For my draw in Dandelyon's Card Challenge I got The High Priestess, she who stands between light and dark, day and night. She holds a wand that trails glowing lights, very bright in the darkness and showing more color in the day. She represents the balance between the mundane and spiritual, the overt and covert, the known and unknown. She knows many secrets, and might hold these mysteries close or reveal them as she deems fair and appropriate. She herself does not seem to be dancing, but she hears the cosmic music and her magic dances, bright, around her. If she were to step aside, you might glimpse that time and space where things are no longer what they were and are not yet what they will be, the time and space of choosing, when so many things are possible.
I've been looking at this card a lot recently, trying to figure out how I see it, what exactly it means to me.
A friend talked to me about the lightning path, a form of bouncing, or zigzagging back and forth between extremes. I definitely identify with that, but more as a swinging than an angular thrust, if that makes sense.
I'm a Gemini, I live to swing back and forth between extremes, but I don't feel like I ever want to stay in one very long. Most of the learning and discovering happens on the swing.
I've swung
Back and forth,
My whole life, very fast.
I thought by now,
That I would
Have found
Center
Tick tock,
Like a clock,
Counting down from the last
I still swing,
But I hope
I've gone
Slower
Middle roads meld
In my mind, into mud
Middle things mold
Into others
Middle roads stay
Straight and true
All the way
But I sway
Like a pendulum
I'm loyal
And true
To a fault, some would say.
I've bent
To the point
That I broke.
Still, bones,
They must dance,
Given half of a chance
Where the drums
And the flutes
Seem to float
Middle roads meld
In my mind, into mud
Middle things mold
Into others
Middle roads stay
Straight and true
All the way
But I sway
Like a pendulum
I've swung
Back and forth,
My whole life, very fast.
I thought by now,
That I would
Have found
Center
Tick tock,
Like a clock,
Counting down from the last
I still swing,
But I hope
I've gone
Slower
@janeg Feb 2022
A keeper song, especially the way you have combined elements of the mystical with your own feelings.
@arthurrossi Feb 2022
The piano is mesmerizing, it is fantastic how words, music and your beautiful voice work together here to form something that gorgeous...
@janetjulian Feb 2022
Love this! Has a real meditative feel, and the piano is so pretty, accompanying beautifully without overwhelming the lyrics. One of my favorites!
@robynmackenzie Feb 2022
Wow, this is stunning! Beautiful piano playing matched by equally gorgeous vocals. I love the pacing, this is haunting and evocative.
@leslie Feb 2022
Love the piano! Definitely has a musical pendulum feel swaying back and forth. Lovely melody.
@dzdandcunfsd Feb 2022
Whew... This one got me in the feels. I can relate to this all too well. I think you've just written this manic depressives new anthem.
Absolutely breathtaking playing and vocal performance here too!
@apolez3 Feb 2022
xoxo
@apolez3 Feb 2022
Sadder lyrics then I thought there would be from reading the liner notes on the challenge... They are beautifully written yet... read the former. Beautiful notes... loved at the end when I heard two voices come in at once ...
@leslie333 Feb 2022
Beautiful, lovely sound and you can definitely feel the pendulum, but it's not just plain. Piano sounds great. This is an intriguing exploration of the theme.
@wylddandelyon Feb 2022
Ah, you have a dynamic symmetry instead of a static one! That's not bad, in and of itself, it's hard to get things done without being in motion.
This song has lovely piano parts and a soft, gentle, accepting melody. Very much a meditation, and one I enjoyed listening to enough that I didn't even start writing until after it ended, and played it again to accompany leaving this comment.