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As creatives, we understand inspiration’s ebb and flow. How it arrives when we least expect it, and, in the meantime, strive to cultivate robust energetic landing places.
Relationships keep our creative practice alive. The plants that we call upon, ancestors in our lineages (in the artistic, chosen and biological senses), the land we reside on and the people who co-create with us are all vital elements of our practice. In this way we are never truly solitary practitioners.
And sometimes, accessing the wide landscape of energetic helpers can feel daunting. We all go through seasons of clarity and fuzziness, of motivation and sluggishness.
It’s not that you are without creative support, but it may be time to journey deeper to arrive at clarity.
Luna is a songwriter and clay worker oscillating between their crafts, while also balancing full-time work. They live in the city and rarely have time or energy for day trips, though they remember a time when they had more capacity to seek out time in nature.
Luna’s songwriting has slowed over the last year as they navigate multiple jobs with tight scheduling. Luna finds clever ways to catch the lyrics that float into their energetic field: creating a catchy jingle that they’ll remember all day, weaving them into conversations with coworkers, writing them at the bottom of their receipts to salvage at the end of the night. These small acts of reclamation and reconnection remind Luna that all hope is not lost, that they can recover their creativity and make space for flexibility.
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Making time to write is a bit easier than their clay working. Luna longs for their 8-hour studio sessions that they used to enjoy before the full-time work began. They have dozens of design drawings for pieces they wanted to create, but the pages have sat in a dusty corner of their room without any follow-through.
Luna approaches Shel after their third Dream Seeding Circle. They know that they have the strength and innovation within them to sustain creative practices, even in the face of capitalism’s demands. Luna doesn’t need Shel to fix anything about their artistic expression. Instead, they’re asking for support in accessing tools for creative upkeep and guidance in designing personalized grounding rituals.
The two dreamers agree to a 3-month exchange with virtual check-in calls and time in Shel’s garden to connect with plant kin and subtle energetics. Over the course of this exchange, Luna will also receive a custom herbal remedy to further ground them into their body and Heart space so Luna’s creative guides can share their wisdom.
Having another Dream Seeder to encourage accountability, offer guidance and insight when needed, and provide a listening ear proves immensely helpful to Luna.
During their monthly garden sessions, Shel encourages Luna to touch the plants and create intuitive altars. The two share stories from childhood, drink fresh tea from the herb garden, and free-write poems devoted to the plants.
Luna finds that they are most connected to Tulsi. When they drink Tulsi, Luna finds that they are able to slow down long enough to see how burnt out they’ve become. They know they will need to continue working full-time, but they feel ready to begin making negotiations with Self to prioritize their abandoned joys: time in nature and clay working.
Slowly, they begin to identify some of the frameworks that keep them focused and inspired.
On-the-clock songwriting continues to feel joyful, and Luna develops a ritual for themselves after coming home from work that helps them release any lingering creative energy so they can get some actual rest! Luna also decides that it’s time to go through their ceramic design notes and organize them, keeping what still feels exciting and ritually discarding what brings them stress or excessive doubt. They decide that when they’ve saved up enough they can renew their studio membership in the Spring. In the meantime, they connect with clay by experimenting with face mask recipes (powdered Tulsi and kaolin are their favorite).
Every day, they take drops from their custom Tulsi oxymel, feeling the spicy warmth travel down their throat and land in their tummy. Luna still has many dreams they want to bring Earthside and now with newfound clarity and focus, they are able to discern what is nourishing to their practice, what requires them to step out of their comfort zone, and what they are ready to part ways with.
Connect with in-person plant play and monthly virtual check-ins (3 months)