Hello friends,
Welcome to a new phase of the Inspiration Station!
In the next 24 issues, you will receive a two-card reading for the week from the Flag Oracle. The readings seek to offer meaningful inspiration for your week from the flags and wilds of Mt. Tamalpais. This will be fun!
First, some background and orientation.
Why the change?
In December, I published an annual review on my website.
Privately, I reviewed how each activity made me feel and invoked how I would like to feel differently in 2024. Excavating my childhood in the What’s Not in the Bag series was rewarding—and emotionally taxing. The Flag Oracle will help me bring a lighter, more joyful approach to 2024.
I hope you stay along for the ride as insiders to my artistic process—because the flags know that you are an artist too, whether or not you make art. You are an artist creating your life, and you are doing it on an earth with its own processes and wisdom. The flags are waving their bright colors to remind you of the earth's wisdom that we can all access, at any time.
A guide to the new format
I’ve updated my About page with everything you need to know about the new card design and the two-card layout. Here’s the short version:
The cards have a new design. The top right number is a reference that will help future users look up the card description in a booklet. The top left words in italics next to the flag symbol indicate the name of the flag. Sometimes looking at the name of the flag can bring additional meaning to the reading or point out an intriguing paradox.
The layout for the readings is Day/Night. The card in the day position shows what’s visible in the situation, or what the situation calls for. The card in the night position represents what’s not seen—and might be seen through the course of events.
Each reading includes an invocation. This colorful card contains a summary statement for the reading. By summer, we’ll have 24 colorful word cards!
Here we go….
Your reading for January 7-13
The Let it Be Easy card contains the No Questions flag—a design that came to be in an instant based on the materials at hand. Making the flag was easy, and seeing it placed on a tree above the ocean just before sunset reminds us how easy life can be when we’re just hanging out, doing our thing. Just after the sun went down, I heard a round of applause from the hilltop behind me.
Can you let the natural progression of things be cause for celebration? In the Day position, the Let it Be Easy card encourages us to allow ease of being and trust in the right timing of natural processes.
In the Night position, the Portal to the Unknown card reminds us that when we surrender to let things be easy, we can enter a magical world such as this one where a rainbow occurred in the camera lens. The final design of the Life Had Other Plans flag was the result of a sewing mistake that turned out to be a happy accident. In this unknown place, things might turn out not to be what we expect, but better. In the dark, we may not be able to make out the dimensions of the room we find ourselves in, but can trust that in due time the world we’ve entered will make itself clear.
INVOCATION
May you approach your activities with ease, trusting that you will be guided to magical new realms.
Invoking a new phase
This new series represents my attempt to let producing a weekly email be easier than it was. If the cards are right, it will be a portal to unknown magical realms.
I’m excited about giving you this weekly gift of words and color inspired by the magic of Marin County, California. May you honor the wisdom of the lands that you walk upon, too.
Love, Lee Ann
So lovely and generous of you. I appreciate your gift of words and color! I really needed those cards today. Thank you. xo