Creatrix: she who makes

I am aware that this means that parts of the book will make you uncomfortable too, depending on what has been suppressed in your own life and expression.

In order to create, we have to find ways to be comfortable in the void. This tends to involve keeping our bodies and hands busy whilst our psyche travels through this space, doing something that requires a degree of concentration: knitting, sewing, cleaning, sorting materials, exercising, driving…tasks that novelist Kate Atkinson describes as “mind

Blessed are the weird people: poets, misfits, writers, mystics, painters, troubadours for they teach us to see the world through different eyes. Jacob Nordby, Blessed are the Weird

Facing the void feels so overwhelming because it is the birthplace of limitless possibility. It is the place of potential new life, and the repository of the old.

consciously cultivated, habits can be the protective riverbanks that guide the effortless flow of your creative energy. Hiro Boga

Our culture teaches us about Art as a commodity, and celebrity as something that goes along with it. It has little to teach about creativity, the lived process, the reality…

All of us have to learn how to invent our lives, make them up, imagine them. We need to be taught these skills; we need guides to show us how. Without them, our lives get made up for us by other people. Ursula le Guin

kairos, a specific, opportune moment that stands apart – a time that is timeless, perpetual, “a passing instant when an opening appears which must be driven through if success is to be achieved.” xxvi

With experience we learn that all projects, just like all births, have their own innate rhythm and that no matter how much we try to push and shove, some are slow-burns or simply need more time. This is why, as creatrixes, our deadlines must always be negotiated four ways: between ourselves, those we are creating for, the work and the creative Sour

What defines a creatrix is less the sex of the body that a person was born into, but rather that they live in contact with that in our culture which has been designated the Feminine – the fluid and flowing – and devote themselves to bringing these qualities to birth through their bodies.