life within dying
when everything should stop, and it doesn't.
The word “genocide” should stop everything that comes after it. The words “ongoing genocide” should be so horrifying that nothing can be spoken, nothing can be done. These are words that should stop the world. But instead, they have become words that follow us around like smoke. Instead, we now write the word in cryptic ways to attempt to skirt the algorithm’s silencing. Gen*cide. Gen O Side. The code words are their own horror.
We are just shy of two years of an ongoing, consistent genocide. Today, July 24th, there are actions planned around the world. I am struggling against the preemptive heartbreak that it won’t change anything, that the aid trucks will remain locked out of Gaza, that our tax dollars will continue to send the bombs. For two years, we have shouted and pleaded and prayed. No matter what, we have the responsibility to continuously shout that this is horrifying and must end. This is horrifying, and it must end.
Today, July 24th, is the new moon in Leo. I made the commitment to offer Tarot readings for paid subscribers of this Substack on the new moon, and that reading is linked below. And as I pick up the cards and shuffle, I remember that the Tarot has a history of being used to tell cryptic stories of revolution and the soul’s becoming, stories that could subvert the silencing armies of the Church, stories that become a map toward the future we long for and belong to. So, friends: here is a story, I hope it might guide us.
I was worried the cards wouldn’t have a story for us. I should know better than to worry about that.
