Daily Poem: Like the Coffee ~ Mahmoud Darwish

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Like the Coffee ~ Mahmoud Darwish And you became like the coffee, in the deliciousness, and the bitterness and the addiction.

Draw for January 18, 2017

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Active Influence: Fafnir/Four of Coins Rune: Ear/Grave Hidden Influence: Vafthrudnir/Two of Swords  Your ability to see both sides of the argument is not helpful today. You are far too likely to convince yourself that you are absolutely totally completely in the right, and that’s not the case. Worse yet, you are rationalizing yourself into a more […]

Daily Poem: The Unequal Fetters ~ Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea

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The Unequal Fetters ~ Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea Cou’d we stop the time that’s flying Or recall it when ’tis past Put far off the day of Dying Or make Youth for ever last To Love wou’d then be worth our cost. But since we must loose those Graces Which at first your hearts […]

Draw for January 17, 2017

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Draw for January 17, 2017 Active Influence: Hronn/Five of Cups Rune: Mannaz/Self Hidden Influence: Beli/Knight of Swords Well, things are not a whole lot better, but at least Mannaz (the Self) is right side up today. As you adjust to your new situation, you will experience alternating currents of fear and anger. However awful these […]

Daily Poem: Buying ~ Jean Follain

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Buying ~ Jean Follain Translated from French by Heather McHugh She was buying an elixir in a city of bygone times yet we should think of her now when shoulders are as white and wrists as fine flesh as sweet Oh, vertiginous life!

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