Blossoming

For the April 'poem a day' challenge this year, I'm writing haibun to explore and reflect on my new Tarot deck, Forests of Enchantment. 

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Card XXI, which completes the Major Arcana, is sometimes called The World and sometimes The Universe. In this deck it’s The Wide World. It’s a card of completion and new beginnings. Here it shows the white hart we first saw as The Fool, having completed the journey through the forest, coming out into the wider world and beginning a new journey towards the next objective.  It is not a purposeless wandering.

The author quotes The Wind in the Willows: ‘Take the Adventure, heed the call, now ere the irrevocable moment passes!’and adds that ‘One cycle ends and the next begins’. 

It’s good to remember that the cycle now ending has been completed – no loose ends, nothing left to accomplish – so we are free to move forward into the new adventure. 

It’s a positive message. The stock phrase that I tell my clients when this card turns up is, ‘The world’s your oyster.’

The white hart looks back over his shoulder. There is no regret in his expression, and his stance tells us he is about to turn his head and move decisively forward. He is perhaps just taking a moment to acknowledge everything that has brought him this far. 

my cat calls me

to get out of bed –

here’s a new day