my path to here

Since I left the nest at age 17, I have been on a spiritual quest--stretching with yogis, traveling through the desert on a horse with no name, cliff diving with monks, meditating with Zen Buddhists, drinking too much (then getting sober), traveling, climbing volcanoes, meeting my soulmate and raising my beautiful children. 

I received my Bachelor of Arts from Temple University in Philadelphia. I majored in Comparative Religion with my focuses on Ancient Greek religion, early Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism. I took the, ahem, natural route from a Religion degree to temping for corporations in Philadelphia. I landed in Marketing, and worked as a creative director then marketing coordinator for a transportation engineering firm. Though it may sound disparate from my interests, I absolutely found the strength and confidence in my writing and graphic design eye working in corporate America. Plus, I met some of the best people life had to offer me. Spirit brings us to the place we need to be.

My intuitive gifts opened more fully in the last few years, bringing together all the seemingly divergent interests throughout my life into one path toward healing.  As I opened, I was drawn to circles of women, and began finding my spiritual center. I learned to read tarot as a teenager, though I stepped away and back again a number of times. I began teaching Tarot in 2013, and am a member of the American Tarot Association. I  adhere to the ATA's code of ethics, which you can access here.  I am also a Certified Professional Tarot Master and Certified Professional Divination Master through the World Metaphysical Association. I wrote my first Tarot book in 2018 The Complete Tarot and my second book on Tarot, The Complete Tarot Layouts, in 2020.

I have been collecting fossils, arrowheads, and crystals for as long as I could dig in the dirt. I am an Advanced Crystal Master and Certified Crystal Practitioner through Hibiscus Moon Academy. I also served as Head of Student Success, Curriculum Specialist, and a Crystal Coach, from 2014 until 2022, for Hibiscus Moon Crystal Academy, mentoring and helping students train to be crystal practitioners. I have taught a number of classes for Hibiscus Moon Crystal Academy including Distance Healing Logistics, Shamanic Approaches to Crystal Therapy, Advanced Body Layouts and Holding Space, Ethics + Trauma-Informed Crystal Therapy. I was attuned to Usui Reiki Master Teacher with a distinguished lineage. I honor my teacher Rita Strough, who attuned me to Reiki through all levels, and who taught me how to channel and work with the angels and ascended masters. I am also a member of the International Association of Reiki Professional (IARP) and the World Metaphysical Association (WMA). In 2015, I was attuned to Transformational Reiki by Bonnie Hassan, which attunes the Reiki practitioner to a drum to facilitate healing. In 2015, I received my first certification as an Earth Medicine Keeper through Pixie Lighthorse's Earth Medicine School. I continued my mentorship with Pixie through her second level of training in 2016 and in 2018, the third and fourth level work, taking my vows in the Sacred Meadow with my mentor Pixie Lighthorse and my SouLodge Earth Medicine Keeper Sisters. In 2019, I completed my fourth level of training with Pixie. I have been working with Pixie's teaching in SouLodge since 2012 as well as taken her art workshop called Visual Quest. In my healing work, I also use 13th Octave LaHoChi healing techniques as well as Shamanic breathwork and vibrational medicine.  Through the gift of Spirit, I have been initiated into the Rite of the Womb, the 13th Rite of the Munay Ki. I am able to pass this amazing rite onto others, and would be honored to pass it on to you if you live close, or would like me to travel to you. I have participated in Magical Sabbatical with the Sage Goddess Athena Perrakis, which have taught me amazing, beautiful things about myself and the healing magic that lies within each of us.

I see my work in circle as a creative act, as Pixie says, bringing women together to share, learn, honor, heal, listen, grieve, mirror, witness, abide and strengthen.

I am also a writer and artist. After my second daughter was stillborn in 2008, I began writing at still life with circles as well as created mounds of artwork. In 2010, still life with circles was chosen as one of the top 50 Must-Read Mom Blogs by Parenting Magazine and Blogher. Art became my breath, my language, my meditation, my only solace. My art revolved around the hole in my heart created after her death. I painted, rhymed and wrote about grief. I truly believe that grief is the touchstone for all compassion. It was for me at least. We all lose. We are all lost. We are all found again. Through the years of my grief writing and artwork, I created an on-line arts project called still life 365, which  published a piece of art, music, sculpture, painting, poetry or craft from a grieving parent. My goal was to take the judgment of good or bad out of artwork, and just allow. My writing and art are about the Divine journey of life and death, birth and rebirth, the sacred and the profane.  All my artwork is created in meditation--either tonglen or simple Zen painting meditations. 

I am the now-retired editor of Glow in the Woods, an on-line hub for literary writing about surviving the death of a baby.  In November 2010, an essay I wrote entitled, "Mothering Grief", was published in the book They Were Still Born, which is published by Rowman and Littlefield. The book is available to order from Amazon and Barnes & Noble. A chapbook of my poetry called Of This, We Will Not Speak is available on Amazon or via this website.  My poetry and writing is featured in two books released in 2014 including To Linger On Hot Coals, edited by Stephanie Paige Cole and Catherine Bayly and Three Minus One, published by SheWrites Press and edited by Brooke Warner and Sean Hamish.

I held classes, workshops and circles at Alta View Wellness Center in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, for many years, and have since moved to fully online work. You can email me at angie(at)themoonandstone(dot)com

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