The world is waiting to hear your voice. Roar!

Monday Musings

Here’s your mantra for the week! This week’s card is from my Cards for Creative Courage oracle deck, which you can get it here or here. Until the end of May, you get 25% off this deck when buying through Etsy.

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Let me start by saying I generally don’t believe in coincidences. As such, it didn’t surprise me in the least that, the morning after I decided to write a Monday Musing about visibility and letting your voice be heard:

• I drew the Autumn card from Sheena Cundy’s The Magic of Nature Oracle, which is all about releasing that which no longer serves us, and

• I met an ancestor who was outcast and left to die after confiding her authentic truth to the wrong people when, after drawing the Autumn card, I asked my Akashic Records what was still holding me back that I was now ready to release.

This ancestor’s fear of picking the wrong crowd to speak up and show her true colours to had seeped down the family line for hundreds of years, affecting all branches of the family tree that came after her, including the one I’m part of.

The grip she had on those who came after her, especially the women, was so strong, it took me quite a bit of convincing, and lots of sending soothing Reiki energy her way, before she allowed me to cut these strings and send healing down every branch ever touched by her fears.

Once I was done, her relief was palpable, and so was mine. My fear—of speaking up, of being authentic and real where people can see, of the wrong people hearing or reading my words—didn’t immediately disappear (I did this healing about an hour ago, so let’s give it some time, shall we?), but I completely understand why this showed up as the thing I needed to release right now, today, which is the same reason I wanted to write about visibility and letting your voice be heard to begin with.

This Wednesday, I’m organising my first Uplifting the United States meditation circle. If you’ve missed what that’s all about, please read this post. I feel so called to do this work, and I was dreading no one else feeling the call. As of now, though, my WhatsApp group has twenty members (including me), and forty-one people have signed up via the form.

Obviously, some people might both have joined the WhatsApp group and filled in the form, but it’s still the largest number of people something I’ve organised ever attracted. And it’s freaking me out. Even if not everyone shows up live, they’ll be getting the replay, in which they see me do something so spiritual, there’s really no more hiding who I actually am and what I’m trying to do here on this planet.

(And yes, I am aware that some of my meditations are freely available in places such as Insight Timer and Spotify, but somehow that’s less daunting because I don’t know the exact number of individuals who listen to me there.)

Am I hoping releasing my ancestor’s fears will kick in before Wednesday? Absolutely. Will I do the thing even if I’m still terrified out of my mind? No doubt. I’ll be feeling the fear and doing it anyway, which is what I have been doing for a while now.

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Why? Because it’s safe these days. My nervous system hasn’t quite received the message yet, but it is. All these things our ancestors and our previous incarnations were ousted, hung, burned, drowned, and tortured for? They no longer happen, at least not where I am in the world.

The worst thing that could happen is that people think I’ve completely lost the plot and whisper about me behind my back, but that’s no longer a death sentence. And while my ex might have contemplated having me admitted when we were still together (which, by the way, was at the very beginning of my spiritual journey, when all I had was a tarot deck and Reiki level 1), I’m pretty sure any therapist will realise immediately I’m not in danger of harming anyone and I’m actually quite sane, despite some of the stuff coming out of my mouth these days 😉

What part of you and your (creative) message are you hiding from the world? What is it that makes you want to be at least partially invisible? And how do you think that invisibility is serving you and the world?

To help you answer these questions, I want to share a spread that’ll be part of the expanded edition of Tarot for Creatives I’m currently working on. It’s a three-part spread, which means you’ll have to do the first part, write down your results, and then gather all cards and shuffle them again before you do the next one.

It’s not an easy spread to do and I can promise you it’s going to make you highly uncomfortable. But that’s just the thing, isn’t it? There’s no growth in staying comfortable. And we do want to hear your voice. I promise. We’re waiting for you to do the thing. So go do it, make some noise, even if all you can do is a squeak for now. The roar will come, if you let it.

xx Mariëlle

P.S. This spread hasn’t been edited yet, so it might show up in the finished book a little tweaked.

Visibility Schmisibility – A three-part spread

See the image above for the actual spreads, and don’t forget to pay attention! Each spread is slightly different!

Part 1 – Why the invisibility?

1. Where am I keeping myself invisible?

2. Why am I keeping myself invisible?

3. How am I keeping myself invisible?

4. How does keeping myself invisible serve others?

5. How does keeping myself invisible affect me and my creative work?

6. How does keeping myself invisible serve me and my creative work?

Part 2 – Why the visibility?

1. Where do I want to be more visible?

2. Why do I want to be more visible?

3. How will my visibility serve others?

4. How will my visibility serve me?

5. Which aspects of myself and my creative work can I safely share with the world?

6. Which aspects of myself and my creative work can I keep to myself?

Part 3 – Stepping into the light

1. What do I need to release or heal to step into the light with intention?

2. What might trigger a retreat back into the shadows?

3. How can I best anticipate such triggers?

4. When triggered, what do I need to remember about myself and my creative practice?

5. When triggered, what do I need to remember about my visibility?

6. What is the smallest step into the light I can take right now?

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If you missed my previous post, I’m starting a healing circle for the United States on the 28^th of May (that’s this Wednesday!). If you feel called to join me and participate, you can read more about this initiative and why I started it here. Sign-up links can be found all the way at the bottom.

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