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Finish up & get ready for the new creative project. Monday Tarot Message from the Muse for the week of 5/20/2013

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Theme, 4 of Cups. This week, it’s time to finish up those projects you’ve been working on that are near completion so you have room in your schedule and your energy for the new project that is rising up from your heart…the dream, the vision.

Focus, Knight of Coins. How are you the knight for your creative work. What do you do that physically serves your community with your creative work. Do you perform for a seniors’ group? Teach weaving to young children? Donate a piece to a local fundraiser?

Action, Ace of Cups. Oh yes, that creative dream, that vision is demanding your attention now. Pay attention! Take action!

Gift, The Emperor. Look for the person in your environment who has the power to move your work up and out in a big way. Or can offer you the big perspective for that new project and how to make it a success.

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Are You the White Rabbit?

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“Oh dear, oh dear, I shall be too late!”


When I work with clients or lead workshops on creativity or writing, I often here the complaint of not having time.  So early in the coaching process, I have clients explore establishing a regular time to work on their creative projects, because…

Like the White Rabbit, we get so caught up in our daily responsibilities and routines, along with all the minor emergencies that pop up, that our creativity falls down the rabbit hole of Read More→

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Time to be fiercely passionate about your creative work. Monday Tarot Messge from the Muse, 5/13/2013

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Theme, Queen of Wands. Don’t you love the look of fierce will on her face? This fierce and passionate desire is your theme for the week. Bring that to your creative work, and to how you nurture and help others with your work. Be proud, be passionate.

Focus, Three of Coins. That passionate energy also needs focused, directed time. So how do you make space and time this week to do your creative work? How will you give yourself the silence and solitude you need to polish and finish a current project?

Action, Queen of Cups. While the Queen of Wands is fiery will, the Queen of Cups is loving desire and vision. Also be the Queen of Cups, that person who listens and responds to the creative desires of the heart, and who allows time for dreaming and envisioning.

Gift, The Lovers. A Major Arcana card, this is the integration of opposites, the coming together of masculine and feminine, of active and receptive, of Fire and Water. Blessed by Spirit, this integration manifests in the physical realm in a way that is healing and nurturing.

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Is Your Muse a Chatty Cathy?

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Creative friends and clients often complain that getting connected to their Muses and staying connected is an ongoing challenge, especially when in the middle of a book or project.

But once in a while, a client has a Muse who is a Chatty Cathy.

Chatty Cathy, a doll that was manufactured from 1959 to 1965 by the Mattel toy company, talked to you if you pulled the ring in her back. She’d say adorable things like “I love you,” or “May I have a cookie?” or “Let’s play.”

Little girls loved having a doll who could finally talk to them…all the time. Parents, who wanted a little peace and quiet, probably wanted to snip off the ring or Read More→

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Are you sharing the spiritual dimension of your creative work? Monday’s Tarot Message from the Muse for the week of 5/6/2013

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Theme, the High Priestess. The High Priestess represents spiritual knowledge (the pomegranate she holds in her hand) and wisdom (the owl and the scroll). She is the gatekeeper between the known and the unknown, the conscious and the unconscious. This week, think about how you are the High Priestess for your creative work and how you share the deeper, more spiritual aspects of your work with others.

Focus, Judgement. So how do you share that spiritual dimension in a way that serves the bigger vision or purpose of your work in the world? What are you called to do, who are you called to serve with your creative work?

Action, 9 of Cups. This week, look at that vision and get clear on what you really want to create for yourself and others in a way that taps into that feeling of joyful abundance…that feeling we get when our biggest wishes are fulfilled.

Gift, The Lovers. Love is always a gift. And there are many kinds of love. Look for the gift of partnership and integration this week that feels divinely blessed to help you answer that creative call or vision.

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Being a Fool for your Creative Work—In Honor of Ciro Marchetti

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The Tarot is divided into two parts, the Major Arcana (Secrets) and the Minor Arcana. The Major Arcana has 22 cards that are numbered from 0 to 21.

Ciro Marchetti's Fool from Legacy

Zero, in the Major Arcana, is the Fool. It is the Fool that travels from the number one card, The Magician, to the last card, The World, often called The Fool’s Journey. Rachel Pollack, in her book, Tarot Wisdom, says that, as the Fool journeys through the Major Arcana, he moves from the Conscious to the Unconscious to the Superconscious, that level where he understands his connection to the cosmos and can celebrate his arrival with joy, fulfillment and success.

As a writer, artist, musician, or other creative, you are The Fool at the beginning of each new creative project. And, as you journey with your work from beginning to end, you travel through the phases of the Fool’s journey of conscious, unconscious, and superconscious.

In the first stage, the work is all about what you want to Read More→

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Are You Pregnant with Creative Possibilities? Monday’s Tarot Message from the Muse for the week of 4/29/2013

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Theme, The Empress. Now that we are in the sign of Taurus ruled by Venus, we may feel this week that we are filled, pregnant with creative ideas and possibilities. Experience what it means to be the channel for the Muse, to be an unending source of creative flow and creative birth.

Focus, 7 of Cups. And even while you receive one creative idea after another, be sure not to let all those ideas keep you from doing your work. Give your energy and focus to one idea, one project, knowing that the others are there awaiting their turn.

Action, Page of Swords. This week, be sure to communicate to your audience about your creative work. Choose two projects to introduce or re-introduce to the world, or two ways of communicating about your work. But do share with enthusiasm and clarity.

Gift, Knight of Wands. Wow! Look for someone around you who is ready and willing to be a champion of your work. He or she is eager to get out there and let people know about you and your gifts. Let them.

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Signs and Synchronicities: Connecting with Charon and Morpheus in a Waking Dream

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When I teach of group of people how to work with their dreams, I ask each of them to remember a recent sleep dream to practice the process on.

Charon the Ferryman

“What if I don’t remember my dreams?” is a question that always comes up.  Every time.

“Think of a recent waking dream you may have had,” is my response.

What is a waking dream?  Well, a waking dream is something that happens to you in waking reality (i.e. when you are not asleep, meditating, doing trance work) that has the slightly surreal feeling of a sleep dream.

A waking dream is that experience of thinking of someone you haven’t seen or talked to in years and then running into them on the street.  Or being alerted by your dog to the blue heron standing in the small stream next to your driveway and then watching him walk out of the stream to your driveway to stand at the edge of the road, look both ways and then cross before taking flight (really happened).  Some experience out of the ordinary that Read More→

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Are Worries or Dreams Your Creative Night Life? Monday’s Tarot Message from the Muse, 4/15/2013

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Theme, 9 of Swords. These Swords (thoughts, attitudes, beliefs, communication) are waking you up at night…are they worries or dreams? For this week, prepare yourself for sleep in a way that supports your creative night life. Cleanse your space and your mind. Do a brain dump of ideas and concerns before going to sleep. Keep a dream journal and pen next to the bed so that you can record the dreams with their attendant inspiration and problem solving.

Focus, 6 of Swords. In order to continue moving forward successfully with your creative work, it’s important to know what beliefs and attitudes support you and which ones you need to leave behind. What old thought patterns do you need to drop?

Action, 3 of Cups. Creativity arises out of joy and celebration, so make sure to celebrate this week. Also, when you enter your work space, put on some music that supports your creative mood.

Gift, Knight of Cups. Look for someone this week who is a strong emotional champion of your creative work, who can help you negotiate the sometimes deep and dangerous waters of moving your work into the world.

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Ignoring the Pouts and Stares not Working? Retreat!

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This week is a magical week for me.  And I don’t even have to wave a magical wand.

My retreat in the Berkshires

Instead, I am waving my purple pen, the color of ink I use when I am writing my book.  See, I am on a writer’s retreat in the Berkshire Mountains of Massachusetts  this week, and while dedicated skiers are trying to get in those last few trips down the mountain, I am working on my manuscript.

You may wonder why I’ve gone away to write when I don’t have kids or an outside job to distract me?

Good question.  Here’s my answer.

First, you know that if you Read More→

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