Willing to Ask for Creative Help from the Right Sources?
MONDAY TAROT MESSAGE FROM THE MUSE, 11/25/2024 Theme, 5 of Coins. Coins is the element of Earth in the realm of home, health, wealth, and anything physical. Five in the tarot is a point of challenge or conflict. A challenge for many creatives is to ask for help, whether through grants, donations, awards, or the […]
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 […]
Emerging from the Dark at Spring Equinox
You can’t study the darkness by flooding it with light. ~ Edward Abbey Are you afraid of the dark? I don’t mean the physical dark… I mean are you afraid of the creative dark? That place of the unknown, the unseen, and the unacknowledged? People, including writers and creatives, seem to be of two mindsets: […]
3 Tips to Prepare for the New Year You
Do you make New Year resolutions and set goals? If you do, and all you do is write them down—or even if you write out some of the steps and actions involved—then you are doomed to failure. Doomed. Why? Because new goals and changes require an environment to support them. Otherwise, it is too easy […]
Passion, Purpose, and Power for Creatives
This week’s post is by guest contributor, Beth Barany. I just got back from a writer’s conference. I love going to them. I love speaking there and helping other authors. But I’m tired. I’m an introvert. As I wade through all the post-conference activities of following up with all the cool folks I met and […]
3 Reasons You Need to be a Hermit…Occasionally
After almost four years of writing articles for this newsletter, sometimes I’m not sure what to write that won’t seem redundant or unimportant. So this time, I consulted the oracles in the form of Ciro Marchetti’s Legacy of the Divine Tarot. I pulled the first card to represent the subject of the article and turned […]
What Are You Doing for the Pure Pleasure of It?
Over the holidays, I did something that Bob and I used to do before the time pressures of kids and careers. I made a number of Christmas gifts. This year, I reclaimed the craft of knitting. Before I became a professional weaver, I used to do a lot of knitting. I’ve knitted sweaters, throws, scarves, […]