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There are still
a few spots left in my in-person San Diego Writers, Ink Monthly Poetry Workshop
that starts Tuesday, June 7 over at Liberty Station at 10 am (we meet one day a
month, first Tuesdays). Our first meeting is devoted to fathers and mothers (considering
the roles from multiple points of view). If you’ve worked with me in the past
you know I delight in bringing out the best you have to give your poems in the
way of vulnerable grit. I only ask that you go the distance in your process to
arrive somewhere you haven’t been before. All level of writer welcome.
A few selections
I’ll be reading before we begin writing together include First Lesson by Philip
Booth, “Lie back, daughter, let your head /
be tipped back in the cup of my hand…” and Thom Gunn’s Baby Song, “From
the private ease of Mother’s womb / I fall into the lighted room.” Also Dorothy
Parker’s Prayer for a New Mother, “The things she knew, let her forget again— /
The voices in the sky, the fear, the cold…” and by Linda Pastan, Marks, “My
husband gives me an A / For last night’s supper.” Please bring your own favorite
poem to read on the topic of mothers and fathers, roll up your sleeves, join
me, and bring a friend. What a way to kick off summer!
Sign up here at
San Diego Writers, Ink, and I’d love it if you could pass it on to help it
fill. Please do emial me through my contact page if you have any questions.
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Tarot Writing
Prompts for You to Use to Deepen Your Relationship to Tarot:
I continue to
post a Tarot Writing prompt a week on my main website. We are in the Suit of
Disks. Here are the most recent prompts; come join the conversation on Facebook
at Wheel of Archetypal Selves or leave a comment on the site if you use
the prompts or find inspiration using the exercises.
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Tarot for Two
One of life’s
spectacular blessings is my monthly Tarot phone call with my friend Mary. As I
shoo my kitty Luna off the cards, I love to picture Mary sitting in her house
all the way in Iowa. I suppose we could use Skype or Zoom, but so far we’ve
kept it old-fashioned. Which means it is her voice I drop in and enjoy. We shuffle, cut, and then recreate the
layouts we pull for one another so we are looking at the same cards. It is a
gift to share the universal mirror with her and to puzzle out the larger sense
of where we meet it with our particulars. At the end of the readings, we pull a
card to live with for the month. We share our findings in relation to our card
of the month on our blog, Tarot for Two. Here are excerpts from May:
Queen
of Cups:
In the tarot cards water is a symbol for the unconscious.
With the Thoth-deck Queen of Cups the water takes up half the card, it’s all
that water below the line. In the Rider-Waite deck the Queen of Cups is
sitting on a throne with a pool of water at her feet; she’s wearing a kind of
cape made of water too. Maybe it’s seeing her sitting on that throne that makes
me think again of sitting in my own chair in the mornings trying to access the
water of my own unconscious as I meditate. How you get to that water,
that unconscious place, and what you find there is what really interests me.
Ten of Disks:
I don’t know if my children and husband see the magic all around
us, but I feel it in the Sundays we rise and hop in the van to drive along
Route 75 parallel to the sea. A four-minute spin delivers us to Katie’s
Café where its surfboard sign, hung by a pair of chains, greets us with image
of a mermaid resting on her side. In we go past the paintings of surfers
emerging from sunlit-backed barrels and tables adorned with glass goblet worlds
holding cacti and succulents anchored in multicolored pebbles, miniature clay
surfboards at the ready.
Read rest of our post here at Tarot for Two: The Queen of Cups and the Ten of Disks.
Photos are by my poetry movie collaborator Robyn Beattie.
Photos are by my poetry movie collaborator Robyn Beattie.
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