If the product is artistic, you formulate an idea, equip yourself, and try combinations of the collected parts. Nurturing, research, and continuous input characterize this stage. It is symbiotic. The aggregate gestates and concludes with sudden Illumination or output. Ripened and settled, the accumulated resources thrust into a new state of being.
Illumination is glamorous, appearing easy, as if the creative product springs forth effortlessly.
This stage separates fantasy from creation. Unencumbered, creativity is a natural process that flows through the stages repeatedly like a rhythmic pulse. This portrayal suggests the quality of the interplay in each stage of the process. Old lines change into their opposite. Incubation, like old yin, has matured and begun to lose its attractive power.