Creative Solutions and Inspirations from the Modern Day Muses

Meet the Modern Day Muses

Excerpted from the book The Nine Modern Day Muses and a Bodyguard: 10 Guides to Creative Inspiration for Artists, Poets, Lovers, and Other Mortals Wanting to Live a Dazzling Existence by Jill Badonsky, M.Ed.

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Modern Day Muses & Bodyguard Profiles

Aha-phrodite
Muse of paying attention and possibilities. Aha-phrodite’s name was inspired from Aphrodite, goddess of Love and Beauty and well-known daughter of Zeus and Hera.

Albert
Muse of imagination and innovation. Albert's name was inspired by Albert Einstein, the mortal icon of innovation, imagination, and revolutionary thinking.

Bea Silly
Muse of play, laughter, and dance. Bea Silly's name means bringing play, fun, laughter, and freedom back to the creative process.

Muse Song
Muse of nurturing, encouragement, and good company. Muse Song's name means someone to sing your praises — both your inner voice and the voice of those you choose to share your company.

Spills
Muse of process, practice, and imperfection. Spill's name means releasing perfection, enjoying the process, knowing the power of practice and patience.

Audacity
Muse of courage and uninhibited uniqueness. Audacity's name means liberation from the opinion of others.

Lull
Muse of pause, diversion, and gratitude. Lull's name means a break, a pause, a space in between.

Shadow
Muse of gifts of the dark side. Shadow's name means the dark side of our personality.

Marge
Muse of okay-now-let's-get-started. Marge's name means Midwestern, no-nonsense approach to getting started and staying with it.

Arnold (the Bodyguard)
Arnold, the Muses Bodyguard, protects you from all of these adversaries of the creative process — the traitors to your unfolding as a creative possibility in self-realized splendor.