Chelsey Pippin Mizzi (she/her) is a writer, tarot reader, and the founder of Pip Cards Tarot, a tarot consultancy helping creatives unblock, generate new ideas, and connect to their inner artist through tarot. In this episode, Eryn and Chelsey talk about:

• Chelsey’s journey with creativity, writing, and tarot
• Images in the process of writing
• Using your tarot deck to have conversations with your creativity
• Using tarot to write better stories and better-developed characters
• Doing tarot spreads for your characters
• Holding the cards loosely!
• Lessons from Chelsey’s book-writing process

Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/chelsey-pippin-mizzi

Connect with Eryn on their substack, Joy Notes. Some of their writings on creativity and creative process over there:

• devotion to creative transformation
• telling the story that wants to be told
• play and nourishing the creative self
• a mini creative reset 
• the next thing leads to the next thing
• scent-sual creative aliveness with Mary Adelle

Connect with Chelsey on Instagram, her website, or her Substack, The French Dispatch.

Mentioned in this episode:

• The Querant by Alexander Chee
• Character development tarot spread
• Chelsey's Tarot for Novelists ebook
• Chelsey's book, The Tarot Spreads Yearbook