I don’t know where I am going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring.
~ David Bowie ~
Some weeks, I have absolutely no idea what to write for my newsletter and blog until I sit down to write. I have to trust the process and my Muse.
This week was one of those weeks. Suddenly and sadly, there was the news of the death of David Bowie, an iconic musician and actor.
Reading about his life and his work made me think of this tarot card from Robert Place’s deck, The Tarot of the Sevenfold Mystery, 
that showed up several times in the 2016 Creative Energies reading I’ve done for clients—the Unnamed Seeker, the Hermit.
Place’s Hermit is a mystic who follows a vision of the sevenfold mystery, the mystery that leads to enlightenment and illumination, that seven-pointed star that floats before him.
Note that he is alone. Silence and solitude are comfortable companions for the mystic and creative. When you follow your creative vision, you often do so alone, going where others fear to tread, doing what others have not dared to do. And wasn’t that Bowie? Breaking rules, bending our perceptions of how things should be? Expanding our imaginations?
And yet, I imagine that, for both Bowie and the Hermit, there were periods of time, perhaps years, where following the vision, that seven-pointed star, led to places that were scary, lonely and hard. And that often the vision was challenging in its creation.
Nevertheless, Bowie kept pursuing it…right to the end.
As a creative, as you step forward into the tarot year of the Hermit (2+0+1+6= 9), Bowie is a wonderful role model for stepping forth with courage and belief in the creative vision, the creative dream, of being willing to be not just different, but wildly-outside-the-boundaries-of-normal different, and of continuing to pursue one vision after another right up until the end.
That’s how you make a difference in the world with your creativity. You follow your dream, you do your work, and you light the way for others. No matter what.
And in the process…
Your journey is never boring.