Welcome

I am at your service to provide perspective on areas in your life where you might feel perpetually stuck and consistently challenged, and where you hold gifts that you may not see or that you need help to use fully. My guidance is rooted in balancing your spiritual and practical needs in a framework of ever-evolving decolonized being and collective purpose.

I was born into the Transcendental Meditation community, but then raised by my much older, conservative, white grandparents along with my single mom who was a psychologist and ecstatic dancer. Straddling two worlds and raised by two generations made me curious about how to be a bridge between the pragmatic and divine, how to be rooted in this physical world while also feeling deeply attuned to something beyond it.

 

When my mom passed away - at the same time that I became a mom - my astrologer's closet door blew wide open. Other doors opened too. The door to examining my role in systemic white supremacy and how it is deeply embedded in the wellness world became essential.

 

I ​recognize that I am yet another white voice among a sea of predominantly white voices in the astrology field. Although I'm also the granddaughter of a Japanese immigrant, I walk through the world as a white woman with a lot of privilege. I do my best to offer guidance with this understanding. Guidance that is free from spiritual bypassing and wishful thinking, free from whitewashed wellness, free from hyper-individualistic navel gazing and linear self-improvement. 

 

Embracing the hard stuff and the shadow side, seeing our individual capacity in relationship to the collective of humanity... these are all exquisitely crucial parts of experiencing wholeness that serve great purpose and deserve to be honored and integrated. 

I live and practice on unceded territories of the Multnomah, Kathlamet, Clackamas, Chinook, Tualatin Kalapuya, Molalla and many other tribes and bands of the Columbia and Willamette regions that we call Portland, Oregon. I am intent on continually learning about and participating in the decolonization of astrology. There is such richness of thought and perspective in the voices of the global majority; Brown, Black, Indigenous and Asian voices who bring revelatory, multi-dimensional insight to astrology. I look to the queer community to break gendered, patriarchal constraints of astrological concepts that make way for heartier, nuanced expression. Below is a list of BIPOC astrologers I recommend and from whom I continue to learn so much.