Creativity rears its ugly head

Work has clarified itself, at least in terms of immediate tasks. I’m guessing this is why my brain has decided to be creative this morning. Not needing brain power in other places, it’s free to do other things.

In this case, I’ve pulled out notes for a story that has never quite let go of me. Now that I think of it, the notes have been around for close to five years–way to long to be dormant. I’m surprised it’s kept with me so long. I don’t know how much material I’ll keep. My guess is that I will triage a lot of it. I may not even look at much of it.

I was inspired last night by watching Penny Dreadful and seeing Ives tarot cards, wishing I could have that set. And that pinged a recent conversation between me and a coworker in which she said that the tarot card that I would like the best would probably be the ones I made for myself. I don’t have much of an ability for that, but I’m willing to play around.

Those connections sent me thinking about what I would put on the cards, and what even went on the cards. In this case the Internet to the rescue. I found out that the major arcana are life events and the minor cards are very similar to a deck of cards but with different symbols as the suit. Somewhat disappointing.

But then I started thinking of what other encounters with tarot cards I had. I used to have a deck for writing reference  and inspiration. I was missing cards and never knew it. I recently gave them away along with their reading guide. But after searching the internet, I discovered they are used more as a self discovery tool, a trigger for the subconscious than for predictions and prophecy. I can’t discount the theory behind some of it considering how little neuroscience knows about intuition and other aspects of the deep brain.

And this line of though triggered where I had encountered the idea of tarot before. Besides Penny Dreadful, I had read of a parallel in Mark’s Shaftal series. And I got to wondering what cards I would make for my own stories. Which brought up the spark of creativity and the story I had purcolating.

I don’t know how far I will follow this through. I hope to follow the curiousity this time and see what happens. For now I will start with the cards.