Welcome, tiny traveller, to the World of Inspiration. This path is one that will initiate you in ways that you cannot yet imagine. You will be gifted ideas that will make your heart race with excitement, and that will spark the visionary acumen to integrate and actualize their energy. These big ideas jump to life almost effortlessly, bringing the zealous and enthusiastic ambition needed to hold their firecracker energy and to bring forth their purposeful success. She urges you to take inspired action and to fall in love with your goals. This Muse of Inspiration knows that if this card shows up in your spread, that you have already accepted this path and that she is here now to help guide your next step on the path of creation. She offers fire to brand the edges of your path with your mark, the wisdom to find others who will help you along the way, and heart-fire energy to turn to cinder that which has been anchoring you. She reminds you to remain in your hottest of passions, and to light up your life with belief and inspiration. Sing into being a phoenix energy that will allow you to rise from the ashes of anything that has been put in your path. With butterfly heart stirrings and breath to deliver life, it’s time to set your world aglow.

The Queen of Inspiration reaches out over the horizon and she waves her hand, as if she is working with an unseen force. She looks up into the cosmos and then closes her eyes, reaching up into the night with her intention and her love. She is the embodiment of warmth and confidence, compassion and determined joy, and she is seeking inspiration for the land below. She begins to connect with the ethers above, and downloads the keys to creation. For this Queen is a powerful force of creativity and she seeks to imbue the land with the belief in self-expression. She knows it’s a powerful thing. Then she begins to hear it. The tones of creation. Like strings of energy she plucks them, one-by-one, tuning them to her will, and the pyramids below her light up in an amazing responsive connectedness. She plays the tunes of new life. New ideas. Dreams attained. And powerful leadership along the way. She strums lines of success and mastering creative endeavors. She shares confidence and bright dots in a world full of stripes, and she gifts the vision and the courage to see new ways of being, and the promise of acceptance when you step up to the task.

“I had so much fire in me and so many plans.” – Claude Monet

Fireworks and flying flames… this Knight of Inspiration is always seeking the thrill of it all.
The joy. The happy tears. The adrenaline.
He gallops towards adventure and the path most exhilarating. He listens to the pitter patter of the rain and call of the wind… the grains of sand under his steps and he shakes his wild mane as he roars a giant flame to life. “All of the elements are wonderful,” he muses, “but I wouldn’t give up this flaming inspiration for the world. This fire. This passion and purpose. This love that ignites the skies and sets my symphony on fire.” He charges ahead, determined and somewhat wildly… ready to change to the world.

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A bloom of ideas flies overhead, once again.
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This Page of Inspiration really can’t help herself. She always has them. Flowing in Succession. A million and one prolific ideas and all of them spark of possibility. She laughs at the thought of producing them or making them all. She will be the first to tell you she’s an awesome creative thinker. And then she will add, ‘Don’t ask me to do anything else. But I will gift you a reason. A why. A way. A light at the end of the tunnel. But it is not my zone of genius to make the thing a reality. That is your job.’ Her rainbow hair sways in the wind and another cloud of ideas pop furiously… and she rains solutions, answers, potentials… this time these ideas were meant for someone else. When she’s around, the ideas will flow. And then it’s time to root into belief, hope and faith and take action to make them real.

She knows she has to bring supplies of inspiration to the masses, this Muse of 10. She must get it up the mountain, and then down the valley, and then gift it to each and every one of them. But they are so many, and she is just one. And so she finds help along the way, gifting life and joy to the animals and the plants, the sunrises and the sunsets. She adds beauty to all the things, enlisting and accepting all of their help as a way to distill this supply of inspiration to those who need it. She knows that she could not possibly take it all on, all by herself, each and every day. She knows this struggle intimately… the burden of carrying too many responsibilities. With great clarity she understands that it would be asking the impossible of her energy reserves, and her energy is her happiness, and so it is essential to her well-being. So she spreads out the tasks, prioritizes her work, and takes the steady joyful road towards fruition.

She stands gracefully, ready, for this last stand. After all the work, the training, the timing, and all the delights along the way, there is one final push to make it happen.
Some have given up.
Others have fallen away.
But she knows that this final stand is what will make it all worth it. She knows, in her heart, that if she gives up now that she is giving up on all of the energy that she has already put into this thing. She knows that if she gives up now, none of it will have been worth it.

She moves so quickly that her 2 legs become 8. They are a blur through time and a joy to create with. She is the 8 of Inspiration, and she serves up fast energy and quick dreams. She whispers of travel, momentum and movement. Speeding through this realm, the 8 of Inspiration wants to share a secret with you. You see that forge of black and white that pushes the air out of her way and creates a vacuum to step into? That energy is one of duality and unanswered questions. It doesn’t need to choose a side. It doesn’t need the yes or no. It doesn’t need to be a perfect answer… it is fast. Done. And moving on. It serves up more opportunities than failures and it absolutely feels like flow. She whispers that you don’t need to be so picky and perfect. That this life is but a flash of moments in the quicksand of expanding Universes, and that taking oneself so seriously (to the point of needing to be perfect) will only serve to get your feet stuck in the mud and cause boundaries of blocked energy. Stay the flow sweet creator, and jump into movement. It’s time to move.

This Ace pulses with the electricity of inspired ideas, and shines them down into the imagination of others. She offers passionate beginnings and bright new musings… and all the creative juice to spark the way for hopes and dreams. One of her favourite places to roam is the desert, as it holds so much intense beauty in its sands of time. It’s a place of extremes where people often mistake starkness for emptiness, and then emptiness for nothingness. Yet she knows how lush in energy this place is. There is always another layer to be seen, and another opportunity on the cusp of igniting wild joy and deep connection. The skies here are magickal, and she loves to offer glimpses into the possible here. With whispers of divine inspiration, seemingly empty places are filled from north to south with universal love, consciousness, and all the creativity one can hold in one’s heart. With a breath out, she giggles in rainbows and sunsets, and she pushes this spark of inspiration into the void, to be seen, felt and captured… by you. Expect bright new patterns of light to emerge.

After gaining the sunlight and spark of seeing her dream come to life, the 7 of Inspiration finds herself with clouded vision and a heavy heart. Those around her have attacked her success. Her wins. Her path. While some simply don’t understand her unique glow, others completely disagree with it, and they begin to push her down. Some can feel her energy of success and they covet it. Dislike it. Some have mindsets about success that confuse how they feel about her with their own fragile feelings about what they don’t have. She wavers, feeling it all. Listening. Taking it in. And as she does her light begins to dim. It sputters as she allows the external jabber and prattle to enter her core. Much too quickly her wounds open as they push and heave at her from below. Then she remembers that rising up can sometimes mean others will not agree. She settles. She breathes in. She fills her heart with joy. And she digs into the earth. ‘No… I will not be dimmed. I deserve this success.’ She defends her spark and she reaches out in love, pushing all external darkness away.

“If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.” – Émile Zola

The Muse of Being Seen stands proudly in front of her starlights. She is graceful, unabashed and elegant in the face of praise. She knows that she has given all of her energy to this victory, and that during the long journey leading up to here – to this place of acknowledgement and praise – she has offered all of her heart and dedication to this success. After a triumphant arrival, she comes home to this beautiful celebration, and she has to show up now… bravely once more… to help light the way for others to do the same. She must show up to accept this reward, this cheerful monument, because she knows that there is great value in modeling humility and gratefulness in the spotlight of all of this success. She knows that we can all arrive to that place, and that we must be able to say yes to success when the moment arrives. With humble joy and giant love, she says yes to this honour and she steps into the limelight.