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Gift a reading and get one for yourself for HALF PRICE A tarot reading is a one-of-a-kind gift for a loved one. My approach to reading is informed by a life in storytelling, mythological scholarship and intuitive counsel. You can read what some of my clients are saying here. To book, choose from the following: [...]
She's back! The New Year Planner - a 90-minute, season-by-season roadmap for your 2023. We'll discuss how to work with your card-of-the-year, the archetype through which all of the other cards can be interpreted. We'll pull specific cards that point to unconscious or shadow patterns to look out for as well as beacon cards that [...]
Happy Equinox, friends. For those of us in the Northern Hemisphere the interiority of night is closing in now, shrouding the sun’s light, that outward expression or yang principal of life. This is the Virgo/Libra cusp, two signs that teach us how to look critically at our lives. If you’re like me, you’ve been taking [...]
Artist Malika Ali Harding wrote a great article recently for Puttylike on her interests in "woo woo" practices and her experience working with this woo woo practitioner right here. Wade encourages creatives to tap into applied mythology, especially when they’re at a crossroads. This modality looks at primordial narratives, those old stories that are foundational [...]
“Emotional numbing” is a psychological phenomenon that can develop when we witness ongoing trauma - near-daily mass shootings, for example, or years-long pandemics, or when the basic human right to bodily autonomy is stripped from half the country. We’re equipped to cope with life’s regular setbacks, but if the atrocities keep coming, our all-too-human mind [...]
Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety. And at such a moment, unable to see and not daring to imagine what the future will now bring forth, one clings to what one knew, or [...]
🌕 Full Moon Gathering via Zoom 🌕Wednesday, February 16, 6PM PST The folklore and mythologies of our western patriarchies are rife with women unwittingly wreaking havoc on the world and themselves. From Pandora and her box to Eve and her apple to Bluebeard's wife and that bloody key - these women were all bestowed with [...]
2022 reduces to the number 6: a number of compassion in the Kabbalist tradition, a number correlating with our intuition (the sixth spiritual body) in the Tantric tradition, and a perfect number in the Mathematics tradition, a moniker likely rooted in the Judeo-Christian origin myth where God completes his creation of the world by making the first humans on day number [...]
Tonight, on this longest night of Winter Solstice, think about everything from this year that you’d like to say goodbye to. Write each bit down on scraps of paper: how you’ve maybe played it too safe; how you’ve kept yourself small; how you’ve ignored your needs, deferred your joy, suppressed your passion; how you’ve lashed [...]
Right now it’s hot coffee and cloudy skies and palm trees that wave in the wind like skinny junior high school me doing the snake to Nasty Boys Don’t Mean a Thing when nasty boys meant everything and it’s this warm knit hat over these thin silvering hairs over jumbled memories of home and holidays and 5 [...]
Uncanny Means 