About Heather.
I am a ceremonialist, spiritual counselor, author, and a practical, intuitive, choice-oriented astrologer and palmist with 30+ years’ experience. I practice in Ronan MT, and travel back to work in MN, NYC, and NM.
Writer-1992-to the present: Starcodes column. Member: Spiritual Directors International, OPA (Organization for Professional Astrology), ,NCGR (National Council for Geocosmic Research), and a Druid grade member of OBOD- Order of Bards, Ovates, and Druids.
I’ve been on a lifelong interfaith spiritual search and have had an intuitive counseling practice since 1978. I’ve lived in many parts of the country and in wildly different cultures, from NYC to rural North Dakota, from New England to New Mexico, and now live in the beautiful Flathead Valley, on the Salish Kootenai Reservation, just north of Missoula, Mt. My sense of the enormity of soul and breath of possibilities have been stretched and fed by the wild bouquet of humankind I encountered on this journey, and I bring this breadth to my work.
For The Curious, This is My Story.
Early years. Philadelphia & New England.
My mother was an artistic psychiatric nurse, my father was an abstract mathematician; our family joke was that you put them in a blender and get an astrologer. I grew up wandering the halls of anthropology and art museums in Philadelphia, fascinated by the Sumerian and Egyptian sections; those images filled my childhood dreams.
The first numeral my father taught me was the one for infinity- tough on my childhood brain but auspicious for my path. I was rather haunted as a child as I noticed presences and feelings that those in my scientific surroundings didn’t recognize. During a few early health crisis I had clear out-of-body experiences which viscerally let me know we are more than our body. I collected myths and folktales, and produced my first zodiacal calendar at 11 years old.
In my first year of high school, the school’s switchboard operator was a niece of the famous early Hollywood astrologer Caroll Righter;with her astrological books open she was a better counselor than the school therapist. One day she stopped two teachers whose transits were particularly challenging (she had everyone’s chart on file) and asked them to be a bit careful this weekend. The elder drama teacher died of a heart attack on stage and the younger one fell downstairs and broke a limb. I asked her to tell me everything she knew.
I’ve been on a lifelong interfaith spiritual search and have had an intuitive counseling practice since 1978. I’ve lived in many parts of the country and in wildly different cultures, from NYC to rural North Dakota, from New England to New Mexico, and loved each place. I now live in the beautiful Flathead Valley, on the Salish Kootenai Reservation, just north of Missoula, Mt. My sense of the enormity of soul and breath of possibilities have been stretched and fed by the wild bouquet of humankind I encountered on this journey, and I bring this breadth to my work. For the curious
A few years later, in the Berkshires, I had an art history teacher, Sushil Mukherjee, who was a palmist, natural mystic, and great counselor. I asked him to teach me about palmistry, he gave me few details but got me oriented, told me to peer into each hand as if it was a window into the soul, and start collecting handprints. Since my adolescence I’ve researched my way through adventurous life, scanning the birth chart and hands of just about every one I’ve met. I’ve studied with many great astrologers and professional intuitives, employ these crafts in my work in human resources and the human potential fields and as I raised two children, one with special needs. As a staff astrologer with a family therapy group in RI I did some fascinating supervised work exploring the astrological patterns of family dynamic back through generations.
