This is the soft landing you’ve been craving.
Step away from your normal rhythms to recalibrate your focus, recenter your priorities, and reclaim your inherent power and capacity with this singular, sacred offering.
During our afternoon together, we’ll share tea and refreshments and unpack the context of your life.
Then, we’ll use the tarot cards and our conversation to buoy your sense of self-compassion, get clear about what’s happening under the surface, and identify any constructive next steps that might support the next phase of your personal becoming.
Every facet of our afternoon will be customized to your preferences, and you’re welcome to invite up to two others to share our time together if you choose.
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CHRYSALIS is not your typical tarot reading.
There are not a set number of cards we’re going to pull, and there’s not a preordained spread. We’re not relying on the cards to “tell you” what to do. We might spend more time talking.
In fact, it might not be fair to call this a tarot “reading” at all.
It’s more of an integrative tarot “experience.”
So much of our contemporary support offerings are clinical that we almost find it hard to recognize more traditional modalities as potent or valuable. We’ve developed complex models of pathology, diagnosis, and treatment—and to be sure, sometimes that approach is helpful and appropriate.
But sometimes a situation needs more compassion than categorization. And sometimes a little bit of the old-fashioned approach (some tea, some time, a listening ear) is actually the most appropriate one.
CHRYSALIS is not a substitute for the care of a certified medical or mental health professional. But it can be an effective adjacent approach to some of life’s stickier moments.
And it can be especially profound when there isn’t so much of a problem at all, just a possibility space that needs to be considered before you lean into the rest of your life.
This high-touch offering is meant to meet you on every level: body, mind, and soul.
We nourish and caretake the body with the delicious foods that you prefer to eat, sparkling water collected by (my!) hand from a free-flowing spring near my home in the foothills of the Oregon Coast Range, and either my custom herbal tisane blends or your preference from my other caffeinated options.
Our conversation will allow you to explore your life as it is right now and allow your mind to get comfortable with your circumstances—and with me. We have enough time built in to get to the heart of the issue and enough time to explain as much about the tarot as you need, whether you’re deeply familiar with the practice or this is your first time.
And at the outset of our work with the tarot, we will invite the quiet voice of your inner spirit, however you understand it, to join the conversation, guide our inquiry, connect us to the sublime and the profound, and make its presence known in whatever way feels most comfortable to you.
All of this unfolds in a studio space designed especially for this experience, so you can be with yourself and your inner landscape in a way that feels intimate, accessible, and worry free.
CHRYSALIS is designed to identify and clarify the core of what confounds us in a single afternoon.
Reading tarot for hundreds of people under Portland’s Burnside Bridge over the last several years has taught me a lot about meeting what matters to us.
Although solution-seeking gets a lot of the airtime online and in our typical problem-solving approach, that’s not the part that most of us actually struggle with. Our lives are so noisy and complex, and we’re so disconnected from ourselves, that it’s actually harder for more people to identify the actual problem.
And it turns out that the tarot, with it’s centuries of encapsulation of the human experience, is quite good at illuminating the bit that’s out of sorts.
Once we do that, in most cases, with most people, the solution becomes quite obvious. And in the cases where it doesn’t, the significance of the stories contained within the tarot itself can give us some insight into how we might approach and resolve the challenges we’re facing.
And when that fails, I’ll lean on my degree in education, my deep experience with creative, entrepreneurial pursuits, and my decade of coaching experience to guide you through.
Together, we’ll find your way.
CHRYSALIS, like its namesake, is an investment of time and energy made on behalf of two core beliefs: (1) that evolution is possible, and (2) that forward movement sometimes requires falling apart.
This experience allows me to meet you at the intersection of those two beliefs, and hold you there for a moment—safe and nourished—while you start to stitch things back together again.
We’re investing in each other because we both believe in something better.
This offering is the crown jewel of my work here at Applied Arcana, and it comes with deep considerations; I need to balance the rest of my product-based business (and caring for my baby!) against these afternoons.
And I also want to keep them accessible.
So I offer three different investment levels, and I encourage you to select whichever one feels most appropriate to you.
$250
$400
$550
All sessions are held in person at my private studio in SE Portland;
I will provide the address and all relevant transportation details after we’ve scheduled your session.
Sessions will be scheduled Mon – Thurs afternoons by mutual availability.
Due to scheduling limitations, I am unable to offer a remote version of this experience at this time.
If you have even a single question about CHRYSALIS:
Get yourself on my email list by filling in the form below and then hit reply to any email. I’ll be happy to clarify anything you send my way.
And if all of this sounds interesting enough, but you’re not ready to commit?
I get that too. Let’s keep in touch—just drop your name and email into the form fields below and I’ll send some free readings and other goodies your way until the time feels right.
Either way, thanks for hanging out with me!
Let’s talk tarot again sometime soon.
with love,
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