A Sacred Pause!
Changes to Image Word Mystery for 2026
My friends, it’s time for a sacred pause.
After seven years of intensive space-holding, course design, workshop delivery and weekly prompt-crafting, I’m being called to take a sacred pause.
All my higher angels are nodding their heads in unison:
Lisette, it’s time to integrate.
What this means:
The Image Word Mystery Ritual Lab Membership will not relaunch for 2026.
I’ve placed recurring paid memberships on hold.
For those of you who’ve paid annual fees since our end-of-year reading in December, you have the choice to either:
• Refund: Receive a full refund for the 2026 season! -or-
• Credit: Apply your balance to future workshops, events or art releases. 🔮
Just let me know which you’d prefer by clickin’ this button:
What this ALSO means!
During my sabbatical, I am really looking forward to looking back:
• I want to make the first ever Image Word Mystery chapbook and include your images and writing from these last several years on its pages!
• I want to compile every Image Word Mystery creative prompt and publish them in new ways!
• And when I’m ready, I look forward to bringing live Image Word Mystery workshops back in a new form— refreshed and ready to meet the needs of the new world it lands in. 🙏❤️🔥
But whattabout the newsletter, Lisette???
I’ll still be sending out this newsletter! Just not on a weekly schedule, and probably not on Substack for much longer.
All my past essays & creative prompts will soon be migrated off the Substack platform and onto www.lisettemurphy.com where I’m feeling stoked to tend to my digital garden.
In the meantime…
I’ll be in this garden!
More details on this painting’s progress, my studio practice & scenes from my sketchbook soon. But right now, I’m ushering in some sweet spaciousness and waiting with excitement to see what beautiful new things want to grow.
💐🌷🌻🪻
Thank you to each and every one of you who has played ritual creative games with me over these long years! You’ve changed my life in real-time with your willingness to say YES, and your voices infuse an exciting body of collective work I so look forward to taking in as a retrospective!
More soon, friends.
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I can’t WAIT for the chapbook and everything the future holds for you, Lisette. I think publishing on your website is a wonderful idea and will absolutely follow you over there when the time comes. I think of you often (I wore a power lipstick to a call when I was feeling worn down and grim, like we used to—oh and I finally framed and hung the print I bought from you last year) and am sending lots of love to you during your time of integration 🖤
Love this for you Lisette. I'm being called away too. Just haven't pulled the trigger yet. I wish you all the best--during your sacred pause and whatever comes after. It's been lovely following your journey and your beautiful creative art! Take good care. 🩷