Best of CREATRIX Magazine 2021

feautred image Sarah Bereza Psillocybic Eucharist from The Art Rites of Passage article.

2021 was a great year at the CREATRIX Magazine Cosmic Love Beehive with new editors and contributors joining and sharing their insightful, inspiring writing! As we approach our 3 year anniversary this coming May, we will be celebrating and reminiscing on all we have accomplish up to date. Looking back at 2021 we selected our favourite articles, interviews, essays and poetry from 2021 bringing you the occult feminine gnosis to activate and inspire and to carry you into 2022:

We started 2021 with a splash: ASTRO-FEMINIST MANIFESTO by Jana Astanov

The term has been first introduced in the context of planetary alignments, cosmic energies, astronomy and astrology in 2018 at CREATRIXmag in the ASTRALOOP section authored by Agni Jnana Yannanda. The manifesto is based on the concepts developed for a installation CREATRIX CULT, Jana Astanov’s solo show presented in 2018 at Local Project Art Space.

Editor Sarah Penello‘s continued exploration of Sacred Ecology, this article celebrates the microbiome and its vast unknowable intricacies.

Congratulations to Sophie Strand @cosmogyny for birthing her book “The Flowering Wand” to be published with Inner Traditions @inner_traditions in 2023, this is one of the essays included in the book.

A magical potion by Sophie Strand.

Jana Astanov on the asteroid Hygeia which she also calls the Medicine Woman.

The authorial debut of Frida Future, this article captures what Creatrix is all about- seeking greater understanding through Art and Astrology, and fostering community around the things that inspire us. 

Lenore McRae explores the mythology of the Greek goddess Methe.

CREATRIX review of woMANTRA by Jana Astanov at @springbreakartshow curated by Sadaf Padder @pitterpadder with Jaishri Abichandani @jaishri.abichandani Sahana Ramakrishnan @sahanabanana and Sanie Bokhari @saniebokhari 

Art Rites of Passage – SPRING/BREAK Art Fair by Jana Astanov

Claire Zakiewicz selection of her favourite artists and their galleries from Frieze London.

Sofy Yuditskaya interviews Jess Rowland, The ElectroMagnetic Goddess!

The CREATRIX Magazine debut of Salomé St. Maries- a fresh faced youth’s first stirrings of queerness in the musky, ancient city.

Juicy invitation to a self-love practice, by Editor Sarah Penello.

Sophie Strand on polytemporal animacy

Editor Sarah Penello on the Poetry of the Landscape which is a practice of observing the subtle worlds around us, of paying closer attention and getting to know one’s neighbors of other species. 

POETRY at CREATRIX Magazine:

Shanice Ariel

Satoshi’s Nephew

Sofy Yuditskaya

Sophie Strand:

Gabrielle Rose 

Penelope Fate

Jana Astanov:

Have a beautiful entry into the new year!

With Cosmic Blessings,
Jana Astanov