It’s official. Today marks the start of an enhanced creativity season. The reasons are fourfold:
Mars approaches an opposition to the Galactic Center, exact within five days.
Mercury moves toward an opposition with Neptune - which it will do three times in the next three weeks due to retrogradation.
Following the GC opposition, Mars will oppose a series of Binary, X-Ray Eclipsing pulsars, including the fastest spinning pulsar known.
Saturn moves up to conjoin Haumea, the creativity, fertility planet hailing from Hawaii.
Later this week, within a 24-hour window, Mercury in Virgo opposes Neptune in Pisces and Mars stands across the sky from the Galactic Core. The Mars influence puts a positive pressure on playing with and paying attention to the insights, inspirations and progressive notations that freely fly out of the energy of the Galactic Center. In fact, the pressure should feel like a mental buzz that shoots ideas through grey matter at the speed of light. Those who download the bursts are the ones who may install the concept in consciousness and begin developing something massively groovy cool. Yes, others may be slow to rally around the idea initially, but with time they’ll join in and raise banners high supporting the bold determination it takes to advance leading edge ideas whether in innovative technologies, consciousness methods, progressive programs or insightful strategies. I’m just not sure that the debt ceiling talks/conflicts in the U. S. fall under Galactic Center archetypes, but it would nice if some insight could be infused into the debates.
Mercury in Virgo while contrasting its energy with Neptune in Pisces, surfaces ideas relating to the parts-wholes axis, order in the chaos, the impeccable elements of the creative process such as planning, outlining, getting everything in place prior to commencing the creation of a masterpiece. This opposition represents stepping back to reclaim awareness of the big picture while intently focused upon the details. Here, the suggestion that organization does not kill a creative urge makes sense. This could even be the notation that a general clearing of the creative work space might serve an artist well before starting the next project.
The above pattens take us up to next weekend. Take a day off... maybe two, but remember that by midweek next week, you’d do well to be in full swing on all your projects. To enhance the work flow, put your energy in the greater priority projects first. Should a lesser project make sense to take on for five minutes while resting from the focus of the main project in play, you might be able to attend to an annoying scrap of paper or post it note with effortless energy. Mars moves over those supercharged, high energy, “I can wrap around all points of view and get to the bottom of this” pulsars. Locating the common denominator and building win-win scenarios spools up your energy and enables working at a pace that seems to be well above your standard. Not to worry, with Mercury in Virgo - even though it retrogrades during this era - an amazing instinct to sense an error or feel a mistake at the time it occurs permits real time editing and fixing.
In the short term fecund couple weeks to come and while keeping an eye on the massively creative manifestation period of the Saturn-Haumea conjunction in the near future, try the following:
Pay attention to each and every brainstorm wanting to come through. Download it and weave it into your daily thinking and activity cycle.
Organize, clear, clean your work space. Establish clear work priorities and estimate the time each day every priority requires. Every day give every task an ample amount of energy to up the creation ante and push the project down the road a productive piece.
Saturn reaches the same ecliptical tick mark as Haumea on September 21st, not that the exact date matters. The influence exists now and shall continue through October, possibly longer. During this time I’ll no doubt reiterate my axiom that Saturn is the backbone of creativity at least three times.
Haumea, according the Hawaiian lore, birthed the other deity of the island from her body, then healed that part of her body back to perfection. She created the fertile foliage of the land, brought forth people and provided for the physical sustenance needs of those people. She was virtually unlimited in what she could manifest. Saturn joins forces with this potent planet and promotes the idea that if you play by the rules, remaining focused and disciplined and determined, you too, just might be able to summon something spectacular from your skill set tool belt. Saturn seeks to bring about only high quality, substantial, impacting and enduring results.
No doubt I’m mentioned before and will mention again that the process of screenwriting wraps around unforgiving Saturnine rules. Your font choice is limited to one. Your margins must be perfect. Your story must follow specific ramp up steps to dramatic climax rules and finish itself off, leaving no detail left unattended. Sounds like fun, huh? Well, the truth is, scripts that follow those rules get produced and receive acclaim.
Rules apply to other creative processes, too. If someone wants to pick a guitar better than Eric Clapton, that more like will come to pass with dedicated practice, study, mentorship and then diving into a musician’s performance flow, chances are more than an hour of practice might be required in a day... every day.
Should one seek to write a novel with more pages than penned by J. K. Rowling, it’s quite reasonable to assume that a daily writing drill must be installed into the time budget of life.
Here are a few guidelines that might help structure personal creative development for anyone over the next few exceptionally fertile months:
Determine and stick to a plan of applying some energy to creative tasks every day. This could be a little as thinking about it while in the shower, a five minute mental break in which all your attention is on the creative project, or it could be a six-hour stretch of time applied to specific creative work.
Put your energy on the tasks that calls your attention. If you work on more than one project at a time, notice which summons your energy. There you can work with effortless ease. This might mean putting some time in with a project demanding your time even though another project’s ticking deadline serves as a background metronome. Work within the attention of your consciousness.
When seeking critiques, go to experts only. Seek mentorship from those with experience in the field or arena you’re pursuing. Remember you have the right to accept or reject any constructive criticism.
Complete major chunks of work before editing. For instance, if writing a book, complete a chapter before editing. Rereading every page upon hitting the bottom of it will become an arduous, creativity killing effort in no time.
With planets passing through Virgo over the next months, take it easy when applying self criticism. Should something you create become unbearable to review, set it aside for a while. When you come back to it, likely it will not suck as much as you thought it did.
Stay focused and motivated. Perhaps read some biographies of those who mastered the field, creative arena or genre you pursue. Find out what they did. Learn how they rested. Discover their work habits. Adopt the methods and strategies that feel like a natural fit for you.
Remember to keep your body sustained while creating. A sugar crash at an important state of creative development has caused more than one great idea to end up in the bin.
So there you have it... or at least some of it. If you’ve been feeling the stirring to finally get out those charcoals, install the perfect writing software, clean out the work shed and do something, here comes the next wave. It’s a big wave that can be ridden for quite a while. Who knows what inspiring creation lingers on the event horizon of a person’s consciousness? Only one way to find out.
Yes, life is crazy. The world seems amok. The news offers several spoonfuls of bitter negativity every day. Money must be made. Priorities require attention. Leaks must be fixed, cobwebs cleaned and filters vacuumed. And also on the list of priorities that make life flow more smoothly, creativity must be honored.
More on the creative process and Haumea as Saturn nears. Keep the mantra close at hand: Saturn is the backbone of creativity. Mercury, Neptune, Mars and the pulsars promise progress to those who prolifically play in the process in the next two weeks.