Walking in Beauty by Phoenix LeFae

Author:Phoenix LeFae
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: phoenix lefae;phoenix le fay;phoenix le fae;walking in beauty;pagan;paganism;pagan book;pagan books;witchcraft;witchcraft books;pentacle;pentacle as a metaphor;magic in daily life;magic in mundane life
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide, LTD.
Published: 2020-06-25T14:45:36+00:00

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24. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, directed by John Hughes (1986; Los Angeles, CA: Paramount Pictures).

25. don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom (San Rafael: Amber-Allen Publishing, 1997), 26.

Chapter 7

Creativity

A young artist stands in front of a paint-splattered canvas. Her arms and fingers are covered in splotches of color. The wooden tip of her brush is pressed against her lip as her eyes scan the canvas for the next step. She hums softly, unaware, immersed in the process of developing her piece. A small smile creases the corners of her mouth as her hand fervently returns to applying paint on the scene she is building.

His big strong hands press into the dough. He pushes the pad of his hand through the mixture over and over again. The dough is gathered into a ball and flung down on the table as he has done thousands of times before. This bread is for his family. This bread will feed them for many days. It is made with a recipe that he has developed over many trials and errors. He loves this part of the baking process and kneads that love into the dough as he shapes it.

Her trembling hands hold the flute up to her lips. It has been years since she’s played, and she isn’t really sure that she remembers how to anymore. She exhales, focusing her breath across the mouth of the instrument. A shaking, wavering note escapes. She wiggles her fingers across the keys, making a cacophony of noise, and smiles; a whisper of something awakens. A faint thread of memory flutters by and she grasps onto a string of notes. Her fingers follow the old and long-forgotten memory. One simple song is all she remembers, but it is enough to spark her creativity and the music she once loved so much.

Beauty and devotion awaken creativity. When we are able to see beauty, finding it in all the places we look, we will find a strong pull towards devoting ourselves to that beauty. What better way to devote to beauty than to create more beauty? An offering. A song. A day picking up trash. Creativity takes on many shapes and forms, but its source flows from the power of beauty.

However, creativity is not easy. In fact, creativity is immensely challenging. Our culture puts a lot of pressure on creativity. Many of us hold this notion that in order to be creative we have to live up to some external standard. Our creativity must be good enough based on the judgment of sources outside of ourselves. We may feel that our creativity doesn’t count if it doesn’t earn an income, become a side hustle, get exploited on social media, or be recognized by others.

Creativity isn’t something that only the elite or classically trained possess. All humans are creative. The shape, color, sound, and experience of that creativity will be different for each person. Our creative voice might have always been

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