this evolved ( Read more... )

The Fool sees a tower reaching to the heavens. At the top are arrogant men reveling. We see a lightning bolt striking the tower. This card signifies the karmic reset. The lightning strikes and the tower tumbles down and the men fall. In situations, when lightning strikes, a work is tested and if it is built of straw, it will tumble down ( Read more... )

Card number ten is the Wheel of Fortune. It is ruled by Jupiter. It signifies favorable or fortunate things that come our way. I believe the Sikhs understood this limitation of the traditional Hindu concept of karma, that some things arise simply by the grace of God and not by coldly mechanical cause and effect. On our path, things will ( Read more... )

The fifth card is the Emperor. The aeclectic tarot commentary tells that the Fool continues on his journey. He is given options by the Magician who is a master of the Cosmic Law and the four elements. The High Priestess (a Persephone type) helps him to choose and option. She is a representative of ancient wisdom ,the divine feminine and the ( Read more... )

You can't know the future,                            by Tom Ragland 2009
or you have short-circuited it,
you must let it live in the moment,
breathe and select,
and this is the power that
omniscience cannot know,
this is where life hits the fan,
and the future is here
on the flying hour of a new adventure.

Be afraid of the unlived life,
of not stepping out ( Read more... )

     Today I'll be heading back to our municipal library, the third largest public library in the Chicago area.   I'm returning a copy of The Old Man and the Sea.    It was the first work by Ernest Hemingway I read.   It was really incredible and stimulating.   The language is easy and simple, but the effect is really deep and insightful into ( Read more... )