The High Priestess as inner critic really meshes with the other two readings you did recently, too. The feeling I keep coming away with, in all of your readings, is that you are living way too much in your head, and it's getting in the way of your creative spirit. Writing has become an overly rational, intellectual, ambitious, goal-oriented task on your to-do list, and your freedom to create from the heart and spirit, from pure enjoyment and pleasure in following the whisper of a Muse and seeing where it will take you, is chained by your internal analysis and criticism. The baby is judged wanting before it has a chance to properly develop and show what it will become.
In your online reading from the William Blake tarot:
Bureaucracy and administration to the exclusion of the creative. The pursuit of tangible rewards at all costs.
While at first I saw this in terms of your law-oriented job vs. your off-hours creative writing, I now think it can be applied more broadly to this issue of letting your Inner Bureaucrat squelch your Inner Playful Creative Child -- if that makes sense. You're seeing writing as something to advance your career as a writer, rather than as something you do for its own sake, for the joy of it, because here you stand and you can do no other, Martin Luther.
Regarding your first reading with the Druidcraft deck, the preponderance of Cups really struck me. For one thing, at the time I was ending my explorations of the Path of Atheism ;-) I began to get tons of cups in my Motherpeace readings. (Yeah, I still did tarot readings, even during my years as an Atheist. Go figure.) The message was clear: I had heavily emphasized the realm of Swords, air, pure intellect, the Rational, at the expense of the realm of Cups, emotions, intuition, creativity, the Nonrational, and it was time to get a little more balanced and start feeding my Muse, which needs to drink lots and lots of Water. ;-)
Anyway, this has gotten awfully long, and I hope it doesn't sound too preachy or pretentious. As you know, it's the view from here. Ponder my musings, and see what works for you. Hoot!
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Musings on the Inner Critic and the Creative Spirit
Date: 2007-06-15 08:26 pm (UTC)In your online reading from the William Blake tarot:
Bureaucracy and administration to the exclusion of the creative. The pursuit of tangible rewards at all costs.
While at first I saw this in terms of your law-oriented job vs. your off-hours creative writing, I now think it can be applied more broadly to this issue of letting your Inner Bureaucrat squelch your Inner Playful Creative Child -- if that makes sense. You're seeing writing as something to advance your career as a writer, rather than as something you do for its own sake, for the joy of it, because here you stand and you can do no other, Martin Luther.
Regarding your first reading with the Druidcraft deck, the preponderance of Cups really struck me. For one thing, at the time I was ending my explorations of the Path of Atheism ;-) I began to get tons of cups in my Motherpeace readings. (Yeah, I still did tarot readings, even during my years as an Atheist. Go figure.) The message was clear: I had heavily emphasized the realm of Swords, air, pure intellect, the Rational, at the expense of the realm of Cups, emotions, intuition, creativity, the Nonrational, and it was time to get a little more balanced and start feeding my Muse, which needs to drink lots and lots of Water. ;-)
Anyway, this has gotten awfully long, and I hope it doesn't sound too preachy or pretentious. As you know, it's the view from here. Ponder my musings, and see what works for you. Hoot!