Tarot reading on creativity

[pegkerr]

Using the William Blake deck, apparently developed for examining creative undertakings. This website says it is the deck of choice for artists, writers, musicians and thinkers. My question, using the Creative Process spread is:

What is blocking my creativity?

Comments

[skylarker.livejournal.com]

What an interesting deck. I hadn't seen this system before.

Your reading is something I can relate to myself very easily. Especially the first card: "Bureaucracy and administration to the exclusion of the creative."

There's a part of my mind that likes to be in charge of things. It is not the part that produces creative work.

This line struck me as very key to the state of mind in which I can function creatively: "Refusing to be drawn into competition, arguments, and power struggles."

[bohemianspirit.livejournal.com]

I am now officially freaking.

Do you have any idea how many uncannily insightful and ACCURATE tarot readings I have encountered in the past week? No, of course you don't; you were having gallstones and surgery. ;-) Seriously, there is something in the air, lately, and this reading of yours is just one more verification of that.

I read the reading on my cell phone en route to the library, and it immediately struck me how spot-on it was for you. Right with the first card, "Bureaucracy and administration to the exclusion of the creative" -- and, well, hey, look at your job. ;-) You need to enrich your creative soil -- and it looks like the major shock of Lightning (Tower?) may be the catalyst to do just that.

Without getting into my usual verbosity, I'll just throw out my summary impression of the reading: You need to stop over-analyzing and critiquing your work while it's in progress and just allow yourself to create, without evaluation until you have a nice plump draft manuscript to sit on for 3 to 6 months and THEN go back and take an editor's eye to and evaluate. Turn off Critic Mind and turn on Creative Playful Whothehellcaresifitsanygoodimhavingfun Mind.

And please: Do you have a copy of Julia Cameron's The Artist's Way? I will be very happy to get you a copy if you don't. Seriously. You need this book. At the risk of sounding pompous and presumptuous, YOU NEED THIS BOOK. And if you have it, dust it off and read it. What else do you have to do right now, anyway??? :-D

[nellorat.livejournal.com]

Your cards seemed pretty appropriate to the topic, so I did a free reading there, and I have to say it was eerily on-target.

I haven't gotten a tarot or tarot-like deck in years, but I'd like to see and study the William Blake deck. I had my spread done in Rider-Waite, tough, since that's what I'm most familiar with.

Thanks for the link.