Today you can aim your creative force towards making a sacred space for your creative energy to flourish. My suggestion is to either pick a place you know will be conducive to your creativity or make a “traveling altar.”
This past summer I took a longer-than-expected road trip searching for a home. Having a traveling altar supported my practice, work, and long hours in the car. It was nothing elaborate, containing the 5 elements (of course you can get as elaborate as you like).
Building a traveling altar/ sacred space
Using your intuition gather 5 objects (which you already have), each representing one of the five elements. Some examples are:
Earth- a potted plant, stone, rock, gemstone, or a deity if you have one;
Water- the water you add to the plant, a vessel with water, water from a sacred place;
Fire- a candle, matches, something that for you is symbolic of fire;
Air- incense, feather, the flickering of the flame;
Space- a painted egg, a tray that holds all your elements, or the box that you keep these elements in if they are “traveling.”
As you place these items in your creative space, have the feeling that you are calling on all the elements to support you in this creative journey. Like any sacred space, those objects eventually become charged with their surrounding energy, which means that you can call on those objects as a reminder on the days when you are not be in the “mood” to create..
Santuario De Chimayo, New Mexico
Similarly, temples or holy shrines have a certain feeling, conducive to meditation, contemplation and reverence. We want to charge our environment and those objects to hold space for our creative exploration.
Since Jupiter, my new puppy, arrived, all my creative work is getting done on the dining table and so I have created a traveling altar, with the elements as well as some much needed archetypal reminders! As we journey onward our sacred space will be blessed with ritual, dedication and our creative force!
As an aside, I just want to add that at times the altar calls me towards it to create, but often I have to physically put something on to help me to switch over roles —from cooking, laundry, and teaching towards the embodiment of creative energy. While painting I usually put my apron on, while writing requires a special pen. Recently during the preparing for this course, I wear my creativity cloak. These are just little games I play to keep me from constantly being distracted, and they work!
Aim your creative force,
Chanti