Creative Spark card: Mother

A creative prompt to dive deeper

This is my second Creative Spark card. If you missed the previous post, the idea behind these cards is to develop a deck of creative prompts that encourage deeper reflection and discovery - either for yourself, or for the subjects you’re working with in your creative projects.

As I wrote about motherhood this week, and since I keep pulling oracle cards related to the theme of mothering, I felt I should create my own Mother card.

Working with the Mother card

There are lots of ways to consider the Mother card. There’s our relationship to our own mothers, whatever that might be, and also to any other mother figures in our lives, as well as grandmothers and other female ancestors. There’s our ancestry back throughout the generations, and the way female roles have been acknowledged and treated through that history, which calls to mind feminine power and energy in general. There’s our own role as a mother or mother figure, whether we have children or not, whether we wanted to have children or not. There’s the creative power of motherhood - birth, new life, creative energy, but also the use of the self in that process.

There’s also our Mother Earth. The image on this card is more abstract than I usually work with, but I wanted the legs of the mother figure to descend downwards like tree roots. The image of the mother and baby in blue against the halo behind them is slightly subversive of traditional Christian imagery, but also reminiscent of the sea and the land of our planet.

Here are a few ideas and exercises you can explore with this card.