David Schwarm

This week we are guided by the Two of Wands

This card depicts a man with one wand in his hands, the other put aside. It is about settling on a decision. Wands are about enthusiasm, and the kind of energy required for passionate decision making doesn’t work when you are thinking about two things. It strongly suggests that a partnership will lead to your success.

The two wands show that you have two alternatives from which to make a choice. Both appear to be good choices, or two ways through which you can still be able to achieve the same results. However, you can select only one.

2024-10-27

Indeterminacy by J. Mae Barzio

How many times I tried to record the Goldberg Variations
Once in Iceland another time in California
It was Mercury in retrograde I didn’t get the chords right
You see I wanted a different kind of music
One that felt like a foreign city or ice cracking
A prediction of snow and then the snow itself endless
I wanted the blue stripes on your shirt the paleness of your underarm
The whiteout of a spring blizzard, everything unexpected
See I didn’t do well with indeterminacy—the blank sides of a dice
The piano chord I recognized but couldn’t name
A different kind of intimacy because I was tired of being unsurprised
Behind me in the photo the black river unraveled
Like a list of the dead children or the ones I never had
The field split open like a lip
I asked the river for answers but heard nothing
The path was obscured by another person’s tracks in the snow
Snow falling so slowly that no one noticed it.