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The Magician Writing Prompt: The Creative Life of My Dreams
The creative life of my dreams would mean being creative in multiple ways—art, dance, storytelling, myth, tarot—and letting each inform the other. More than that, each would work together to make a whole, creative life, one in which I respond to any situation with creativity.
Looking through the lens of art, I would keep making art inspired by stories and myth. (Now that I’ve joined the Arcana Conservatory, I've also been thinking about what sort of tarot/oracle deck I might make.) I would share my art in local shows and maybe also sell it online, but I want the joy of making art to stay as the primary focus. I like to have an art project going, something tangible that I’m working on.
As far as dance goes, I would like to keep joining my ecstatic dance community. For some, this type of dance might not get labeled as a creative practice because there’s no audience and no final product, but while I’m dancing I feel very much like I’m in a creative flow state. Another form of dance I’d like to continue is folk dance, particularly dancing for the changing seasons. Sometimes I make a new dance, and sometimes the creative practice comes in just dancing familiar steps.
Making art or dancing is what I first think of when I think of a creative life, but the more I work with creativity, the more I realize I need to keep my concept of creativity very broad. Looking through the lens of storytelling and myth, I would like to keep learning stories and myths, practice telling them, and maybe find a way to share them more often. It's at this level where I begin to see how creativity is more of a life practice than a particular activity. Myth already informs my art, but the more I engage with it, the more it affects my life as a whole--it inspires me and shapes how I move through my day. Tarot is connected to myth for me, in terms of the web of meaning it holds, but I'm still sorting out how it fits in my life.
Finally, I think about living a wholly creative life, which for me brings up ideas of resilience and a balance of inspiration and groundedness. I also think of living creatively in alchemical terms. To me, living alchemically means accepting that life will inevitably give me things I don't want, and it will be up to me to work with modes of transformation to generate the life I want out of what's been given. Art, myth, tarot, and dance are tools that I can use to open myself up to a more creative way of living in general.
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The Magician Writing Prompt: The Creative Life of My Dreams
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