Author: Elaine Clayton

Stream Drawing Classes at Spirit University

I’m excited to announce that I will be teaching stream drawing at Spirit University, located in Sarasota Florida. Join us for this wonderful time to go inward, freely express and heighten intuitive intelligence. You will connect to your natural creative genius as we explore visual perception and deep intuitive insights. This method is joyous, fun and yet an emotive and empathic process. Sign up here and I look forward to seeing you there!

Elaine Clayton in New York Magazine

I was recently contacted by New York Magazine to give my psychic interpretation of what the election outcome might be, so I did an intuitive stream drawing meditation on that theme. I was surprised to see so many images that looked like feminine divine/empowerment symbols. And astonishingly (this is why I do this work!) there was literally a #46 right smack in the center of the drawing. So many intuitively “wow” things happen just by setting an intention and closing your eyes and drawing with your non-dominant hand…

I don’t know for certain who will win and be elected president, but in a few of the stream drawing meditations I have done, I have seen what I’d consider Trump either leaving or being forced out of office. And I saw the USA embracing the idea of a woman in high office way more than I had ever previously imagined. However, in our tumultuous times, anything could happen in a snap. I can’t play God or guru and so will not assume my interpretations are exactly correct, they are strong, strong possibilities, though.

My quote in NY Magazine: “I see a female image holding the ‘bow of authority.’ Makes me think that Kamala — not really Biden, but Kamala — may draw the votes and win.” —Elaine Clayton, psychic-intuitive medium

Stream Drawing 1,2,3

Stream drawing is used crucially in three main ways:

  1. As a visual, creative-meditation method in where one draws freely and uses color to express wellbeing, in a stream of consciousness flow (think of the coloring craze–how everyone knew that recapturing the good vibes we once knew from childhood while intensely coloring in coloring books, reset our feelings of balance and happiness)
  2. As an intuitive visual tool in where the stream drawing line work talks to us in meditation, triggering memories and feelings in a more consciously recognizable way (we see in the stream drawing, without effort, images that we associate with objects, people, places–these hold meanings and messages for us that have a wealth of knowledge and insight for us)
  3. Stream drawing is used as a way to do in-depth intuitive readings for ourselves or for another. I am, as an intuitive reader, honored to create intuitive stream drawings on behalf of clients who seek me out, and in such cases spend close to an hour doing a stream drawing and meditation prior to reach reading which lasts an hour.
1.This is a stream drawing created with the stream-of-consciousness flow, much like the freedom of joyous interplay we immersed in as children with our coloring books. This kind of visual, creative-meditation is more important now than ever because of the excess stress and angst we feel with all that goes with a global pandemic and social revolution underway.

2. This is a stream drawing depicting the effortless visual finding of recognizable imagery in the drawing–which, when playfully notating and pondering, can lead to very meaningful insights as they trigger memories, personal unconscious meanings and associations which are emotive and important to explore.
3. Stream drawings are also used as a form of intensely deep intuitive/psychic readings, as they become visual tools for inner knowing and guides for intuiting for self, or on behalf of others or for questions we have about life. I have offered intuitive stream drawing readings for over a decade now, and wrote MAKING MARKS: Discover the Art of Intuitive Drawing because I wanted to empower people to develop their own way of deepening their natural intuitive gifts, so that people would not be taken in by charlatans, and could seek their own intuitive guidance by those they trust when/if they need to, but would never allow anyone to get in-between themselves and the innate guidance they are never separated from, deep within.

Creating for a Cause: American Foundation for Suicide Prevention

Join me on July 15th 7-8 pm EST for a stream drawing workshop with Creating for a Cause, hosted by American Foundation for the Prevention of Suicide. I will guide you in stream drawing, a creative-meditation process that strengthens empathic-intuitive sensing, creative expression and wellbeing. This easy, fun and often profoundly enlightening and synchronistically surprising drawing method is one you naturally know, inwardly, and once you recapture it, can use it to center and to embolden your own ingenious creative resources for living a life of purpose and strength.

https://creating4acause.attendease.com

Sojourner Truth’s Garden

In a dream long ago, I saw Sojourner Truth cultivating a garden with all kinds of people working together harmoniously. During our momentous times of change, I could not help but imagine the promise of that dream coming true at the end of much suffering for memory. This painting is part of a private collection. Some have requested prints, however. Contact me if you’d like one.

Ritual of Cleansing and Asking for Forgiveness Through Actions of Service to Others

In this stream drawing mediation, I could not help but see an image that reminded me of a very powerful story I grew up with, in the New Testament (John 13: 1-20), that of Jesus washing the feet of the disciples. Rooted in the act of ritual cleansing (mikvah) practiced in Judaism and historically by the priestly in Torah, who were instructed to wash hands and feet before entering the Holy of Holies. The immersion in water, (“the kohen hagadol immersed in the mikvah”) a form of ritual purity as a gesture essential in demonstrating respect and honor before God. The act of ritual purity in John becomes a symbolic gesture, a sign of the highest service to fellow humans, a great act of humility, think about it— actually washing the feet of another (who ever in reality does this?) demonstrating “the first shall be last”–as Christian theologians often reflect upon Jesus as Messiah–the “Most High”, and yet he washes the feet of the servants, the most low. This is to say it is the ultimate act of love to be in the highest position in society and serve those forced into the lowest position in our society. In Judaism, the most important of all values toward humanity, the highest form of demonstrating true love for humanity, is to be just and merciful, to fight to lift people out of the lowest position of society. I thought of our current times, the George Floyd Movement triggering a cathartic and divine timing event of humongous importance in the soul of our nation, and a chance for real change after centuries of anguish, intolerance, discrimination and assassination against a race. It isn’t enough for white people to ask for forgiveness (and we could not expect to be given it) but only through action, serving the other, those who have been oppressed and abused, will we even begin a process of true reform. I thought literally of the protestors marching (weary feet?), taking to the streets, and voicing from the heart that we cannot sustain a world as cruel as that anymore. Can we wash the crimes of centuries away? No–but by caring enough to hear this message and take action, true action(s) may we allow change to arrive and have a world that demonstrates love and equality? Through humility of the highest order, literally serving the other, those (as it is written, “least amongst us”–those brought low by societal structures and attitudes, kept in economic distress, under fed, under cared for systemically) may we turn this culture around and wash away the ills that inflict a people, for far too long. We are at a time to truly “come clean” to each other–to admit where we disastrously went (and go) wrong, and to stand before one another and God and get it right, for once.

Shifting Times and Our Spiritual Path

Shifting Times and Our Spiritual Path
In these really impressively shifting times (pandemic, seriously meaningful social change) it becomes more and more magnified how important it is for us to allow our personal spiritual path to open for us. And that is a dual transmission undertaking: we do that with Spirit. The forces around us invoke us to go inward and strengthen the relationship we have with that inner voice. The quiet knowing we all have, and the guidance we each are never without, but which we can only attune with when we are in alignment with it, through asserting a desire to connect to it.
I am sending this to you because I have been doing intuitive stream drawings to help us all with these big global events, since we collectively experience them and yet we personally must find meaning in them. I have posted the stream drawing meditations on social media and share videos on YouTube in particular, in case they offer support or inspiration. I’ve done a recent stream drawing meditation via interview with The Westport Public Library Artist-in-Residence Studio Tours on Covid-19, and one on the response to the George Floyd incident.  Here is a link to both of those in case you’d like to explore in your own meditations:
George Floyd Meditation:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyPCKIkfl5k
Coping with Covid/Westport Public Library Stream Drawing: https://www.elaineclayton.com/studio-tour-with-westport-public-library-westport-ct/
While we grapple with so many emotive world events, we know our own paths open for great spiritual transformation and we enter a new consciousness. We can do this together, we were born for these times. Please know you are all in my prayers and daily intentions for peace, creative abundance and vibrant lives full of great joy.

Studio Tour with Westport Public Library, Westport, CT

I had the honor and pleasure of being interviewed by artist extraordinaire Miggs Burroughs and Exhibition Curator Carole Erger-Fass from my current studio in Atlanta, Georgia as part of their Studio Tours. Covid-19 has kept me from my back-and-forth to Westport, but with Zoom, we were able to conduct this interview. The pandemic was the theme of artwork in progress and a stream drawing we did at the end of the interview. Here is a video link to the interview on Youtube, as well as a link to the Youtube video of the stream drawing imagery with notes (kind of cool what came up as far as ethical issues concerning the pandemic). See below images and notes, also, from the stream drawing. Thank you again, Miggs Burroughs, Carole Erger-Fass and the Westport Public Library!

One feels threatened (jabbing sharp angle at solar) is in a creative position at piano or drawing board etc. Creating while afraid or worried is often the best way to allow ideas to solutions to arrive. Thinking is not necessarily the best approach! Creating is a way of releasing mental stress and letting answers come via intuitive, imaginative and spiritual (3rd eye surprises!) ways. As if “out of the blue”. Being creative through pandemic stress is essential.

In this image, we see a lion (go forth with courage!) and to the left, two important archetypes: the firefighter (rescuer) and cowboy (rough-ready pioneer spirit). We have been in emergency mode but have not, ironically, properly cared for (as a society) our first responders. This forces us to question where we are in our culture as far as our values–how is it we live in a society that does not value its first responders enough to prepare them to prepare us for an emergency? The cowboy is a symbol of venturing into the unknown, willing to do that with real ability to adapt, come what may. A pandemic throws so much into our lives in the way of unknowns, it requires a lot of expansion, but can we do it without destroying others in the process? Notice the entire image of the firefighter and cowboy is encompassed by a heart–we have to decided collectively what our true values are and how to put that into action personally and societally.