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.
One Christmas, when I was a young girl, my mother’s older sister gave us a collection of fairytales in a large-format book with beautiful German watercolor illustrations. The book had tales from different cultures, more than the popular Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, and Beauty and the Beast. Within its pages,
Monday’s Tarot Message from the Muse for the week of 7/22/2013. Theme, 7 of Coins. If you want to reap a harvest for those creative seeds/projects you planted, then you have to follow-through on it, with water and food and attention. Whatever projects have been languishing through lack of attention,
Monday Tarot Message from the Muse for the week of July 15, 2013 Theme, Page of Wands. The Page is the messenger of the court, carrying messages throughout the court with quickness and energy. Wands is the suit of fire, spirit, creativity career, work. This week, communicate about your creativity
I don’t remember the first time I heard the story of Sleeping Beauty. Some fairytales enter your lexicon and mind before you’re aware of it, and feel like they’ve always been there. I do remember, though, when the fairytale pulled me in to let me see its deeper aspects and
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
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
Monday’s Tarot Message from the Muse for the week of 7/1/2013. Theme, King of Wands. Think of the King as the CEO, the one who has ultimate decision-making power, who controls and manages resources, and who must also keep the big picture of his/her realm so that decisions and resources
I know I’ve emphasized many times here how important making time to get away is for your life and especially for your creativity. But sometimes time, money, family and health prevent traveling to idyllic locales such as the one here in the Catskills where I am holding my retreat. So,
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
This past Sunday was Father’s Day here in the US. But I called my dad on Saturday because I didn’t want to deal with busy phone lines or trying to catch Dad when he was home and not at church or on the phone with one of my other three
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