Chaotic Creation

From the Tarot of the Abyss, the Empress; from the Lantern Oracle, Gatekeeper:

Rather than the demure, serene Empress often seen in decks, Tourian's gal is windswept with swirling energy. Most forms of creation are chaotic and messy rather than ordered and sedate. Just look at all the crumpled first drafts of writers or the trashed test runs of inventors. What seems turbulent and uncontrolled is actually a process of insight and self-discovery that will become an expressive formation. Yet there will always be critics or hecklers who want to dismiss or deride what we've created. The Gatekeeper is a symbol of assertively protecting what is important to us. She doesn't need to ride out into battle (or post snarky memes on Facebook), she just needs to nurture and safeguard what is necessary and essential for a fulfilled life.

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

~Pablo Picasso

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - 

things I had no words for. ~Georgia O'Keeffe