To use your creative powers -- to create by listening or watching or reading or sewing or painting or planting or...well, you get the picture -- is next to godliness. We all have imaginations. We have to learn to use our imaginations. The person who thinks that she or he does not have a creative or imaginative bone in their bodies has not become in tune with what has been an integral part of them all along. In order to Tend the Magicks effectively, and to enjoy your Tendings even more. you must reach within and get in tune with yourself. Embracing your imagination is a major part of all of that. To deny it is denying Yourself.

Perhaps one of the strongest natural expressions of and to the Magicks lies with our musics. Our musics move us in its creations, its presentation and its remembrance. From the music of two rocks banged together in sporadic rhythm to the planned (and unplanned) meanderings of techno, this has always been so.
Stop -- just for a brief moment -- and think about how music has always been in your lives...singing and signing along with your favourite TV show when you were very young...your first date (what was that song on the Ford’s radio?)...your first break-up (that song that still comforts you to this very day)...weddings...funerals...
The driving beat thrums through the bodies of us all, even those of us who have extreme hearing impairments. The syncopated rhythms entice us to sway automatically to that beat...sets our toes to tappin’ without us realizing it. The gentle solace of a slow classical piece sends you to other places.
All of these add up to a significantly powerful force.

The Magicks breathe with it, through it and -- yes -- along with it.
Be aware of the musics around you: the birdsongs, the sighing of that breeze through the trees, the trees themselves humming and vibrating with their own life-forces. Let the musics evoke every and any emotion.
Allow the musics to take you there.
Listen to them, compose them, play with them. And soon you will feel more in tune with whatever messages that the Magicks are sending to you. And you will find it easier to send messages to the Magicks. Through your awareness on all levels, your Tendings will become more vibrant and more sympathetic to the things and those around you. Then the melody will whisper through you. The musics and the Magicks will bring you to your special place, that place where you and the Magicks become as one.

Spend some time every day paying attention to your imagination. Your imagination is very capable of talking with you as you are very capable of communicating with it. Try things...begin and keep a journal, listen to your favourite CD...take a walk and look and listen to the natural (and sometimes the un-natural) things and sounds that are around you...the smells, the sounds, the feeling of that pine tree that has grown in your yard ever since you can remember...and ENJOY! Take a photograph, watch a television program with friends and family -- perhaps paying just a little more attention to the details of the program and the people around you as well...work on that embroidery that you started so many months ago. Complete things, for completion of our goals no matter how big or how small is yet another very important way of Tending the Magicks.

Learn as much as you can about yourself.
You just might surprise yourself!