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This week’s Goddess is - Ix Chel (pronounced e’shell). Ix Chel is a model for creative leadership. Ix Chel has come to teach us about becoming creative leaders in our life.

Ix Chel was worshipped by the Maya of the Yucatan peninsula on Cozumel, her sacred island.
She was the Moon/ Snake Goddess that helped assure fertility by holding the sacred womb jar upside down so that the waters of creation can be ever flowing. Ix Chel was also in charge of weaving, magic, health, and healing, sexuality, water, and childbirth. The dragonfly was her special animal. When she was almost killed by her grandfather for becoming the Sun’s lover, the dragonfly sang over her until she was well.

Ix Chel has come to tell us that it is time to express creativity. It is time to stir up the fire, time to let our creative energy flow. Create! Be daring!

However, I don’t know about you, but any time someone says to me – “Be Creative� – I freeze.
The problem is that when it comes to creativity, it seems that most of us fall to the same trap, being victims of that mind-game called comparison.

We continue comparing our results to what other people are doing and compete with them as to what we wish we could do better. At the least, we wish to be as good as them…
In any case we strive not to be original.

We are raised in a culture that encourages ‘normality’ instead of ‘uniqueness’.
However, creativity is about doing something different.
This scares most of us as we might make a mistake thus making us vulnerable to criticism or insulting statements.

So, instead of daring to do things differently, we rather stay in our ‘comfort zone’ of what is known and widely acknowledged.
But this feeling of safety comes with a price tag… it costs us the adventure and the excitement of being creative.

We need to remember that we are born creative, but to remain creative we must risk. We have to dare to reach beyond the limiting borders of parental, educational and societal conditioning..

This week, don’t let the kids, your partner, your family or your job keep you from being creative. Stop using your creativity to find reasons not to create. We women have the ability to create: we give birth!

So find the time, make the time, CREATE the time to be creative. Beat the drum, use those paints, make that pottery, put on those dancing shoes, write those novels, explore your sexuality, rejoice in your own creativity. Create in the way that is appropriate for you. Let nothing stop you.

Have a magical, creative week!