this piece is heavily influenced by the work of Rachel Pollack

Step 1: The Magician

Mmmmmm.

Look at all those toys.

Take me, use me,

please make me beg for more.

Make our body a conduit for Spirit.

Make flowers burst forth from our lips.

Let us bless you with our wild waters,

our feral moans.

Step 2: 6 of Pentacles, Reversed

Dominance and submission

turned on the head.

Make us beg

knowing all the while

who is really in charge.

Your dominance depends

on our willing submission

your power sourced

in our own.

I wield my yielding like a

Feral Witch

Let me see the light flicker in your eyes

as my surrender consumes you

and we become

one.

Step 3: The Moon

All those poor, hidden

desires

also our fears

coming for us at long last

done biding their time

Hungry

There is nowhere to hide

The beasts in us will no longer be tamed.

You can run,

but why?

I’d rather be devoured

a food source for that

too long hidden

Darkness

Let my flesh nourish you

I face the terrifying beasts emerging

from within us

and open my legs to them

invite them in

bathed in Moon’s slippery light

I am perfect

stunning

Spirit.

Step 4: 4 of Wands, Reversed

We are the nymphs

parading through the forest with Dionysus

Frenzied,

ferocious and wild

We leave behind our prisons

that we built for ourselves

For in the leaving

there is joy, love, fucking

and freedom

Freedom that binds us to life

Liberation birthed from

interdependence.

Step 5: Queen of Wands

This queen knows how to fuck

Look at how she spreads her legs

holds those shafts

guarded by her

Black

Magic

Pussy

She is EROTIC INCARNAL

and she knows how to rule a people

by being a SLUT

She is embodied sunlight

She births order, love, and peace

because Spirit flows through her

dripping down her legs as she comes

watering the earth

her flesh shuddering

governing the tides

Under her rule there is no

other

way

But thriving

and love.

Step 6: The Sun

Inside us all

is

what we ate.

The animals and plants we consumed

we killed their bodies

took their life

inside us

as sacrament.

We all started as plants

who took sun inside

Sun filled them up

We are all

Brethren

of sunlight.

Step 7: The Lovers

Every time 2 beings fuck

the binary dissolves

You are in me

I am in you

You wrap around me

I wrap around you

We become one writhing being

and in our union

Spirit is multiplying

Soaking in the power

of our combining

seemingly opposing forces

Creating new realities

Love combines everything

back into

Spirit

We are only primordial soup

trying on

new kinky avatars

making all things possible.

Step 8: 8 of Cups

Know when it is time to walk away

from a good thing.

Learn to sense its dying, its ending

before it happens

Turn around,

slowly, slowly now.

Now, Change.

Not because you are afraid.

Not because commitment makes you soft.

But because comfort is meant to be fleeting

When comfort is more important

than our ability to

feed life

then we have forsaken life

Change

Change yourself NOW

Do not be tethered to

who you were 5 seconds ago

Ask what life most needs from you now

and become that

There is plenty of time to be afraid.

Later.

Go now.

Become.

Step 9: The Emperor, Reversed

FUCK THE EMPEROR.

He wears no clothes

but he will weave

a straight jacket for you.

CORRECTION

DO NOT FUCK THE EMPEROR

For he is a shadow of life

meant only to make you afraid

of yourself.

He is everywhere

and nowhere

a story we have told so many times

that he came true

No, do NOT FUCK THE EMPEROR

Don’t even try

Let him wither and die

In the brilliance

of you

living

your eroticism

Out loud.

Step 10: Page of Wands

Gaze upon the potent shaft

stroke ki lovingly

Get down with your bad self

and let life sprout leaves

through you

Dress fabulous

And stroke, stroke, stroke

until Spirit flows through you

and comes

alive.

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