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

STOP Microwaving Your Creativity

I get it. I really do. Time is short and passes quickly. You are busy with a hundred and one things. And in today’s world of technology where information sharing and business occurs at the speed of nanoseconds, the oft-times snail-like process of creativity can become extremely frustrating. So we

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Stop Waiting for Creative Help. Ask For It.

Monday’s Tarot Message from the Muse for the Week of March 11, 2013. Theme, 5 of Coins. Poor woman needs help…and all she has to do is get up, turn around and look at what is available to her behind her. Stop waiting for help for your creative work. Get

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Creativity is Not a Solitary Act

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main…” ~John Donne Did you watch the Oscars? Or the Grammys? If you did, you know that winners of those statuettes often get up on stage and thank everyone from

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Keep an Emotional Balance in Your Creative Work

Monday Tarot Message from the Muse for the week of 3/4/2013. Theme, King of Cups. Cups are the element of water, of the heart, of dreams and intuition, of creativity. Creative desires come from the heart and can sometimes overwhelm us, but if you remember to take a few steps

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Attack of the Purple-Pink Plush Dinosaur

In the dream, I am in my house (not mine in waking reality), a Cape Cod-style in a suburban neighborhood. Dinosaurs threaten the area and homeowners have secured their homes. I am sleeping until suddenly, I wake to the sound of something pounding on the front door. Throwing on a

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Be Fierce with Your Creative Confidence and Passion

Monday’s Tarot Message from the Muse for 2/25/2013. Theme, Queen of Wands. Even though the Sun just moved into the sign of watery Pisces, this not the week to go with the flow and be directed by others needs and wants. Instead, this week, be the fiercely confident and creatively

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Persephone’s Quandary—Is it Yours?

You know the story of Persephone, daughter of Demeter, who is kidnapped by Hades, god of the Underworld. Mad with grief, Demeter, goddess of harvest and crops, causes a famine until her daughter is returned to her. However, since Persephone has eaten a pomegranate seed while in the Underworld she

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New Perspective Can Help Strengthen Your Creative Work

Monday’s Tarot Message from the Muse, 2/18/2013. Theme, Temperance. This week be aware of the desire to look at your creative work from a new vantage point. Maybe you need some time away, or maybe you can mentally and emotionally step up and back. See from that new perspective, new

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Isn’t it Time for You to Come Out of Your Cave?

I’m not that tough; I’m not that smart. I need life telling me who I am, showing me my mind constantly. I wouldn’t see it in a cave. Richard Gere Caves are a wonderful thing… If you are a bear…If it is winter… A cave provides solitude and silence, shelter

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