The Enchantress. She is my kindred spirit, harem sistar, and deliciously intoxicating muse. Her profound wisdom, charm, and grace imbue all that she is and does. Poetry and prose: she speaks a language of fae, romance and sage... a'twirl with the mystery and truth of winter, which not only delights but utterly enriches the listener. She plants seeds in ones psyche which grow and blossom in the most endearing and unexpected ways. I've witnessed the Goddess whispering into those flaming curls causing the winds of change to encourage the source within all women to awaken, to become inspired, to dance. She weaves a gypsy path, leaving crystal omens for all who would follow. I am pleased to offer this interview with a goddess.
I am delighted to introduce this months 21st Century Goddess to you:
Lisbeth Cheever-Gessaman
5 Questions I ask of the Goddess in You:
1.
How do you nurture & nourish your self so that you may embody the goddess?
My first thought is to tell you by following the principles of truth, and maintaining a steadfast faith that wherever I am is always in direct alignment with the Divine, and knowing that I am a part of that sacred plan. Which is true, but mostly in retrospect and trials of fire. So conversely, when I have a need to nurture I might find a bottle of good wine, some honeycomb and swaddle myself in velvet with a book. Really though in that, it's the texture of the grape, the golden light and sticky sweet of the honeycomb and the womb-like depth of the feel of the cloth. It's crawling into someone elses mind through ink on a page. Scratch all that - love and passion not at the exclusion of truth, is closer. Also not being afraid to have a good cry now and again. Wandering the halls of my harem. And being most righteously and decently fucked.
Can I say that?
2.
What inspires you and expands your awareness?
Believing that inspiration is more of a muse than a process, and that things that inspire change are often fickle, depending on the day/mood/season/moon. It's interesting that you coupled it with awareness, because you can't have one without the other, and when you have one, the other is usually present or languid somewhere in shadows. Inspiration is a tangible presence whereas awareness is its vehicle in that sense. If you take the world around you for granted, then the things that used to inspire fall flat and you'll feel as if you're peering out into the world through a bell jar. Open your eyes beyond the parameter of the seen. Expect to be delighted and amazed and you will be. Practice the alchemy of presence.
From a more earthbound perspective: I love discoveries. The last thing that inspired me was finding David Foster Wallace's word list, which opened the door to a host of unseen things. And always the ocean who is a mother of tangible form.
What poem, quote, song, or book both breaks & opens your heart?
But in the midst
of these very unfamiliar conditions
your inner solitude will be a support
your inner solitude will be a support
and a home to you.
It will be the starting point of all your journeys.
Rilke
It will be the starting point of all your journeys.
Rilke
4.
What truth do you live by that brings you back to your center, your place of balance?
Love. When I step outside of the awareness of it, I am almost instantly lost, and when I am resolutely conscious within it, there isn't a place I can go where it is not deeper still.
5.
What are you creating now that may inspire our sistars?
What are you creating now that may inspire our sistars?
Myself.
Please share a personal blessing for my readers as closing to this interview.
"O Birther! Father- Mother of the Cosmos
Focus your light within us - make it useful.
Create your reign of unity now-
through our fiery hearts and willing hands
Help us love beyond our ideals
and sprout acts of compassion for all creatures.
Animate the earth within us: we then
feel the Wisdom underneath supporting all.
Untangle the knots within
so that we can mend our hearts' simple ties to each other.
Don't let surface things delude us,
But free us from what holds us back from our true purpose.
Out of you, the astonishing fire,
Returning light and sound to the cosmos.
Let it be so.
(Not mine, in fact, but the original "Lord's Prayer" in Aramaic, translated by Neil Douglas-Klotz, from "Prayers of the Cosmos".)
Lisbeth Cheever-Gessaman's Bio:
Lisbeth Cheever-Gessaman is a wander-lusting writer, poet and spiritual activist whose publication credits include Kimera, Sage Woman and South magazine. She collects Victorian ephemera, draws feathers and secretly covets wings. She occasionally likes to bite.
Thank you, Lisbeth
Lovingly,
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