The Celestial Womb
Poetry book The Celestial Womb by Ayleen Guzman is a spiritual odyssey that awakens the Divine Feminine Christed Mother consciousness through poetry as prayer. Each poem is a spell, a remembrance from the heart-womb—the birthplace of creation—calling readers to reconnect with ancestral wisdom, the Earth, and the Universal Mother. Interweaving eco-feminist, ancestral, and sapphic themes, this sacred collection embodies the journey of ancestral womb healing and the rematriation of the Black and Indigenous body back to the Earth. Through decolonial awareness, Guzman restores the sanctity of the body as temple, honoring the womb as the original altar of creation and the Black and Indigenous feminine as the key to humanity’s rebirth—inviting all to remember the luminous power of the Divine Mother within.
The Voice of the Divine Mother
For me, art is a living process; it is a breathing entity that works to shift consciousness and bridge the unseen worlds. Poetry, for me, is one of the vessels through which the Divine Mother speaks. It is in the seamless weaving of words, used to capture a felt essence, where I meet the Divine.
Words Born Through the Womb
When I write poetry, I enter a somatic trance. I am guided by the Divine Mother, and through my womb, I ecstatically birth the words that free me. Writing this book healed me, deepened me into my felt senses in a world that strives to enslave them. In a world that is anti-sensitivity, anti-sensuality, anti-body, anti-womb, this book serves as de-armor. I emerged into the world anew—open, hurting, and unafraid to love. In poetry, I drop into myself in a way that serves as resistance against the colonial, capitalistic patriarchy—pleasure as activism. My body herself is an altar of pleasure that wins the war of hatred, rooted in anti-Earth, anti-Blackness, anti-feminine, anti queerness energy. In poetry, I feel myself to free the world.
