Writing or creativity of any kind is a mysterious process, a journey into deep and unchartered waters. What you need is a compass… the Tarot.

Category: Creativity

Look for, Ask for Help with Your Creative Work

MONDAY’S TAROT MESSAGE FROM THE MUSE, 2/22/2016 Theme, 5 of Coins. Coins is the element of Earth in the realm of home, health, wealth–anything physical. Five is a number of change, challenge, and struggle. You can see the woman holding her alms cup out looking for help but not seeing

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How to Thaw the Creative Deep Freeze

It is so bitterly cold that the wine as well as the water freezes in the glasses at the King’s table. ~ Charlotte-Elisabeth, Duchesse D’Orleans (1695) If you live in the northern regions of the US, you’ve watched the effects of extreme cold on lakes and ponds and rivers this

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Finish That Creative Project

MONDAY’S TAROT MESSAGE FROM THE MUSE, 2/15/2016 Theme, 10 of Wands. Wands is the element of Fire in the realm of spirit, creativity, career work. Ten is a number of moving from finishing to beginning again. This week, look for where you need to finish up projects that you’ve carried

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Love Needs More than Scraps

Love cannot survive if you just give it scraps of yourself, scraps of your time, scraps of your thoughts. ~ Mary O’Hara, author ~ Do you remember when you were a child making your own Valentine out of scraps of doilies, construction paper, glitter, and ribbons? Usually, those were for

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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

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Be the Queen of Creative Manifestation

MONDAY’S TAROT MESSAGE FROM THE MUSE, 2/1/2016 Theme, Queen of Coins. Coins is the element of Earth in the realm of home, health, wealth. The Queen is the mistress of the element, at home in nature. She loves life, and therefore, creativity. This week, look for where you are to

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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.

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Brave Up and Take a Creative Leap

MONDAY’S TAROT MESSAGE FROM THE MUSE, 1/18/2016 Theme, The Fool. This Major Arcana is all about taking that leap of faith, of risking it all for something you desire or believe in. This week, look for where you are asked to take a leap creatively, to risk stepping into the

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David Bowie & the Hermit, Following a Vision

I don’t know where I am going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring. ~ David Bowie ~ Some weeks, I have absolutely no idea what to write for my newsletter and blog until I sit down to write. I have to trust the process and my Muse.

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Break the Chains of 2015

O darkest Year! O brightest Year! / O changeful Year of joy and woe, Today we stand beside thy bier, / Still loth to let thee go! ~ Julia C. R. Dorr, poet ~ Happy New Year! A brand new year and all that implies. New beginnings, new opportunities, new

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