Comments on: Writing with the Tarot at the Bay Area Tarot Symposium (BATS) 2007 http://tarot-table-talk.net/2007/10/07/writing-with-the-tarot-at-the-bay-area-tarot-symposium-bats-2007/ Reflections on the cards. Thu, 17 May 2012 08:40:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: No Fax Payday Loan http://tarot-table-talk.net/2007/10/07/writing-with-the-tarot-at-the-bay-area-tarot-symposium-bats-2007/#comment-213 Thu, 03 Jan 2008 02:41:03 +0000 http://tarot-table-talk.com/2007/10/07/writing-with-the-tarot-at-the-bay-area-tarot-symposium-bats-2007/#comment-213 No Fax Payday Loan

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]]> By: Leisa ReFalo of The Tarot Connection Interviews Evelyn Pine and Me « Tarot Table Talk http://tarot-table-talk.net/2007/10/07/writing-with-the-tarot-at-the-bay-area-tarot-symposium-bats-2007/#comment-172 Tue, 23 Oct 2007 03:59:56 +0000 http://tarot-table-talk.com/2007/10/07/writing-with-the-tarot-at-the-bay-area-tarot-symposium-bats-2007/#comment-172 [...] James Wanless, Ginny Hunt, James Ricklef, and Ellen Lorenzi-Prince. (By the way, Ellen attended our Writing with the Tarot workshop at the Bay Area Tarot Symposium. At the beginning of the episode that includes our interview, you [...]

]]> By: Susan Gold http://tarot-table-talk.net/2007/10/07/writing-with-the-tarot-at-the-bay-area-tarot-symposium-bats-2007/#comment-165 Fri, 12 Oct 2007 20:34:08 +0000 http://tarot-table-talk.com/2007/10/07/writing-with-the-tarot-at-the-bay-area-tarot-symposium-bats-2007/#comment-165 Comparative Tarot is a great place to post your work! (And thank you for offering to reference this site!) You might also consider sending it out to a literary journal. I think the literary community would appreciate this piece as much as the tarot community.

]]> By: Ellen Lorenzi-Prince http://tarot-table-talk.net/2007/10/07/writing-with-the-tarot-at-the-bay-area-tarot-symposium-bats-2007/#comment-164 Fri, 12 Oct 2007 18:18:29 +0000 http://tarot-table-talk.com/2007/10/07/writing-with-the-tarot-at-the-bay-area-tarot-symposium-bats-2007/#comment-164 Thank you, Susan and Evelyn., and good idea. I’ll post this on Comparative Tarot with reference to this site. I’d like to see more tarot-related writing too, now that you’ve gotten me so inspired!

]]> By: Evelyn Jean Pine http://tarot-table-talk.net/2007/10/07/writing-with-the-tarot-at-the-bay-area-tarot-symposium-bats-2007/#comment-163 Thu, 11 Oct 2007 20:32:05 +0000 http://tarot-table-talk.com/2007/10/07/writing-with-the-tarot-at-the-bay-area-tarot-symposium-bats-2007/#comment-163 Very cool, Ellen. The way the moon became central to this view of the card really made me stop and look at it again.

It was a pleasure to participate in your workshop about the Wands Cards at BATS, btw.

]]> By: Susan Gold http://tarot-table-talk.net/2007/10/07/writing-with-the-tarot-at-the-bay-area-tarot-symposium-bats-2007/#comment-162 Thu, 11 Oct 2007 05:48:19 +0000 http://tarot-table-talk.com/2007/10/07/writing-with-the-tarot-at-the-bay-area-tarot-symposium-bats-2007/#comment-162 Wow, Ellen! This is breathtaking! I love the way the landscape is at the center of the story, the human figure “so very small.” This piece gets richer each time I read it.

Thank you for sharing. I think this is ready for a larger audience than this blog! Will you send it out?!

You know, at my first BATS in 2003, I attended your workshop—The Hermit’s Quest. The spread you gave us is one of my favorites, and I still have, in my mind’s eye, the images from the visualization you did. Every year since then I’ve had a vendor’s booth, and I’ve regretted that I have had to miss your other workshops.

I didn’t realize who you were when we spoke after BATS—silly me!—it’s all coming together now!

Anyway, thanks for posting. I’d love to see more of your tarot-inspired writing.

]]> By: Ellen Lorenzi-Prince http://tarot-table-talk.net/2007/10/07/writing-with-the-tarot-at-the-bay-area-tarot-symposium-bats-2007/#comment-161 Wed, 10 Oct 2007 07:42:58 +0000 http://tarot-table-talk.com/2007/10/07/writing-with-the-tarot-at-the-bay-area-tarot-symposium-bats-2007/#comment-161 I enjoyed this workshop very much. I would not have found this insight into the card and also into myself without the encouraging space Susan and Evelyn provided. This is what I wrote:

The Moon gazes down on the land. How she loves the water, what she
lacks in her heavenly home. How it draws her eyes.

In the landscape of her gaze a human walks alone. She does not see
herself reflected in his eyes. She can feel the water in him and she
pulls, but still he does not look up. Something else is drawing him.

The Moon drinks in the river through her eyes. The river knows her.
The river reflects her in shards of glittering, dancing light.

But the human does not look. The mountain guides him. The stones
measure his steps. The body of Earth, the Moon’s big sister, the
beautiful one – this is all he sees.

Not that the Moon is jealous. Of course he would love her best. She
is his mother, and he is so very small.

The Moon would be the Earth’s lover if she could. She pulls on
Earth’s oceans, crashing water against hard stone, wanting to change
her, wanting to touch her, to hold her as she herself is held. Rapt.
Gazing endlessly into her beautiful beautiful blue.

But the Earth does love her, much more than the Moon knows. The
movement, the power, the desire… this created the life that rose
from the shallows. And all these little ones, all her children, are
proof of that love. Offerings to her cool and brilliant sister.

The two great ones dance and strive and desire. And the little one
walking feels something, but does not know how to give it a name. He
believes something must be missing inside of him, to feel so great
and terrible a longing. So he seeks, and the Earth gives, and the
Moon gazes down.

]]> By: Evelyn Jean Pine http://tarot-table-talk.net/2007/10/07/writing-with-the-tarot-at-the-bay-area-tarot-symposium-bats-2007/#comment-160 Tue, 09 Oct 2007 15:38:52 +0000 http://tarot-table-talk.com/2007/10/07/writing-with-the-tarot-at-the-bay-area-tarot-symposium-bats-2007/#comment-160 What blew my mind was the great amount of writing participants did in such a short time. I only heard the writing from one group, but the variety of stories and styles was quite compelling. One wrote of a person overcoming a dark night of the soul, another of a man leaving a drinking party, and another about girl escaping her cruel family. All wonderful.

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