If you’re waiting for divine inspiration, you might be waiting forever. Start the work and see what happens.
Jessa Crispin, The Creative Tarot for the Ace of Coins
A Quiet Writing deep-dive Tarot Narrative each Monday to share intuitive guidance, wisdom and insights from aligned books – for the week and anytime…
This week: start work + ignite magic from your unique passions
Theme for the week beginning 21 May
The underlying theme for this week to guide our overall focus is from Lisa McLoughlin’s Life Design Cards deck – #41 Seize the moment to creatively direct raw energy.
After last week’s message of retreating within especially to find approval, we are encouraged this week to get out of the gate. Just look at all that fire and strength in this gorgeous card! And the language: “seize the moment”, “raw energy”. After the regrouping of the oast week, it’s time to create and be outward in our work. The energy to start work we may have been planning or imagining is highlighted now.
Advice from the Life Design Cards Guidebook is:
Express your personality and create outward symbols of your inner state.
Today’s narrative, led by this theme card, encourages us to ignite our passions into action and start work. The moon phase also is in favour of this as we move from a yin to a yang state tomorrow.
Tarot Narrative for the week beginning 21 May
Tarot Narrative:
It’s time to ignite those passions into action. You have been feeling between worlds for a while now but having regrouped, start work. Whatever magic you have been imagining, whatever creativity you have been contemplating, shift into active work with it now. Just start, learning as you go. The pleasure of creating and learning will lead to mastery and expressing your unique passions in the world as only you can.
Cards: King of Wands and Ace of Coins from the Spolia Tarot and #3 Between Worlds from Wisdom of the Oracle. My first draw from the magic Spolia Tarot!
Start now to master passion and creativity
Last week we had the Knight of Wands focusing our attention on pursuing our passions and creative projects. But we were encouraged to hunker down a little and work out our direction and priorities. I know the last week has been a big one for me in working out my priorities. I’ve been concentrating on how to swim in my own lane and not to try to do everything at once. I had to spend some quiet time reflecting to make progress. Now I am clearer and this week is the time to start work.
Do you have ideas you are very passionate about that you have been putting off? Or have you been finding it hard to get to that one thing that is so important? The one that expresses your unique passions exactly? I know I have. It’s not been without good reason and there have been other competing priorities. But sometimes you just need to “seize the moment”, sit at the desk or go to the cafe and start work.
The King of Wands is all about the mastery of our passions and creativity, bringing together our take on our influences. As the Spolia Tarot Guidebook tells us for this King:
He is in command of his passions, but he is not at the mercy of them. He can always step back and determine what might be needed.
This spirit of moving ahead knowing you can make changes later is powerful. It helps us counteract the fear to even start work on what we treasure and value. Sometimes it can seem so precious or special, we never start. We are reminded this week that the ability to start work has a power and strength all of its own.
Seeds of action and first days
The Ace of Coins highlights the power of starting. The Spolia Tarot Guidebook says for this card:
The Ace of Coins is a seed. It is the first day of work on a project.
So this energy is all about seeds and planting energy into what we may have started thinking about a long time ago. Both the Ace and Between Worlds from the Wisdom of the Oracle emphasise that we may not know what the seed is or what it will grow into. It might even be different from what we anticipate. There’s an invitation to be curious and see what comes forth.
Last week we were encouraged to “gather our thoughts, make lists, mind-map, distil, make a plan, unravel, walk or free write can all be valuable ways to use this time of retreat.” I did a lot of that last week. It was very valuable and I learnt two things:
- that I can’t do all that I want to do right away, and
- which one is the most important now.
So I have begun to start work on what is the beginning of an exciting new offering. I made videos, I’ve been creating content and I know where I want to go with it. It’s all about personality so I love the synchronicity of the words from the Life Design Card:
Express your personality and create outward symbols of your inner state.
We are reminded we need to tend the seeds and work of our unique personality. Investing the care and energy, seizing the moment will yield power and strength we can learn from as we go.
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Book notes:
The King of Wands examines everything that sets him aflame and will find its psychological source. This understanding makes his passion sustainable, keeping him from burning out.
Jessa Crispin, The Creative Tarot
Today’s theme is all about how to fearlessly start work but it’s also about sustainable mastery of our passions. We can make many starts, but how do we combine our unique passions into something for the creative long-haul. I am grateful to everything that sets me alight and I love the link with psychological sources that The Creative Tarot mentions for the King of Wands.
The work that I made a big start in today is all about personality and psychological sources. It’s all about our cognitive preferences and what makes some things more natural than others. One of the major learnings for me over time has been about my personality and what makes it tick and honouring that. Valuing my intuition and my work with tarot and oracle cards as tools to tap into my intuition has been a huge part of that. I look forward to sharing my unique passions in these areas with the world.
So today I celebrate Jessa Crispin’s The Creative Tarot which has been something of a companion guide on this journey. I love that my first draw from Jessa’s gorgeous Spolia Tarot deck featured the King of Wands and the Ace of Coins. And reminded me again of the power to start work on our unique passions.
Start work on your unique passions
So where can you start work on your unique passions? Journal or reflect on these questions to ignite the flame of your creativity. Reflect on the Spolia King of Wands image as you do – look at that flame!
- What seeds can you plant now, even if you do not know what they will grow into?
- If you did retreat a little, hermit style, last week, what did you learn from that?
- How do your unique passions come together?
- What is their psychological source or link?
- What is the thread that weaves through your passions?
- How can you start now and how can this passion be sustainable over time?
- How can you move wisely, step by step, not rushing to do all the things at once?
- What might anchor you as you start?
- How can you avoid burning out as you ignite and combine your various passions?
The Between Worlds card suggests “It’s a good time to bet on your skills and talents in new and different arenas.” What might these be?
If we don’t start work, we will never know.
How might you start work? You will know your own ways to do this but here are a few ideas:
- step out of your comfort zone and do the thing that you have been putting off or that scares you
- write the outline of the book, blog post or course you want to offer to the world
- begin the first draft
- get out the paints or pencils and see what emerges
- reach out and make connections where you see some synergy
- make time in your schedule this week for your number one priority
- set a goal to start work and achieve a critical milestone this week
- align action better with your priorities
Thoughts for this week
Making the start work in various ways is highlighted this week. It’s time to plant the seed, seize the day, make hay, write words, bring your passions into being in the world as only you can. The sooner you start work and plant the seed, the sooner those strong roots can grow.
These words are a great accompaniment for the energies of this week:
What you can do, or dream you can, begin it,
Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
Only engage, and then the mind grows heated, —
Begin it, and the work will be completed!”John Anster, 1835, inspired by a passage in Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s “Faust”.
Love to hear your thoughts!
I’d love to how this message of being in action and finding a way to start work on the union of your unique passions resonates with you this week.
All best wishes for a week of igniting magic and connecting the sources of your work.
May you find joy in finding new ways for your talents and passions to connect and find a voice. And let me know what you think of this post and this weekly Tarot Narrative!
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