About Christine Irving

As poet, priestess, and artist I believe in telling stories. Experience in each field has reinforced and expanded my belief in the power of storytelling to transmit acquired wisdom from one human to another. For me, stories are vehicles for memory, initiation, and community. I think they are the greatest teaching tool we have. Being a triple Leo, my penchant for writing poetry led inevitably to the stage and the spoken word. I love to perform. Nothing thrills me as much as a tear, sigh or giggle when I read my word aloud. A search for the feminine divine led me into sacred theater, a venue in which Spirit is accessed through ritual and ceremony. Participating in such rites made me want to create and lead rituals. Eventually I became ordained - not once but twice; once as a priestess of the Fellowship of Isis and then again as a priest of the Gnostic Church of St. Mary Magdalene. As such, I am empowered to create and lead both traditional and alternative ceremonies. My collage art combines seemingly diverse elements into a whole- each composition incorporates elements of symbol and myth to tell a tale. I continue to read voraciously and never go anywhere without at least one back-up book. E-books have lightened my suitcase considerably. Which is good, because I love to travel. So far, I have lived in seven countries and journeyed extensively in lots of places. My books include two volumes of poetry, "Be a Teller of Tales and The Naked Man;" a Middle Grade chapter book, "Mystery of the Black Madonna;" a travel memoir, "Motorcycle Dreaming;" and two chapter books for younger readers, "Prickly Predicaments" and "Prickly Plights." I have also co-authored and produced two three-act plays, "Crazy Wisdom" and "A Rose in Winter." They can be found as e-books on Kindle. "The Naked Man" is also available on Amazon.

…therefore, I honor mud/ as any priestess must/ asking questions…

Who am I?

Where do stories come from?

Why do I write? 

What makes my wisdom relevant? 
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I hope you’ll find clues, hints and allegations to the answers to these questions as you poke around this site.  Discover my blog, explore Pomegranate’s and Perfume, survey Christine’s other books, comment on the art. Tell me what you think.  Pose your own questions.  Oh, and about the mud-The rain forest at the top of the page is your first clue- all that life grounded in the mud of creation.  Mud as metaphor is the prima materia, basic stuff of our lives -bad parents, good parents, abandonment, betrayal, confusion.  It’s the  raw material we get to pummel, knead and mold into shape, adorn, bake, pulverize into dust, rehydrate and shape again; the beginning point of any alchemical transformation.  But Webster’s  mud is “wet, soft earth or earthy matter, as on the ground after rain, at the bottom of a pond, or along the banks of a river; mire.”  That mud is where we go to get out of our story, back to presence…

“After all,” as Gertrude Stein once said, “anybody is as their land and air is.  Anybody is as the sky is low or high, the air heavy or clear and and anybody is as there is wind or no wind there.  It is that which makes them and the arts they make and the work they do and the way they eat and the way they drink and the way they learn and everything.”