welcome to this journey I invite you to just take a moment to settle in leave the day's thoughts and distractions at the door and just come fully into your body right now in the present and if it feels right to you then just closing your eyes here and as you breathe bring your breath into the center of your being wherever that feels intuitively right for you it could be your chest or your solar plexus or anywhere that just feels like your energy just clicks in here and you're like yes I'm here I'm present and we'll
just take three deep breaths here one two two and three then inviting you to drop deeper still really grounding down into your body and the Earth and this present moment so as you're breathing deeply just feel your energy your weight sifting down imagine it like sand in the sand timer filtering down from your head into your throat the neck your chest solar plexus your abdomen and belly filling the bowl of your pelvis into your legs and your feet your toes and then sifting down to root into the ground beneath you and then one deep breath
in through your nose first filling your belly then your chest then out through your mouth and now if you're working with a candle or fire you can gently blink open your eyes now bring your gaze to rest Softly on the flame and start to let the images of your story rise freely in your mind you may want to start out intentionally with a specific image that you already know just to get your imagination focused and then just let whatever comes come for the next 45 minutes or so you're going to just let your subconscious do
most of the work here all right so perhaps here at first you just see nothing Darkness or a white Mist perhaps and out of this Mist your character emerges maybe you know them already know exactly who they are or maybe this is new you're meeting for the first time either way just take this moment to really observe what do you see what does this person look like observe their face their hair their build their clothing how are they moving through this space what is their body language telling you and how old is this person the
queen Arc is often the Journey of someone approaching middle age someone who has fulfilled the challenges of the youthful arcs they've come of age they've individuated as autonomous adults and they've successfully integrated with Society in a meaningful way so often this character will be someone in their mid to late 30s or early 40s but the energy of this archetype can also be found in characters of just about any age any gender they don't even have to be human they can be an animal or any type of being although my language from here on will assumed
they are a person so just notice whatever feels right for your character and your story now start to let the details of the setting emerge around your character what pops out to you first what's your sense of where this person is inside outside
