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

Time to Get Straight on Your Creative Priorities

Monday’s Tarot Message from the Muse for the week of 11/18/2013 Theme, 5 of Wands. 5 in this suit of fire and creativity is a number of change and challenge. Here, it seems, creative roles and projects battle each other for your time and energy. This week, look at establishing

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Surrender, Dorothy!

Whenever I do a tarot reading for a client and the 10 of Swords shows up, everyone cringes. With swords representing the mind and the thoughts, attitudes, beliefs and communications of the mind, this card in a reading can imply ruin, despair, or a mental overwhelm that keeps one pinned

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Pay Attention to Messages from the Unconscious

Monday’s Tarot Message from the Muse for 11/11/2013 Theme, 9 of Swords. The suit of Swords represents the element of air, mind, thoughts, attitudes and beliefs. Here this woman seems to be lying awake at night because of thoughts and messages that hang over her. Perhaps they are worries about

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Exploring Inner Vastness in the Season of Dark

That inner voice has both gentleness and clarity. So to get to authenticity, you really keep going down to the bone, to the honesty, and the inevitability of something. Meredith Monk During a recent Akashic records reading from colleague, Tomar Levine, I was advised to pull back and roll up

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Launching, Crafting, Releasing. It’s All About the 3’s.

Monday’s Tarot Message from the Muse, 11/4/2013 Theme, Justice. See the two women in their dark and light gowns? One carries scrolls, the other holds a sword. The theme for the week is balance, balance between the inner world and the outer one, balance between thought and action especially as

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Can You Happy Talk?

Happy talk, keep talking happy talk, / Talk about things you’d like to do… “South Pacific” According to the IRS, a business is something you engage in with the intent to make a profit. For creatives that means you intend to make a profit from your products or performances or

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Get Up & Get Out There with Your Creative Dreams

Monday’s Tarot Message from the Muse, 10/28/13 Theme, 5 of Cups. Cups is the element of water, heart, feelings, dreams, intuition, creativity. 5 is a number of change, a tipping point. This woman sits with her back against the wall protecting the two creative dreams she still has because the

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What Mask Do You Wear?

Masquerade!/ Run and hide–/but a face will/ still pursue you! from Phantom of the Opera by Andrew Lloyd Webber Masks are not just for Halloween. Over the centuries, they have served a variety of purposes. Entertainment. Since the time of ancient Greece, mask have been used for theater performances (noh

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Bring Balance & Integration to Your Creative Work

Monday’s Tarot Message from the Muse for the week of 10/21/2013 Theme, The Lovers. So romantic, that kiss or almost kiss. Together the male and female figure make a whole heart. A heart that is the vehicle for the movement of idea or inspiration into reality. Creation doesn’t happen without

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Do You Dare to Look into the Shadows?

October 18th, we have a lunar eclipse in the signs of Aries (the Moon) and Libra (the Sun). Aries, expressed positively, is self-sufficient, straight-forward, and adventurous, but expressed negatively is self-centered, thrill-seeking and aggressive. Libra is very sociable, cooperative, and considerate or indecisive, pretentious and co-dependent, going along to get

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