Firebird is a three-month container that takes you on a journey into the areas of life that brings you into relationship with your pleasure, compassion, power, self-worth, creativity and integrity. With your astrological charts & the great old wisdom tales as guides, we draw on therapeutic storytelling, mythology, personal ceremonies, body work & sound healing to catalyze transformation within you. In the tales of old, the Firebird is a creature of mystery and beauty, a source of vitality that heroes will go on the quest of a lifetime to obtain. The sovereign of the tale comes into possession of a single luminous feather of the Firebird, and then, overcome by desire, won’t rest until they have the whole bird to themselves. In one famous slavic tale, a young prince rides the back of a grey wolf to find the Firebird. His quest unfolds into an odyssey of grief, desire, cunning & initiation.

The Firebird package is also an odyssey, but it’s not for everyone. It’s for those who are curious about how the world of mythic imagination can help them cognitively reframe their life circumstances and create more of what they want from the perspective of their deepest self. It’s for those who are curious about a fresh way of seeing, shaking up solidified views and dissolving the perception of what confines them. It’s for those who are willing to take responsibility for their experience rather than be told their fortune. It’s for those who intuitively know that this curiosity, self-responsibility and imagination, with the help of a caring container, will guide them into greater alignment.

The time-track of this package is six sessions over a period of three months.

We’ll use the first session to look at your astrological charts (it’s not only your natal chart; you have several!) and see what track aligns with your what you want for yourself right now in the context of your current life cycles. We accomplish this by looking at the core planetary forces that are activated for you in your current life stage. You may be in a Jupiter cycle, or a Saturn cycle, or a Uranus cycle, and each of these represents an invitation into a unique course of treatment, exploration & response. We’ll choose the path for you that best responds to the challenging aspects of your circumstances (both alleviating them and beautifying, or making art of them, in a “make lemonade out of lemons” style) and also helps you create more of what you want. This usually means that we choose a specific track of focus: 1) relationships & sex, 2) ancestral/intergenerational patterns, 3) self-expression & career, or 4)a deep dive into your personal astrological charts and how to navigate them.

Many times in my one-on-one sessions, a spontaneous outside-the-box solution suddenly appears to a client who has faced a seemingly insurmountable obstacle. This takes on the magic of the Firebird’s feather: “how can we have more moments of awareness like that? How can we dissolve the perception of what’s confining us?” Poetic assessments of clients’ circumstances, too, take on the magic of the Firebird’s feather. I arrived at astrology through the path of storytelling, poetics & art. And I know that the stories others condition us to believe about who we are, from a very early age, place us under a kind of trance or spell. It takes magical, tricksterish, radically pleasurable forms of storytelling to break those spells. Astrological consultations with me are conversations that connect your present moment to the bigger picture, where we spin & weave the liberating stories that invite you into a more conscious relationship to your joy, your grief & your essential genius.

What is your sacred & unruly process of unlearning the way stories about yourself have been programmed into you from others? I’m here to use these profound technologies of story to help you break those spells and bring you into a relationship with the deeper mythic story of your soul, and to assist you in your journey of awakening to the beauty & pleasure available to you in your life. I want to help bring you into contact with your inner companions & guides through the labyrinths of cunning, grief, desire, pleasure, nourishment & rejuvenation. I want to bring you to a place of asking questions like: “what is this magic? how can I have more of it?” while also helping you arrive at equilibrium & contentment within your present moment. These are extreme times, and we each incarnate into the extremity of the times we’re living in for a specific reason, with unique gifts. I want to motivate you into a deeper relationship with what you’re alive on this earth to do right now.

This work might be for you if:

*You are curious and imaginative, and willing to think outside the box.

*You are willing to take responsibility for your own experience rather than seeing yourself as a victim of astrological influences.

*You’re willing to honor this agreement of curiosity, responsibility and imagination as the cornerstones of our work space together.

*You want to recognize the deepest, most profound, patterns, of mythic proportions, that are at play in your life.

*You want to relate to these patterns consciously, reframe your perspective on them, or change them.

*You want to feel connected to the realm of the invisibles, of the gods, in an ancient wisdom tradition.

*You want a compassionate guide, medicinal stories, sound healing & somatic & visionary techniques to help you find your way through physical & emotional pain toward a place of alignment.

and/or

*You feel like the road is blocked and you’re seeking a map that helps you find an alternate route.

*You want to tap into your birthright of self-expression to co-create more beauty and integrity in your life.

*You want to inhabit your full wild creativity and shake things up with it.

I’m here to witness & share light with you throughout the transformation you experience as your quest for the Firebird unfolds. I invite you to join me for a 30 minute consultation call ($25) to explore any questions you may have and to gauge our chemistry & alignment.

The occultist Aidan Wachter, author of renowned book Six Ways, writes: "While I believe we have something akin to a destiny, fate, or even better ‘wyrd’ – a path & direction we are on that was set when we began this life – we have a degree of control or influence on it beyond the purely physical and obvious choices."

While our souls have made specific choices about how to incarnate into this body and this world at this time- the circumstances that compose our fate- there are also other choices available to us at all times, wherein we may negotiate our life direction in the context of specific trajectories in the material world.

It's not as simple as a facile fate/free will dichotomy: as conduits of the ineffable, the universe invites our active participation in order to make all the stardust ideals of what our life may be, the prima materia, into manifest form. I say to clients: you have these potentials...now what will you *do* with them? My experience is that many times this means leaning into your weird side. Your eccentric side. Your dark side. The part of our consciousness that's willing to express ourselves in a full range of ways beyond arbitrary limitations or social norms.

The weird is where the voice lives- and, as the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow said, "the voice is the organ of the soul." The implications of this for our destiny, for our unique life trajectories, are profound: in order to actively participate with the cards the universe has dealt us, we need our voices fully free to be the soul's organ. Fully free to voice where we are, fully free to voice where we want to go, fully free to voice our needs underneath our surface-level wants, fully free to say, "I don't know where this will lead, but I'm seized by a visceral desire to explore it." That last proclamation holds court with the duende, a spirit rising up from below, seizing us in the necessity of creative trance. The duende makes us act strangely, passionately, madly, in service to the bridge of beauty between worlds for which it rises. Self-expression in creative acts that flout social convention, that break through somatic limitations, allow light to shine through the schisms, through the wounded parts of you, shining a light onto the Wyrd that you will walk.

It takes practice to flick on the light switch, and when embarking on this journey, it can be helpful to work with a guide who has the experience and perspective necessary to tune into your current life phases, recognize how they relate to your bigger picture story. In this package, you will use your weird, eccentric and dark side to disrupt a chronic pattern and weave your fate anew. Dismember stagnant fate patterns to weave new ones using cutting edge approaches to astrology, mythopoetic vocal magick and personal ceremony.

This consultation session serves as an MRI of your present moment in relationship to the bigger-picture story of your life. This is a customized astrological session for you and what’s relevant to you right now.

Your astrological natal chart is a map of your potentials. It contains valuable insight about every area of life and is an indispensable guide when you are feeling "stuck." A natal chart reading with me shows you outside-the-box solutions that integrate your deepest personal resources of creativity & intelligence. We tap into your soul's mission and your unique creative genius as revealed by your natal chart, understanding your present moment in relationship to the bigger picture.

An astrological consultation always happens in the context of your current life circumstances, so we will look at a number of charts activated in your current life cycle (all included in the fee). We will always look at your current transits (how planetary positions in the sky now are triggering potentials in your life) and, if you have a birthday coming up or recently, we will draw up charts for your year ahead or other relevant planetary cycles. When you book an appointment you will specify in the intake form what you’d like to focus on, and I will draw up charts relevant to your area of focus.

This session will make you psychologically visible, at ease and empowered to make any shifts that you feel are necessary in your life.

Of special relevant to those seeking guidance in their journey in sexuality, desire, relationships, kink and/or their gender journey. What is your unique style of erotic magic? We explore several aspects of you in this consultation, from your elemental temperament to what the planetary archetypes reveal about your personal kinks and ability to experience the world around you in an erotic way. You will emerge from this consult with a new language for erotic experience and practices that transform your relationship to eros & desire in your world.

Astrology also reveals a great deal about relationships. A consultation with the charts of two or more people reveal potential harmonies and challenges they're likely to face together in the emotional, intellectual, sexual and material realms. This type of consult applies not only to romantic relationships but also to family members, friends, colleagues, or any other significant relationship in your life.