5 of Cups, Pulse, Hope and Imagination
The process of writing, any form of creativity, is a power intensifying life. Rita Mae Brown, Starting from Scratch You’ve certainly heard about this past weekend’s mass killing at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida. My Facebook feed was filled with reports, anger, rants and weary pleas for change. Too many events in the recent […]
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: […]
Two Small Ways You Can Better Communicate About Your Creative Work
Monday’s Tarot Message from the Muse for the Week of 2/11/2013. Theme, Page of Swords. This week, keep looking for two ways you can communicate to your community, tribe, audience about your creative work. Maybe the two ways are ones you’ve only dabbled in before but might pay off if you really put some energy […]
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 […]
Is Time Moving You Away from Your Creative Dreams?
Time was a river, not a log to be sawed into lengths. ~ Margaret A. Robinson, author In the past five weeks, Bob and I marked our 39th wedding anniversary, and I marked my 60th birthday. Milestones to be sure. So, obviously, the passage of time has been a dominant theme on my mind lately. […]