Enchanting Creativity: How Fairy Tales, Dreams, Rituals & Journaling Can Awaken Your Creative Self

by Paula Scardamalia

Overview

Ever wish you had a magic wand to wave when a creative project wasn’t going the way you wanted it to? Enchanting Creativity is a book to help the artist find their happily-ever-after by using a unique blend of fairy tales, dreams, rituals, and journaling, along with practical applications. Within the metaphoric structure of the Sleeping Beauty fairy tale, the book provides readers with techniques to remember, record, and work with waking and sleeping dreams; methods to expand the dream experience or as an alternative to dreaming; and tips to develop and use rituals to honor dreams and creative work. A fairy tale weaves its way through the chapters, providing an exploration of the creative process, while the author’s personal creative experiences and those of her clients offer examples of dream and/or oracle work, journaling questions, and simple rituals. Create a bridge between the practical and the imaginal worlds and watch the power of your creative magic express itself.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780764363757
Publisher:	Schiffer Publishing, Ltd.
Publication date:	09/27/2022
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Paula
Chaffee Scardamalia is a book coach, dream and Tarot intuitive, and author of Tarot for the Fiction Writer and the award-winning Weaving a Woman’s Life:
Spiritual Lessons from the Loom. She’s the former dream consultant for PEOPLE
Country Magazine.

Table of Contents

Part 1 Creativity, Dreams, and Fairy Tales

Introduction 9

1 Magic, Metaphor, and Metamorphosis 15

2 Once Upon a Time 21

Part 2 Sleeping Beauty

3 The Wish to Create 31

4 The Power of the Twelfth Fairy 37

5 Entering the Tower 43

6 The Spinning Wheel of Time 49

7 Sacred Space for Sleeping and Dreaming 55

8 Entering the Realm of Dreams 63

9 Using the Dream Magic 71

Part 3 The Prince

10 Testing Time and Reality 79

11 Stepping Forward with Curiosity Courage, and Commitment 87

12 Braving the Thorns 93

13 Entering the Silence-and the Castle 101

Part 4 The Kiss

14 Awakening to Passion and Creative Manifestation 109

15 Happily Ever After 115

16 The End … to Begin Again 119

Epilogue 123

Enchanting Resources 124

About the Author 128

Editorial Reviews

06/13/2022

Creativity coach Scardamalia (Tarot for the Fiction Writer) draws on fairy tales to provide guidance on enhancing creativity in this uneven volume. She uses the story of Sleeping Beauty as a metaphor for creativity, with Sleeping Beauty representing the dreamy, abstract aspects of the creative process and the prince standing in for the practical work of bringing ideas to life. Their kiss points to the need for intimacy between the artist and their muse, the author contends, suggesting readers refresh their imaginations by consulting a tarot deck. Other attempts to connect creative wisdom to fairy tales prove more tenuous, such as when the author posits that the phrase “once upon a time” indicates the importance of giving one’s muse a “signal to settle down” and prepare to work. Many of the recommendations urge tapping one’s dreams for inspiration, and to that end Scardamalia details how to keep a dream journal by remaining still as one awakes to better mentally preserve the dream and then writing down what one remembers of it before starting the day. The advice sometimes feels burdened by forced connections to the fairy tale theme, but artists who trend toward the fanciful will find the offbeat suggestions fun and idiosyncratic. This has its charms, even if it doesn’t quite enchant. (Aug.)

Publishers Weekly