Happy New Year!
One of my favourite forms of poetry is the sonnet. For the past year I have been working on my “Tarot Project”, which is to write 78 sonnets. No small task. It can take quite awhile to write one, because I try to distil all that a card can bring, with it’s nuances, into the form of the English sonnet.
Since this is the first day of the New Year, I offer to you my “Magician’s Sonnet”. May the energy and power of this archetype be yours to bring forth many good things.
The Magician’s Sonnet
With lemniscate halo, poised to respond
One hand to heaven, the other points below
With tools spread out: cup and coin, sword and wand,
All is ready to create and bestow
Concentration and purpose flowing,
The magic time of transforming dreams is here
Drawing from spirit and imagination,
Life is breathed into wishes without fear
Wizard, Trickster, or Shaman, who is this Mage?
Beware the power of this energy,
Harsh judgement and fear shall not be waged
Past hurts and lies released for synergy
Bring forth the purpose and essence of being
For dreams made real are well worth seeing.
One hand to heaven, the other points below
With tools spread out: cup and coin, sword and wand,
All is ready to create and bestow
Concentration and purpose flowing,
The magic time of transforming dreams is here
Drawing from spirit and imagination,
Life is breathed into wishes without fear
Wizard, Trickster, or Shaman, who is this Mage?
Beware the power of this energy,
Harsh judgement and fear shall not be waged
Past hurts and lies released for synergy
Bring forth the purpose and essence of being
For dreams made real are well worth seeing.
