Time to Be Alert to New Ideas and Inspiration
MONDAY TAROT MESSAGE FROM THE MUSE, 8/11/2025 Theme, Page of Swords. Swords is the element of Air in the realm of mind, thoughts, attitudes, beliefs, and communication. The Page is the youthful messenger, full of enthusiasm and energy. This week, this Page urges you to be alert to new ideas and inspirations, especially the idea […]
New Inspiration Challenges You to Create
MONDAY TAROT MESSAGE FROM THE MUSE, 3/6/2023 Theme, Ace of Wands. Wands is the element of Fire in the realm of spirit, creativity, career, and work. The Ace is like a seed, holding all the potential of the suit. As a theme this week, be aware of the voice of your Muse, offering ideas and […]
Be the Inspired CEO of Your Creativity
MONDAY TAROT MESSAGE FROM THE MUSE, 11/21/22 Theme, King of Wands. Wands is the element of Fire in the realm of spirit, creativity, career, and work. The King is the master of the element. This King is a role model of confidence and power. They urge you to be bold and daring this week, to […]
Share with Enthusiasm the Message of Your Creative Work
MONDAY TAROT MESSAGE FROM THE MUSE, 4/5/2021 Theme, Page of Wands. Wands is the element of Fire in the realm of spirit, creativity, career and work. The Page in the royal court is the messenger and errand runner. This Page is full of enthusiasm and excitement. They want you to share with enthusiasm the message […]
Be the Star and Inspire
MONDAY TAROT MESSAGE FROM THE MUSE, 2/15/2021 Theme, The Star. This Major Arcana card, which follows the shake up and destruction of the Tower, offers hope and inspiration with its illumination. This week, look for moments when you can either be inspired by others’ creativity or you can be the Star and inspire others. When […]
Who’s Your Creative Role Model?
MONDAY TAROT MESSAGE FROM THE MUSE, 10/26/2020 Theme, The Star. This Major Arcana card encourages you to look for a role model this week. Look for one or more creatives who inspire you with the quality of their work, and their ability to create success for themselves–as you define it. They can provide direction and […]
Inspire and Be Inspired Creatively
MONDAY TAROT MESSAGE FROM THE MUSE, 7/6/2020 Theme, The Star. This Major Arcana card is about inspiration and healing and guidance, especially after the shake up and frustrations of the card before it, the Tower. This week, look for opportunities to inspire and be inspired in your field of art or craft. You are as […]
Communicate Confidently about Your Creative Work
MONDAY TAROT MESSAGE FROM THE MUSE, 6/8/2020 Theme, King of Swords Swords is the element of Air in the realm of mind, thoughts, attitudes and communication. The King is the master of the element. This week, be the King of Swords, the master. Communicate confidently with others and yourself about your creative work, i.e. with […]
Enthrone Yourself in Creative Authority
MONDAY TAROT MESSAGE FROM THE MUSE, 3/30/2020 Theme, The Emperor. This Major Arcana card is all about power and authority. This week, look for opportunities to enthrone yourself in creative authority. That is, recognize that you are the authority on your creativity and creative work. Take control and take responsibility for it. The sign of […]
Be the Star–Shine with your Creativity
MONDAY’S TAROT MESSAGE FROM THE MUSE, 2/12/2018 Theme, The Star. This Major Arcana card encourages you to look throughout the week for opportunities to shine with your creativity and creative work. Inspire others with what you do, and look for inspiration from new places, maybe just over your head. Let your light shine. Focus, 7 […]
Find Balance in Your Creative Work
MONDAY’S TAROT MESSAGE FROM THE MUSE, 4/10/2017 Theme, Justice. This Major Arcana card speaks of justice and balance this week, as the theme for you this week for your creative work. Be alert to where you need to bring more balance into your creative work, perhaps between your work and the rest of your life, […]
Move Forward with Creative Confidence
MONDAY’S TAROT MESSAGE FROM THE MUSE, 11/14/2016 Theme, 6 of Wands. Wands is the element of Fire in the realm of spirit, creativity, career, work. This card encourages creative confidence and optimism this week. Build on past successes for future ones. You’ve done it before, you can do it again. Focus, 6 of Swords. Swords […]
Deliver Your Message in 2 Ways
MONDAY’S TAROT MESSAGE FROM THE MUSE, 10/24/2016 Theme, Page of Swords. Swords is the element of Air in the realm of the mind, thoughts, attitudes, beliefs and communication. The Page is the messenger of the court. This week, look for two ways to communicate with your audience or customers about your work. Communicate with energy […]
Use Those Emotions for Your Creative Work
MONDAY’S TAROT MESSAGE FROM THE MUSE, 10/17/2016 Theme, Knight of Cups. Cups is the element of Water in the realm of emotions, dreams, intuition, and creativity. The Knight is the one who trains and has the skills and resources to serve and protect the realm. But even as the knight ventures forth on his/her creative […]
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 […]
Stand in Your Creative Power
MONDAY’S TAROT MESSAGE FROM THE MUSE, 5/16/2016 Theme, Queen of Wands. Wands is the element of Fire in the realm of spirit, creativity, career, work. The Queen is the mistress of the element. She is the one who has the power and the confidence to do what she desires to do. Be that Queen this […]
To Receive Inspiration, Rest and Renew
MONDAY’S TAROT MESSAGE FROM THE MUSE, 1/25/2016 Theme, 4 of Swords. Swords is the element of Air in the realm of mind, thoughts, attitudes, beliefs, communications. Four is a number of stability, no movement. This week, look for opportunities to be still, to rest and renew in silence and solitude. It is there in stillness […]
Inspire and Be Inspired
MONDAY’S TAROT MESSAGE FROM THE MUSE, 11/16/2015 Theme, The Star. This Major Arcana card can represent hope, healing, inspiration, illumination, insight and the promise of a better day. After the events of last week, surely we need this card and its healing energy. So look for opportunities to inspire and be inspired in your creative […]
Dare the Devil?
We all have situations and challenges in our lives we’d just as soon not look at. Often, these situations affect and influence our creativity. This idea of being stymied and challenged while refusing to look at the source of the challenge is represented in the tarot by the Major Arcana card number 15, the Devil. […]
5 Ways to Use Music for your Writing
Where words fail, music speaks. ~ Hans Christian Andersen Our youngest son, Jason, is visiting for several weeks while he and his dad work on restoring a ’69 MGB-GT, a fun project for father and son. When not working on the car, and at home in Los Angeles, Jason is a professional musician, composing his […]
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 […]
Be in Your Studio this Week
MONDAY’S TAROT MESSAGE FROM THE MUSE, 5/18/2015 Theme, 3 of Coins. Coins is the element of Earth in the realm of home, health, wealth, the physical and material. Three is a number of shift and change. See how the craftsman works on carving out details and adding the sparkle to his coin? Look for time […]
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 […]
Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Missing Muse
I’ve been writing articles for my weekly newsletter for a long time, almost 250 articles. So it should come as no surprise that inspiration—and my Muse—occasionally go missing. After I’ve searched in the usual places for her like my dreams and journals, I call in Sherlock Holmes because only that wily, observant detective is able […]
Be the Star. Inspire!
Monday’s Tarot Message from the Muse, 8/18/2014 Theme, The Star. A Major Arcana card, the Star shines, inspires and heals. So this week, look for opportunities to shine, to inspire and yes, heal others with your creative work. Also be alert to sources of inspiration for you. Focus, 6 of Swords. Swords is the element […]
Ready to Answer the Call of Your Creative Vision?
Monday’s Tarot Message from the Muse, 1/20/2014 Theme, Judgement. A Major Arcana card, number 20, this card tells you to stay awake and aware this week to the calling of your creative work or vision. It asks you to pay attention to power and purpose behind the work that you do and to how that […]
Keep Nurturing Those Creative Projects
Monday’s Tarot Message from the Muse, 1/6/2014 Theme, 7 of Coins. Coins is the element of Earth, of the material realm, anything physical. The theme for the first full week of the New Year is to pay attention to the practical, final finishing details of your current projects. Now’s not the time to take your […]
Experience a Creative Homecoming
Monday Tarot Message from the Muse for the week of 8/26/2013. Theme, 10 of Cups. Cups is the suit of the heart and all that resides therein, emotions, dreams, intuitions, creativity. As the dog and cat put aside their fighting to lie peacefully before the roaring fire, this week, experience a sense of peaceful homecoming […]
Celebrate Creative Abundance
Monday Tarot Message from the Muse for the week of August 12, 2013 Theme, 10 of Coins. Abundance. An abundance of creative ideas, of creative resources, of creative opportunities. And through your work, others experience abundance as well…an abundance of beauty in real material form. Think “abundance” this week. Focus, 3 of Cups. And through […]
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 Creative Seed Are You Planting?
Monday’s Tarot Message from the Muse for week of June 24, 2013. Theme, Ace of Coins. Coins is the element of earth and the Ace is all potential, all possibility. With the Summer Solstice just passed, think of this Ace as a seed waiting to be planted this week. What new creative idea needs to […]
A Creative Phase Completed. What’s Next?
Monday’s Tarot Message from the Muse for 4/22/2013. Theme, The World. A phase or part of your creative journey has been completed successfully. Time to look at where you are and what you need to do to move your career or your work up into that next level of development and expression. A new phase, […]
Are Worries or Dreams Your Creative Night Life?
Monday’s Tarot Message from the Muse, 4/15/2013. Theme, 9 of Swords. These Swords (thoughts, attitudes, beliefs, communication) are waking you up at night…are they worries or dreams? For this week, prepare yourself for sleep in a way that supports your creative night life. Cleanse your space and your mind. Do a brain dump of ideas […]
What or Who Lies Hidden Beneath your Bed?
In my dream, I am away from home, sleeping in a strange bed. During the night, I was frightened, like a child, by the sense of something under the bed. In the light of day, I decide to brave up. I get down on the floor, reclining on my right side with my feet towards […]
Are You Doing a Carly Simon?
Anticipation, anticipation/ Is makin’ me late/Is keepin’ me waitin’ ~ Carly Simon Do you remember being a child excitedly counting down the days until Christmas or some other special holiday? Do you remember the fluttery feeling in your tummy the first time you went out on a date with a new person? Or waited to […]
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 Destroying the Creative Impulse in your Business?
Keeping busy” is the remedy for all the ills in America. It’s also the means by which the creative impulse is destroyed. ? Joyce Carol Oates It’s a New Year and like many other creative and spiritual entrepreneurs, I am creating this year’s plan for my business. Having a plan for your creative business, whether […]
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 […]
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 […]
You Are the Creative Channel
Tarot Gift, The Lovers. 8/24/12. Look for those moments today, when you become the clear channel for your Muse, for divine inspiration. By both receiving and then acting on those inspirations, you empower you creative work or business. The more you open to your Muse, the more ideas and insights will flow through.