The walk with Great Spirit was awesome because it was spending time with my sister, and we don’t spend a lot of time together anymore since I live an hour away.

I found three gifts, and I have to admit that I stole this idea from Dionne a year ago, the first time I started this course (and I have already gotten further than that), who formed her items in the shape of the word JOY. That’s my word of the year, so I was really excited to find these items:

I am working on The Artist’s Way as well as this course, and this week is week three for that. Issues I am dealing with from that relate to shame and anger. But after something I did earlier today in an attempt to release the shame, I felt a lot more light and free. Creating my art after this, I was filled with an amazing sense of freedom and calm and yes, JOY.

My artwork was ready when I had no empty spaces left that I wanted to fill. I am happy when I look at it, and I can’t wait for it to be fully dry so I can hang it on the wall in my bedroom. I started with a white canvas that I painted with two shades of blue acrylic paint.

I added a thin green ribbon, and a gold elastic band tied in a bow. Then I searched through my box of collage supplies, images and words cut from a TON of magazines, and selected the ones I wanted to use in my art. Things that represent me and how I felt today, like fireworks, and the word Truth. And things that I saw in my meditation vision. A pastel-colored rainbow. A butterfly. Flowers. A white feather that was my gift. The word Love. The word JOY spelled out in nature (printed on photo paper, since the nature itself won’t last long).

And I added a unicorn and the word Magic to represent the Goddess Circle.

The words Lessons From and the words Inner Goddess, representing my Wise Woman Goddess Self. A fortune cookie fortune that says “May the good spirits be with you always.” An oil pastel heart. A cupcake button. Star and heart rhinestones. An image of artist’s brushes, representing the creative goddess I want to be, that I already am. And from a magazine, part of the poem Phenomenal Woman by Maya Angelou, which has always been a favorite.

And of course, a LOT of glitter glue to hold it all together. 🙂 The complete, final art work:

This week I learned that the Creative Goddess in me is there, I just have to let her out to play more often. And she is fun!

These are notes about week one of the Creative Goddess course created by Goddess Leonie. Check out the link in the sidebar to Goddess Circle if you’re interested…