I’m glad you’re here.

A bit about me. In addition to my interest in many forms of astrology, I am an artist (oil painter mostly), a therapist-in-training at Seattle University, and a longtime volunteer in a state women’s prison. I’ve been exploring 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 work with clients is integrative, experiential, client-centered, and collaborative. Together we’ll weave personally meaningful symbolism with ancient myth, image and metaphor, arts and embodied awareness, into an [eco]systemic approach that feels like home.

I was born in the 1970’s on the unceded ancestral lands of Duwamish and Coast Salish people. This was the era of punk rock, and I have tried to abide by its ethos. Non-conformity: not following the status quo. Anti-authoritarianism: against injurious authority and institutions. Anti-consumerism: against corporate greed and the values of mass culture. DIY: create your own… everything: music, art, fashion and Direct action: taking action to disrupt harmful norms and build an alternative future.

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

My first astrology reading as a teenager was handwritten on lined paper. A decade later I decided to study astrology in earnest, so found teachers and mentors to guide me. I’ve devoted decades of study to this divine science and practice—to astrological research, studying its varied histories, and testing its many techniques. 

I approach this language of light and time with reverence and awe, as well as healthy skepticism. With client work, I take a nonjudgemental stance. I am always curious, sensitive, and aim to truly see and hear the person in front of me. Astrology offers us a lot, especially paired with context and background. I believe we can guide clients with its wisdom and assist in contemplation of life calling, destiny, dharma, philosophy, existential questions, and choices. Through astrology a person’s path, history, and story comes alive. Story is living. And it is within our grasp to write the tale. Astrology validates events and past happenings with exact timing. We see the quality of time. We see an arc of purpose.

I’ve had many years accompanying and tending people navigating grief and loss. And I have found astrology to be a powerfully affirming tool—a magical way to commune with and explore spirit / psyche / soul / self / and meaning.

I currently offer consultations, mentoring, and coursework (August 2025 @ Kepler College). Periodically I write on my website and via publications. I taught a course on antiscia in 2022 (contact me if you’d like to purchase the recording).

I have had the great 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.

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 attended The Evergreen State College for my Bachelor of Liberal Arts degree (2003), focusing on Depth/Transpersonal Psychology and Expressive Arts. Investigating the Vessel was a final project, exploration, and synthesis of work in trauma and recovery, Jungian and post-Jungian studies, dream analysis, and expressive arts: sculpture, dance, and a movement meditation/practice/inquiry called Authentic Movement. Currently I am a graduate student at Seattle University in relational therapy.

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

I’ve worked/volunteered in various capacities within social/human services realms for nearly 30 years: mental/emotional health, physical/recreational therapies, rehabilitation, addiction recovery, and hospice (Providence and Bailey-Boushay House), and I am an End-of-Life Doula.

Since 2007, I have provided one-to-one confidential listening support to incarcerated women in a state women’s prison. Originating with the organization Shanti, this listening work has been a huge part of my life, and it has now expanded into the INANNA INSTITUTE. (More coming soon.)

Other projects I’ve created and facilitated to support people and their process of grief and loss: Good Grief and Painting Inside Out.

If you have ideas or want to 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. In the 1990s Shanti expanded, entering state prisons and jails to provide confidential, nonjudgmental support. Shanti lost funding in 2013, yet a handful of volunteers carried on. I imagine a future where we recruit new volunteers once again, and can support and care for our most vulnerable members of society—those facing much stigmatization and isolation.