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Soon it will be the season of Beltane, which marks the mid-point of spring. Celebrated on May 1st, Beltane is when the Wheel of the Year turns fully from winter towards summer. I love this time of year because of the natural energy that abounds. While Beltane is often associated with fertility, it’s also a time to focus on abundance and creativity. Beltane fires are the first harkening of the summer season to come. Why not use this time to reconnect with your own fire? What lights you up? What excites you? What do you want more of in the season to come?

This year, I want to embrace the energy of Beltane and springtime and delve into my creativity more fully. Specifically I want to explore: What does creativity look like in my life? What can I learn about myself through creativity? How can I harness my creativity to find more joy and purpose in the everyday?

I had thought about doing some kind of writing challenge with myself for the month of May, but I don’t really like the term challenge. I feel like it sets you up to fail if you don’t do the thing every single day.

Instead, I’m thinking I’d like to go on a creative adventure to celebrate Beltane. There is no winning or losing; there is only exploring.

Finding Your Creative Flow

I think creativity should give you a sense of accomplishment and bring you joy and, at times, put you in a state of flow - where time stops and you are just IN the moment. For me, writing does that. Not all the time, mind you. There are days when I have to force myself to put something on the page.

But when I stumble upon something that sparks a light inside my soul - I am able to go all in for a period of time - usually no more than a couple of hours at a time. And when I am finished I feel the greatest sense of accomplishment - even if the end result is just a rough draft of gobbly-gook. I know there is something there. That’s how Mabon House started. I had a kernel of an idea that I just let it lead me to where it wanted to go. I followed and here we are. All because of creativity.

Everyone is Creative

I am a firm believer that everybody is creative in their own way. And everyone can benefit from stretching their creative muscles. We do not need to be the best painter, writer, fill-in-the-blank whatever to be creative. Elizabeth Gilbert captures this idea beautifully in her book Big Magic:

“A creative life is an amplified life. It’s a bigger life, a happier life, an expanded life, and a hell of a lot more interesting life. Living in this manner—continually and stubbornly bringing forth the jewels that are hidden within you—is a fine art, in and of itself.”

Choose Your Own Creative Adventure

So in the spirit of Beltane and Springtime, this week’s free printable is a choose-you-own-creative-adventure worksheet, plus a list of ideas to help you get started. I hope you like it!

I’ll be sharing some other creative resources, including more about Beltane and Creativity in the coming weeks. If you are interested in participation in some sort of community adventure around creativity, let me know in the comments section below.

Take care and I’ll see you next week!