Day 12. Harvest. Station 12 is the final station in the Wheel of Creativity and the conclusion of your creative journey. I am writing this post on Christmas Day. Around the world, people of all cultures celebrate the birth of a man called Jesus, born to lowly parents in the Middle East some 2,000 years ago. Whether you worship Jesus as the Son of God, honor him as a great prophet, or question his existence, the message of his birth offers us all a powerful promise. This...
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Station 11 is Pruning. It follows Nurturing in the Cultivation quarter. While Station 10 was the mothering energy of the Wheel – tender and protective – Station 11 is the fathering energy. Once the new thing has matured enough to be ready, here it is trained to maximize its gifts. While I was first developing the concept for this station, I was living in the South of France. One sunny day, I went to a café on the village square for an espresso. I was contemplating these two...
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In Station 10, you enter the final quarter of the Wheel, where the new thing takes shape and finds independence. From your simple longing for something more, you have manifested a new form. But that form needs to mature if it is to serve a purpose in the world at large. The Cultivation quarter is where that work is done, and Station 10 is the first part of that work. Station 10 is Nurturing. It is the mothering energy of the creative process. It accepts the new thing...
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Station 9 is Breakthrough. In this station, you finally watch the new young thing you’ve been gestating take form. Welcoming it into the world restores your confidence in your creative process and brings you through to the end of the Incubation quarter. The concept that would become this station first occurred to me almost 20 years ago. I was living in Chicago then, beautifully held in the support of a generous creative community, writing and producing TV and film,...
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We’ve almost hit the mark! Tonight, just after midnight in the US and early tomorrow morning in Europe, the North Pole reaches its farthest point from the sun. This moment is what scientists call the Winter Solstice. Tonight is the longest night of this year. So, it’s an appropriate time to enter Station 8 in the Wheel of Creativity, for Station 8 is Gestation. Station 8 takes you into the center of the Incubation quarter, where the tender new life conceived in Station 7...
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