ABOUT This is an excerpt of Infinity Lake, one of 12 artifacts from season 2 of Labyrinth Library. The full artifact is 14 minutes, and also includes a guided visualization + practice instructions.
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Purpose
being in relationship with lunar waters. to actively engage with the hidden parts of your creative psyche as a tiny, ongoing practice — noting what you discover in your found diaries.
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Guiding Question:
What is present in my creative psyche, beneath my conscious awareness?
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Excerpt of Infinity Lake (6 min)
Infinity Lake Visualization (4 min)
*included in the full artifact
Infinity Lake Practice*
included in the full artifact
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Hi friends, welcome to Pisces season.
The first artifact of Season Two of Labyrinth is Infinity Lake. Artifacts are metaphorical poetic tools to help you engage with a facet of your creative practice.
In each artifact, I will share the purpose, the guiding question, and invite you to work with the artifact through an invitation to create your own practice.
Remember that artifacts are nonlinear and modular. You may not resonate with each artifact at the moment of their being released — consider it an ongoing resource to return to at any point in your journey.
I want to begin by talking a bit about Pisces energy. In our materialist world, living in the world of dreams, intuition, and inner visions is often discredited as naive, fantastical, or empty romanticism. Pisces season gives us an opportunity to practice dreaming as a source of creative power.
The premise of Pisces energy is that dreaming is essential nourishment. Intuitive psychic knowing is deep, wise knowing. That just because you can't see something doesn't mean it's any less real. That we cannot make things real in the materialist world without being in the immaterial, without dreaming. And whatever we can get from the other world — the lunar, intuitive, unconscious worlds — can nourish us in this world through our creative practice, through making it real, through our day-to-day navigation.
That is what we will discover over the course of this season. We will practice dreaming as an essential source that feeds our creative practice.
Before we talk about this first artifact, I want to share our guiding tarot card for this season, which is the Moon — representing that which we don't know: the lunar, the hidden, the unconscious, the psychic.
Specifically for Infinity Lake, the tarot card that accompanies this artifact is the Eight of Cups. It's also the card for the first decan of Pisces, Pisces I. In the Rider Waite Smith deck, we see a red-cloaked figure leaving behind eight cups, venturing off into a watery, mysterious realm beyond the rocks.
This card represents journeying, spiritual questing — following what you can sense inside of you, this internal compass, but cannot see. Maybe there's no map for what you're doing. It is about the departure from your known world to seek fulfillment in the unknown. And this could be something big, like abandoning the cultural templates handed to us of what success in your field should look like and making our own paths — or it can be in the day-to-day micro, like leaving behind an old project or old habit to start something new, to experiment with something different.
It is about following the sensed, without knowing for sure where the path may lead. And this is the work of the Labyrinth. It requires immense courage to venture into the watery, fluid realms, to navigate storms and changing atmospheres and weather.
Where are you going? What will you discover on the journey? That is the excitement, the mystery, and the trepidation of this quest.
Today, I'll introduce you to one possible destination — at least a place you can make a pit stop on, if not return to again and again. And that is the Infinity Lake.
Purpose: To actively engage with the hidden parts of your creative psyche as a tiny ongoing practice, noting what you discover in your found diaries.
Guiding Question: What's present in my creative psyche beneath my conscious awareness?
A lake is a body of water held by land, contained and mysterious. In the past, when I've gone swimming in lakes, I feel the sense of being held. There's a stillness and a coolness there, even when it's lit by sun. I can swim to the middle and not worry because I can see the edges of the trees at the shore of the lake. And at the same time, I'm not quite sure what's at the bottom. There's cool spots and warm spots.
Maybe you look at the lake from one angle and you see the boundaries, the trees on the other side. Maybe from another angle, your lake disappears into the horizon or into an ocean.
This lake is representative of your creative psyche, which includes your emotions, your intuition, your unconscious, the lunar submerged parts of your creative and energetic body. It is the realm of dreams, of the imagination, of deep feelings that come from nowhere, it seems, of ideas that arrive suddenly, of bursts of energy and deep rest. It is not something we can plan or contain or control or even map in its entirety. And that's the beauty of it.
Your infinity lake is a place for you to go dreaming.
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This is an excerpt of the Infinity Lake artifact