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Lust For Life
I started off my career in art exploring what I like to call ‘decorative’ painting. You know the sort; flowers, trees, butterflies, sunsets, whatever tickled my fancies. There is nothing wrong with this kind of expression and it paves the way for mastering specific techniques and mediums but I always felt a yearning for more expansive art.
However, painting ‘decorative’ art allowed me to express my love for anything resplendent — the beauty of nature.
My art took a turn when I started painting my gold patterned backgrounds (as seen in the picture — right), I was testing the grounds for a more out-of-the-box approach. It was well received and I was happy for a while doing it. These complicated hand-painted motifs of swirly patterns represented ‘life energy’ — something I have been able to see all around me all the time.
I still felt a hunger for something new. I tried to dabble in abstract art, I have always had a love for abstract but found it the hardest thing to paint. I dug deep for this but it still didn’t fit the criterion that was swaying in my soul and keeping me at bay from realizing my fullest potential.
Spirited Away
I dreamed up the ‘Rock Art’ series last year and half-heartedly began my journey quite blinded to how it was going to unfold. After the Radiohead painting emerged out onto the canvas, I literally had a dream and was shown what it meant (read article here).
“Tut, tut, child! Everything’s got a moral, if only you can find it.” — The Duchess, Alice in Wonderland
Interested by this unusual turn of events I endeavored with the project and Metamorphic Dilatation (The Beatles Art) was born.
Love Story
The festive season came and went and I lost a tiny bit of my momentum with this series until I decided to pick up a brush and start with the Jeff Buckley painting (no. 3 in the series). It was going to be Muse but something changed my mind.
What happened with the painting ‘Raw’ changed my life forever. You can read all about it here. After the painting was done I had a dream…
What Dreams May Come
I was taken by a man (couldn’t quite make out who) into a room where I was shown that an artist could extract the essence of a message be it through music, literature or any other means and purvey the idea into a picture — a kind of visual therapy.
“Read the directions and directly you will be directed in the right direction.” — The Doorknob, Alice in Wonderland
I was told that it is quite difficult to get most people to listen to music outside of what they know.
Same thing goes for literature. You can read a book and have an epiphany but to get someone else to read the book let alone have the self-same striking realization is a difficult task indeed.
It doesn’t mean that there is no message in the song or novel and it also doesn’t mean that your friend is an idiot for not ‘getting it’ or bothering to listen/read. We all work to a different schedule.
But how cool would it be if you could, like an alchemist, extract that message and translate it in a picture? Something that you need to just look at to get or understand the underlying current?
People are usually willing to look at something visual which can only take a few seconds of their precious time.
The meaning I got from my dream was that you can imprint a message or a code (something that sparks off something in you on a conscious or unconscious level) to trigger a healing within you to take place.
Or a prompt to get you to explore the music or literature (or whatever medium is being transmuted) further which may activate that message you need.
The Sound of Music
A good friend (who synchronously is a musician who is working on healing music at this very moment) and I were debating and bouncing off concepts of a universal and quantum nature (we came up with the caption to your right).
We were discussing how music, in itself, can transport you to places that words only try to point you towards.
Obviously, not all music does this — there is music and there is music. Some music can be very base and hollow, coming from the ego or the want for fame and money. Other music relays a message — it could be a cosmic or earthly message. It could be consumed on an unconscious or conscious level.
The classical composers like Bach and Debussy excelled at elevating the soul. It’s as if they could take you to a higher dimension to feel the music in and around you — letting the vibrations pulsate through every cell in your body, literally absorbing the encoded transmissions of the wonders of 8th dimensional sound frequency.
Alice Through the Looking Glass
This brings me back to the many epiphanies I’ve been having this month through dreams, synchronicities, ‘a-ha’ moments with friends and family members and opening my mind to new possibilities with the all-encompassing help of the Universe itself.
Talk about unity consciousness at work! We are all so interwoven into this fabric of existence and we reflect so much to and in each other, which ultimately, reflects the entire cosmos. We are One.
So, Alice has been journeying into the reflections of herself and has pulled out all her resources to finally discover what she’s been prepping for.
“Curiouser and curiouser!” — Alice in Wonderland
I started this site wanting to merge my passion for writing with my love of music and art. I set out to do this as best I could, floundering a little at times as I tried new ways to do this. None of which truthfully felt like the puzzle pieces fitted.
With this new insight I finally feel like the puzzle has at last become a recognizable picture (as we are usually given the pieces without the added benefit of having the box image for a reference — no, that would have been too easy). I get to merge the trinity of music, art and literature into one capsule that can benefit the observer in a flash.
I couldn’t have asked the Universe for a better connection to work through me, expressing the Source, than this!
No wonder you’re not supposed to try to ‘control’ the nooks and crannies of how your path will unfurl — nothing out-of-the-box will ever develop with you trying to manipulate it at every turn with only your current understanding of how the world works.
They Call Me Trinity
I need to trim my time expenditure on this site and neatly package it to fit this new revelation.
So, instead of having an art/creativity blog on Tuesday, a spiritual blog on Thursday and a Free Giveaway blog on Friday, I have decided to reconcile all three if these into one new and exciting blog (to come out every Wednesday from next week) that will have inspiring verses, tasty visuals and something for nothing.
I will, from time to time, blog articles of value or interest on any given day but you can rely on the Wednesday blog to be a weekly occurrence.
That’s All Folks!
And that’s the rundown of how this year began for me — thanks for journeying with me and I hope you’ll stick around to see what’s to come in the bright and uncharted future of this magnificent virgin Wonderland.
When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous. ~Wayne Dyer
What is my purpose? The one sweltering question we try so hard to answer and fulfill in our lives but often leaves us cold, feeling confused or frustrated.
There could be so many possible answers. More pressing is the fact that sometimes we don’t just have one singular purpose, or, that purpose could change from day to day, year to year or decade to decade. We need to get comfortable with the idea of going with the flow and trusting our innate instinct.
Job Conundrums
We could be happily (or unhappily) plodding along in a job for many years when one day you wake up and being a (blank) no longer seems to ‘fit’ into your life anymore.
You scratch your head thinking ‘what could I possibly want out of life now? I thought I was a (blank)?’
Never label yourself as one thing or another — you will restrict the flow of your life. The answer could be that you are a quantum, multi-dimensional, layered being. This means that you could be causing change in many numerous ways, even on a subconscious level. We have in built indicators that start beeping when your contract is about to reconfigure or needs to change. This is why I will put emphasis on the fact that we need to learn to trust ourselves and our intuition. You may want to dig your feet into the ground in resistance but you need to entertain the prospect that it is time to move on.
You may either need to professionally pick up and move into another arena or to physically move yourself to another location to shine your light where it is needed more.
We, as human beings, do not relish change. In fact, for some, it is a frightening prospect. The uncomfortable truth is that the only constant in this life is change. The sooner you can make your peace with that, the better you will be able to adapt to any given situation.
The reasons for change can be countless and I like to refer to these seemingly non-linear events as ‘quantum’. We are navigating in a world of quantum soup, where there are many probabilities layering themselves upon each other. There are so many levels to our lives and the majority of these are unseen or subconsciously being carried out. So if you have a niggling feeling that your life needs an overhaul, it is probably time to start making that happen.
The Universe, Source, Higher Self or God — whichever you prefer — has layered these events to unfold in divine timing and you will be gracefully cushioned to your next phase with ease — that is, of course, if you don’t resist. If you insist on resisting the process, you will probably still get there in the end but it will be the long and bumpy cart-ride instead of the smooth bullet train.
I speak from personal experience as I have done a lot of job hopping and career labeling in my time. I started my young life out being very artistic and decided to become an Interior Designer. Then I hit my early twenties and joined a band. In between remedial jobs I decided to go back to art and became a full-time painter. This was going well until I got my ‘spiritual nudge’ to write a book. This confused the living daylights out of me because I had labeled myself as an ‘artist’. I was not a ‘writer’! However, I decided not to fight what was coming out and wrote my first book.
I realized that I loved writing — who would have thought? I decided to write and paint but this became very taxing. I got my final nudge to trim back on the art and concentrate on the writing, which is where I am at now. What this whole process has taught me is to surrender to the now and to not fear change because that is where your excitement lies.
Try asking yourself these 4 questions:
If you are having some challenges identifying your purpose, a good place to start is in meditation. The wonders that quiet reflection can do is innumerable. When you are in this state of centered awareness ask yourself ‘what is my purpose?’ and just see what comes up for you.
The answer could be immediate or it could take a couple of hours, days or weeks to come through.
The key is to be patient and follow the signs and synchronicities. They will be there to guide you. You will have your light-bulb moment if you are dedicated to looking for these pointers.
Just remember they can come to you in many ways— through dreams, meditation, the TV/internet/radio, through people or conversation and pretty much any other precursor that is relevant to your particular question or purpose.
Yeah, tell me about it! We all need the green stuff to pay our bills at the end of the month, right? This is a difficult one because during the transition you may not make the money you need to and this can often put people off pursuing their dreams.
The answer is that if you trust the process, the gates will open for you but you need to exercise patience and faith. I know faith doesn’t pay the bills (unless you have a wealthy and generous Aunty Faith), but you can make a start at your dreams without giving up you day job for now. Baby steps will eventually lead to you changing tracks permanently and having a solid foundation to do so in the future.
Original article written by Cherie Roe Dirksen for Purpose Fairy
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