Category: Tarot of Grief
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Cancer III- The Protector
This is the territory of Cancer III, where the Moon inhabits her own sign, in her own face and finds no moderating influence, no planetary guest to introduce a foreign quality, only herself, distilled into the purest expression of what she has always been, the guardian of life at its most vulnerable, the force that…
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Cancer II-The Remembrancer
There is a second movement in the deep waters of Cancer that follows the disoriented tenderness of its first decan the way story follows experience, not immediately, not while the encounter is still raw and present and without edges, but in the quieter hours after, when the heart, having registered what it loves, begins the…
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Cancer I-The Enchanter
The energy of attachment is still fully active; it has simply lost its destination. That’s a very particular feature of early grief, not sadness exactly, but a kind of directionless yearning, the heart still reaching by reflex toward where the loved thing used to be.
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Days Above The Year: The Heriu Renpet
What the structure offers is a guarantee of texture, the assurance that every quality encountered in grief has been named, presided over and honoured. At the heart of the structure sit the five days above the year, which are not a stage that comes at the end of the process but a vertical dimension that…
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The Herald
There comes a moment in the long interior passage of sorrow when something stirs that has not stirred in what feels like an age of the world; when the voice, so long folded inward upon itself, so long turned away from the open air and the company of others and the bright demanding surface of…