Recognition: Claiming

Musing…

As you listen to what stirs within you regarding creative urges, consider these sensual responses (perhaps  a shiver that may be both thrilling and scary) as clues, leading you to the continuing unfolding of your innate birthright as an expanding, creative being…the seeds of who you are, your destiny, so to speak. Seed catalogues are eagerly read this time of year in an exciting anticipation of manifesting their innate essence.  Consider planting the seeds of who you are in the soil of your creative self.

Kate’s Turn:

I once heard a talk by James Hillman, a psychologist who authored The Soul’s Code, writing of the acorn theory of the soul. He shared examples of how this reveals itself throughout life, one of which was Martin Scorcese's illness as a child that kept him indoors; in entertaining himself, he looked out the window and sketched frame after frame of the street’s happenings – his early frame by frame movies perhaps. Hillman encourages us to claim our uniqueness and manifest this inner calling, that unique something about us that we carry into the world. He suggested we pay attention, listen to patterns, passions that manifest repeatedly, persistently. An acorn carries the seed’s destiny; so too our soul awaits the claiming and nurturing of our essence.

Get Fired Up:

What have you noticed in your life that suggests your “acorn theory”?    

How can you  say “Yes” to this unique essence in an even greater way?  

In your own "seed catalogue" of so many possibilities, what is it that you will claim and cultivate?

Happy Spring!  

Recognition: Listening

ringing in spring

Musing…

From the shshshsh of winter, warmth begins to course through, a whisper of excitement that change is underfoot.  Seasons shift, spring stirs. Without being seen yet.  The scene of unseen.  The before manifest.  Brings me to the creative landscape – your creative landscape, where finding out what you have stirring to be manifest is about listening.

Charise’s turn: 

On the phone with my friend Lisa, just a catch up call, she told me how a cricket got stuck in candle wax at her apartment and how this became a funny story for her family.  She went on to say that after her recent move to Manhattan she bought a cricket cage.  A novelty, completely useless, she said.  “It has no function, but it does fit in our down sized apartment”.  As we laughed, I recognized that the useless thing does have a function, “it has a function for your imagination”.  We then let our minds go to images of collecting cricket cages, stacking them up to the ceiling, putting different things inside each one. Total inane silliness, but the images were taking a life and I told her she was inspiring me to write a poem.  “I'll put your poem inside one of the cages,” she said. “And”, she continued, “Bellevue isn’t far away if my family thinks I’ve gone over the deep end”. “Oh, yes, “I replied, “Bellevue is a very large cricket cage”.  

I did write a poem titled “Cricket Cage” right after we hung up. More function of the imagination.

Get Fired Up:

Tune in to what you are hearing, listen with all your senses, with curiosity and wonder as you engage in the world.

Listening leads to recognition of what stirs your creative impulse.