Today, I asked: What do I need to know in order to be whole, healthy and happy this coming week?
And I pulled the Ace of Water.
Oh wow. This card speaks to me on so many levels.
My first thought is of the salmon cycle, of descent and return. A new journey begins. Like the moon cycle, this journey will wax and fully ripen, then wane until it is composted and dies, only to renew itself again.
This is a journey of the heart (since it is the suit of water). A journey to seek my own holy grail.
A new journey of the heart that begins this week . . . I can relate this to two new journeys I am beginning, both of which are really new cycles of old journeys. I’ve been around the block many times before, both in regard to my artwork and in regard to the principle of abundance, and am starting a new journey with each this week.
I already have blog posts in mind to go into a bit more depth about these things, but very quickly:
I have my Artist Mojo back! I spent the weekend working on two new images and completed the pencil drawing for each. I cannot tell you how much this thrilled me. I have not done any new artwork at all since last June when I went to a weeklong encaustic class at Sitka on the Oregon coast. And before that, I had not done any artwork since completing a revised 2 of Fire for the Gaian Tarot in February.
Creating artwork, like anything else you want to accomplish, is a matter of flexing one’s muscles and showing up. Practice, practice, practice. And of making time in your schedule. I think — although I am not quite sure yet — that the pieces I started this weekend may be ushering in a “third phase” of my artistic career. The first was my early pen-and-ink pieces and the second, my colored pencil pieces. This third phase is part colored pencil and part gouache, a medium that is totally new to me. I’m very excited about it!
And about Abundance . . . I have been cogitating on my experience this past year of studying business principles and marketing with many different teachers, each of whom has a different emphasis. I applied much of what I learned successfully to my own business. Earlier this year I read a book called The Soul of Money: Reclaiming the Wealth of Our Inner Resources
Yesterday I received an email about a new free teleseminar series called “The Power of Enough: Embodying Exquisite Sufficiency in Your Life and for the World, so you can break free from the hamster wheel of bigger, better, faster,” sponsored by the Global Sufficiency Network. I discovered there is a “sufficiency movement.” Can I say how excited I am about this? I have a feeling I will get a few more pieces to the puzzle, and you can bet I will sharing it here with you.
Have a great week, everyone! Blessed be.
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I’m glad I read this. I guess I never thought about “abundance” as being an extreme. But it makes sense. I don’t like extremes. What goes up must come down. This idea of sufficiency really feels comfortable to me.
Hi Judy,
I don’t think abundance is an extreme. I think that often we don’t recognize that having “enough” IS abundance.
Instead, I think that going after *more* than what we need is the extreme. And we often don’t know how much is enough, because we are constantly bombarded by consumer messages to buy more, have more.
And each person needs to decide for herself or himself what “enough” is, and what true abundance is.
Hi Joanna!
It is great to hear you are making art again!
And thank you for including the link to the “sufficiency movement” calls. I signed up. This is very appealing to me.
Really delighted about the new art Joanna! I’m looking forward to seeing what your next phase of creativity births. And I love your opening thoughts about sufficiency and abundance. Who knew there was a sufficiency movement? Thank goodness there is, though! Thank you for including the link to the calls!
Hey Diane and Tracie! Thanks for the encouragement on making art again.
Will post some sketches soon.
So glad you are both interested in sufficiency. It will be great to have a conversation about this. Blessings!