BlackHearted Miscellany
Not quite poetry. Not quite prose. These snippets hold power and are worth musing on.
"Ha and Kala feel to me like feet, left and right, moving down the path. And how can you not love a path where one step sounds like laughter and the other like a flower*? "
*Kala is the name of a particular kind of lily in Danish.
-Ginevra
"Velvety void of pervading percipience.. please don't eat me." -Jason
"You can eat that, but it will change you."
Group consensus from a Cycle One class 2002
This came to be out of absolutely nowhere in a terrifying rush all at once. The really scary thing is that there are no characters left out as far as I can tell. They all fit perfectly. Eek.
Sesame Street Characters as the Major Arcana:
The Fool - Barkley
The Magician - The Amazing Mumford
The High Priestess - Prairie Dawn
The Empress - Linda
The Emperor - Bob
The Hierophant - Count von Count
The Lovers - Luis and Maria
The Chariot - Grover
Strength - Herry Monster
The Hermit - Oscar the Grouch
Wheel of Fortune - Twiddlebugs
Justice - Kermit the Frog
The Hanged Man - Snuffleupagus
Death - Mr. Hooper
Temperance - David (Mr. Hooper’s assistant/replacement)
The Devil - Elmo
The Tower - Telly Monster
The Star - Zoe
The Moon - Cookie Monster
The Sun - Big Bird
Judgement - Bert
The World - Ernie
(Don't ask me, I just work here.)
-Alley
The fact is that I terrify myself - I am scared that if I step into my power, if I don’t make myself smaller or am slightly apologetic, no one will want to be near me, that I will be daunting, forbidding.
When I scan my body, I feel like I have stepped slightly out of it in the back, like the entire front of my body is shut off - I feel like I could step into it, take full possession of it, but then I would not be able to back down, I would not be able to compromise, to tell white lies, to be politic and suck up to people. If I step into myself, I will have to embrace my own ruthless side, I will have to be completely honest, I can’t make excuses for myself. Right now that feels rather terrifying.
It also feels incredibly lonely.
-Ginevra
