By Primo Armelini
A seasoned writer came to me three days ago. He was asking how to go ahead in his writer job to fill satisfied.
I drew three cards: Ace of Wands, Seven of Coins, and Seven of Wands.
Here is my reading for him.
His past as a writer: You started your writing work and progressed for a while, you wanted to create new books. This you deed by your own initiative; you used your energy trusting your ability to create something new. New ideas came to you easily, and you realised them with great energy; hence all those writing projects. Your impulse to write was pure, and it was the expression of phallic energy sublimated in this original art of writing: this motion came to you without you asking for it, your task was just that of directing it toward written creations.
Now you are visited by self-doubts and you lost yourself. Now you can’t put together your projects and their practical side. You can’t unite your work as a writer and its practical side, you don’t have an actual structure in your writing activity; you lack writing plan. Consequently, you feel anxious about your writings, which seem to be destined to failure and unsuccess, and to financial loss. At present your inner vocation does not transfer itself into the act of creative writing, and you are distracted by the material aspects of life. The material is crashing the spiritual and you find yourself involved with routine slave work, big companies, pharmaceutical companies.
What are you facing in the near future? You will act defensively as you know you have lost the creative momentum. Therefore, you will experience a lack of determination, a sense of incompleteness and indecision. You fear that you will waste your energy and your time if you take on to write another book. As a first suggestion, you should look at this challenge as an opportunity to grow. There is an overthinking attitude connected to the risk of falling into an inconstant and shallow approach. We can describe this as someone who’s giving up his pursuit when the solution is right behind the corner. The second suggestion could be: decide and act quickly. It is also evident that you are facing a writer block, as you feel at a stop point, and this will last until you get rid of your maniacal perfectionism. As a result of this situation, you are facing the opportunity to sublimate your sexual energy into a balanced work or give up completely.
Conclusion
As we have seen, you had loads of energy and ability to create, although at present you need to understand that there is no substitute for hard work; then, you must overcome your self-doubts and your timidity: believe in yourself and in your abilities.