A HERD OF WILD ELEPHANTS MATTERS MORE: STORYTELLING WITH THE TAROT

A craft essay with a porthole, 25 provocations, & a paradox

EMILY CARR

Pre-Fix: A Porthole Last year’s Tarot cards were the High Priestess and Justice.1 The world was full of sadness and sharp edges and it was time to own up to our truths, individually and collectively. This year’s cards are the Empress and the Hanged One—an odd pair and inauspicious, at least in terms of climate change.2 Together, they indicate that this is our last lifetime to be in incarnation with toxic familial/species patterns; this is a stressful transition/transmogrification but it will happen regardless of our participation so we may as well SHOW UP and STEP UP. As queer feminist witches Sarah Faith Gottes-diener and Amanda Yates Garcia stress in their Strange Magic podcast, c the Major Arcana are what you make of them. They are keys, doors, portholes: into possibility and possible…

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The American Poetry Review (Digital) - 1 Issue, September/October 2019

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