An Apprenticeship with the Tarot is a journey through a visual language of life, magic and insight. I teach tarot from an embodied, rewilded perspective, which creates an immersive, relatable, otherworldly learning experience. Exploring the art of reading tarot is an opportunity to learn and apply esoteric languages and principles (such as astrology, numerology, esoteric symbolism etc), while developing and flexing your own deep well of intuition, self-knowledge and personal power. It is both an ally and a tool that you can call upon anytime, for anything, and is a skill learned for life.

We will learn the Tarot in what I think is the most powerful way - by deeply engaging with the cards coming up, to and for you, making the ‘lessons’ memorable, felt, and relevant to your life and experience.

I first found a tarot deck at my Grandmother’s house when I was about 13 years old. I have been fascinated and in awe ever since, and am mostly self taught. Tarot is truly a soul-centered witch skill that once learned, is a an ally for life.

If my beating heart belongs to any one name or form, it is that of the Herbalist, the Green Witch. To learn the green world, plants, earths terrain, food as medicine, is a gift to both you and the land you walk on a million fold, a dance of sweetest reciprocity, healing and understanding.

Together we will learn about herbs from a folk, wise-woman perspective that centres local, easily accessible, and non-endangered plants, from how to identify them through to medicinal and magical properties. Connecting with plants as ally’s and learning them deeply for who they are, rather than only superficially for ‘what they’re good for’, promotes empowered, earth-conscious connection both with the Green World, and with your own, thriving, human body.

We will also spend time blending teas, infusing oils, making tinctures and essences, all while learning how to connect with and select the plants that are both appropriate, and calling for your gentle attention. Getting to know important features, or ‘signatures’ of plants, such as colour, taste, planetary alliance, folk story’s, favoured terrain etc. will allow the plants to show you their characteristics and medicinal powers in a way that makes it hard to forget. There is also the opportunity for exploration of your own body’s constitution and patterns, from elemental, humoural, and astrological perspectives.

Astrology is a field as vast and awe-inspiring as the cosmos itself. It is a language of patterns, dancing relationships between archetypes and themes and events, and can be as literal as it is conceptual. It also has an enormous scope of application - from deepening self-understanding based on your own birth’s star map, to gaining perspective from longer passages of influence over months, years, decades or millennia - astrology can become an integral part of a curious and discerning Witches practice.

Understanding the cycles of the Moon, and the influence of the signs and other planets which it frequently visits and interacts with, can invite an added layer of meaning to the day to day, and can even help us ascertain moments of power from moments of adversity depending on the portals opening or closing with the Luna Cycle.

Astrology is a lens through which we can chose to view and interpret the world, that helps us make meaning, and live in step to the song of the Universe. It is a mighty thing, and a lot of fun to discover yourself and the world through this mystical, heavenly language!

My life changed when, as a Naturopath researching the psychological relationship with Menstruation, I found the phrase ‘Menstrual Taboo’. It was like finding a language for not only a great deal of my own experience as a bleeding woman, but also of the experiences of so many of my clients. From here I began the work of understanding and healing my own relationship with my cycling, bleeding body, and sought out teachers and mentors of the Women’s Mysteries, my heart and mind craving more of this vast knowing I had stumbled upon.

When we connect deeply to ourselves, embrace all parts in their essentialness, their wisdom, their beautiful and confronting aspects alike, we make available to us the full spectrum of experience, power, purpose and transformation that is the birthright of every human animal. It is the same when we are able to recognise Rites of Passage, or pivotal ‘threshold’ moments in life - like our menarche, first pregnancy and births, menopause - and as part of our larger life cycle - from maiden to mother to maga to crone. Healing through connecting with our inherent cycling nature, and re-membering our capacity for midwifing ourselves through critical threshold moments in life can change everything - I have seen it in others, and experienced it for myself.

Working with the many faces of the Goddess and tapping into our own well of both creative and death energy is a way of reclaiming yourself as an empowered, sovereign human and witch, liberated from the inherited or learned structures and beliefs that have led you to ever believe otherwise.