I participated in my an group oracle project this last month. Amethyst Mahoney, of Heart and Soul, put out 40 card names and asked a group of women to pick a card. The name of the project is the Divine Love Oracle. The idea of designing a card for a unique oracle deck intrigued me. Scanning through the names of each card, one stood out among the others: Create.
Those who know me, know that my whole word is about creation. I write stories and non-fiction pieces. I craft works of art using pens and paper and sometimes my computer. I also weave the world I want using magic and tarot. Which is why the Create card was a no brainer for me.
Once all the cards were selected, Amethyst gave us a few more rules, the big limiting factor rule for me, was that the cards could not contain words. Wow. Okay, I like a challenge and I think my idea of the Create card does justice to the whole process of creation.
The card starts blank. Just as every creative project starts from nothing. I then had my husband take various shots of my hand, holding a brush. Once I had the right pose, I imported the image and cleaned it up in my photo editing program. My idea was to use the card to show the process of a creative project, in this case a painting, as it unfolds from nothing to something. The black frame sets the structure for the painting to come alive. It displays a border, a frame for what is to come. In the initial stage of creation, a single stroke (or keypress), becomes the first dip into creating something from nothing. I chose fire colors—red, yellow, orange— to splash onto the canvas where the artist’s creation takes place. Fire colors, to me and my magical practice, suggest the initial spark of creation. I left this painting “unfinished” so that those who view the card, could interpret with their imagination and creativity where the artist would go next.
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