Artist of the Enlivened, Mused by the Seasons of Time
Enlivened Key Podcast
A collection stream of vocalized notes in devotion to consumption. Sharing research and lived experiences in connection to alcohol, nature kinship with layers of story, myth and archaeological evidence to help form pathways of relating.
The Enlivened Arts focus on consumption.
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From the ancient rituals of Libation, Unity and The Bragr Cup to the rekindling of modern Wassailing Traditions, alcohol has been a companion of human’s in life and death.
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The practice of honoring, preparing and feeding the seasons in cyclic patterning comes alive in calendar traditions and our mythic stories. Gathering twice per year at the balancing of the seasonal shifts, we listen, observe, and provide in-sight to what seeds and nourishes both the dark and light half of the zodiacal year.
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The key to consuming is the awe.
The Enlivened Key is what allows for locked doors to open, circles to join and bridges to form. However, the magic in the key is deceptively simple. The key is us, humanity and all that comes with that. So the question for the key is how might I live well, experience all that I came here to carry out so that I may find my way to dying well? Becoming an ancestor of the Earth.
Rachelle's multifaceted background spans the arts, occult, alternative medicine and beverage industries. Her experience, research and studies are rooted in the senses, alcohol and the merging of anthropomorphic history and historical anthropology with ceremonial practices as awe-inspiring pathways for understanding alcohol's role in our individual lives and humanity's development of cultural traditions. Engaging with mind altering substances for connection and healing that offer relief, even joy in daily or ritualized activities for marking significant events of life paradoxically could be the very thing that connects us to both the human and other than human world. There is an ancient Chinese text called the Huang Di Nei Jing that is a core principle in acupuncture that generally translates to “If there is free flow, there is no pain; if there is pain there is lack of free flow.” When we constrict, confine, stagnate or wall ourselves into our own experiences we create pain and isolation. A way to ease the dis-ease lies within the movement of the muse, the art of living. In the poem Inanna and the God of Wisdom we find Inanna and Enki (God of Wisdom) getting drunk together, but through this drunkenness Inanna is able to “hold her drink” and receives the gift. The enigma of this gift, “mes” is that it includes things like knowledge, sadness, musical instruments, law, order, separation to name a few and the skills that are essential for human society.