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

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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Who Is Your Mirror?

One of the games that my 10-month old grandson loves to play is when I hold him in front of the mirror, pointing first to me and saying, “Grandma” and then to him, saying, “Andrew.” Then I wave at him. “Hi, Andrew!” Big grin. Looks at me, looks at the

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Get Ready to Give a Push to that New Creative Project

Monday Message from the Muse for the week of 2/4/2013. Theme, Ace of Wands. Are you feeling a restless kind of energy? Perhaps a new creative project is waiting to emerge. Time to bring it into the light and get started on it. It’s one that has a lot of

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Are You Showing Up and Suiting Up?

This week I watched one of those videos that gets passed around on FaceBook because of its emotional impact. It’s about a young man with autism who loved basketball and attended a high school in upstate New York. He joined his high school basketball team, not as a player, but

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Are You Taking Time for Creative Rest & Renewal?

Monday’s Tarot Message from the Muse, 1/28/2013. Theme, 4 of Swords. Sometimes the mind just won’t stop…ideas, worries, plans keep running through our brains. But to receive the message from the Muse, those divine insights and inspirations, we have to make space to receive. Think about how you can take

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How to Move Under, Over or Through Resistance

“Every sun casts a shadow, and genius’s shadow is Resistance. As powerful as is our soul’s call to realization, so potent are the forces of Resistance arrayed against it.” ~ Steven Pressfield I have a confession… Several agents are interested in my current work-in-progress, a somewhat dark fantasy romance. You’d

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