Most know me as an artist and writer/poet/philosopher. Some know me as a fourth generation hoodoo practitioner. And some know me as a Buddhist with a particular interest in Zen having taken the 5 mindfulness trainings (lay precepts) and received my Dharma name through Thích Nhất Hạnh’s order at Deer Park Monastery in 2007. However we know each other, it is a pleasure to meet again in a spirit of friendship and fierce love for this planet we call home.

I have a Masters in Religion in Buddhism and Interreligious Engagement from Union Theological Seminary, a Bachelors in Fine Arts from the California College of the Arts and an Associates in Sign Language Interpretation from Portland Community College. I received my Raja Yoga teacher training through the Niroga Institute in 2009. My past experiences as an educator, domestic violence counselor, sex worker, and trauma-informed yoga instructor afford me 20 years of experience holding people during moments of change in diverse environments.

Let’s make an artwork of your life.

The wildest way to approach artmaking is to be in collaboration with the forces around you - not to seek to control or direct them. Together, we can harness the momentum of the planets, elements, symbols and myths to become wiser, more loving, and more courageous versions of ourselves.

Along with the blessings in your life, I believe it is important to be clear seeing about difficult aspects as they arise as well - including themes of loss, illness, death, violence and betrayal. Rather than grasp for what was or for what isn’t working, I have an instinct to work with the regenerative power tucked inside of loss. While I am not a therapist, I am a Guide, and it will be my profound honor to support you in accessing your own regenerative power in the face of suffering - just as the Earth manages to bloom in harsh climates.

As a tarot reader, I offer a detailed read of the visual symbols in any spread as a unique, spontaneous artwork created by your life and inquiry. For those who are interested, I am happy to move playfully and fluently between astrological symbols and those in the cards - the Universe tells stories in many forms.

As an astrologer, I use Hellenistic techniques to interpret the visual poem of the sky on the day that you were born, but we can talk about all the planets in relationship to your story. I believe that the practice of astrology is about expanding our sense of time - and with it - our sphere of loving attention to all beings.

When offering ritual curriculum for you based on what we’ve learned in a reading, I lean into my expertise as an educator in the arts in both community and university settings. Everything you need to transform is already at hand.

However we are working together, I will hold with great interest and sensitivity the cultural, spiritual and mythological frameworks that have shaped your sense of self as well as the art, literature and music that best express what is happening in your heart.

TAROT

Fearless, trauma-informed intuitive readings.

60 min / $100 - $120 sliding scale

ASTROLOGICAL READING

Compassionate, trauma informed readings with attention to: transits, progressions, asteroids & mythic relationships between planets. I offer a diversity of readings including:

• natal (birth)

• locational

• electional charts (best timing for events in your life)

• composite and synastry readings (your chart combined with another)

• And more! If you know when your pet was born I can do readings for them too :)

75 min / $180 - $220 sliding scale

RITUAL CURRICULUM

Take your knowledge a step further with a personalized art and earth centered curriculum to support your goals. Includes ritual exercises, readings, art practices and assignments.

$100 - $120 sliding scale

• sexworkers, spiritual care providers, veterans, first responders and crisis workers

• artists, dancers, writers, academics and people in creative fields

• lgbtqia2s+

• those navigating losses and endings

• autistic & highly sensitive people

• chronically ill and/or disabled folks

• folks with experiences of poverty, homelessness and ‘class jumpers’

• menopausal people

• mixed race and multiracial people

• afro/indigenous people and people of the global majority (bipoc)

• people involved in/curious about alternative relationship configurations and sexualities, including Kink/BDSM and polyamory

The following living teachers, scholars and ancestors who’s scholarship, podcasts, workshops and/or retreats have had a profound impact on my astrological & tarot education, spiritual formation and intellectual development:

• Sarah Ahmed

• Chris Brennan

• Caroline Casey

• Mel Y. Chen

• Yvonne Chireau

• Lucille Clifton

• Bhante Suhita Dharma

• Demetra George

• Embodied Astrology Community

• Thích Nhất Hạnh

• Sadiya Hartman

• Sarah Holmes & Karyn Sanders

• bell hooks

• Pauli Murray

• Rebecca Nagle

• Rachel Pollack

• Gayle Salamon

• Sobonfu Somé

• Luisah Teish

• Howard Thurman

And with profound love and respect for the intelligence of all asteroids, moons, stars and planets.