Seven of Cups: Unknown Pleasures
Mutable water: illusions, hopes + fears, unknown pleasures
A snake isn't worse than a rose if you are looking for a way to kill a character. A jewel isn't better than a tornado if you want to move the action of your story somewhere else.
Voice and Style
Mutable air: research, reflection, voice
You unearth your work like an archaeologist discovers treasures, or a farmer pulls up crops.
Electricity in the Writing Workshop
Mutable fire: mass psychic currents, desires, teaching and learning
In the writing workshop, there is more free association than we admit, and there is more impossibility than the form officially allows.
The Cocoon of Writing
Fixed earth: salt crystals, haunted forests, deep rest
The cocoon is not about shame and fear and perfection but it does allow those elements to be held; it contains multitudes. It allows those things to decay and to be renewed. It is miraculous.
Frequencies
Cardinal air: signals in the dark, secrets coming to light
A creative block is so often about being in the liminal space where something new is waiting to emerge.
Television
Cardinal air: prayer, holy visions, visitations
In Catholicism there is endless creativity in the naming of patron saints. Some of the more obscure ones include St. Julian the patron saint of murderers, and St. Lidwina, the patron saint of ice skaters.
