Hello you

(Photo: me and my mom, Lorna) 

At your service to facilitate a deeper connection to yourself, to bring about healing, growth, transformation and self-acceptance. 

My guidance is rooted in balancing the spiritual with the practical. Being born into a practice of Transcendental Meditation and raised by my grandparents and a single mom who was a psychologist and ecstatic dancer gave me a longer and wider lens, a language around empathy, physical somatic expression, and a curiosity around the heart of well-being. 


Close friends will tell you I’ve been a closeted astrologer for a couple decades, but I always prided myself on not “being too hippy”, not getting lost in the “woo-woo,” not using words like “self-care” and “divine timing” and “feeling called” that made my skin crawl because I didn’t want to be too weird or out of touch with reality. 


So I tried on many different job hats as a muggle, trying to compartmentalize my deeply felt connection to mysticism and also being somewhat delighted by the mundane. I've had more jobs and visited more countries (including a few where I lived) than I can count on my fingers and toes. Yoga, fitness, animation production, bookkeeping, cafe management, house cleaning, book indexing, residential real estate… 


Then 3 things happened:

1. My daughter was born. 

2. My mom died 6 weeks later.

3. My mom’s mom, who helped raise me, died 6 months after that. 

My beliefs and blocks were obliterated and put back together in a different way. With the help of a couple dear friends over the course of four years, the healing and spirit guidance began. This is what I am here to offer you now today as a practical-intuitive astrological guide, open to all walks of life. 

I am here to weave together spiritual and practical lessons that are free from bypassing,  and wishful thinking, free from whitewashed wellness. Embracing the hard stuff and the shadow side is an essential part of being whole that serves great purpose and can be honored. 

I recognize that I am yet another white voice among a sea of predominantly white voices in the astrology field. Although I’m also a quarter Japanese, I walk through the world with white privilege. I am intent on continually learning about and participating in the decolonization of astrology, deferring to and elevating voices of the global majority, and breaking gendered constraints of astrological concepts. Below is a list of BIPOC astrologers I recommend if you’d prefer to work with them. 

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.