Hello, Cherry!
Thank you for visiting my blog to chat about your new book The Circle
of Nine, which I understand hits the shelves on Sep 1st in the USA, and shortly
afterwards in the UK? Please tell us a little more about it?
'It will be a pleasure. The Circle of Nine describes nine feminine archetypes, and how they relate
to our own lives. I first came across "the nine" in the 1980s when I was in the company
of other women looking for a new approach to feminine spirituality, but I soon realised it would need to be an approach that tied in with busy lives and modern expectations. I did in fact write an
earlier version of the book, but this one really is new, much expanded, and I now get to include my experience as a grandmother, too!
'Our original "Nine Ladies" group was named after a stone
circle in Derbyshire, but I’ve now discovered that a ‘circle of nine’ has long been a kind of magical
template for women working together,
both in myth and in history. It’s all in the first chapter of the book.
'I knew I wanted to be a writer from the age of about four,
but I imagined that I’d write wonderful stories for children. During my teenage years
I became a contributor to Jackie magazine, and also to the Poetry Review. But I’ve
ended up writing mainly what I call "creative non-fiction". As the biographer Michael Holroyd
says, non-fiction is such a dismissive term, so I feel we should try
to improve its image! Almost everything I write about, in the thirty-plus books
published, is personally researched. Since this stretches from Love Begins at
40 to Russian Magic and Grow Your Family Tree, I’ll leave you to imagine
how this works! You can find out more at www.cherrygilchrist.co.uk.
'I write in cycles, in waves. When I’m going at full tilt I might
work up for up to four or five hours, and then I do something different for the
rest of the day, such as walking, browsing charity shops or gardening. Writing a
book is like giving birth – when the book’s done I say never again! But then I
forget the struggle and pain and start another one.'
The Circle of Nine: An
Archetypal Journey to Awaken the Divine Feminine Within by Cherry Gilchrist
(Weiser Books) www.amazon.co.uk/Circle-Nine-Archetypal-Journey-Feminine/dp/1578636329/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1535221868&sr=8-1&keywords=cherry+gilchrist
