I’ve always loved great stories, stories that are emotionally rich, have unexpected twists and turns, and leave me feeling satisfied, overall. It’s why I felt compelled to write so many novels: story-telling is my passion. Nowadays those stories show up in tarot spreads or when I read someone’s hands, but they are still as rich, surprising, and as deeply satisfying as any good story. As I get older, I think the most inspiring and beguiling stories are the ones we create out of our own lives. We are writing each chapter and each relationship as we move through our days and nights. We make it up. Sometimes when I’m awake in the middle of the night and sorrowing about a missed opportunity or a long-lost friend, or, worse, dreading something unlikely in the future, I turn my mind to a story in my head and begin following it in my imagination. If you haven’t tried this, I strongly recommend that you do! It can be great fun and sometimes even enlightening. Step into the heart of your imagination by creating a symbiotic relationship with your mind, so that your excursion is being creating and being received by you at the same time. Trust it. You can adjust it. You’re in control, but you’re also open to the unknown. If you want to travel somewhere, picture yourself there. What do you see? Who are you with? Imagine yourself climbing a crystal hill and encountering a wizard or a mysterious creature. Like a dream, it doesn’t matter where you’re taken, as long as you let yourself be taken. Make up a myth—you’re pulling imaginings from our collective unconscious, the place my father called the “mythosphere.” There you can have conversations, be held, make a wish, enjoy the journey. No matter what happens, it’s safe and it’s interesting. And you may think it’s not real, but experiences we have in the mythosphere are much more real than we know.
