the creator

○ the artist, the maker, the inventor, the visionary, the builder, the original, the imaginative one, the spider ⁕

There's a universe inside of me. So if I tell my story, you're going to see parts of your story in it. I don't know which parts, but we all overlap ⁕

-mary gauthier

tarot ⁕ Death, The Empress, The Fool, The Hanged Man

The Creator's main gig is making. they understand the World by receiving information processing it and then turning it into something.

oftentimes the biggest battles that the creator is fighting is in this translation process because in their minds they are receiving these incredible downloads of information on what could be: they are seeing imagery or sounds or whole other worlds and then they have to bring that through their bodies into the material world. that is where it gets sticky.

the material world doesn't move the same way as the thinking or the spirit world does. here it's denser, things move slower, time has its own constraints, there's a heaviness here and this is one of the gritty, abrasive things that the Creator is always dealing with. there's always something that's Lost in Translation. and part of how they see themselves, where they derive confidence and self-image, is in how well they can make that translation happen.

there are different levels of maturity when it comes to this process too: some creators are going to be asking more market-driven questions, creators who are focused on audience first who are concerned with external validation. what they're looking for first is Confirmation of self through the external but as they mature as creators they become much more concerned with bigger questions.

mature creators become more concerned with how to be of service to something higher and bigger than themselves. the only way that they can make those leaps in maturity is by doing. you start by making, and you just let the process reveal itself.

the thing that creators offer that is pretty unique from any other archetype is the ability to create something out of nothing. they draw from the ethers, the astral, the architecture of the universe, pulling it in where nothing existed before. most of the other archetypes are interested in investigating and understanding what already is where is the creator is birthing. they're making things where there was nothing.

if you think about there was a time on Earth where there was no airplane, only the fantasy of flying like the birds. but then there came these crazy, insane people who became quite literally obsessed with the idea of flight and made it their everyday prerogative to figure out how to make a machine to fly them in the air until one day it finally happened. and now, every human on planet earth accepts air travel, satellites, and even space travel as ordinary and commonplace. this is the creator archetype.

“A river of material flows through us. When we share our works and our ideas, they are replenished. If we block the flow by holding them all inside, the river cannot run and new ideas are slow to appear.

In the abundant mindset, the river never runs dry. Ideas are always coming through. And an artist is free to release them with the faith that more will arrive.

If we live in a mindset of scarcity, we hoard great ideas.”

― Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being

You're excellent at vision and making. What becomes possible when you balance that with completion? You know how to start. Can you also finish? You can imagine endlessly. Can you also let go?

Balance the Creator with the Rebel. Making with destroying. Birth with death. That's how you clear space for the next thing.