#letthemusechoose Tiny Portal: Choose one of your more abstract paintings or an under-painting layer. Look at it with a soft gaze. Imagine that one part of it suddenly becomes a portal door and lights up! WOWZA there it is! Honor this arising. Be surprised....(Muses love to surprise you)
One word of advice - the Muse does not want to be dominated in any way - but if you are in a particularly tender or tempermental place you can request - 'only loving or kind messages to appear' - no one can guarantee compliance - but it does set the tone. Muses can have a bad attitude at times. Okay so let's continue....for some of our Muse Choose I ask you not to read the whole thing first, for this one, go ahead and read it and then begin.
Ready? With a heartful intention to see or hear something fresh from your Muse - invite your imagination to OPEN the tiny door slowly and see what is waiting for you there.
How does the door open - try to watch it - does it swing? Pop? Flow? Glow? What do you find? Is it a note? An image? A symbol? The first line of a poem? A new tool? A dare? An invitation? An oracle reading? What has the Muse left for you to find?
Once you see it/know it/hear it - ask more about it. Why this message and why now? Journal as you choose. If you don't see something or hear something just hover there in the "not knowing" and then choose to reveal something from within your subconscious space and place it there. This works too!
Share the painting you chose or the tiny portal and what you saw, if you want, with us in the imusea app (search for the app in your appstore imusea). We learn by doing and also by sharing.
Sharing helps to shape the content of what gets revealed and strengthens the portal practice. Even if the message you got is odd or you don't know the meaning yet - attempt to 'trust' it enough to be with it without needing to change it.
Over time we develop a pathway of trust with our inner world and our subconscious via the hand of the Muse will continue to show us more and more. If we doubt too soon and with exasperation we ask - WHY the f-ing yellow banana? Why did I hear that bell? I don't want to see that old symbol again etc..... then the trust doesn't get to grow. The Muses might be testing us. They do that.
Instead consider deep curiousity and surprise - WOW the yellow banana again - tell me more! OH that bell, where is that sound coming from anyway and how does it feel in my body? AH! That symbol must be something special - let me draw it out.
(If you are new - come post and join us in the imusea app and share your image and what you discovered)
In Intentional Creativity we work this way with imagination development. By intentionally using our own paintings as the mythical landscape to journey through. The power of suggestion aka "tiny portal" coupled with the personal tangible image and the anticipation that the Muse will really communicate this way with you - is a practice. For some of us we have been developing the faculty for years - and for others of us it is new.
This is a core aspect of our practice here and I invite you to really try it.
Ciao!
Shiloh Sophia
This is a tiny portal from was a painting exploring communicating with the ancestors. I opened the white curve and it shimmered. Behind it was an image of my mother's hands. She was in my dream last night. The message is to be close to her today in my spirit.
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