Writing or creativity of any kind is a mysterious process, a journey into deep and unchartered waters. What you need is a compass… the Tarot.

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3 Creativity Lessons from the Pilgrims

While the United States’ Thanksgiving didn’t become an official holiday until Lincoln declared it such in 1863, the idea of being grateful and giving thanks as a community goes back to the early settlers of our country and that several days of feasting by the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag in

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Create with Heartfelt Confidence and Care

Monday’s Tarot Message from the Muse for week of 11/19/2012. Theme, Queen of Cups. This Queen is all about helping others feel good, nurturing their dreams, their love of beauty. She’s Venus/Aphrodite rising from the sea. You are the Queen, bearer of creativity and beauty. Through your own creative confidence

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Athena: Reclaiming Her Feminine Aspects for Our Creativity

I begin to sing about Pallas Athena, renowned goddess, with bright eyes, quick mind, and inflexible heart, chaste and mighty virgin…” Homeric Hymn In a coaching session with a client this past week, and then in an email dialogue with a writer, Athena came up as an active image or

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Time to Finish Up Old Projects to Make Room for New Ones

Monday Tarot Message from the Muse for the week of 11/12/2012. Theme for the week, 10 of Wands. Wands is the element of Fire, of spirit, creativity, career, work… Don’t you feel sorry for that poor guy, crawling along on his belly with that load on his back. What about

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What’s Your Survival Story?

There is often in people to whom “the worst” has happened an almost transcendent freedom, for they have faced “the worst” and survived it. ~ Carol Pearson Like me, you’ve probably seen numerous people going about daily life from the seat of a wheel chair, or the back of a

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Are You Letting Creative Disappointment Immobilize You?

Monday Tarot Message from the Muse for the week of 11/5/2012. Theme for the week, 5 of Cups: See how the woman sits with her back against the wall, her knees drawn up and her arms crossed about her body protectively? See how she holds tightly to those two remaining

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Are You Blocking Dream Messages?

Many people pray and receive the answer to their prayers, but ignore them—or deny them, because the answers didn’t come in the expected form. ~ Sophy Burnham Answers that don’t come in the expected form are something I warn people about all the time when I am teaching them how

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Samhain Tricks and Treats for your Creativity

Before there was Halloween, there was Samhain (pronounced “sow-in”), a Celtic holiday celebrating the new year. Samhain is the second oldest unbroken holiday in the European World, approximately 6,000 years old. This ancient holiday marked the changing of the seasons and was a time to honor the ancestors and to

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