by Michael Angier
What exactly is inspiration? We often talk about being inspired-inspired to do something, a feeling of inspiration: “I felt inspired.” We speak about inspiring people: “She’s an inspiring speaker.”
The word inspire comes from the word spirit, the Latin spritus, meaning breath, which was derived from the verb sprre ‘breathe’. In the Augustan period, [...]
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning (James 1:17)
The origin of Tarot cards is obscure and mysterious! One version of the “true” history of the tarot connects the cards to Egyptian mysteries, Hermetic philosophy, the Kabbalah, alchemy and just about every other mystical system known to mankind! What we do know for sure is that cards first appeared in Italy and France in the late 14th century and that by the fifteenth century wealthy Italian patrons commissioned beautiful decks to be used in a popular card game. Tarot cards eventually became associated with the esoteric sometime in the 18th century.
In this technology obsessed society we live in, most people have simply forgotten about the existence and importance of a spiritual being inside their physical being.
We talked earlier about the four quadrants, or phases, of a creativity cycle. If you missed that blog posting, you can see it at SelfLoveTips.com. Here’s a little recap:
Every story has a beginning, middle and ending. For the life of any creative process, be it professional or personal, outward or inward, solo or group oriented, [...]
There are quadrants to our cycles of creativity: Conceive (idea), Compose (ingredient), Create (manifestation) and Collect (reward & reflection). Not everyone stays on-board for the entire cycle. It goes like this:
Conceive – Everyone has ideas! So we take one of those ideas that come from somewhere in life, it can be in our career, or [...]
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