Deck: PIXIE Oracle Deck
What would it feel like to be in love with your creative process?
Really, truly, madly, deeply in love?
In our October series—based on the monthly theme of 5 of Cups—that’s really what we’ve been getting at:
Sitting with our “should” stories—and going deeper into them to witness the wisdom underneath them.
Going beyond binaries to discover that all our “bad habits” as artists are actually what make us fucking great.
Reveling in the abundant wonders of our unique creative gifts.
What would it feel like to go all in on the rhythms of your process?
What would it feel like to treat your process like a treasured lover?
What would if feel like to be endlessly curious about getting to know your process even more intimately?
What would it feel like to get off on how you do things?
This is your sign.
You’re not doing this on anyone else’s terms—just your own. You’re not holding yourself to outside and impossible perfectionist standards.
Just the standards of your sweet heart and the expressions of your most ⚡️erotic creative impulses⚡️
On that note let’s make a love potion, shall we?
Recipe for a Creative Elixir
In this magical working, you will conjure some of that erotic essence to deepen your intimacy and trust in your creative process.
What you will need
*a collection of some of your favorite creations
*a candle
*a notebook and pen/pencil
*rose quartz
*favorite essential oils (suggested: geranium, ylang-ylang, sweet orange, patchouli)
*a mixing bowl
*distilled water (or rainwater!)
*witch hazel
Love Potion Ritual
Lovingly place the collection of treasured creations in front of you. Light the candle. Drop into your body and call upon your spirit collaborators—spirit guides, ancestors, land spirits, the elements, and any other beings, spirits, entities, or deities you work with.
Gaze at your favorite creations. Feel the swell of love and pride.
Note: insecurity or doubt may try to rear their heads here—thank them for trying to protect you but let them know they are not invited into this sacred circle.
Conjure wild admiration for your creative process here: the person who took the time to create these things, who made an idea into a tangible thing, who tried, who failed, who kept trying. The person who showed up consistently to make sure these beautiful things found their way into the world.
In this sacred circle feel only deep appreciation and love for the person who made these things and the process that fueled their creation.
Perhaps in the process of making these things there were hiccups. Perhaps there were setbacks and delays. Perhaps you procrastinated. Perhaps so many things “went wrong” or it “took longer” than you’d hoped. There may be many of these kinds of “Perhaps…”
Every single hurdle, delay, and roadblock was part of the journey toward bringing these beautiful creations into the world.
Your process was helping you the entire time—even with the parts your brain labeled as “less desirable.”
How wonderful.
Your process knew what it was doing all along.
Place the rose quartz in the bowl and pour the water on top of it. Add several drops of each essential oil into the water.
Pick up your paper and writing utensil—and begin to write a love letter to your creative process. Acknowledge its wild intelligence. Let yourself be filled with awe and wonder and delight and pleasure and excitement over how fucking incredible your creative process is. Let these sensations fill your body and spill out onto the page, unfiltered.
Keep writing until you feel complete.
When you are finished, read the love letter out loud to the water.
Water remembers.
It will remember for you—even when you’re not able to.
When you are finished, I invite you to burn the love letter (if it is safe for you to do so.) Watch the passionate fire consume the words, sending them into the ether like a prayer. If it’s not safe, you could bury the letter or store it in a safe place.
Thank your collaborators in the unseen realm and close the ritual space.
Storing and Using Your Potion
Pour the liquid into a spray bottle (you may use plastic or glass but I have a particular liking for brown glass bottles.) Add a teaspoon of witch hazel to the bottle to preserve the integrity of the liquid. Give the bottle a good shake.
Place it near the space you create; whenever you find yourself being bogged down by your rational adult mind or the fears of your pre-programmed brain, lightly mist yourself with your love potion: allow it to energetically connect you to your wild creative heart and your erotic creative fire.
Let it be a reminder that the creative process is fun, joyful, and pleasurable. You can also spritz your creative space prior to each creative session to invoke the energy of love, admiration, trust, and sensuality into your process.
If you run out? Simply repeat.
Exciting Update to Paid Portals & Prisms Subscriptions
There is a new evolution of this project: Portals & Prisms The Zine! These physical issues will be printed twice yearly and are now an exciting perk of a paid subscription
Inside this first issue (intended to guide you seasonally and magically through your creative process) you’ll find: a darkness/void immersion meditation to guide you through the coldest months, a custom creativity spell, tarot for creativity spreads for fall/winter, and a creative astrological message from a very special guest astrologer.
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In future monthly audio transmissions, I will also answer subscriber questions on creativity, magic, tarot, and more! Submit your questions at the link below.
Until next time.
Stay weird,
Lisa