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09/10/2026

Community and Columbia River Gorge New friends. I have made it to the Gorge last night we left Portland at 4:44! It is so beautiful and feels right! I need your help finding temporary housing while I get a feel for the area.

I am looking for either a tiny house, cabin, work trade, or shared housing for me, my doodle Tucker (a service animal), and my cat Cleo, the most well-behaved cat I have ever cared for.

I want to explore a little bit, but would also love to talk to people who know the area. I’m open to shared housing for the right situation.

I will be here year-round, so ultimately I am hoping to find a long-term rental. I lived in Denver for 20 years, Costa Rica for 2 years, and have been in McMinnville for the past 6 months.

The animals and I are a well-oiled machine, a team that has lived in Airbnbs and shared homes since 2022. Cleo found us in Costa Rica and has been with us ever since.

I am an art therapist/artist and work virtually, and I create immersive experiences and retreats to help people heal through life’s big transitions and conscious shifts. I lost my community and art nonprofit during the pandemic, and I am hoping to get back to hosting in-person workshops and events, either solo or in collaboration.

I am 49 years old and love music, art, photography, and am getting back into hiking. I am ready to settle into a community I love. I am here to give back and really be present.

I am also happy to live on more rural land and pitch in through work trade or shared responsibilities. I’m open to creative possibilities and would love to connect with anyone who feels like they might know the right place, person, or opportunity.

Please comment or message me with any helpful suggestions or leads. I know we need a very specific property and we will not be for everyone. But I have faith, and I know it always works out when it’s aligned.

09/08/2026

So my medicine is hawk and this morning I took Tucker out to play fetch and I look up to see a hawk chasing a crow. I found this feather minutes before. So you know me… a crow feather symbolizes transformation, hidden wisdom, and a spiritual link to the unseen world. Crows are known for their sharp minds. Their feathers represent clear thinking, truth, and insight. Transformation and change: Finding this feather can mean a major life shift or the start of a new chapter.Protection and magic: Many folk traditions view dark or black feathers as a shield against negative energy and bad luck. Signs and Omens Messages from spirits: Some people believe that stumbling upon a crow feather means a guide or a passed loved one is near. Reassurance: It can act as a sign that you are on the right path or that your calls for help have been heard.

09/05/2026

Part 2: Moana perfectly illustrates what I believe we are living through right now: the return of the Divine Feminine to the heart.

As you know, Te Kā and Te Fiti are the same being.

Her heart was stolen, and the life-giving feminine became fire, rage, destruction and separation. Everyone believed Te Kā was the enemy. Something dangerous to fear, fight or defeat. I get this.

But Moana recognizes her.

She doesn’t fight her.
She walks toward her.

I cry every time at this part.

She sees beneath the rage and remembers who Te Kā actually is.

And she returns her heart.

This is what I believe we have been being held in this space for, waiting for us to truly drop the armor and be ready, together, to live heart open and be who we truly are.

The Divine Feminine is returning to the heart.

We have been living this story within ourselves.

Moving through the grief. The anger. The separation. The loss of identity. The unraveling of structures that could no longer hold us. Remembering our bodies, our intuition, our creativity, our connection to the Earth and our ancestral knowing.

Learning to recognize ourselves underneath everything that happened to us.

We aren’t waiting to be rescued, but for us to be ready to come together.

Because Te Fiti was never gone. She was Te Kā without her heart.

And when the heart returns, the fire doesn’t disappear. It becomes integrated with creation again.

The fierce and the tender.
The wild and the nurturing.
The destroyer and the creator.
Power and love occupying the same body.

This is what we have been waiting for: the heart to return. The moment we remember who we are.

And it’s also important to say you can only drop your armor once you feel safe and have find the work to have boundaries that create this safety. Trust your timing and your heart.

09/04/2026

You chose your card. Now receive your deeper message. 🫰🏼✨💫

💫CHOICE 1: 44 ACTIVATION, MIRRORED DEVOTION

You are discovering the difference between sacred stability and silent scarcity. What you hold has power, but only when it is allowed to move. This is a crossroads and a reclamation. Your soul is ready to choose itself fully through devotion.

The mirrored gaze reflects what is already known. The next move is remembering what has always been true. Devotion becomes the compass. The life aligned with truth begins the moment the gaze is met and the answer is yes. Be bold. Be you.

Ritual: Meet your eyes in a mirror and say, “I am devoted to the truth of who I am.”

2 of Wands | Mars in Aries | Solar Plexus

💫CHOICE 2: 49 DISCERNMENT, ROOTED IN FIRE

The noise begins to fade and your truth becomes undeniable. Devotion is standing in what you know and trusting your inner guidance even when others don’t see it yet.

You are not here to fight every shadow. Hold your ground with presence. Let your fire burn steady. Root into what matters and let clarity guide you. Let opinions and projections refine you, not distract you. Boundaries become anchors. Confidence steadies from within.

Ritual: Place a hand on your solar plexus and draw your energy back to yourself. “I stand in what I know.”

7 of Wands | Mars in Leo | Solar Plexus

💫CHOICE 3: 17 THE STAR, MEET THE WORLD ANEW

It’s time to meet yourself as you are, without the layers that once protected you. Fear and hesitation begin to fall away. This is not performance. It is return.

You are here to embody your light. A light that soothes instead of striving. That heals instead of hiding. That simply says, I am here. I am enough.

You do not need to prove it. You only need to allow it. Soften and trust your truth. You are not perfect. You are powerful. Not polished. Present. And ready.

The Star | Aquarius | Crown

These cards are from my unpublished oracle decks. 💫✨ Join the waitlist to be the first to know when the physical decks open for presale. Details in my profile.

09/04/2026

Manifesting Generators, love you, 😂 respectfully stay in your lane with giving advice from your experience of manifestation to a Manifestor

Telling Manifestors to push harder, do more, and force something into existence is coming from a completely different energetic design.

Manifesting Generators have a defined Sacral. There is consistent life-force energy available when you are responding to what your body has energy for. You can build momentum, follow the response, move quickly, pivot and keep engaging with what lights you up.

Manifestors do not have a defined Sacral.

We are not designed for sustained output. Our energy moves differently. Manifestors initiate in pulses. There can be an internal urge, a knowing, an idea or a direction that suddenly wants to move through us. We initiate, create impact, and then we may need to pull back, rest and allow what we initiated to move.

So when an MG looks at a Manifestor sitting in the space between initiation and outcome and says, “You need to make it happen,” you may actually be asking them to override their own mechanics.

Sometimes the Manifestor has already done their part.

They followed the urge.
They initiated.
They informed.
They moved.

And now there is nothing to force.

This is where surrender can be incredibly important for a Manifestor. Not because we are passive, but because initiation and sustained labor are not the same thing.

Manifestors can open doors, start movements, introduce something entirely new and create enormous impact without being designed to continuously push the thing forward with Sacral energy.

That’s why manifestation advice cannot be one-size-fits-all.

If you have a defined Sacral, “keep going” may feel completely natural when your Sacral is still responding.

For a Manifestor, there may be a point where the urge has moved through and continuing to push becomes force rather than initiation.

Sometimes the most aligned thing a Manifestor can do after initiating is get out of the way and let the ripple move.

So MGs, respectfully 😂, let Manifestors ride the wave of a quantum leap in strategy.

We already threw the rock into the water.
Let us watch the damn rippl

I see people and patterns clearly. Potential. Natural gifts. The parts of someone they may have normalized because they’...
09/04/2026

I see people and patterns clearly. Potential. Natural gifts. The parts of someone they may have normalized because they’ve been there their entire life. The threads underneath the story they’ve been telling themselves.

And I’ve had to learn the shadow of that gift too.

I see through the lens of love, and sometimes someone’s potential so clearly that I’ve believed in the potential more than the evidence. I’ve had to learn that seeing what is possible for someone doesn’t mean they will choose it. And it isn’t mine to choose for them.

So I learned to ground what I see.

To witness without carrying. To reflect without convincing. To trust that when someone is ready to see themselves, I can hold up the mirror.

Astrology, Human Design and Gene Keys gave me languages for something I was already doing intuitively. I weave them together to find the threads, patterns and architecture underneath who you are, how your purpose has been expressing itself, and the season you’re moving through.

Sometimes you don’t need someone to tell you what to do.

You need someone to see you clearly enough that you recognize what you already know.

That’s what a Transmission Reading is for.

Transmission Reading details in my profile.

Wholeness, for me, hasn’t meant being finished. It has meant no longer needing to return to the wound over and over to understand who I am.

I can honor what happened, make meaning from it, and keep living.

I can be soft and powerful.
Feral and vulnerable.
Independent and deeply connected.
Still growing and already whole.

And maybe that’s the strangest part of coming back to yourself.

You realize you were never waiting to become someone else.

You were learning how to fully inhabit who you already are.

Transmission Reading details in my profile.🫰🏼✨💫

09/04/2026

Higher self and chakra alignment and activation. You may experience a new connection or integration in the physical. The magic is up to your field. 🫰🏼✨💫The weaving has returned.

But coming back to myself has looked more like softening. Dropping armor. Letting myself be seen. Trusting what I feel a...
09/03/2026

But coming back to myself has looked more like softening. Dropping armor. Letting myself be seen. Trusting what I feel and moving when I know. Letting grief, rage, joy and desire have somewhere to go. Remembering I am part of nature, not separate from it. Asking for what I need. Letting people show up for me. Letting myself belong without abandoning myself to do it.

Wholeness, for me, hasn’t meant being finished. It has meant no longer needing to return to the wound over and over to understand who I am.

I can honor what happened, make meaning from it, and keep living.

I can be soft and powerful.
Feral and vulnerable.
Independent and deeply connected.
Still growing and already whole.

And maybe that’s the strangest part of coming back to yourself.

You realize you were never waiting to become someone else.

You were learning how to fully inhabit who you already are.

Transmission Reading details in my profile.🫰🏼✨💫

09/02/2026

Quantum Leap: The Things No One Tells You

The calling will always come first.

Before you know how. Before you have the money. Before the opportunity appears. Before you know where you’re going to live, who you’re going to meet, or how all the pieces are going to come together.

Something calls you first.

A place. A person. An idea. A creation. A completely different way of living. Sometimes it makes absolutely no logical sense because the physical reality that would support it doesn’t exist yet.

That’s the part I think we misunderstand.

We expect the evidence to arrive and then we’ll trust the calling. We want life to show us the path, provide the resources, open the door and give us enough certainty that moving toward it feels reasonable.

But the calling comes first.

It has to.

Because the calling is what begins moving you toward the people, places, conversations, choices and experiences that can actually create the reality you’re being called into.

You may feel called to a place before you know anyone there. Called to create something before there is an audience for it. Called toward partnership before you’ve met the person. Called into a completely different life while everything around you still reflects the one you’re leaving.

The gap between the calling and the evidence is where so much of the quantum leap happens.

Can you honor what you know before your external reality confirms it?

Can you take the next step without needing to see ten steps ahead?

Can you let the calling move you without immediately demanding that it explain itself?

Maybe we aren’t meant to receive the whole map.

Maybe the calling is the first coordinate.

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