Like many others right now, I’m starting to feel caged in by social media.
I’ve got a bad case of digital zoochosis because I’ve been relying too heavily on my online spaces to feed my need for connection and help me spread my creative chaos to all the little chaos gremlins and creative alchemists looking to sprinkle some fairy dust on their own inner and outer worlds.
So I’ve been looking for ways to break out of these pixelated bars, feel more connected to my own community, and feel more creatively expressed in the world.
I’m just trying to locate the energy I want to feel more of in the world, pull it down deep inside my body, swish it around my sacral like a fine wine, and find ways to propagate that energy in my external environment.
I’ve gotta cast more art spells.
So for my first trick, I decided to make some Oracle Art and spread it around my city. It’s a project I’ve seen many versions of from many creators and I’m putting my own spin on it. I’ve even documented the process in the hopes that I infect some of you crazy kids with the bug of High Strangeness and maybe you steal my idea or concoct your own wild and wyrd experiment.
In today’s podcast and YouTube video, I’m talking about that experiment, why I conducted it, and what I feel creatives most need to hear right now.
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how to help artists be more resourced, more connected, and more active in their creative practice. Because it’s not enough to just think about things and feel about things, you have to take that energy and put it into action. You have to take that theory and develop your own praxis.
You have to get real messy in the laboratory and start churning out prototypes and ponderings and start actively engaging with your own ideas.
We all know it, we just don’t know how to do it. When the cage door opens, we find ourselves struck with a peculiar paralysis. We don’t know how to step across that threshold and walk out.
As for my cauldron, it’s bubbling with all these thoughts and more.
In the near future, you can expect more videos, podcasts, and other ramblings from me about creative process and the messy, rewarding work of fertilizing and propagating your own inner world.
And you can also expect more livestreams from me about these things and more in the new hangout I’ve hatched, which I’m calling Office Hours.
Unfortunately, Instagram might be cutting me off soon, because livestreams are now reserved for people with 1,000 followers and I’m sitting at a cool 566. But never fear, Substack is here! If I get cut off on IG, I’ll just take my toys and come home to the Graynbow. No one can stop me from chilling with my fellow creative alchemists and yappin’ my yap!
But if you would like to see these on the ‘gram and want to help me meet my goal, feel free to go follow me on yonder hellish hills.
You are also warned to be on the lookout for my Sun cult, because enrollment begins again soon. But you’ll hear all about that in the pod. ;)
Other honorable mentions are my latest course, The Magickal Art of High Strangeness, which you can purchase here. But the Handbook is available for paid subscribers here if you want to take a peek. I’d say you won’t regret it, but I’ve known many a’ magickian to collapse under the weight of the alchemical whoopin’ they called in, and this one is a doozy. 😈
Enjoy the ride!
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