Get the Big Picture on Your Creative Work. Be the Master of Manifesting.
MONDAY TAROT MESSAGE FROM THE MUSE, 8/10/2020 Theme, King of Coins. Coins is the element of Earth in the realm of home, health, and wealth, anything physical. The King is the master of the element, the CEO of making things real. This week, be the CEO of making things real with your creativity. Manage budgets, […]
Keep a Balance between Emotion and Will
MONDAY TAROT MESSAGE FROM THE MUSE, 7/22/2019 Theme, Temperance. This Major Arcana card with the elevated, winged woman and her hands full of fire and water, advises creatives to keep a balance between emotion and will in the creative work. Creativity is not all about your feelings, but it’s also not all about the momentary […]
Prepare Your Creative Soil
The process of weeding can be as beneficial to the gardener as to the garden. It gives scope to the aggressive instinct—what a satisfaction to pull an enemy by the roots and throw him into a heap! And yet, paradoxically, weeding is the most peaceful of any outdoor task. Bertha Damon, A Sense of Humus […]
Brigid and the Steam of Creativity
One of my favorite goddesses is Brigid, from Celtic mythology. She is a three-fold goddess (meaning she embodies Maiden, Mother, Crone) and is often represented as Goddess of the Forge (fire) and Goddess of the Well (water). As Goddess of the Well, she is healer and poet and the part of the creative process that […]
Close the Window on Doubt
MONDAY’S TAROT MESSAGE FROM THE MUSE, AUGUST 3, 2015 Theme, 7 of Swords. Swords is the element of Air in the realm of thoughts, attitudes, beliefs and communication, as well as writing and writers. In this card, something or someone is sneaking in to steal away confidence and belief in yourself and your creative work. […]
Integrate & Harmonize Creatively
MONDAY’S TAROT MESSAGE FROM THE MUSE, JUNE 15, 2015 Theme, The Lovers. This Major Arcana card as it relates to creativity is often about bringing the intuitive and active, inner and outer aspects of the creative act together. It is in listening to your intuition and allowing that creative spark to move in and through […]
Ready to Turn Up the Heat?
Fire is a good companion for the mind. ~ May Sarton ~ Fire. Not the element you’d normally associate with spring. And yet, if it wasn’t for the heat, the fire of that ever-nearing sun warming the Northern Hemisphere, snow and ice wouldn’t melt and fill the rivers, and lakes. And the moisture in the […]
Is Water in Your Writing?
We all end in the ocean We all start in the streams We’re all carried along By the river of dreams In the middle of the night ~Billy Joel, River of Dreams~ In classical Greek thought and other ancient world philosophies, it was believed that the simplest parts that made up the world were the […]
Tend to Your Creative Harvest
Monday’s Tarot Message from the Muse, 12/8/2014 Theme, 7 of Coins. Coins is the element of Earth in the realm of the physical such as home, health, wealth. Seven is that number of introspection, contemplation, focus. Here, the focus is on the harvest. What is ready to gather, what still needs tending. This week, pay […]
Own Your Creative Power
Monday’s Tarot Message from the Muse, June 23, 2014 Theme, King of Wands. Wands is the element of Fire, representing Spirit, creativity, career, work. The King is the figure who has the power to accomplish what he intends. This King serves the Fire of Creativity, and keeps that passion and creativity flaming high. This is […]