I’m a brand & marketing director, poet, astrologer, medium, and dog keeper in Portland, OR.

My astrology works with a blend of Western astrological traditions. I do not treat any single tradition as the final word, and value what many schools of astrology offer. I incorporate psychological, archetypal, and feminist frameworks, and aim to elevate the work of less centered astrologers who have expanded the field beyond classical boundaries. Learning moves forward as we gain knowledge and discovery; it does not stop with the oldest surviving text and voices.

I study various schools of critical theory and apply those tenets to TV shows, film, and life. I’ve spent time considering Buffy, Angel, Mad Men, Breaking Bad, and Deadwood through such lenses. Other topics of interest and areas of study include aesthetics of hunger, faith/divine/the numinous, intersectional feminism, attachment theory and developmental trauma, epigenetics, C-PTSD, and memory & trauma.

My poems have been shortlisted and appeared in Vinyl Poetry & Prose, g a z e, bloodlust, thethepoetry, and others. Essays have appeared in DRIVE, Pacific Northwest Horticulture, American Mead Maker, and others. I co-edited Winged: New Writing on Bees.

Make art that pleases you. 

Current TV series: Rewatch of The Americans. New Ted Lasso. 

Current podcasts: 

Current Music: Jah PHNX, SOHN, Samaris, Ruth B., Space Afrika

Books: Jamaica Inn, Daphne du Maurier. The Wager, David Grann.

– Maryanna A.