Commit to the Creative Journey to Achieve Success
MONDAY TAROT MESSAGE FROM THE MUSE, 9/12/2022. Theme, The Chariot. This Major Arcana card is about speed, i.e. forward momentum. The key to building forward momentum as the charioteer is to know where you want to go and then commit to the creative journey. This week, be aware of moments when you might feel your […]
Guard Your Confidence & Belief in Your Creative Work
MONDAY TAROT MESSAGE FROM THE MUSE, 11/16/2020 Theme, 7 of Swords. Swords is the element of Air in the realm of mind, thoughts, attitudes, beliefs and communication. Seven is a number of contemplation of action. This week, don’t wait to guard your confidence and belief in your creative work and in yourself. Don’t make it […]
Find Practical Ways to Champion Your Creative Work
MONDAY’S TAROT MESSAGE FROM THE MUSE, 3/18/2019 Theme, Knight of Coins. The Knight is the one who serves, protects, champions. Coins is the element of Earth in the realm of home, health and wealth, anything physical. This Knight encourages you, this week, to find practical ways to champion your work. Show up at events, go […]
Your Next Project Rockets to You
MONDAY’S TAROT MESSAGE FROM THE MUSE, 8/13/2018 Theme, Ace of Wands. Wands is the element of Fire in the realm of spirit, creativity, career and work. Ace is the beginning, the first, and contains all the potential and possibility of the suit. This week, be on the alert for your next creative project, the one […]
Rest Your Creative Mind to Hear Your Muse
MONDAY’S TAROT MESSAGE FROM THE MUSE, 1/29/2018 Theme, 4 of Swords. Swords is the element of Air in the realm of mind, thoughts, attitudes, beliefs and communication. Four is a number of stability. This week, for the sake of your stability, look for times to rest your creative mind. If you want to hear the […]
Time for Your Writing Health Checkup?
I recently had my annual physical checkup. Perhaps it is because I am heading to official senior-dom in August, but I was given or scheduled for a bunch of tests I’ve never had before. They also drew blood, weighed and measured me (I’ve shrunk in height but, unfortunately, not in weight). I left the office […]
Be Ready to Receive New Insights, New Ideas
MONDAY’S TAROT MESSAGE FROM THE MUSE, 3/27/2017 Theme, Ace of Swords. Swords is the element of Air in the realm of mind, thoughts, attitudes, beliefs and communication. Ace is the beginning, a gift from spirit holding all potential and possibility. This week, be ready to receive that new idea, new insight, divine inspiration. If you […]
What is Your Creative Commitment?
MONDAY’S TAROT MESSAGE FROM THE MUSE, 1/23/2017 Theme, 4 of Wands. Wands is the element of Fire in the realm of spirit, creativity, career, and work. Four is a number of stability. This card is often called the wedding card. I call it the commitment card. Note how everything inside is lush and beautiful and […]
Be the High Priestess of Your Creative Work
MONDAY’S TAROT MESSAGE FROM THE MUSE, 1/9/2017 Theme, High Priestess. This card is numbered 2 in the Major Arcana and speaks to the idea of bringing awareness to the deeper mysteries of the unconscious. This week, look for opportunities to share your own creative process with others and thereby support and encourage them in their […]
5 Tips for a Long Marriage to Your Muse
Bob and I celebrated 43 years of marriage last week. Add an additional year of being engaged and a year of dating before that, and we have been sharing our lives for 45 years. That’s a long time to spend with one person…in close quarters…come hell or high water. A l-o-n-g time. People often comment […]
Overnight Success—Are You Pursuing It?
People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most significant success is achieved. ~Annie Sullivan~ Recently, I attended our village’s annual lawn party fundraiser for our small but excellent library. A friend who now lives with her husband year round in New Orleans, attended the event after just returning from a trip […]
Be Alert for 2 New Project Ideas
MONDAY’S TAROT MESSAGE FROM THE MUSE, 9/5/2016 Theme, Page of Swords. Swords is the element of Air in the realm of mind, thoughts attitudes, beliefs, and communication. The Page is the youth, the messenger. This Page brings you the message of two new project ideas this week. Be alert and ready to receive them. Write […]
You’re the Creative Source
MONDAY’S TAROT MESSAGE FROM THE MUSE, 11/9/2015 Theme, The Empress. From the Major Arcana, the Empress is all about creativity in abundance and with deep passion. This week, be aware of where you have the opportunity to be the source for creative abundance. There is no limit to the ideas and projects you can manifest. […]
Can You Say, “I Do”?
This weekend, I will officiate at a wedding. The bride is a young woman I’ve watched grow from infancy, so this is especially meaningful to me. Her mom is a dear friend. So you can imagine that weddings, love and commitment have been on my mind. Years ago in 2007, Bob and I attended a […]
Creativity is Change—Stay Centered
MONDAY’S TAROT MESSAGE FROM THE MUSE, JUNE 13, 2015 Theme, Wheel of Fortune. A Major Arcana card, the Wheel is all about change and time. So is creativity, which is all about change and time. Jupiter, the big benefic that makes everything grander and larger, is a sign of good fortune. So, if things have […]
Do You Dare Say, “I Do”?
Because of the two weddings Bob and I recently attended, the idea of commitment has been on my mind. I love weddings and witnessing couples affirm their love for each other and then dare to commit to journey together into the future—for better or for worse. As with the marriage vow, sometimes when we commit […]
Throw It Against the Wall or Kiss It?
Once upon a time… A princess took her favorite toy, a golden ball, into the woods. Sitting by a well, she repeatedly tossed her ball up into the air and caught it. After several tosses, she missed the ball which fell into the well, disappearing beneath the water. She began crying. “Why do you cry […]
7 Lessons from the Towers of Tuscany
When Bob and I committed to traveling this spring to Tuscany, I knew from friends and reading I’d done that we would do a lot of walking. I just didn’t imagine how much. At a rough guess, we walked between 5 and 10 miles a day. All that walking burned off the pasta and pastries […]
Make Space for Your Creative Work
Monday’s Tarot Message from the Muse, 2/10/2014. Theme, 4 of Wands. Wands is the element of fire, of spirit, creativity, career, work. Four is a number of stability. Creating stability for your creativity means making a commitment and making space for it. This week stay alert to how you make space and how you are […]
Commit to Your Creative Project
Monday’s Tarot Message from the Muse for the week of 1/13/2014 Theme, 4 of Wands. Wands is the element of fire, of passion, will, spirit, and creativity. This week, look for where your current creative work or project requires a commitment from you in order to keep growing, as if your Muse keeps asking, “Are […]
Pay Attention to Messages from the Unconscious
Monday’s Tarot Message from the Muse for 11/11/2013 Theme, 9 of Swords. The suit of Swords represents the element of air, mind, thoughts, attitudes and beliefs. Here this woman seems to be lying awake at night because of thoughts and messages that hang over her. Perhaps they are worries about her story, or her budget, […]
Get Up & Get Out There with Your Creative Dreams
Monday’s Tarot Message from the Muse, 10/28/13 Theme, 5 of Cups. Cups is the element of water, heart, feelings, dreams, intuition, creativity. 5 is a number of change, a tipping point. This woman sits with her back against the wall protecting the two creative dreams she still has because the others are broken disappointments. But […]
The Swans’ Song of Transformation
One Christmas, when I was a young girl, my mother’s older sister gave us a collection of fairytales in a large-format book with beautiful German watercolor illustrations. The book had tales from different cultures, more than the popular Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, and Beauty and the Beast. Within its pages, I discovered the fairytale of […]
Are You Showing Up and Suiting Up?
This week I watched one of those videos that gets passed around on FaceBook because of its emotional impact. It’s about a young man with autism who loved basketball and attended a high school in upstate New York. He joined his high school basketball team, not as a player, but as a coach’s assistant. He […]
Are You Taking Time for Creative Rest & Renewal?
Monday’s Tarot Message from the Muse, 1/28/2013. Theme, 4 of Swords. Sometimes the mind just won’t stop…ideas, worries, plans keep running through our brains. But to receive the message from the Muse, those divine insights and inspirations, we have to make space to receive. Think about how you can take time this week to make […]
Get the Big Picture on your Creative Work
Monday’s Tarot Message from the Muse for the week of 1/21/2013. Theme for the week, King of Wands. Tending the fires of your creative work takes energy and commitment. As with a king ruling his kingdom, it helps if you have the big picture. This week, what is the big picture for your creative work? […]
Have You Been Chopped?
In the many visits this year to Virginia to see my grandson, my son and daughter-in-law have gotten me hooked on a couple of TV shows. One is Chopped. Chopped is a half hour cooking game show on the Food channel. Four professional chefs from across the country compete before three judges for a prize […]
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 cups while three others lie […]
Are You Committing to Your Creative Work?
Monday Message from the Muse for the week of 10/22/2012. Theme for the week is the Four of Wands. Wands is the suit of creativity, the creativity that is passionate, active, focused, intentional. Four is the number of stability. For me this card is about the importance of commitment. When we commit to something we […]
Did You (Finally) Write that Non-Fiction Book?
The year is almost over; only a little over three months before we celebrate a New Year with new goals. What about this year’s goals? Was one of your goals to write that non-fiction book you’ve had rattling around in your brain forever? Did you get it written? Did you even start it? Did you […]
Creating Beauty in your World with your Creative Work
Monday Message from the Muse. 9/3/12. The theme for this week, 9 of Coins, is creating beauty in the world for yourself and others through your creative work–whether you write, paint, sing, coach, heal–you create beauty for others and, through that, for yourself. So focus first on how your own thoughts and beliefs may keep […]
Get Ready to Receive Creative Insights from the Blue Moon
Tarot Action, The Moon 8/28/12. We have a Blue Moon coming up in three days but you may be feeling the effects of it already. A Blue Moon is a second full moon in the same month. It is a Pisces Full Moon as well, so it is time to see the big picture of […]
How Badly Do You Want It?
In the 2007 movie, “You Kill Me.” Ben Kingsley stars as a Polish alcoholic hitman from Buffalo whose drinking causes his mob boss to send him to San Francisco to dry out, with interesting consequences for everyone. In the opening scene, it is winter in Buffalo (i.e. snow up to your …) and Kingsley’s character, […]
Are Your Creative Expectations Too High?
Sometimes the biggest challenge to our ability to function creatively and enjoy the process, is the high level of expectations we put on ourselves and the creative project. If you are in the process of birthing and raising a creative project and you’ve set your expectations high: Acknowledge that perfection is NOT the goal. The […]
Welcome to the New Blog and Site!
I am so pleased and excited to welcome you to my newly redesigned website and blog. For many reasons, this has been a year-long process, but as the site developed so did my clarity around what I do well, how I do it and whom I do it for… So I look forward to sharing […]
Are You Practicing Deep Listening with Your Muse?
So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it. ~Krishnamurti Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. When we really listen to people there […]
What — or Who — is the Muse? And Three Ways to Invite Her to Visit
When I started talking about the branding and name for my business, Divining the Muse, some people argued against it, suggesting that most people would not recognize what a Muse is. While I agreed that some might not, I also insisted that most people who work in the creative arts would know. And those who […]