What are your foundational beliefs that inform your Work?

While every part of my writing on this site and my newsletter, reflects and articulates what I believe, I’ll also try to summarize here.

Disclaimer before we begin: I am subject to change or expand my beliefs based on my ongoing experiences, research, and experiments. Everyone reserves the birth right to change their minds! This is especially important for those in the field of spiritual work, as it keeps us honest and growing. Prolonged stagnation is entropy.

The TL:DR, to quote William Blake:

“For all that lives is holy.”

The longer version is… I am first, a modern animist, as defined by Graham Harvey: 

“Animists are people who recognize that the world is full of persons, only some of whom are human, and that life is always lived in relationship with others. Animism is lived out in various ways that are all about learning to act respectfully (carefully and constructively) towards and among other persons. Persons are beings, rather than objects, who are animated and social towards others (even if they are not always sociable). Animism may involve learning how to recognize who is a person and what is not–because it is not always obvious and not all animists agree that everything that exists is alive or personal. However, animism is more accurately understood as being concerned with learning how to be a good person in respectful relationship with other persons.”

Like my past ancestors before me and the wise indigenous people who live today, I believe that there are other-than-human beings who are both mundanely seen and unseen. The seen could include the stars and planets in the night sky, the flora and fauna of your local ecosystem. The unseen could include spirits (of various types, origins, and dispositions), ancestors (both well and unwell, human and other-than-human), and gods (yes, plural). 

In regards to the definition of “life”: as a lifelong spirit worker I do not believe life ends when our physical body dies, but that our multipartite soul moves onto Otherworlds, amongst the “unseen” spirits, ancestors, and gods. 

If you’d like to dive deeper into this worldview and belief system, I highly recommend the books Animism: Respecting the Living World by Graham Harvey (which is on the academic side), as well as The Wakeful World by Emma Restall Orr (a less formal, more spiritual view).

Secondly, I am a spirit worker. This means my spiritual path and practices are based on personal spirit relationships and communication that I have personally and viscerally experienced since childhood.

I do not consider myself a pagan or polytheist reconstructionist . I am not aiming to practice a formal religion of the past or present, which both of these terms refer to. I have no interest in trying to recreate or reconstruct religious beliefs of the past, though I am a student of them for other reasons.

Thirdly, my research and practice is to unveil the pre-modern deeply animist beliefs, ideas and social concepts behind folk tales, fairy tales, folk beliefs, and folk customs and practices. My explicit goal is to do my best to unearth the vestiges of these beliefs/practices before organized religion demonized and outlawed them. I do this to feel at home within myself and the calling I have had towards this path since I was a child, to remove the culturally endowed feeling that says these experiences are wrong or evil, and to feel closer to my ancestors. I only teach and share what I have come to know or experience, as I strive for authenticity.

Lastly, I am not an exclusionist. I recognize that my beliefs and practices are a unique calling to me, just as there is a unique spiritual calling for everyone. I don’t think any religion, belief, practice, or person has figured everything out or is the one true way, and it’s hubris to the maximum degree for anyone to claim otherwise. It is never my goal or demeanor to forcefully dominate and convert the people who choose to listen to or read what I am sharing. I simply share what I have come to believe and practice, and the reasons or experiences behind it. I do my best, within the lines of my convictions, to respect variations of belief and practice. I expect others to do the same for me. 

A clarifying point: outlining the factual history of something is not a form of disrespect or an attack on a belief. We all have a responsibility to know the history and heritage of our beliefs and practices, and it’s our choice what to make of it. If history offends you, I encourage you to leave my site.

This is all great, but what does this mean for you, when signing up for the newsletter, or joining a workshop?

I will communicate from the perspective that the world is wildly alive, sentient, and (variably) responsive and interactive both on a mundane, spiritual, and personal level with us as individuals.

I will always center healthy relationship with the other-than-human peoples and worlds as the cornerstone of my teachings and services. 

The research I share is meant to help free you from a confining and inaccurate over-cultural understanding of ancient and coded beliefs, giving you the “secret” view to timeless beliefs and practices that are wildly alive, inspirited, and interactive.

I will never intentionally position myself as the final expert, authority, or guru as it pertains to your spiritual path, but will instead act as a companion who walks by your side and shares what I can in the spirit of helpful collaboration. 

Hopefully, this will help to enchant and empower you on your own spiritual path and daily life.

What services and products do you offer? 

Because this is peppered throughout my website, I’m going to simply give an overview: 

I write a free newsletter and conduct deep-dive workshops where animism meets spirit work, directed by the stars, for building a personal and authentic spiritual practice, and how to nurture healthy spirit relationships. I believe in empowering you to create personalized spirit relationships and spiritual practices that are living, breathing, and interactive (which means they will vary from person to person). In fact, I’d say that is my primary life’s work: to help connect more-than-human spirits, both terrestrial and celestial, to the people they desire relationships with in revelatory, authentic, healthy, and enchanted ways.

Everyone, no matter their income level, can sign up to my newsletter. It’s completely free, and I personally focus on rich writing that combines enchantment, education, and empowerment. Occasionally I send out an announcement about a recent media appearance (such as podcasts) where I continue my mission to enchant, inform, and empower watchers/listeners. Truly, this is a rich resource that I highly encourage you to sign up for.

For those who want to dive deeper than singular articles, I create workshops from spirit-led research and experimental practice. These are typically 2-4 hours long, including additional supporting resources to not only help you get to know the essence of a spirit (as it has shown itself to me and been corroborated by research) on an intimate level, but to also help you start healthy and wildly co-creative relationships with those spirits.

Do you offer consultations any longer?

I retired my work as a consulting astrologer and spiritual counselor, to devote myself to the spirits calling on me to create these deep-dive introductory and experiential workshops. If you’d like a reading, I’ve crafted a living referral list that I plan to update regularly as I am inspired.

How do you deliver your Workshops?

After you purchase a workshop you will receive an email with instructions to either join a live Zoom call, or when you will be able to download a folder with all workshop materials inside.

If you have any problems with receiving the workshop, please first check the email you used to make your purchase, as well as your spam folder.

If you still do not see your purchase email, you can contact me with your purchase receipt and I’ll help you get access!

Do you offer payment plans for your Workshops?

Since workshop materials are delivered in a single access format, I do not offer payment plans at this time.

How do you conduct your workshops?

My services are exclusively delivered in digital format. They are conducted via Zoom calls, or delivered via email with access to a downloadable folder.

What do your workshops cost?

Workshop prices range, depending on length, breadth, and depth of the workshop as well as the supporting materials included with it. They are always listed on their information pages and in my store. Please check carefully before making a purchase.

Can I trade or barter for your Workshops?

I am highly selective about the trades and barters that I accept as a matter of discernment, my aesthetic tastes, and private interests. This is not personal!

At the moment I am not open to trading with other spiritual service providers that I do not have a close personal relationship with already.

I am possibly interested in trading for other services (for example I recently traded for voice lessons), and artisanal items (for example I recently traded for some bespoke pottery)!

For anyone interested in trading or bartering: if you’d like to explore if we’re a match, use my contact form.

Do you have discounted Workshops?

I offer a limited number of needs-based discounted workshops based on the donations I receive from my other well-resourced and generous clients. Availability of these discounted spots is announced in my newsletter exclusively.

How can I donate to the discounted workshops?

To sponsor workshop attendees, please contact me directly!

What is your refund policy?

All workshops are sent via an automated system and in downloadable form. As such, all workshops are non-refundable due to the nature of the automation and due to the ongoing support offered as a courtesy.

Workshops constitute professional services and due to the nature of the service and labor involved, they are non-refundable.

In extenuating circumstances I may choose to give refunds minus administration and processing fees for workshops and digital products. This will be judged at my discretion, on a case-by-case basis.

Where can I read your writing?

Some of my writings can be found on this site, but the majority of them are on my newsletter.

Do you have suggestions for how I can also learn tarot/astrology/witchcraft/magic?

My newsletter is a great place to learn more about animism and co-creating personalized spirit relationships and practices.

Regarding folk witchcraft practices and magic, if you want additional resources within a similar vein as what I sometimes talk about (and most certainly practice privately), I recommend (to various degrees) the writings of Jan Fries, Gemma Gary, Levannah Morgan, Nigel Pearson, Roger Horne, and Morgan Daimler.

If you want to learn more about astrology (and/or work towards a professional understanding) I personally recommend Demetra George, Sam Reynolds, Austin Coppock, Kaitlin Coppock, Freedom Cole, Kelly Surtees, Chris Brennan, and Catherine Urban. To learn about fixed stars, I have a free resource guide on my blog with detailed additional suggestions.

At this point my own tarot practice is skewed towards playing card divination, esoteric/occultic tarot, and the Marseilles system tarot, so my recommendations for learning reflect that: Yoav Ben-Dov, Camellia Elias, Bennebel Wen, Roger Horne, Josephine McCarthy, Alejandro Jorodowsky, and Austin Coppock to name a few. My friend and peer Meg Jones Wall (3 AM Tarot) is a great person to learn tarot essentials from, too!

Other than some writing and references in my work, at this time I do not teach folk herbalism. I recommend learning herbalism from my trusted friend Sarah Corbett at Rowan and Sage, and the writings of Kiva Rose Hardin, Sarah Lawless, Corinne Boyer, and Elisabeth Brooke.

I would also be remiss not to mention the profound influence my peers and friends have had on my practice. Most of them have writings, interviews, and teachings of their own that are worth looking into. To name a few in no particular order: Diana Rose Harper, Briar of the Greene Chapel, Jeanna Kadlec, Maeg Keane, Gabriel Rosas, Jason Kei, Rowan Rain, Sasha Ravitch, E.T. Shipley, Pallas Augustine and Rain Mason, Gray Crawford and Genie Desert, Icy Sedgwick, Justin Plunkett, Whitney Hill, Sarah Corbett, and Anak Rabanel.

What astrological methods do you use? Zodiac? House System? Specialties?

I am primarily a practicing traditional Hellenistic astrologer. I place particular importance on lunar cycles and seasonal fixed star phases.

At this time I practice with annual profections, solar returns, secondary progressions, the decans, and the fixed stars (both by conjunction and by parantellonta/parans).

My practice emphasizes the 7 traditional planets and traditional (Dorothean) rulership schema. I only look at outer planets and (some) asteroids when they are in tight conjunction (within 2 degrees) with an angle or planet in the natal chart. I only consider fixed stars to be in conjunction with a planet or angle in the natal chart when they are in tight conjunction (within 2 degrees) with one another. Like all things, there are some exceptions, but this is the general baseline.

I use the Whole Sign house system, and the Tropical Zodiac.

I’ve been a student and practitioner of Western remediation techniques for 5+ years.

What Tarot system do you use? What decks do you use?

I primarily use the Marseilles tarot system, though occasionally I use Ryder-Waite inspired decks. I also utilize oracle decks when I feel it is appropriate.

My primary tarot decks are the Tarot of the Drowning World and the Hush Tarot.

Can I pick which deck you use for a tarot reading?

No, as I have consecrated and awakened the spirit within my decks to act as a bridge to the Otherworlds for gathering insight for your reading. Due to this, I select the deck that I feel is most appropriate for the client inquiry.

How long have you been formally studying?

I’ve been formally studying and practicing tarot since 2013.

I’ve been formally studying and practicing astrology since 2014.

I’ve been a spirit-worker since before I knew what it was. I became an ardent student of the history and practice of mysticism, religion, magic, witchcraft, and the occult in my late teens, and it’s only grown stronger as time goes on.

How long have you been Offering your professional services?

I began reading tarot for clients in 2016.

I began giving astrology readings for clients in 2017.

I began doing spirit work and magic for clients in 2018.

I’ve been teaching classes on animism, astrology, spirit relationships, and spirit-work since 2020.

Can you be a guest on my podcast/membership area/etc.?

I’m happy to explore being a guest on most podcasts, membership sites, and other teaching or speaking engagements. The best way to explore if we’re a good fit is to contact me.

Do you collaborate with brands, shops, etc.?

Only if I really believe in and use your products! Let me forewarn that I am very particular about this. It’s not personal! The best way to find out is to contact me.

Can I mail you a deck/book/magical item/etc. in exchange for a review?

Only if I really believe in and use your products! Let me forewarn that I am very particular about this. It’s not personal! The best way to find out is to contact me.