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Using Tarot to Understand Literature as States of Consciousness [by Benebell Wen]
Beyond its interpretation of success, achievement, and validation of the ego, Key 19, The Sun card in tarot is symbolic of the individual external life. It is the state of consciousness. Meanwhile Key 18,…
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Mythology and Metaphor: The Kinship of Poetry and Tarot [by Benebell Wen]
Temple of Apollo at Delphi, by Sam Korn, GNU Free Documentation License The late Joseph Campbell inspired me to reexamine mythology and to approach myth as my mentor, my muse, a sage. Myths are…
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KGB Monday Night Poetry Spring 2014
KGB MONDAY NIGHT POETRY SPRING 2014 SCHEDULE Feb 10 Jillian Weise + LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs Feb 17 Michael McDonough + Tony Towle Feb 24 Mary Jo Salter + David Lehman (special guest…
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The Year I Didn’t Kill Myself by Gabrielle Calvocoressi
Time Passes Today I woke up and stretched for a bit while listening to a dharma talk on pain. How boring. Sometimes I wonder how to write these posts. Maybe that’s a way of…
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Poets and the Tarot [by Benebell Wen]
Left: Yeats at his London apartment. Right: A sketch of Yeats by Pamela Colman Smith. Source: Biography of Pamela Colman Smith. Among the personal effects of poet and Nobel Prize winner William Butler…
