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New Books Launched!

By Cat Caracelo | April 30, 2024

Excited to announce a brand new Creative Depth resource, that has just been released: I’m excited to announce the first THREE volumes of Mythic Living: Visual Storytelling + Inspiration for Creatives. Mythic Living is a series of image rich thematic collections that you can order from Amazon worldwide – order in the U.S., Canada, Australia, UK,…

[VIDEO] Entertaining the Invisible

By Cat Caracelo | April 17, 2024

I am cross posting this weeks video post from A Mythopoetic Life on Substack. This is a short offering some exciting ideas and creative conversation! We are connecting today about entertaining the invisible, how we as artists of life can use creative depth approaches to foster more connection with intangible experience, how the invisible can…

Meeting the Crone

By Cat Caracelo | April 5, 2024

She stirs the soup on the stove adjusting the heat to circumvent the hot flashes that have haunted her for years…maybe it’s just her body getting ready to be the catalyst of disparate dreams, the combustion of right vs. might, the pooled anger that ignites, the rhythm of a wild woman pushing despair into the…

International Womens Day, Every Day

By Cat Caracelo | March 5, 2024

First published in 2018 International Women’s Day is today… I invite you to honor and celebrate all that is changing and rising to meet us! Women’s Day is Every Day. Below, I share an invocation, a living prayer, a powerful expression of who we are. I also offer some important ideas about how Artist and…

Meeting Green

By Cat Caracelo | March 3, 2024

I met March this weekend with a lovely romp into the wilds of the Hill Country, visiting a nearby springs (there are hundreds in this area). It has been a winter…and I was ready to expand my senses and lean into spring. I spent a lot of time in my studio this week, stirring my inner…

Seasonal Wheel + Awakening with Imbolc

By Cat Caracelo | January 31, 2024

The Celtic Wheel of the Year is an ancient symbolic touchstone that has influenced my life and work for many years. I find myself held in seasonal connections that inform me again and again. As I turn on the wheel, the wheel turns me… This resonates so deeply, reminding me of wisdom that I can…

As the Year Ends…

By Cat Caracelo | December 28, 2023

There is much to ponder as a year ends…but I could not resist sharing these amazing memories. It feels like a wonderful celebration of us all. There is nothing I love more that what we create together, The intimacy of process is personal and communal and we are so very lucky and blessed to gather…

The Bounty of Books: Characters + Catalysts  

By Cat Caracelo | November 10, 2023

For all of you book lovers and story weavers, you already know this…books provide us a bounty of possibilities, the immersive experience of traveling into another skin, space…or place. A book provides the source of seeing, being part of the range of experience within our human heart, while exploring all that held within, including the sad, strange,…

Seasonal Wheel + Deepening with Samhain

By Cat Caracelo | October 30, 2023

Create with the energy you find offered here. The Celtic Wheel is an ancient symbolic touchstone that has influenced my life and work for many years. I find myself held in seasonal connections that inform me again and again. As I turn on the wheel, the wheel turns me… This resonates so deeply, reminding me…

Explore the Dark Moon Eclipse + Meditation Gift

By Cat Caracelo | October 15, 2023

Create with Eclipse Energy at this Threshold Time Art by Rob Gonsalves Become aware of what the Dark Moon offers you this month. We are between seasons and much is being exposed, expressed, revealed and released. Eclipses remind us that everything is cyclical, a culmination always occurs on the edge of a beginning. Solar eclipses…