Haiku oracular reading
Inspired by my work with haiku and the Tarot explored in my Arcades Tarot, I’m offering Oracular Haiku Readings.
While you may have something on your mind, you keep that a secret. You don’t share it with me. I put 3 cards down and compose a haiku for you. Your task is to read what I send you and then think. The magic is to hear a click.
See below what I had to say about the cards here. Please note as well that the oracular haiku reading is poetry, not a 3-card reading for prediction or an analysis of a situation. As poetry, it is meant to inspire you to think differently about a context that you don’t share with me prior to the reading. The haiku’s function is to surprise you, and ideally make you go, aha!
A note about haiku poems
A haiku consists of 3 lines of poetry, with each line following a set number of syllables: 5-7-5. This form emerged in Japanese literature in the 17th century.
The idea is to transmit a subtle message in the form of a lesson in how to be more aware of having direct access to your unmediated human nature and the nature around you. A haiku is a powerful form of communicating the realization of truth.
Here’s an example of a haiku, composed on Sergio Toppi’s Tarot cards of Justice, the Moon, and the Pope, featured here:
One, in dreams only
She, the just one; him, a pope
Melancholia
The woman I composed the haiku for was in a strained relationship, meaning that the concept of us was non-existent. Us was once upon a time, a time that the woman kept returning to in her thoughts. This I didn’t know about.
Although not posing a question about it, or telling me anything about what she had on her mind, upon hearing the words she had exactly a sense of touching directly her experience of her actual situation.
The haiku shot straight to the heart.
So when you receive a haiku, what you receive is an opportunity to have a direct experience to something that resists you, something that you’re in denial of.
We have direct experiences of life all the time, as no one else lives our lives such as they are, but often, these direct experiences are tainted by fears and desires.
The lesson of the haiku is self-explanatory. There’s only pointing on my part, and then nodding at your end. That’s the ideal, to have your own honesty stare you in the face.