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How do you Fill Your Creative Cauldron?

Mary Lou Cook: "Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.”

As absolutely fabulous women you are a role model of creativity and passion for all women. You each embody in your own way and image of the Divine Mother. As role models and leaders we have a deep well of creativity. Like roses, our creativity grows more prolific as we tend the source. While we take care of our families, we are also entrepreneurs, artists, musicians, and poets. We know creativity from the roots of our hair to the tips of our toes. Even as wise as we are, we sometimes may take for granted that there will always be clear water in this well. When the well becomes muddy or runs dry, we can become ill, or simply just wonder what happened? What do you do to fill your Creative Cauldron, or prime the pump for the well? Many of you may already know about the "Women of Wisdom" conference. It's a soulful space to reconnect to our source.

Throughout the years, "Women of Wisdom" – the organization and the conference – has been a creative cauldron. New people come to sit around the fire and stir the pot, new ingredients and spices are thrown into the brew, the hunger changes and the nourishment evolves (along with the indigestion!). The organization, the conference, the participants, and the presenters all influence each other to create a new experience year after year. It has to be this way – how can a celebration of the divine feminine remain static?

WOW has encouraged a deep level of creativity for it allows organizers and the audience to be truly present as who we are, contributing to the whole. In this atmosphere of acceptance, freedom, and creativity, we can be ourselves. And only as ourselves, can we truly offer our love and our power to Her who, in turn, helps us contribute more fully to the world. 

 Mary Giuffre: "If we follow the path already made, the outcome is predetermined. Instead create a new path to your own reality."

This week’s exercise: What is one specific action you are doing to clear your well of creativity? Do you go on retreat? Take solitary walks in nature? Follow Julia Cameron’s directions by doing morning pages? Inspiration is only part of our creativity. There is always the hauling of the water, and the chopping of the wood. What are you doing today to prime your source? Write it down so you remember what to do the next time the well becomes murky, or dry.

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Copyright Mari Selby, January 9, 2011

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."  ~ Eleanor Roosevelt