How the stars aligning inform how I design my offerings
Like most artists, I flutter from idea to idea.
But when it comes to offering classes at Let’s Letter Together! I have a very different approach. I have been planning, setting intentions, harvesting, and sharing the abundance on an annual cyclical basis.
By Winter Solstice of each year, I plant my seeds of intention for the coming year. I let the fertile ground of my intentions help my ideas grow.
By Summer Solstice, my ideas are fully formed and ready to share.
This year I delivered: • Lettering with Pencils • Finding Your Signature Style
Then the real fun begins: Lammas/Harvest allows me to see and share with abundance. This year delivered a bumper crop. As I was planning to announce:
Dancing in the Dark with Sharon Zeugin
When The BigOne! Blowout happened:
BigOne Duet with Brandy Agerbeck
Let’s go BIG Together! (a free class on Neuland markers)
BIG Fun! with the BigOne! With Mike Gold
Not to eclipse my efforts with Sharon, these BigOne sessions have come together quite easily—inspired by a retrograding Venus transiting over my natal sun in Leo and the Venus Cazimi. While Dancing in the Dark has been in slow development for over a year—with good purpose.
Starting on the Fall Equinox when the light and dark are equal, we will begin Dancing with the Dark with Roman Capitals on black paper. Together we will dance with Sharon through a series of prompts and end our time together at Samhain, at a time when the veil is the thinnest, and we will be equipped to let go of what no longer serves us in order to step into the selves we need to become next.
From Sharon… "Let's use this time to emphasize connecting the lettering with personal feeling and one’s own words—a meaningful mantra or something fun to write. This is an opportunity for experimenting with improvisation in terms of writing words and designing as you go. We’ll start simply and grow from there, always rooted in the knowledge and experience of the forms—and variations on their rhythm, spacing, and proportions."
This launching of ideas and completing them by November 1 aligns perfectly with the Deer Walks I am doing with Cassandra Leoncini (http://www.twoeaglesastrology.com). This is the restart after a 7-year cycle since my first Deer Walks when I lived in DC and needed an integrated Vision Quest in order to leave so I may return to the Southwest.
And it’s after that time that I take all of the ideas I have gathered during this harvest season for 2024 and let them reveal their true selves.
Will I be collaborating more with master calligraphers to give our shared audiences what they need, want, and desire?
Will I both: return to the basics by offering more handwriting classes all WHILE helping visual practitioners Level Up so the important work they are doing is supported?
Will there be another European Lettering Tour? Since 2018 I have taught hundreds of VPs in over 10 different countries in-person. With so many more entering the field, do they need me in-person or will virtual learning continue to grow?
I read a quote on Instagram the other day that said:
“Set goals so high that they demand an entirely different version of you.”
I know where I want to put my focus in 2024:
Appreciative Inquiry,
Lettering,
Tech hosting and building curriculums to support trauma-informed communities
But will the stars align?
Only time will tell. As will my health and well-being in support of these efforts. Both my willingness to grow and the external forces outside of my control will determine what version of me will come next.
What future self are you currently developing?