THe Creative Self

That childlike confidence, stepping out without a care in the world.   The Fool, the archetype thats take the the hero’s journey through the numbered cards of the Major Arcana.

For me these represent the journey we all embark on, its called “Life”.    Guess this is the big picture, but within this inevitable cycle of birth, death and rebirth, that keeps turning, there are many smaller “wheels”  many deaths.  We need these deaths to give space , we have to let go of things that no longer serve us, all the areas of our life where “we do” just out of habit, or some preconcieved thought processes that we may have adopted from out parents limiting belief systems.   Their comes a time when you wake up, enough is enough !  suddenly there are new possibilities, new challenges on the horizon that are beckoning……….

Quietly sitting in the solitude of my studio I felt drawn to create a lino cut,  THE FOOL instantly captured my thoughts and it wasn’t until I was looking at it the finished result this morning, I realised the signifigance of the subject I had chosen.    I have a new path that is about to unfold next month, something that has been lurking in my mind for so long, years in fact.   In September I am to embark on a 3 year training programme to become a  Transpersonal Art Therapist.  I first heard about this course some years back when I attended sculpture classes at a studio based on the teachings of Rudolph Steiner.  I new then that one day when I wasn’t so busy I would apply.  It took a literal death of someone who had a big influence in my life, this made me sit up  and think, follow your dreams……… and I have

I am so excited, I feel like this child like person embarking on a magical journey, not knowing what to expect, taking that leap of faith.  I know too it will have its challenges, just as in life but now I know how to be in the flow of life, not resist, to accept “what is” and left life unfold in front of me.