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

Are You Shrinking Yourself? Another Lesson from Alice

“Are you content now?” said the Caterpillar. “Well, I should like to be a little larger, sir, if you wouldn’t mind,” said Alice: “three inches is such a wretched height to be.” Remember when, after Alice in Wonderland falls down the rabbit hole she discovers a doorway that opens into

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Celebrate Success and Move Forward on Creative project

Monday’s Tarot Message from the Muse, 12/9/2013 Theme, 8 of Cups. Cups is the suit of water, heart, feelings,dreams, intuitions, creativity. Whatever creative projects you were emotionally invested in, they are no longer doing it for you. Time to let go. Finish or drop. New possibilities await you this week,

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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

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Time to Clear the Clutter from Your Creative Work and Space

Monday’s Tarot Message from the Muse for the week of 12/2/2013 Theme, Death. Death is a process of letting go. So this week, it is time to let go of old, out-dated projects, dusty dreams, papers, files, books, materials that clutter up your work space and your creative energy. In

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Give a Final Push to Get Those Creative Projects Out There

Monday’s Tarot Message from the Muse, 11/25/2013 Theme, 8 of Wands. Wands is the element of fire, spirit, creativity, career, work. 8 is a number that is almost there. Time to give that final push to projects, to prepare for lift-off for that next phase in your creative work. Focus,

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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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