creative power

Time to rebuild

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So much has been lost this year, so much destroyed by wild fire, high winds, furious storms, a deadly pandemic. Now it is time to rebuild and create new lives from the ashes.

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Will you rebuild on the same models, in the same places with the same materials, the same ideas? Will you stay with what worked in the past?

Take into account all that has changed as you plan to create and rebuild. Sands shift, weather and climate change, fires and winds roar through, people die, babies are born. Rebuild and recreate your new reality that is now.

You are called to embrace the present moment and the coming moment and the next and the next. You are called to be flexible and resilient. You are called to stay relevant to your own life,

You are called to take the time to mourn what has been and let it go, to face the present and future with eyes open. Can you do this with resolve? Can you do this without preconceived notions of what should be?

Where there is destruction and damage in your life can you rebuild, renew, and restore to a newer and better present? When your creations no longer serve you can you let them go with grace, move on, clear out, rebuild life from the ground up, one brick, one stone at a time?

What feels like destruction? Leaving a longtime relationship, moving to a new town, losing a loved one or a job, losing your home, injury, disease, accident …

These destructive events are “back to square one times” in the the constantly unfolding creative process called life. They can create new realities that may usher in fresh new thoughts, feelings, habits, ways of being and relating.

If you are brittle and unyielding, the storms of life may break you. you may find the damage difficult to repair. You may get stuck without a framework for creating a new life from the wreckage of the old.

Grandmother Cottonwood

When you are flexible like the willow tree and bend with life’s high winds, you will build strength needed to weather the inevitable destructive events, earthquakes, volcanoes of life. This flexibility will help you create and invent new ways of living in your present moments.

It is time to create new life affirming ways of being, living, thinking, and relating in the world that is now.

Up your game!

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There is no need to reinvent your particular wheel. Build on what you know, your successes, your creative spirit, your inventiveness. Own your skills, your talents, your gifts.

As a young person you aspired to develop and learn and hone your talents. You did so with focus practice, flow, after much study and work .

This is the foundation your build upon now as you go to the next level of creativity, wisdom, and action. If you are still young, you are building your foundation, brick by brick with your focus, your curiosity, your sense of discovery, your passion, your interests.

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Because of conditions on this Earth right now, the next phase of your life requires you to up your game, be fully present, build on everything you know.

You are asked to work in partnership with source, to open up never before thought of ideas, insights, inspirations, innovations to solve the challenges of your place and time in your particular area of knowledge and interest.

When you work in partnership with spirit, your human talents intelligence and intuition combined with the vast wisdom of Source create an amazing synergy – a better safer healthier more peaceful planet for all beings.

It is time to up your game, to gather your courage, to step into the light.

Your Creative Space

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Are you a creator?

Perhaps you have a beautiful sunny room stocked with the materials and equipment of your creative passion, maybe an art studio with an easel, palette, paints, brushes, canvases, a printing press, inks, good paper, sketch pads, pencils pens and stacks of your visual doodlings, project ideas and plans, trays and drawers of works in progress, framed works lining the walls…

You might have a garden shed stacked with many sizes and shapes of pots and special soil amendments waiting for spring, garden plans you’ve drawn out, drying herbs, catalogs with glossy photos of the plants you want to grow, a place for seeds, gardening books, small and large tools to help you plant, cultivate, harvest, and create your piece of heaven on Earth.

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Or, perhaps your creativity is less visible to the naked eye. Remember this, even if you feel you have no creative bone in your body, as a human being you are a creator by definition.

You create your life from the inside out, just as a spider spins her web from the depths of her body to create her masterwork, your thoughts, feelings, and beliefs emanate from you with an energetic reality, creating the conditions, climate and expectations, the focus and foundation for your experience.

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Even if you are not an artist, a gardener, a musician, a woodworker a designer with a fancy studio, you have your own creative space in your mind and heart that is yours and yours alone.

Use the tools you’ve been given – thoughts, feelings, emotions, beliefs, the ability to focus, to set intentions, and your ability to visualize and plan for the future to create and shape the life you desire.

You first imagine the life you intend within the creative space of your inner being. Line up your thinking, feeling, beliefs, your speech, your expressions, your actions with the life you intend to create.

With patience mindfulness and persistence you can create a beautiful life for yourself. Masterworks take time, my dears.

What unique gifts do you bring?

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What is your life’s work? You soul’s purpose? What is your unique gift to life on this planet?

Begin this new year thinking, discerning, and discovering the reason you came here in a body. Recommit yourself to this passionate purpose.

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You must look below the surface of your life for the answer. Making a lot of money is a surface effect of your purpose. Prestige and fame are surface effects…

Dig deeper to your core spirit knowing, the reason that gives your days meaning, that makes your heart sing, that inspires you above all else. Ask your spirit helpers, guides, angels, and ancestors to assist if you don’t know what your purpose is.

Let the answer come to you over time. What fascinates you? What fills you with light and passion? What activities cause you to lose track of time and enter the timeless place of flow and creativity… the deep well that is always filled, no matter how much you withdraw…

When you are tapped into this well of creativity and purpose, you will never run out of ideas, plans, or inspirations. You will be filled by life and often feel wonderful and blissful while you are aligned with your purpose.

Your gifts are needed here and now!

Your uplifting feelings and creations will flow from you as gifts to bless the web of life!


Partnership with Source

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What are you waiting for? When inspiration flows to you and through you, it is your life and Source calling you to action!

Get your body, mind and spirit moving on your soul satisfying inspired projects and ideas. Take and make the time to sustain your focus! If you have to wait, capture the flow with a note, a drawing, a reminder of the idea, then come back when you have uninterrupted quality time for yourself.

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Bird nest in Autumn

You and all living beings are in a partnership with source to bring your inspirations to concrete reality! This is what moves life forward, this is what creates a better world for each living being on the planet!

As humans you can tune your frequency to source and receive inspiration. You have been divinely created to translate what you receive into art, music, cooking, decorating, dance, writing, design, building, creating of every description…

Honor your divine partnership with source and let your inspirations flow! Begin by tuning your frequency to Source, receiving your amazing ideas based on your talents, skills and preferences.  Next map them out into plans, then decide on the action steps to take.  Finally, do the work- take the action that will move your inspired ideas into concrete reality!

Creating in divine partnership with source will satisfy your soul and bless this Earth.

Too many ideas?

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Does your brain fizz with an outpouring of ideas and inspirations? Are there too many to capture and latch onto and sort out, and bring to life?

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You can ask the universe for the clarity, focus, and stamina to manage your many blessings and creative inspirations wisely and well!

Too many creative projects swirling around in your brain at once and you are bursting at the seams, overwhelmed with the cacophony of competing ideas -unable to move forward with any of them.

If you can focus on just one or two and go deep, you can give your project the attention and focus and follow through needed to make it successful and satisfy your soul.

Perhaps you can imagine a storage cabinet of a style and material that pleases you with many drawers shelves and slots. Imagine yourself choosing one idea or plan that lights you up. Then imagine filing the other plans in your cabinet for later, then shutting the doors or drawers so only your chosen plan is visible. Now see yourself giving your full unbroken attention to your chosen project and carrying it through to completion.

Feel the feelings of that!

The river of ideas and inspirations is a form of blessing from the divine, letting you know that you are tuned in to the inexhaustible flow of creative power that moves life forward. Your challenge is to choose one or two projects at a time that light you up with inspiration and bring them to completion.

Choose one idea

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Are you filled with inspiration and ideas – bursting at the seams with fervor to create and bring your ideas from the energy of thought to physical reality?

When you find that ideas are flowing like the ocean tide and the spring thaw, you must choose and decide. You must narrow your focus to one or two ideas at a time. Otherwise you will make yourself crazy and accomplish exactly zero!

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When your attention is scattered in all directions you cannot bring your ideas forth with any coherence.

When your attention is focused like a laser beam on one thing at a time; the one thing that rocks your world, satisfies your soul, floats your boat, makes your heart sing, you harness the creative power of the universe in one clear coherent signal. All the guidance you need is provided.

Dear idea person, Keep a list and file of all your amazing inspirations. When you are ready for a new adventure, when you’ve brought your current idea to fruition with focus, discipline and perseverance, you many choose again from your file and begin the process again.

Choose the idea that lifts you up, excites and satisfies you. Choose the idea that has been in your mind and heart for many years, the perennial favorite.

After choosing your amazing idea, give it your full attention. Let your creativity flow! Do what it takes and bless this earth with your passion, purpose and focus.

Have you been called?

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So many are called now on this earth to hold sacred space, to be channels of light, to see, know and feel the immense beauty, goodness and peace that is the ground and foundation of all being.

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Bird nest over sunlit stream

So many are needed now to root deeply to the sacred soil of mother earth, to grow into the light and know their belonging on this planet, and to communicate this to others.

If you have been called, you may get started now!

What you focus on grows, my dears. Have you not realized this yet?

Try this experiment in your daily life. Clear your thoughts and think of those things you love, your joyful memories, your most heartfelt plans. Resolve to be happy! See how you feel, see how more thoughts of joy come in. Keep this up. The more joyful you are, the more light you shine. You are worth it! You do not have to feel bad!

Now try an hour of watching the news where people scream and argue, interrupt, where they are rude and unpleasant to each other… Try this, but not for too long, for it breeds fear, worry, doubt and anxiety.

After this pay attention. Do your thoughts spiral downward and attract more negativity? Is this the legacy you wish to leave the web of all creation? For your thoughts and feelings become your creation.

Have you been called to be the light for yourself and others? Focus on that, move toward that, and your clarity will reweave and repair the web of creation. You will help rebuild the dark and weakened fibers of fear and doubt.

Do not underestimate your power to create the world you wish to see before you.

You are needed!

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Know your gifts

Dear ones, each of you is endowed with amazing gifts, talents and sensitivities. Perhaps your family did not recognize your uniqueness, suppressed your power or did not understand your sensitivities and your true nature.

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Hawk in bare tree

Your gifts and talents complement the talents and offerings of others. Together a world is created in which all can thrive! Not everyone can be an artist, not everyone can be a teacher, not everyone can be a mechanic… not everyone can be a magnificent cottonwood tree.

We are meant to depend on each other, from the lowliest blades of grass to the majestic oaks, to the creatures of the woods, to you, the two legged ones.

You are meant to be here living fully, plugging into source as your power supply. Your life task is to own and develop and share your unique gifts and to be fully yourself! So much creative power is at your command! Get comfortable with it!

All creatures on this earth belong to this great web of life. Without you and your gifts, the web cannot be as full and complete as it is meant to be. Without you, the web would be like a tapestry missing a primary color, a puzzle missing pieces, a house without a family.

Yes, I have said it before, and I repeat myself: You belong! You matter! You are needed!

You are powerful!

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You might be under the impression that you are small and powerless, insignificant, and forgotten. You are under a mistaken impression!

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You have come here to this place in a physical body. You have chose to be here and live on our magnificent planet at this time. Each and every one of you has a vital role to play in the unfolding of life on this earth.

The thoughts, ideas, feelings and emotions that run through you create and join with the energies of others to create the world as you see it and experience it.  I ask you to use the creative power of your thoughts, your feelings, to send the messages that you want reflected back to you.

Do you send the message that others are not welcome? My dear, you will find yourself unwelcome.  Do you send a message that others do not measure up to your standards? You will find that same thing happens to you. Do you send out and allow your loving moments to shine through? You will feel more love reflected to you.

This is an eternal law. What you send out through your vibrations, thoughts and feelings comes back to you. You are a powerful creator! Use your powers wisely!