We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Casey Zabala. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Casey below.

Casey, looking forward to hearing all of your stories today. We’d love to hear about a project that you’ve worked on that’s meant a lot to you.

In 2014 I endeavored to create my own tarot deck, without the expectations that it would change my life and become my full-time profession. Having been gifted a tarot deck for my 13th birthday, the cards and their magic and mythology were already a deeply ingrained part of my life. When I had the opportunity to focus on tarot as my thesis in college, I jumped at the opportunity. Creating my own deck opened up the archetypes and the mystery of the tarot in ways that surprised me, and have changed me forever. I created the deck in a ritualistic framework, and the imagery flew out of my pen in a short two month period. I treasure that I was able to create something, a 78 card deck, without the pressures of publication, and it wasn’t until 2016, after many years of using the deck and sharing it with friends, that I decided to publish Wanderer’s Tarot. I have since created Wyrd Sisters, an oracle deck for attuning to your personal magic, and each deck I create has its own spirit and journey.

Casey, love having you share your insights with us. Before we ask you more questions, maybe you can take a moment to introduce yourself to our readers who might have missed our earlier conversations?

My life is pulled into focus through my relationship with Spirit. From an early age I experienced the world differently, having mystical dreams, communing with the Moon, and asking myself metaphysical questions. I knew I was a witch before I truly understood what it meant to be one. My spiritual nature bled into my creative pursuits, becoming the themes I would grapple with in my creative writing and my art making.

Being guided by spirit in this way is an act of rebellion against our predominantly capitalist materialist culture, as well as part of my calling. The art I create asks the audience to engage with synchronicity, meaning, and purpose, so that we may weave magic and interconnection back into our daily lives.

When I work with clients through my intuitive counseling practice, together we are facing our fears of isolation and disillusionment, and reconnecting with a reality that is full of meaning and connection. The divination support I offer is meant to open up space witness our process, to ground into our problems, and break-through to new perspectives and creative potentials.

I believe that everyone has their own form of magic to offer the world, and as I share mine with others I encourage them to nurture their own creative, magical, spiritual purpose.

What can society do to ensure an environment that’s helpful to artists and creatives?

Creative work is the backbone of a thriving culture. When we diminish the value of creativity, and the artists behind the work, we are loosing the soul of our society. We have put so much pressure on creatives to perform in specific ways, and to know how to leverage their work publicly, that we have lost sight of the need to experience and express art just for arts sake. Support artists and creatives by paying them for their work and contributions, attending their shows and workshops, collaborating between mediums and disciplines, and creating community with your local artists, makers, and business owners. In a world where we are all experiencing so much loss and confusion, art can provide much needed connection and joy.

Is there something you think non-creatives will struggle to understand about your journey as a creative? Maybe you can provide some insight – you never know who might benefit from the enlightenment.

Being a creative is an intuitive and cyclical process. As an independent artist and entrepreneur, I have had to surrender to my own cycles and pay attention to the rhythms of work and rest that are most sustainable for me. At several moments in my journey as a self-employeed person I have grappled with burn-out. It is a tragically common problem that many of us as independent creators face. The pressure to constantly grow and produce forced upon us from capitalist culture is ultimately unsustainable. As creatives, we have to create our own ecosystems of success, so that we are able to nurture our creativity, while furthering our businesses. For non-creatives out there, it’s important to remember that you have your own cycles of work and rest as well, that may not fit neatly into the directives of your 9 to 5. We all must do better to calibrate our visions of success with healthy expectations of our bodies and capacities, outside of the abstract demands of our hustling culture.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.wandererstarot.com/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wandererstarot/
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