Illumination | Haiku

The Hero

Will he and the heroine finally meet

“everything carries me to you, as if everything that exists, aromas, light, metals, were little boats that sail toward those isles of yours that wait for me.”

Pablo Neruda

I wait and wonder

Searching the cards for answers

Will someone be there

She did not choose as the magician had chosen many years before. Cursed to eternal life, he had become harder and more indifferent to the rest of humanity every year. He closed himself in, never giving, only taking.

She had taken the opposite path, opening herself more and more, always giving, barely keeping enough to sustain herself.

Eternal life, eternal youth, and beauty did not mean endless energy and strength, especially when she gave away so much, so freely.

She had grown weary. Sometimes, for comfort, in the many hours she spent alone in her van, she daydreamed happy endings.

Prologue

This is the story of an impoverished fortune-teller who has lived for many centuries, barely surviving in modern times. She has sensed a coming storm and has gathered her magical powers to stand against it.

The Beginning

This was her beginning. She was a young girl in love. Then that life, with its hopes and dreams, was lost. The soldiers took her to the temple to become the high priestess.

The Attack

The magician aided the emperor in his attempt to possess her. Unleashing her power, she slaughtered the emperor. But she was no match for the magician. He cursed her to his fate: eternal, unchanging life.

The Escape

The emperor lay dead at her feet. The magician had hurled his curse at her and vanished. With the help of the hierophant and the consent of the empress, she escaped. The hierophant had told her that, after centuries of waiting and wondering, she would come to a convergence of time and place that would make it possible to lift the curse. But he did not tell her how or when that would happen.

The Fool or The Jester is one of the 78 cards in a Tarot deck. In occult tarot, it is one of the 22 Major Arcana, sometimes numbered as 0 (the first) or XXII (the last)…..

In the Rider-Waite Tarot deck and other esoteric decks made for cartomancy, the Fool is shown as a young man, walking unknowingly toward the brink of a precipice. In the Rider-Waite deck, he is also portrayed as having with him a small dog. The Fool holds a white rose (a symbol of freedom from baser desires) in one hand, and in the other a small bundle of possessions, representing untapped collective knowledge….Wikipedia