She was associated with nature, healing, music, celebration, fame, comedy, tragedy, astronomy, and erotic expression. Indeed, she was the catalyst for all forms of inspiration. The Muse today can be the means by which each of us discovers our own personal sense of meaning, our creativity, our aliveness, our passion. The Muse is the original creative force. We depend upon her energy for creating and recreating ourselves and our world, so that we live in greater harmony.
Creativity is an approach to living life.
Let us do so. But first, let us understand the history and meaning of the original Muses, and what messages they bring to us as women today. The reason why the hairs stand on end, the eyes water, the throat is constricted, the skin crawls and a shiver runs down the spine when one writes or reads a true poem is that a true poem is necessarily an invocation of the White Goddess or Muse, the Mother of all Living. Apollo soon became known for poetry and prophecy, and for the Delphic oracle, which had been her domain. The healing arts were then attributed to another son, Aescapulius.