The Hero & Heroine’s Journey of Re-Enchantment

The path of transformation is what people often call the Hero’s Journey—it’s the quest to “find oneself.” This has traditionally been seen as a male process, popularized by Joseph Campbell. When asked if there was a female version, a Heroine’s Journey, Campbell was said to have responded with the idea that women “are already there” and don’t really need one.

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The Art of Perception

The world continues to accelerate. The vibration of our bodies follows along. And as our physical reality increases its frequency, our emotional and mental realities do, too. Our minds are adapting to this new high-speed reality and it means our lens is being cleaned and polished. New ways of perceiving are being born, ways that didn’t make sense when the earth and its inhabitants were slower, which was probably just last week!

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Melting Through the Buzz to Rest in the Divine, Not the Mind

I’ve heard varying explanations about why the energy inside our bodies and in the physical world is oscillating so fast: astrological transits and eclipses, sunspots, esoteric alignments. I don’t know what it is, but it’s real. One day my energy is screwed up to a high pitch and if I’m not super-centered, my mind races ahead, I get frustrated, irritated, and panic can take over. Then, it calms and I come back to an experience of being. Then, vroom, vroom, vroom! Off we go again!

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The “Goo State”

There is a sense of my work in the world expanding in some magical way, yet my left brain can’t picture it or understand the “how.” When it tries to push me forward into the new work, using old methodologies and strategies, I rebel. New opportunities have to feel “just right” and I don’t know how to explain to myself what that constitutes just yet.

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Following the Flow Toward Destiny

Even when we’re not that aware of what our destiny might be, we’re aimed at it, or it’s drawing us toward it. The closer we get, and look back over our life, we see the good sense, the “joke” that even when we thought we were wasting time, or drifting about, we were actually on purpose, that it’s pretty hard to stay off purpose for long.

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Helvetica

As a graphic designer, I remember the impact the Swiss typeface had on our thinking. It is so clean, so beautiful, so hard to wreck it through improper use.

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