Author: diannamanjarrez
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Spiritual Path Update and Mini Book Review
The thought of sharing more about my spiritual practice and path has been on my mind lately. Maybe it’s due to the absence of a clearly defined spiritual path, maybe it’s because I’ve spent 10 hours listening to Kathleen Norris share about her spiritual path and her dance/relationship/battle with acedia. I have always considered myself…
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Re-Orienting My Focus in 2023
At the end of last year, I spent some time brainstorming about all the projects I wanted to do in 2023. By the end of the year, I had changed my mind and realized that 2023 was going to be a year in which I pulled my attention inward. I have been reflecting a lot…
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Fall Offerings
Unearthing Your Gifts Creativity Journal This fall season has been very creative for me. In September, I created and shared a year long version of my monthly creativity journal. This new version is titled “Unearthing Your Gifts”. I feel so proud of myself for taking a leap to create the yearly version and for sharing…
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Creativity As A Spiritual Practice
Join me for a three month exploration on the intersection of creativity and spirituality. Learn how creativity and spirituality are two practices that are intimately linked and nurture each other. At the core of my spiritual beliefs is the belief that we are all creators. That we have within us the creative spark needed not…
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Into the Imaginal Realm
I have been wanting to share this imagination exploration with you all for a while now. But the energy of the summer months was not lending itself to dreaming and visioning. The beginning of the fall season, with it’s slow descent into the darkness, feels like the perfect season for practicing some imaginal realm magic…
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Exploring My Relationship With Knowledge
My word of the month for July was Knowledge. Working with the word as a symbol prompted me to reflect on my perception of knowledge and how I relate to knowledge. Knowledge is one of my priorities and my core values. I love learning new things and having knowledge of an extensive array of topics.…
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Join Me For A Creative August!
At the beginning of this year, I started using a creativity journal that I made for myself. At first, it was about 8 pages long. Now it has grown to be a 30 page journal! My creativity journal is a place where I can explore different creative ideas, doodle, set intentions, and keep track of…
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Integrating the Heart with Venus and the Moon
Back in February, I began a blog post to share with you about the symbols I was working with. That blog post stayed in my draft folder because I didn’t think it was ready to be shared. The symbol that I began working with was the heart, more specifically, it was “seeing with the eyes…
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Presenting the Unearthing the Gift Creative Community
Although I have been on Instagram for at least five years and have been part of the wonderful tarot community, I feel that due to the nature of social media, it’s not really conducive to creating a community that can engage and dive deep into different topics. This is one of the reasons why I…
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Road Symbology in January 2021
It feels like a couple of years happened in the course of the last month, don’t you think? In January, I started working with a few different workbooks as part of my creative practice. You can learn more about them by watching this video here. As I was working with my monthly Creativity Journal, which…