Up: [[Blue Box]] Created: 2024-07-12 [[Nick Milo]]’s newsletter came out today. I watched his brilliant and vulnerable 25 minute video about burning out on Youtube and how he will be [going forward](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSoeQSegRW4&list=PL3NaIVgSlAVKWUrFOkDW7AEjXaiPQu_IM) He spoke so honestly and openly about his desire to simply share what he finds exciting and that if he inspires in viewers curiosity and a stronger sense of connection, he will have done right by them and by himself. Nick always, always inspires me and if I were in a different place, a place I was in as recently as a week ago, I’d be wondering what I also could share with vulnerability and passion. But I’m not in that place anymore. Between an offhand comment made by Nora Swan-Foster on Tuesday evening and listening to Becca Tarnas’s talk on the This Jungian Life podcast on Wednesday, plus a couple of weeks ago reading Carolyn Soo’s Substack post about zines and artist boxes, I’ve had an insight. I have been saying for several years that I want a blue box, essentially an artist’s box, a three-dimensional jackdaw of art pieces, photographs, books, even objects like sculptures, that tell the story of my life from a depth psychology perspective. But I kept getting stuck because of [[Jung’s Recommendation to Make a Red Book]]. I’m such a long, long way from being able to do that. The insight is that SO WAS JUNG. Before the Red Book came the Black Books and then, when Jung knew what material he wanted to transfer to the Red Book, he shaped it, laboured over it, added the art. #Insight I am in the Black Books stage. The differences between me and Jung, besides him being a genius and me not!, are that my black books work is sometimes just writing like his, sometimes leads with art, sometimes is accompanied by art. And because I’m putting a collection of pieces in an artist’s box, I can take any theme from black book to red book status anytime that I want. I don’t need to wait until I have everything. I’d like the box to be midnight blue and greens with a sea turtle, a spiral, stars, the moon, and the words Profound Journey in calligraphy. Maybe a female hermit with a lantern and Hestia’s symbol of the flame on the top, the sea turtle on the front. Once I figure out dimensions and any special things like maybe separate sections for books and for art pieces, I’ve looked up furniture carpenters and I know who I'll approach to build it and who to professionally and beautifully paint it. And I am going to do an Obsidian Publish site. It won’t include the actual stuff of my Black Books and Red Book. Rather, it will be for the processes I use, some basic information about Jungian psychology as it ties to the processes, stuff about combining art and words, ideas about images, information about symbols, about tarot and the wheel of the year. All stuff that I’ve done, am doing or would be doing for my own purposes in FireWork.