The Vision Quest Chronicles: Tales of Living Ones Vision

You are cordially invited to the…

VIRTUAL BOOK LAUNCH PARTY for “MANY PATHS, MANY FEET: AN ANTHOLOGY OF WOMEN’S STORIES” Saturday March 27 5-8 pm EST @ www.manypathsmanyfeet.com

The authors of “Many Paths, Many Feet: An Anthology of Women’s Stories” will be online for live chats and book discussion. It will be a night full of fun and inspiration!

BOOK DESCRIPTION: “Many Paths, Many Feet” is an Anthology of Women’s Stories. These are stories of Determination, Faith, Inspiration, Resiliency and Triumph! Join 13 women who take you on a powerful journey with their incredible stories of challenges, perseverance, tenacity and victory! Our stories Join fourteen women who take you on a powerful journey with their incredible stories of challenges, perseverance, tenacity and victory!
At Many Paths, Many Feet we believe the journey is as powerful and rewarding as the destination.

The live event takes place the same night 4-7 pm CST in Houston, TX The Hamill Foundation Conference Center 303 Jackson Hill Street Houston, Texas 77007

Hope to “see” you there!

For more info contact: Dr. Nicole Cutts

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P.S. This is the anthology for which I contributed “Book I-The Adventures of Isabelle: The Embryo G*ddess and the Morpho”

 detail of “Tree of Life” by N. Cutts

I’m taking a break from writer’s block to write.

If you follow this blog you know it is a chronicle of the process of writing  a book and pursuing my other visions i.e. helping others to clarify and achieve their visions of success.  Since beginning this process about two years ago my vision has taken many twists and turns.  I am still working on the non-fiction book on women living their visions and still collecting data. If you would like to be included in that project and possibly have your story told please click The Vision Quest Project.

One of the turns this process has taken is a foray into writing fiction. This unexpected turn came about when I was asked to submit a piece for the anthology Many Paths, Many Feet, which is due in March .  For some reason a sort of fairy tale emerged. I had never really intended to write fiction but here it was.  I found out that I had a story, one that has pretty much been writing itself.  This unexpected turn has led me to take a writing class. I figure if I am going to do this I better learn something about it. So, I had my first class today at The Writer’s Center in Bethesda, MD.  I think I am going to like the class.  Our teacher Ann McLaughlin has published five novels and taught at American University so I feel pretty sure she will be helpful.

What about the writer’s block you say?  Well I’m in Book II of The Adventures of Isabelle and last night I kinda hit a snag and didn’t feel like writing…I am not panicked just yet.  My instinct says to skip around and work on a scene that has some energy behind it and don’t force scenes that do not.  What scene that is going to be I’m not sure.  Right now it feels like a scene of a girl sitting in front of her fireplace on a cold snowy day taking a nap after working on her blog, but we shall see.

As always I will keep you posted and of course invite you to do the same…drop me a line and let me know how the pursuit of your visions. dreams, or goals is coming along.

Much continued success!

Take the “Vision Quest Survey”: If you are a Woman (21 or older): Click Here to take survey

Survey Background: I am collecting data and stories for a project and book I’m writing on Women and their Visions (life goals).   As of today: 255 women have completed it! My goal is 1000.

 (The Angel of Death Descends… a page from the Falnama )

First of all…do you believe in synchronicity?

I ask because the synchronicity surrounding the fiction piece I’m writing is OUT OF CONTROL right now! The book “The Adventures of Isabelle” (working title) is an epic fairy tale about a half mortal half g*ddess princess and, of course, her wild adventures. I really had no intentions of writing fiction, it just happened (which is a part of the synchronicity I’m talking about) and I’m having so much fun with it. Even though the work is fiction it involves research. I’m drawing from myths from all over the world so the research mainly centers on this as well as a bit of pirate lore (more on that later). I realized yesterday that I’m engaging in a sort of organic research process that relies on synchronicity. It’s almost like magic.  When I need a bit of information it seems to drop out of the sky.  If I try to force it, it does not work but when I follow my instincts the things that make a strong impression on me seem to belong in the story.

Example: Yesterday I went on a mission to see Falnama: The Book of Omens at the Sackler Gallery (near the Smithsonian Castle). I had seen the poster in the metro underground and knew I needed to learn about it. After visiting some clients across the street at the Dept of Energy I had time to go. I was looking around wondering what I was supposed to see. I expected some huge revelation, some character info or a plot point, but nothing was jumping out at me and frankly I was not really feeling the exhibit.  I was a bit irritated, then I realized that I was forcing it.  I had an expectation about how it was supposed to go and that was wrong.  That’s when I realized that my research was more organic than that and that only if something struck me was I to use it. And a few things did stand out so perhaps that was all I was supposed to get from that exhibit. I discovered something else really powerful on the way to the museum shop (a statue of one of 64 Yoginis) and once in the shop (a poem by Rumi that exactly echoed something I had read the night before about dying in Deepak Chopra’s Book of Secrets). So I realized that even though I went there with a certain expectation, what was to be revealed to me was different than what I expected. That’s when it struck me that I was engaged in synchronistic research and how cool, easy and fun it is…so much more fun than forcing it.

Then the wildest thing happened that night when I was back at home writing. I needed some information on a G*ddess so I went to my 240 pg coffee table book called, what else Goddess and was flipping through it. On the third page that I opened (p. 142) I saw a black speck between the pages.  At first I thought it was a piece of lint but on closer inspection saw that it was a tiny baby spider crawling on the pages.  I wondered what he could be doing there since he would have had to survive between the pages of this heavy book. I just blew him off then re-focused on the page that I had opened to. That’s when I saw the title…Athena and Arachne.

What does all of this mean?  It’s hard to describe, but for me it means that I can let go and follow my instincts and that what comes to me is what is supposed to come to me.

Do you have experiences like these and if so what do you make of them? Drop me a line and let me know.

Take the “Vision Quest Survey”: If you are a Woman (21 or older): Click Here to take survey

Survey Background: I am collecting data and stories for a project and book I’m writing on Women and their Visions (life goals).   As of today: 228 women have completed it! My goal is 1000.

 The G*ddess Unites With Her Vision (Cutts, 2007) 

How important is a partner’s support to the success of our visions?

I’ve been playing around with this question for some time now.  Back in August I reported that I was in love. Unfortunately the relationship did not work out. I will spare us all the gory details, but one of the ways in which this relationship was not healthy for me is that it did not support my Vision.  In fact there were many ways that it had a negative effect on my Vision.  Most of that is and was totally on me. I think it came down to picking someone who reflected negative aspects of my identity and self esteem. Looking back I think in a way I chose someone who was going to make it harder to realize my full potential. Why would I do such a crazy thing? FEAR…yes fear again. It just keeps rearing its ugly head (s).

On my Vision Quest I have encountered the 1000-headed monster called Fear in several guises, but one face that occurs most frequently is the fear of taking up my true power.  Because of this fear I have reached for things that have helped to keep me down and keep me small.  Sadly this recent relationship was one of those things. Rather than picking someone who would act as a mirror that reflected my truly beautiful and powerful self I picked a person who reflected my small shadow self, the self that thinks I don’t deserve love and success.

I don’t regret this relationship at all because it was necessary to confront this negative picture of myself in order to challenge it. Ending the relationship was an important step in saying “NO!” to that negative shadow side of my identity. That ending was another starting point for me in the endless quest to realize my true self.  The work now, day by day, is living as the woman I am becoming.  It is pretty challenging in many ways but also really exciting.

Are there ways in which you are keeping yourself small? Drop me a line and tell me about it.

Take the “Vision Quest Survey”: If you are a Woman (21 or older): Click Here to take survey

Survey Background: I am collecting data and stories for a project and book I’m writing on Women and their Visions (life goals).   As of today: 226 women have completed it! My goal is 1000.