Thanks for joining me again this week, and welcome new subscribers! I announced last week via Instagram that there would be no posts due to a personal accident. All is well and I am on the mend, so I am happy to pick up this week where I left off. This offering is a collective reading that taps into the energy for the given week. If you feel it aligns for you, fantastic, if not, feel free to leave it.
I also create a piece of abstract artwork that enacts as a talisman for the readings’ message. After I publish the reading, this particular talisman will be available in my Etsy shop. I also offer personalized Oracle Art readings that follow a similar format (tarot pull, handwritten message, corresponding prompts and art talisman. Oracle Art is created for you personally after I tap into your energy. You can find the listing for those here.
There’s a choice to be made that will lead you to more control and confidence, all you really need to do is go with the path of least resistance. Trust your gut. When we fight what is in our day to day, we create our own suffering. We can end up wallowing. Ultimately our options…which all lead to forward motion,,,are valid and can lead to excited places. Currently your energy is divided and you’re torturing yourself over it. That will only lead to stagnation. New possibilities await behind each door. New growth begs to be cultivated. Which way is your wild artist heart pulling you?
Honestly, I am a huge supporter of never dialing down your interests to one thing. It’s something my brain has done to me over and over that has been less than helpful when it comes to creative practice.
Here’s the thing though…we have to also be able to choose where our energy is going to go when we have a vision for the future we are trying to hold. It’s a delicate balance. It’s us evaluating what we need in a day, and where we need to go over a longer period of time. It’s building our character, and then showing up as that character day after day.
Visions can be updated. Dreams can be amended. As we grow and change, what we want will grow and change. But truly…if we just show up in the shoes of who we are working to be, it’ll be way more powerful than the half-dance-steps that keep us ultimately staying in the same place.
Where the energy is flowing is going to be the path to follow. This doesn’t mean easy. This doesn’t mean resisting at all. This means truly feeling where your energy is calling you to go.
Prompts
In the first issue of Iridescent Explorations one of the prompts was to design your character that was intending to traverse the map of your wild artist heart. If you’ve completed that prompt, it’ll be helpful to refer to it. If you haven’t, you can find more info here.
Write in your journal about where you are now, and where you are allocating your energy creatively. Then reflect on the character you designed, and try to find the paths that lead from where you are now to there. What are the small steps that can be taken? What isn’t aligning? Is this a call for a total redesign, or simply an amendment? Are your actions aligned with your goals? What about with your values? Really get into it here, and see where the disparities are.
Finding the differences here can help us zero in on not just goals but that purpose our inner voice is whispering about. Not everything needs to be for a purpose (let’s just have fun right?), but being able to tap into that part of ourselves and really hone in on what we want and what makes us feel alive will make a difference in our creativity, our day to day lives, our character design…everything. After all of this, what is your sense of purpose? Where does it fit into everything?
Announcements
The talisman from my previous collective reading is still available here. The art imbues the trust of knowing that magic is happening. Go to this post to learn more about it.
I have two mini zines that will be coming out this week. I will open zine trades again for this, but as always, all items in my shop are available for trade. Paid members to the Substack will continue getting digital PDFs of zines. Digital copies will be available via Etsy, and limited physical copies will be available.
Finally, here’s some more art I made during the past two weeks.
Until next time,
Rikki