Wisdom Cards – Page 7

We’re headed on a bit of a journey. Consciousness. Creativity. Archetypes. And TV! (Along with the possibility of a tiny bit of, shall we say, news.) I’m hoping you’ll hang in!

First, the predictable stuff. I’ve been writing and painting and – you know – keeping our corner of the world more or less working.

Really good wild rice soup helps!

My warrior archetype painting will be – by the time you read this – complete. (Unless, of course, they change their minds while I sleep!) For now, there are a couple of wee fixes remaining, some fine star spatters after the currently wet stuff gets dry, and some writing.

I had a fabulous meeting on Thursday with a wise friend helping to plan out next right things once the Wisdom Cards are printed. Just between us, I’m really excited!

Friday involved plotting next steps for the garden. ReWilding, to borrow a term from Red Madonna land! I’m getting lessons in planting Milkweed!

Then there’s the cardinal bird that appeared – of her own volition – in my painting! I was making some changes in the top part of Aslan’s mane and took a bit of a break for tea and feet up time. When I looked again, there she was! If you squint at the painting up top, you can probably see her. I was thrilled!

She’s become more obvious since then. More assertively present. And it feels to me like it would be a very good time for Gramma Elsie’s story – the one about cardinals being ancestors checking on us – to be true!

I come from a long line of ancestors whose lives were about protecting others – especially children – from dangers. About telling hopeful and empowering stories to Littles as they headed off to dream land. And, yes… this painting is intended to carry that energy forward.

In the midst of all the “real world” stuff, I also spent some time hanging in the land of Madam Secretary. (Surprise!) Like Season 2, episode 7. You Say You Want a Revolution. There’s an inside joke in there. Speechwriter, Matt, hands notes to the Secretary and says, “It’s my third draft!” That’s their code for best work, done.

That’s a whole lot like what I’m feeling about this painting, and the Wisdom Cards, and the writing that goes with all of it. (Okay… it may be my 44th draft, but you hear me!) This is a moment for some good stuff. Some stuff with the likelihood of actually mattering if I hang in there, keep channeling my Warrior Archetype, and get it out in the world.

That feels like the hard part! More now, than ever… And, just so you know, I’m all in! So, I’m going to practice, just a bit in this moment, and I could use a witness! Still a #wip, and – if I push publish on these words – I can go do the next right things and dispatch them to the card-layout-tech-wizard!

What are you in the midst of that feels like that? What wants ReWilding in your world?? What is calling you??? I’d love to know! And I’d be delighted to help with next right steps!

Here’s a great NEXT RIGHT THING! Tell me what’s calling you. We’ll pull a card and see what next steps might look like. 45 min. My gift. Bring a cuppa & some Red Thread, if it’s handy. Just click here and the calendar elves will hook you up!

What if – maybe, just maybe – WE are Creators’ third draft???

ps… this. From my Pastor-Poet Brother, Todd Jenkins. Still on the road!

It’s been quite the week! Paint. Card-making. Swearing at tech gremlins. Pain. Teaching. Worrying… even though I try not to believe in that!

Also, a fabulous, much needed visit with my oldest – well, longest – friend. You know how, sometimes, when you hang out with someone who knows you really well, and you do the deep talk thing, you both wind up learning things about yourselves?

Well, I think we both did. I did, for sure! And a few of those things reminded me of you!

Archetypes were on the list! How they work. Why they matter. The total wonder that they can be turned into #Filter Wisdom Cards and that, sometimes, they even need a tiny bit of editing. Or updating. The kind we Ericksonian hypnosis types refer to as one step re-frame with a big gold bow!

I made four of those on Friday! And, yes… you’re going to have to wait just a bit to get a peek. Soon!

For this moment, the card that came up in my #Filters group this week… I run them through my hands, in Zoom land, and a brave volunteer calls out Stop! when they feel inspired. Then we all go exploring. Meet Luther…

Here’s part of what his card, in the Symbols & Language category, says…

His question for YOU is this: What might you need to view differently along your path? Opportunities instead of obstacles? New ways of bringing hope? The magic medicine of wading in salt water? …Oh! He was, indeed, named for Dr. King. He was total good trouble… and still is!

All of this noticing and wondering and learning was, of course, going on in a particular context. The external kind, like – you know – the news. And the weather. And…

The internal kind, like how your blood sugar is doing, or what you dreamed, or the questions rolling around in your consciousness.

And, the communal kind. This one has been big for me. The Memorial Service for Dr. Walter Brueggemann happened on Saturday afternoon. You know – online. Kind of surprisingly, especially to me, I decided not to attend. You see, many of the things I learned hanging out with Walter have been filling my awareness lately. From paintings to dreams to Wisdom Cards, his rumbly voice has been present. A huge gift!

So I did a bit of last-minute re-writing on the cards and, then, I painted. There’s nothing much to see yet. Just deep intentions and underlayers and a couple of eyes that nobody seems to see, yet, but me. I know where it’s headed, though. A warrior archetype card. (The last one that needs painting!) Inspired by my human experience of the Poet archetype.

Rest in Good Trouble, Walter. And, wave at my new winged-eye archetype buddy/keeper of wisdom… May we all go forward and, “just tell the story!”

Hallelujah. Amen.

ps… the coppery part of the painting is, indeed, my new scrunched plastic bag technique!

pps… love to have you do the annoying pop-up thingy and get on the list!

Category: Wisdom Cards

“It’s my third draft!”

Keeping my teachers busy!