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 […]

Ready to Move Forward with that New Creative Project?

Monday’s Tarot Message from the Muse for the week of 9/2/2013 Theme, 8 of Cups. Cups is the suit of water, of heart, feelings, dreams, intuitions, creativity. What creative attachments or projects have you been holding onto? Look deeply because these attachments are not obvious. This week, be aware of attachments to old creative projects […]

Get the Big Picture on Creative Practicalities

Monday Tarot Message from the Muse for the week of 7/8/2013. Theme, King of Coins. Get the big picture this week around your resources, i.e. materials and money, related to your creative work. How is income keeping up with outgo? What’s your plan? And what is the creative project that needs an investment of your […]

Time to be Fiercely Passionate about your Creative Work

Monday Tarot Message from the Muse, 5/13/2013. Theme, Queen of Wands. Don’t you love the look of fierce will on her face? This fierce and passionate desire is your theme for the week. Bring that to your creative work, and to how you nurture and help others with your work. Be proud, be passionate. Focus, […]

Get Ready to Give a Push to that New Creative Project

Monday Message from the Muse for the week of 2/4/2013. Theme, Ace of Wands. Are you feeling a restless kind of energy? Perhaps a new creative project is waiting to emerge. Time to bring it into the light and get started on it. It’s one that has a lot of fire, i.e. energy and passion, […]

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 […]

Time to Take Care of the Finishing Details

Monday’s Tarot Message from the Muse for the week of 12/17/12. Theme for the week, 9 of Wands. We may have fought the good fight with our current creative project…and others are waiting to see it, to receive it. But first, what are the final steps that need to be taken? Not to make it […]

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 […]

Creative Resources and Tools in Place?

Tarot Focus, Knight of Wands.  8/29/12. Do you have the creative resources, equipment and tools you need to go out into the world with your creative work? Do you have the passion and energy you need? What about your confidence and determination? Hard to get out there and be of service and fight for your […]

How Do You Connect with your Muse?

Tarot Focus, Temperance.  8/27/12. How do you connect with your Muse to bring a balance of creative passion and creative dreaming together? How do both passion and dream make your creative work and life stronger?