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

Turning Creative Failure into Future Success

Recently, I had a Tea and Scones party and sale. That is, I intended to have one. I sent out invitations to friends and neighbors in our village environs. With hubby’s help, I cleaned, baked, decorated, and wove scarves. I served three kinds of scones and vanilla and cinnamon sugared

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What is the Calling of your Creative Work?

Monday’s Tarot Message from the Muse for the week of 12/10/2012. Theme for the week, 7 of Wands: This is not a time to hide but a time to stand out…to claim authority and expertise…to risk the heat of the spotlight and prepare to move into the next new environment

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‘Tis the Season for Creative Hibernating

Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal, underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is so strong in me. ~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh There is a wilder solitude in winter/When every sense is pricked alive and keen. ~May Sarton Can you feel it? Even in

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Are You Taking Creative Risks? Start the Journey. Leap.

Monday Tarot Message from the Muse for the week of 12/3/12. Theme for the Week, The Fool. How willing are you to take creative risks? To leap out into that space not knowing where you are going or even where you will end up? Every new creative project takes a

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Are You a Good Parent…for Your Creative Work?

Raising children is like baking bread: it has to be a slow process or you end up with an overdone crust and an underdone interior. ~ Madeline Cox Last week, I spent hours every day on my feet, in a chair, but mostly on the floor trying to come up

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3 Creativity Lessons from the Pilgrims

While the United States’ Thanksgiving didn’t become an official holiday until Lincoln declared it such in 1863, the idea of being grateful and giving thanks as a community goes back to the early settlers of our country and that several days of feasting by the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag in

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Create with Heartfelt Confidence and Care

Monday’s Tarot Message from the Muse for week of 11/19/2012. Theme, Queen of Cups. This Queen is all about helping others feel good, nurturing their dreams, their love of beauty. She’s Venus/Aphrodite rising from the sea. You are the Queen, bearer of creativity and beauty. Through your own creative confidence

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Athena: Reclaiming Her Feminine Aspects for Our Creativity

I begin to sing about Pallas Athena, renowned goddess, with bright eyes, quick mind, and inflexible heart, chaste and mighty virgin…” Homeric Hymn In a coaching session with a client this past week, and then in an email dialogue with a writer, Athena came up as an active image or

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Time to Finish Up Old Projects to Make Room for New Ones

Monday Tarot Message from the Muse for the week of 11/12/2012. Theme for the week, 10 of Wands. Wands is the element of Fire, of spirit, creativity, career, work… Don’t you feel sorry for that poor guy, crawling along on his belly with that load on his back. What about

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