I’m glad you’re here.

A bit about me. In addition to my deep love for astrology in its many forms, ancient and modern — I am an artist (oil painter primarily) and a longtime grief-tending volunteer in a state women’s prison. I sometimes teach astrology and write. And I’m completing my Masters degree in addiction studies, relational therapies, and systems theories. I’ve explored the intersection of arts, spirituality, social justice, and meaning-making with clients, students, and incarcerated women for about 20 years.

My approach to astrology and to work with clients is integrative, experimental, experiential, client-centered, and collaborative. My aim is to weave personally meaningful symbolism with ancient myth, images, lineage, metaphor, art, and embodied awareness, into an ecosystem/whole approach.

I was born in the 1970’s on unceded ancestral lands of the Duwamish and Coast Salish people. Born into the era of punk rock, I abide by its ethos of non-conformity, anti status quo; anti authoritarianism, against injurious authority and institutions; anti consumerism: against corporate greed and values of mass culture; DIY: create your own______; and, direct action: take action to disrupt harmful norms and build an alternative future.

I first encountered astrology as a child via some of my mom’s books. As a kid, I spent considerable time in the library sifting through astrology books. I felt a magnetic pull to their mysteries. When I think back, I imagine the young me sought solace and meaning — and I needed guides. We all do.

The first astrology reading I received as a teenager was handwritten on lined paper. A decade later I decided to study astrology in earnest. And I found teachers and mentors to guide me. I’ve devoted many decades to this study of divine science and philosophical practice, and to astrological research, studying its varied histories and testing its many ancient methods and modern innovations. 

I approach this language of light and time (telos and kairos) with reverence and awe as well as some healthy skepticism. With client work, I am curious, sensitive, and aim to truly see and hear the person in front of me. Astrology offers us a profound framework -especially paired with context, a person’s background and social location- and I believe we can guide clients with its wisdom with symbols that speak. Astrology helps us contemplate life calling, dharma, destiny, philosophy, existential queries, and core values. Through astrology a person’s path, history, and story comes alive.

Story is living — it is for us to write.

Astrology is often wildly validating, affirming, and eye-opening. And with it, we can see the quality of time and the arc of our purpose. (kairos and telos)

I’ve been accompanying people navigating grief, loss, and return for many years, and astrology is a powerfully useful tool, and beautiful way, to commune with -explore -expand -and be with spirit / psychē / soul / life / self / nature / meaning.

I currently offer consultations and mentoring. Periodically I write on my website and via publications. I teach a course on antiscia (contact me if you’d like to purchase the recordings or join the next cohort).

I’ve also had the incredible honor to speak at a few conferences in the United States and abroad, including the United Astrology Conference (UAC) in New Orleans in 2012, Astrology Restored in Cape Town, South Africa (2016), and at Norwac in Seattle, WA.

From 2009 to 2012 I served as co/vice president of the Washington State Astrological Association. WSAA is located in Seattle, and is among the oldest independent astrology organization in the US.

I received my Bachelor of Liberal Arts degree (2003) at The Evergreen State College, focusing on Depth/Transpersonal and Existential Psychologies and Expressive Arts. My final project Investigating the Vessel was an exploration and synthesis of work in trauma and recovery, Jungian and post-Jungian studies, dream analysis, and arts: including a movement inquiry practice called Authentic Movement and ceramic arts.

As a professional visual artist I have exhibited work in and around Seattle for over 20 years. I am a process-driven expressionistic oil painter, and sometimes work in other mediums: encaustics, beeswax, jewelry, metal, and ceramics. Dance and music often find their way into my work as I paint.

I have worked and volunteered in various capacities within social and human services for thirty years—mental health and wellbeing, physical and recreational therapies, rehabilitation, addiction recovery, and hospice (Providence and Bailey-Boushay House). I am also a certified End-of-Life Doula.

Since 2007 I have provided one-to-one confidential listening support to incarcerated women in a state women’s prison here in Washington. This work began with the organization Shanti,* and it is a huge part of my life. I am pleased to share we have now created INANNA INSTITUTE.

Other projects housed within INANNA to support people in their processes of grief and recovery include Good Grief and Painting Inside Out.

If you have ideas, want to collaborate, or invest in expanding these works, please be in touch!

* Shanti began in the early 1980s to support people in the community diagnosed with HIV/AIDS. Shanti expanded in the 1990s, entering state prisons and jails to provide confidential, nonjudgmental support. Shanti lost funding in 2013, yet a handful of us volunteers carried on. I imagine soon we will recruit new volunteers once again (for INANNA) to support and care for our most vulnerable members of society—those facing much stigmatization and isolation. Join us.