ODES FROM A SEERESS IN LOVE
A two-part, SIX-Act sound, word, and visual art project for deep relational healing.
Odes from A Seeress in Love maps the heart's journey from heartbreak, unbelonging, relational confusion, separation, and grief to the expansive and relieving ache of becoming, returning home to love’s sanctuary to anchor new templates of love on earth.
Odes from A Seeress in Love consists of six acts of a story broken up into two spoken word album/sound experiences with visual correspondences.
The first album (Odes from a Seeress in Love Pt.1) carries a range of human expression, confronting the confusions, heartbreak, and pain of modern-day relating as a highly sensitive, vast-hearted woman who sees beyond the veil and tries to find her peace and place through humanity’s addiction to warring and distrust in the “other” within and without.
The second album arrives as a celebration of love. Our protagonist learns to love and value her clear sight and heart’s truth and experiences a profound heart awakening that collides her with love in new ways. This is when love’s great protectors arrive, helping her assemble the pieces of her heart and showing her the heaven-on-earth kind of love her oracular sight has always prophesied.
This project is a personal expression but is also a collaborative healing project, serving as a balm for our collective warring/addiction to separation that exists until we each find our way back home to love’s sanctuary within our own hearts, our shared purpose of Divine Union within the experience of being human.
This project is best listened to in quiet, meditative contemplation, allowing the words and sounds to move life through the heart.
From my heart to yours, enjoy xx,
Ashley River
ODES FROM A SEERESS IN LOVE
Pt. 1 Trailer
ACT i “LOVING YOU” Trailer
ACT ii “Loving her” Trailer
ACT iIi “Loving This World” Trailer
How do you trust love?
When all you've known is loss and leaving
I know that death is a part of nature and I honor that people come and they go
But how do you not feel lonely in the absence of love’s warming arms in this cold world?
I guess this is why we have God
To know that a love exists so vast so bold so mind-blowing and heart-shattering
It puts the heartbreak of all your ex-lovers and old friends
Gently to rest in their bed of becoming
Loving as humans is hard
I wonder if one day in the far far future when all of humanity knows the love of the Divine
We will master the art of loving
Maybe we will all get better at loving each other because we will have tasted a love like no other
Maybe then we will recognize this love in already within us all
I see it in you, please see in it me, too
Until then, I pray
I pray to the vast, bold, mind-blowing, heart-shattering love from God and ask for it to fill me
Let me know you, feel you, taste you, touch you—let me be your vessel
Let me bring your light through my crown, my heart, my womb, and out my lips
So others can hear you, feel you, love you, taste you, open up their vessels to your artistry
Maybe then they will love me, too
Maybe then some will stay
Maybe then I will truly trust love
Maybe then I won’t feel so lonely
Because I’m sometimes just not sure your love is enough if I have no one to share it with
Just a woman out here with a big fragile heart with a lot of space to fill
And a taste for the holiest nectar
Longing to be fed a love like heaven
— Odes from a Seeress in Love, Pt. 1 Outro (Trusting Love)