Creatrix: she who makes

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider’s web. Pablo Picasso

The Threshold Guardian tests us for courage and commitment. They ensure that we take the process seriously, that we want what we are seeking badly enough and that we can show that we are eligible to proceed. But it is not just the entrance to The Creative Way that is guarded, though the Gatekeeper at the threshold to the labyrinth tends to be the m

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

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

The music weaves into the fabric of my being as I work on the project and connects me with the energy I am trying to articulate through my words.

With each book I develop a playlist, and listen to the same songs each day before I start writing. I sing to them, move to them, meditate to them… I have another playlist of sacred instrumental music that I listen to with big noise cancelling headphones when I write – this is especially helpful when I’m writing in a café waiting to collect a child

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