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Courage & Resilience: Art Spells for The Heart
- molly roberts
- 1 day ago
- 3 min read
How can we respond with creativity? I’ve been thinking about how we could bolster our courage, our inner strength and resilience with art and magick.
Grab a cuppa, come on in and let’s chat about art spells for Courage, Resilience emboldening the Heart, Moon Baby.
❤️🔥 Reimagine Your Heart. What does it feel like to reimagine our hearts? How could that help us be resilient? Take a moment to visualize your heart in a powerful way.
Maybe you see your heart as the column of a giant sequoia tree or a dragon with mirrored scales or a pulsating stone with roots that go in all directions of time. Explore that imagery and make a memento that reflects the true nature of your heart.
❤️🔥 Ancestor statuary or representations for support. Ancestor imagery and crafts remind us that life has always been difficult and intense. The people who came before us endured hard things, and as the descendants of those folk, we can also do hard things.
Craft an ancestor representation to strengthen your connection to the love and tenacity of those who came before you.
❤️🔥 Spelunk the Tarot for Courageous Inspiration. The tarot offers a buffet of inspiration for overcoming obstacles, healing and embodying courage: Justice, The Sun, Strength, The Queen of Wands or the Chariot. Make an illustration of yourself as one or all these cards. Or visit with these archetypes in meditation and create something inspired by that conversation.
What would the queen of wands ask you to make?
What would the chariot create?
What kind of wisdom do they impart about all the different flavors of strength and courage?
❤️🔥 Fear is contagious, but so is courage. Make an art spell designed to be dispersed with the intention of spreading courage, hope, encouragement or solidarity.
Perhaps an ensorcelled confetti, a postcard, a sidewalk chalk message, a performance or something you create to bring to a rally. How could you use your creative magick to spread a sense of comradery and courage in your community?
❤️🔥 Create a core values shrine. When we know ourselves, what we believe, where we stand our strength grows naturally. Make a little shelf, mini tin altar, or draw a shrine in your grimoire that houses examples of your core values.
What are your core values? Write them out or illustrate them. Use this art spell as an opportunity to get really clear on what lives in your heart. Refer to your shrine to reinforce and refresh those values and strengthen your heart.
❤️🔥 Internal Vision Board. Create a vision board or lantern to explore what we want to see transpire within us. How do we want to grow, get stronger, become golden? What words, shapes, colors, characters, and images speak to the courageous resilient heart we want to cultivate? Assemble a vision board for the phoenix that dwells within you.
❤️🔥 Heart Weaving. Weaving is powerfully symbolic and magickally potent. A weaving takes singular threads and makes them strong and durable. Weave a paper heart pocket for your altar or grimoire to remind you of all the things your heart cand hold. (Hearts are surprisingly stretchy. They can hold many things at once.)
❤️🔥 Sandpaper Spells to Summon Grit. On Patreon we've been experimenting with sandpaper as an art magick material to invoke grit, determination, and benevolent disruption. Try playing with sandpaper to make talismans, spell bottles, draw, oil pastel drawings or prints!
Want to receive doodle-filled love letters, moon dust and art magick musings just like this?
There is a little phoenix in you, Moon Baby.
You are courageous.
You are strong.
You are full of magick-
and you can do this.
I can’t wait to see what you create in your life and in the World. ❤️🔥
WITCH ON, WITCH BOLDLY & BE WELL
