The Moon – Influence

If This Archetype Chooses You – Time to re-calibrate your influences. What’s forming you? Many influences are subconscious, even unconscious, so Creatives must dig deep to bring them to the surface. Sometimes you can’t “know” an influence, you can only feel it. Something is pressing on you, like gravity, the way the moon’s pressure rolls and presses on our tidal waters.

Your Subconscious Knows – You are a secret to yourself but your subconscious has the answers. Yet she only reveals herself covertly. Time for some dream interpretation. Object dreams are fear dreams, people dreams are love dreams, motion dreams are future dreams. Don’t look for rigid accuracy – we seek connections, not edges, interpretations, not walls and blocks. The purpose of dreaming is to splinter blocks. If you are a writer, automatic writing reveals what you think about. Collect pictures that speak to you and collage them from insight. Try to name the figures. What is their connection to others? To you?

Creatives Are in Tune with the Universe – The opposite of fear, remember, is attraction, the opposite of love is hate and the opposite of yearning for the future is stasis. Each forward pulse contains its opposite. Creatives must learn many languages, of which the most important are non-verbal. The sky, the moon, the stars, the animals, history, the past, the plants, the dead, the future – all are reaching out to you. Be unafraid to listen and interpret.

Creatives Are Aware of the Unseen – We are all under influences of forces we have never even heard of, yet the Creative’s Quest is to own their Self and present it in its most beautiful incarnation, to the world, to history and ultimately, to God. To understand who we are at our core is to perfect our obligation of thriving and giving.

Creative Danger – We seek to heighten, not damage, your self-will. Others in your life – relative, friends, advertisers, politicians – are trying to take control of you. Don’t let them. The way to stop that is to take control of your fears yourself, so that you will never be ruled by fear. Remember, the opposite of fear is attraction. We always seek a way upward. The direction of the spiral must always be UP.
Some influences are demonic and purely destructive. We stand up to them, we name them, we reject them. We learn their weaknesses and their targets. If necessary, we will battle them.

Creative Challenge – Recognize Health, in yourself and others. Promote growth in yourself and others. Take time for retreat, to build yourself and your powers and to recognize and name where you have come from and what you have battled. Treasure your Training Journal, share it, learn to profit from the trainings and maps of others. Build partnerships. Work on your Gratitude Practice – this is a glorious universe the God/Goddess deigns to share with us; from Love alone.

Models & Mentors – “Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars” – J. R. R Tolkien

“Like the Moon, come out from behind the clouds. Shine!”– Buddha

“Everyone is a Moon, and has a dark side he never shows to anybody”- Mark Twain

“The moon gives pure solitude and tranquility”
– Haruki Murakami

#Haiku: The Echo

Sharp night; cold
Moon; shush your chatter.
Naked
Pond consecrates
Abandon.