In my 1-1 sessions with people, I treat our time as an opportunity to drop into a deep reflective conversation. My skills as an astrologer matter just as much as your willingness to be in a state of self-inquiry and reflection.  I aim to share what feels relevant at the time of our session and also hold space for you to engage with the information, poetry, and symbols in an exploratory way. My style of reading is pretty conversational so there is a lot of space to share how things are landing. 

My aim is to create a container that feels safe enough for the different parts of yourself to speak. The chart reveals many parts of your personality as well as the integration of all of these into one whole.  Engaging with the language of astrology is a path of becoming more whole, and reaching toward deep acceptance of self, which I believe leads to acceptance of others, which can heal the world. 

As a teacher, I hail from a Pisces & Sagittarius stellium. Therefore, I prefer to create and hold space for folks to be sharing stories, struggles and learnings rather than lecturing on a one way information highway. I identify strongly as a teacher and it is a primary way that I engage others in astrology. I believe astrology should be learned in community, it is far too complex to do it alone. In my workshops and classes, I intentionally create spaces for community building, conversation, reflection, self-inquiry, creative integration of information, sharing and witnessing. I love the small and soulful crew that seeks a regular astrology home base, and welcome new folks who are seeking and exploring this language for the first time. Priority always goes to queer, trans, non-binary, 2-spirit Black and Indigenous folks, and People of Color.

My first astrology teacher was Deborah Singletary of vissioncarriers.com in 2015 based out of Harlem, NY. After receiving my first formal teachings from Deborah, I found myself poured over every astrology book I could find on my long commutes between Brooklyn and Queens for several years. I eventually moved to the West Coast to attend the Portland School of Astrology and completed their first and second year programs.  I have since taken in-person intensives and online classes from Amanda Moreno (Evolutionary Astrology Immersion Modules 1 and 2 2023), Demetra George (In person intensive on the 12 Houses 2018, online class on asteroid goddesses 2019), Shu Yap (solar returns class 2020), and Jason Holley (Experiential Astrology online group 2023). Other teachers I’m influenced by: Jessica Lanyadoo, Kelly Surtees, Chris Brennan, Diana Rose Harper, Naike Swai, Alice Sparkly Kat, LiZhen Wang.

Additionally, in 2020, as the pandemic started, I found a teacher who started offering his classes of the Tonalpohualli over zoom. I had dreamed of one day being able to learn my ancestral time keeping system and I felt like my dreams were coming true. Akaxe Gomez is a visual arts scholar and teacher of the Toltekatl semiotics who was taught by his father Maestro Arturo Mesa Gutierrez. Many people refer to this as the “Aztec Calendar” or the “Mayan Calendar” which is a simplification and misunderstanding of this system. This system of keeping time holds the same structure form Central America all the way to the Northern parts of South America. The language, names, and cultural context changes through the different regions, but the basic structure is the same. I still attend classes every week, and after almost four years I still consider myself a novice. Learning this ancestral knowledge has changed my consciousness in significant ways and influences my astrology work daily.

I also receive many teachings from the natural world everyday.  As a farmer, the changing seasons and natural cycles impact my livelihood deeply. This is a great teacher for me and helps me gain deeper understanding and insight into astrological aspects and transits all the time.  I incorporate this into my teaching and readings.  The four primary elements that make up all life on earth and in the cosmos are truly the original teachers and gift givers of astrology.

The tradition of astrology I practice is often referred to as “Western Astrology.” This naming is a deeply colonial framing, as this tradition originates far from the colonial era and mentality of patriarchy and white supremacy.  I believe the first human societies across our planet were guided by the movements of the stars and planets. The knowledge of the stars was essential for survival from time immemorial. From what we know, the roots of all astrological knowledge in this tradition comes from the people of Ancient Egypt between 3000BCE-395 CE and Ancient Mesopotamia (modern day Iraq and Syria) between 2000-0 BCE. This is just from the hard evidence that has been gathered among historians and astrologers. I believe the history is much older than that.  The long history and path of the evolution, persecution, renaissance, and colonization of this tradition takes us from the desert roots into Persia, Greece, Rome, the Arab peninsula, Europe, and finally across the Atlantic to this continent.  

Let us imagine the astrologers of this long lineage and offer thanks for keeping this precious knowledge alive and evolving.

• YES WORLD JAMS: intensive retreat for exploring personal, inter-personal and systemic change

• Buddha Dharma: I’ve attended many Vipassana Meditation Retreats since 2015. The teachings I’ve received from many different teachers and books has heavily influenced my understanding and approach to healing and wellness.

• Teaching: I have been teaching in mainstream classroom settings as well as many alternative education settings since 2003. I am a teacher at heart and this shapes the offerings I put out into the world.

• Herbalism: I’ve been studying herbalism since 2017 and practicing in community with friends and collectives. I have studied with Estela Roman, Batul True Heart, Shane Case, Karyn Sanders, Sarah Holmes, The Canoe Journey Herbalists and many more.