After an evening session of writing, I pull an Art Oracle card from the deck on my desk. It’s an oracle deck with famous historical artists that offer advice from key elements of the artists’ lives.
The instructions tell me: Choose a card to consult the art oracles and change your 1) Life 2) Work 3) Inspiration.
I open the deck and before I can shuffle I see a flash of color from the bottom card. So I don’t shuffle and choose that one. Isn’t that how this works? Instinct? What speaks to you?
The card is Albrecht Dürer. I look him up in the booklet and he is the second oldest historical figure featured, right after Leonardo Da Vinci.
(What should I take from that? That I need to go way back to find what I need? I think nonsensically: to the roots, to the roots, to the roots.)
Albrecht lived from 1471-1528 and was a painter and engraver who “awoke German Renaissance art.” He also apparently “forced emotion and geometric perspective down the throats of this cold Deutsch countrymen.”
So what is the oracle’s advice?
- Life: One man’s outbreak is another man’s breakthrough
- Work: Know your perspective.
- Inspiration: Apocolypse then.
Take from that what you will. I think of a bit of all three were meant for me tonight.
With Love,
Natalie