Green Skies and Purple Cows...
Connect to Your Creative Muse

You were born to create.

Each of you has some gift to express that adds to the whole. And it's for you to find your voice and do what you're here to do.

This creativity I'm talking about goes way beyond whatever you do to make your living. Sure you create in your work to varying degrees. And beyond that is something waiting to be expressed through you.

For a long time I believed that creating web pages, programs, ebooks, even writing this newsletter -- which are all creative acts -- was enough. I'm creative. I write. I even take photographs for my newsletter -- isn't that enough?

I've come to realize it's not. When I was a photographer I worked long hours taking photos for clients, spent many hours in the darkroom, felt exhilarated by what I was doing, even. And part of the reason I got burned out and changed to another career was that I didn't honor my creative muse. I made no space for exploring the art of my life -- the art that rises from my deepest, rawest self. Art that was my personal expression, separate from what I did in my day (and night) job.

May Sarton says: "I have written novels to find out what I thought about something, and poems to find out what I felt about something."

There is a reason both children and creativity come together in the Children & Creativity [Feng Shui] Gua. This area is about birthing the self. It's about play and joy and being an artist -- all those things children naturally are until they're told the sky is not green and the cow is not purple. And then years later, even in a creative business, they search for fulfillment in the midst of busyness, having forgotten where their creativity really lives.

~ Vicky White

Read on to get Vicky's Inner Feng Shui Tips for Connecting with your Inner Muse.

"Invent your world. Surround yourself with people, color, sounds, and work that nourish you."