Creator's Corner: Sacred Geometry, Visual Storytelling Content: One of Top Four Creative Trends 2016

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The Creator's Corner is dedicated to sharing ideas that come to mind after reading and selecting articles for The Creativity & Storytelling Magazine (as the editor) that may be useful to you in a professional or personal capacity.

Creativity and storytelling as content for usage in arts & entertainment, or as elements of lifestyle choices for businesses, projects and services (groups that have a way of life that may or may not be included in their brand identity), can be relevant to anyone anywhere in the world covering a variety of professions.

1) Article & Source: How To Inject Creativity Into Your Social Media Strategy: Top Four Creative Trends 2016 (theundercoverrecruiter.com)

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2) Article & Source: Are You In A Creative Void? Spiritual Timing Could Be The Cause Of Your Frustration (healing.about.com)

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The ancients believed that astronomical phenomena were connected to terrestrial events. ~ from "Star of Bethlehem", Wikipedia

 
Use sigils as visual content to inform, educate, inspire, attract, promote, aesthetic (purely as art for arts sake ) for business, a project, service, or personal wellness. There are so many sigil forms to discover.  

Sigils are sacred geometry symbol forms that the ancients considered to be the marks of angels, deities, and other powerful entities; they are archetype conduits that merge science, creativity and spirituality. They used specific formulas to create them for specific purposes, and this practice continues today for healing, growth, and change purposes.

Sigils can be created and placed in specific formations on paper, on fabric, in art, in space, in the ground, and placed on the floor for a person to lie within that can serve as a portal, a gateway.

Here's one creative use example: Imagine the possibilities for how these forms can be creatively used as visual content in a video for travel by having a person sit within a formation that transports them to a particular place (in space or time), or in their own mind/consciousness or spirit.  

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OUR ALPHABET has its roots as energetic communication symbols that can be re-purposed today as sigils in support of creative pursuits. Many fine artists and visual communicators already know the significance of historical studies concerning lettering/typography, as well as healers and shaman who use sigils through study of sacred symbols and how the ancients used them. The creative possibilities for using sigils are only limited to one's imagination and creative intention.

 
 STAR SIGILS (My Personal Calculations & Creations)

Imagine when looking up at the stars shining so bright that they always have a counterpart on earth.

Book Project Star Sigil

Imagine that every person has a constellation--a sacred geometry symbol that represents them: that people's lives are reflected in a mini-universe of stars that includes, not only their names, but all the people who are in their circle; the names of the places they have been employed, their projects--their past, present and future--all in a dynamic cosmic blueprint.

Imagine that these star sigils tell unique stories of which the content is star light energy in space.

Name Star Sigil

Imagine the creative solution not being about trying hard, working hard, thinking hard, or struggling but about aligning to or harmonizing with our sacred geometry forms.

Discover more creative ideas and spiritual support now (and in the future) by exploring The Creativity & Spirituality Magazine archives, and previous The Creator's Corner columns: How To Work (And Play) Well With "The Others" To Succeed; Best Visual Content = Storytelling Solutions via A&E Professionals, Lies & Storytelling: Strange Bedfellows in Shades of Gray; Best Storytelling Has Sensory Empathy (or It's Important to Engage the Senses), Get Up To Speed On Quality Do-It-Yourself Storytelling: On a Low Budget, Best Storytelling is Copied, Stolen Content? (or The Lighter Shade of Led Zeppellin), The Joy is in the Story Journey (or Mission Impossible), Best Story Content Grounded In Our Past & Current Life; Conflict Has Creative Value, Learn How To Use It; Card Decks & the Mystic or Visionary Persona, Here Comes Play-Doh, and Sacred Geometry–Visual Storytelling Content: One Of Top Four Creative Trends 2016.

Dare to shine and enjoy living.

Valerie

   

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"Leaning In" (Prompt Flash Fiction Content Written In 15 Minutes)

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Description: A woman takes a journey to a lagoon where she hopes to experience a healing, and experiences an emotional connection once she arrives.

We were at the lagoon: the one that is known for its magical healing properties--the one spelled with a capital L--the one that is Negra because of the dark water that represents the Void where all answers and solutions reside.

I almost didn't make it to the mid-line of the mountain where Laguna Negra makes her home, grounded between two large stone formations looking like the face of the Incan ancestors from whom the legends about her were passed on from generation-to-generation.

Anemia choked my chest, and the breath became strange and stranger to me as we made the climb to reach her sacred space of tears that flowed from the heavens down the mountain into her liquid womb to fill her up: the largest cup for the seeker.

I was so breathless that the best I could do was to lay down my burdened body over a flat rock and lean my face in as close as I could, darkness regarding darkness.

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You can also LISTEN to the reading of the story (1:18 minutes)

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Use short stories and short films to add value to your content. This is a creative option useful to entrepreneurs, solopreneurs, self-publishers, authors, and others in the creative, content and marketing arenas who need fresh stories for projects, products and services (text, audio, video, or consider this innovative interactive format).

A story like Leaning In has application potential for travel, environment, personal growth and wellness (e.g. mental illness support, non-smoking support), a product (something rising out of the darkness of the lagoon), vision (can't see the wonderful world in the water until putting on eyeglasses or in contacts)--so many possibilities.

Existing stories can be purchased or optioned for use through contacting the owners (just like producers, production companies & studios in the entertainment industry), or you can come up with your own stories to add value to your content, then write them yourself or hire a ghostwriter. You might also consider getting the usage rights to an excerpt from a fiction or nonfiction novel or short story that you can adapt for your own creative vision.

Note: Leaning In was written while participating in a writer's group with about 11 participants in Northern, NJ. A number of  writing prompts were provided, "leaning in" was one of them, and we all had fifteen minutes to write a story using that prompt.