Creator's Corner: Card Decks and The Mystic or Visionary Persona

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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 & Spirituality Magazine (as the editor) that may be useful to you in a professional or personal capacity. Interest in creativity and spirituality as content, for usage in arts & entertainment, and as 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.

Column Inspiration:  

This Lisa Frank Tarot Deck Will Bring Out Your Fifth-Grade Inner Mystic: In your future, I see lots of . . . rainbow bears holding some sort of concert (huffingtonpost.com)

Credit: Ariel Hart, Illustrator & Social Media Maven

Have a seat. Let's take a close look at the cards. I see two creative ideas in your future for you to manifest using the content in this article for your business, project, service, and/or spiritual wellness.

1) Create a card deck as visual content to inform, educate, inspire, attract, promote, aesthetic (purely as art for arts sake ), or for fun and play to help achieve your goal or purpose. The Lisa Frank Tarot Deck is so eye-catching with it's rainbow color-palette and the use of animals that focus on the child within us. It's also very feminine in tone and energy. Of course, your deck will have it's own special, unique character, attitude, colors and design, responsive to your audience, clients, customers, fans, or personal needs (healing, growth, change).

2) Use the persona of the Mystic or Visionary as copy and/or visual content to inform, educate, inspire, attract, promote, or otherwise engage people in an interactive or passive format. Are you certain about what you can provide or share? Are you confident in your voice as a leader? Do you have the knowledge, talent, skills, heart, or soul to deliver on your promise or vision? What story can you tell about the future behavior, attitudes, feelings, status, environment, concerns, etc. of your audience, clients, customers, fans through the solutions you have to offer through what you create, produce or provide?

MAY YOU DISCOVER MORE CREATIVE ideas and spiritual support now (and in the future) by exploring the Creativity & Spirituality Magazine, and previous 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 love this life.

Valerie

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The Creativity & Spirituality Newsletter (January 31, 2016)

The ‪‎Creativity & Spirituality Newsletter is Out!

TOP STORIES

1. Being Spiritually Creative: Thinking Outside the Box
"Human beings are at their core “sacred artists” not “problem solvers.”  To be a creative artist is to use divergent thinking to find multiple ways to know, love, and serve our God and those he places in our lives.  In many ways the world we live in is that corner of the garden God asks us to cultivate. . . . " (Read More)

2. Carol Burnett Receives SAG Lifetime Achievement Award

3. The Alice in Wonderland Cookbook

4. Film: A Thousand Suns, Unique Worldview Held By People of Gama Highlands

5. What Trees Teach Us About . . . The Secret of Lasting Love

Plus much more content. 



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Guest Bloggers Results & Twitter News Updates

Stefanie Campione

As some of you may recall, I invited people to become guest bloggers for November. This was prompted by how I couldn't stop thinking about the number 12. Why it is so prevalent in our world was insistent in my consciousness: 12 Disciples, 12 Chumpis, 12 Seeds of Faith, 12 Steps, 12 Traditions, 12 Concepts, 12 Ideals, 12 Astrological Sun Signs, Angel Number 12, 12 __________ (fill in the blank).

An invitation to post on the topic was extended to some healers, coaches, wellness practitioners in my circle. I knew they are busy people in their careers, but hoped I would get a response. As it turned out, there were two guest bloggers who replied to my question: "What's Up, Twelve?" and one person who talked about a different topic: Perfectionism. Heartfelt thanks to the guest bloggers for taking time out of their schedules to post here.

Guest Blogger Posts Views (in order of interest per your views)

- What's Up Twelve? Numerology & the Number 12 (3) 
   by Stefanie Campione (261)
- I Am Definitely Not Perfect 
   by Cassie Parks (236)
- What's Up, Twelve?: Twelveness 
   by Eleanora Amendolara (178)

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Cassie Parks

Some Results on Twitter for The Healing Artist Studio Project's Blog Posts

Paper.li News Features (Dec. 16 - Dec. 27)

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Eleanora Amendolara

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Goose Medicine - Creating and Writing with Light

My first experience with Goose medicine was in the early 2000s (I think). Time is so slippery to me. I was living with my youngest sister at the time in Wanaque, NJ. Recently, I had connected to my friends/family in the Lenape Turtle clan in Ringwood, NJ. I'd been feeling the "calling" by my ancestors and didn't understand any of it, but was open to paying attention.

One day, I went to the restaurant located at the little airport in Greenwood Lake, NJ. I sat at the counter and started talking to the man sitting next to me. I find it easy to talk to people: to ask questions and share what's going on in my life. I think I got better at this sort of thing after living in Georgia. As a northerner, I found it strange, at first, how southerners find it so easy to start telling you stories about the most ordinary things and make it so fascinating. I grew to have an ease with these kinds of conversations, and when I moved back up north, brought it with me.

So, what I remember about my conversation is talking about my meeting the Ramapough Indians and visiting the church many of the clan attends, being gifted a turtle shell by the medicine man and becoming friends with him & his family (my second family), and other experiences I'd been having. The man said to me: "I have something for you. I'm going out to my car & will be right back." He returned in a few minutes with a big bag of goose feathers. "These are for you," he said. He smiled, said goodbye, and I never saw him again.

I sat there thinking: "What am I supposed to do with all these feathers!"

Flash forward to today . . . One of the feathers is on my Leader stick/wand. I made quill pens out of a few of them, and I use them to write with regularly. I learned that among other things, goose medicine includes writing and creating with light, and travel to legendary places.