thanks to Robert Henry for all the tarot teaching any errors in interpretation are probably his : ) © marcellavee (Anita Greg )
May 17 2009
a Tarot of the Northern Skies For each card , there's a verse and some of them are very bad and some are even worse
     
The Fool URSA MAJOR
The Great Bear plays the part of Fool
he wanders round and round and from two stars upon his back the Pole Star can be found He is a most beloved bear His fame is not in doubt There is an Ursa Minor too Who follows him about
his head is not entirely lit his brightest stars are down a bit A bear of very little brain he follows Minor round again
so round and round and round the Pole like heffalumps they go they never set - they never leave but footprints in the snow Its how the Arctic gets its name Arcas and Callisto
 The Magician BOÕTES
Boôtes- Man of Mystery with no known role in history Arcturus in his mystic knee most people will say " who he ? " but they don't understand his role he herds the bears around the Pole of this they may be unawares he is the brain behind the bears  The High Priestess VIRGO
next is Virgo - High Priestess with starry clusters on her dress the ecliptic runs right through her brain and then through Spica , ear of grain Across the threshold she unfurls the Inner and the Outer worlds between the pillars black and white she keeps the watches , day and night
one side towards the Pole Star's glow the other faces cup and crow

The Empress CASSIOPEIA
Empress of Aetheopia Her Royal Highness , Cassiopeia She's sitting in her in golden chair And combing out her golden hair Her daughter makes her very proud But she said so ...... much too loud
 The Emperor CEPHEUS
because of Cassiopeia's boast a whale has turned his realm to toast to save the last of cattle stock he chained his daughter to a rock Andromeda , that was her name and that is how he came to fame apart from that there's not much more to Cepheus , the Emperor
but recently it has been found that Cepheids can measure Space they are a " Universal Candle " with Constants more than I can handle and so it helped our understanding about the Universe expanding his life was just a heap of trouble but now he's famous , thanks to Hubble

The Heirophant DRACO
The Heirophant is Draco , curled around the centre of the world and some things rise and some things fall the Heirophant has seen them all His star Thuban was once , they say the Pole Star , and again one day . He's hardly noticed , but he's there and here and here and everywhere and cold and scaly , old and wise
- try looking out through Draco's eyes

The Lovers CETUS, ANDROMEDA, PERSEUS
We're back in Aethiopia Its where we left Andromeda She's promised to a vicious whale and just in case her nerve should fail or she get bored and wander off or have ideas of growing older she's naked and tied to a boulder
just then a hero passes by with shiny hair and blue of eye he's riding on a flying horse she falls in love with him of course and calls on him to rescue her and he thinks it looks a good idea but round the corner comes the whale oh goodness ! What will happen now ?
but two is company , three's a crowd they all agree on this and Cetus rears his massive head and gives an ugly hiss but Perseus has just come back and has Medusa in a sack he tells the girl to close her eyes and shuts his own and then removes the cover from Medusa's head
the whale said something rude - in Greek
Andromeda then gave a shriek and looked and looked and to her shock where once was whale with open jaws was now an instant rock
so - a good result all round I'd say - all live and love another day the mortals now are joining lips
Cetus is happy wrecking ships

The Chariot AURIGA
Auriga is the charioteer and for unknown reasons holds a deer strictly , a goat , but that won't rhyme. Auriga turns the Wheel of Time its cogs enmesh with the Ecliptc between the bull's horns - it is cryptic where the power comes from is lost in fog
and all we see is just the cog

Justice LYRA
Truth , the Lyre , can strike a chord and Justice, blindfold , holds a sword both can cut apart the air and both are True and both are Fair
 The Hermit ORION
his shoulder vast - his head is small he hardly has a brain at all with just a sword and starry belt he only wears a lions pelt but as he strides the starry skies the Pleiades are in his gaze forever just out of his reach companion dog is at his side and a rabbit there to chase
I wouldn't say that he's not wise

The Wheel of Fortune ZODIAC
the Wheel of Fortune turns around its like the London Eye one moment you are on the ground the next you're way up high you look one way – its Thamesmead , grey the other way – its France the up and down is not our choice what is - which way to glance

Fortitude NOT KNOWN
I couldn't find the stars for this although I tried my best there's Leo and there's Hercules and Taurus and the rest but even they are not quite right they do not pass the test the tarot card is in two parts the power and the controls and neither Lion or Hercules can really play both roles so perhaps it is Dark Energy that is the real Strength card and what this looks like I don't know and nor does Stephen Hawkin

The Hanged Man ***...........?
The Hanged man card is tricky too I cannot find the stars To show a man without a name With head beneath his toes Its not so much he's upside down as half of them are that but none of them are ankle–tied and swinging like a bat
he hangs between the sky and earth his moneys gone – its nothing worth he seems to smile - he doesn't stress he doest mind his helplessness he sees the things the others don't he's swinging from a bit of rope and hanging by a thread
A thing of ambiguity of being tied but being free acceptance and serenity he's smiling half way up a tree just like the Cheshire Cat he's not in water , in the air not on the ground or fire a Quantum World is where he lives he's Here -
he's There - he's Everywhere he is the halfway up the stair he is the square root of the square if there's four tyres , then he's the spare he is Achilles – he's the hare the No Place in between each Where split second in Infinity particle in Uncertainty Shr?dinger's famous entity
The Nine Lives and the Hat
 Death SCORPIUS
Death lies between the Scorpion's claws It opens up and closes doors the centre of the Galaxy where stars are thickest , here is he He guards the doorway of the Soul and by his tail and poison sting the Galaxy's Black Hole
what lies behind I do not know but through it , all will someday go

Temperance THE MILKY WAY
from Scorpion's sting a river springs its foamy waters , new life brings In things long dead and things unborn here flies the Eagle and the Swan through Cepheus and Cassiopea through Perseus and the Charioteer the starry water flows
Orion holds his arm up high it soaks the feet of Gemini and ploshes round their toes
it flows between Orion's dogs and here the flush of mud and frogs and broken things and froth and foam becomes a milky unicorn
and when at last it reaches shore , a ship will sail for ever more

The Devil HYDRA
The Hydra has so many faces Turns up in unexpected places In crannies and in nooks It has a cup upon its back And also Corvus , inky black Who hangs around with rooks
It is made of bits of many nations It is one of Gaia's worse creations Cthulu's one of his relations According to old books
Its made up of Primal Slime Its guilty of all kinds of crime Call it for an interesting time Its older than it looks

The Tower CANCER, the crab
the Tower is a thing of Will a masterpiece of human skill where king does as he please and from its heights the king looks out across the world from last redoubt but all he sees is tops of trees
the Tower is safe from attack but those within can't grow there's things out in the forest that those inside can't know
the shell can only hold him back the carapace will have to crack and those inside must take their chance go naked to the forest dance to hear the forest music and hop and fall or fly or trip and sink or swim or flow

the Star SIRIUS / SOTHIS (soul of Isis )
her rising makes the floods rise up and brings life to the plain the Stream of Inspiration it pours down like spring rain she tips her starry waters on land and lake and sea - no password needed here , no skill no terms , no weakest link no undeserving - it is free so take it up and drink !
 The Moon MOON
sometimes in shadow sometimes bright , she sails the sky and claims the night
by moonlight , nothing's what it seems as creatures crawl from ponds in dreams and horrors howl and screech and crawl
she calmly gazes down on all and though she's hardly seen by day she never turns her face away

The Sun SUN
He smiles down on the children's play He makes the plants to grow An ordinary star in every way But if he should ever go ... Without him we are dust or worse
...... A smear across the Universe

Judgement CYGNUS
She sails along the Milky Way She sees the World from High Her trumpet sounds and from the mounds from stone and rock and clay no grave can hold as young and old rise up and greet her cry
Her wings will carry souls away To where they do not die

The World POLARIS and the four Royal Stars
The traveller comes to weary rest The Dance of Life complete but just as he is laying down He gets back on his feet
There's no beginning , is no end Oroboros just goes round the bend His mouth is round his feet
A single point is in a ring it is the song the angels sing World , Universe - and Everything
marcellavee ( Anita Greg ) May 17 , 2009
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