THE TOWER (photomorph) & "ghosts drawn like moths..." (non-dream Tarot tanka) by Roswila

ghosts drawn like moths
circle the burning brilliance of the
lightning struck tower
an enlightenment in which even this
peculiar glowing of ghosts plays a part

This is a non-dream Tarot-based tanka written 1-3-19, inspired by all the thinking I've been doing about The Tower Card (XVI) in the Tarot. Every year's end I choose at random one of the 22 Major Arcana in the Tarot deck to represent some important aspects of the coming year for me. This year's is XVI (drawn from The Ghost Tarot Deck). The above image is one of my own photomorphs in which I see XVI (The Tower 8-12-15 011v5). And following here is XVI in the well-known Rider Waite Smith deck:

Last, here’s a link to an on-line posting of the version my tanka most directly references (scroll down to the third pic of a Tower card):

The Tower in The Ghost Tarot (as posted to the site: “The Tarot Parlor”)

I would normally scan in The Tower card from my own Ghost Tarot deck (it’s one of the faves I have in my collection) and post it here. However, I’m still not fully set up – much less fully skilled – to do that sort of many leveled work on my new computer system. One of the many meanings to this card, BTW, is “a humbling.” And this process of getting files moved from my old computer, determining what programs to load on my new one, figuring out how it now all fits together (or not, as the case may be) etc., etc., all while learning Windows 10 – well, it’s a major humbling. However, that’s not what was consciously bugging me when I wrote the above tanka. I was seeing at last a use for the myriad of ghosts out of my past that have been circling more than ever recently: sort of like night lights in the gloom.







[aka: Patricia Kelly]
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