What is a 'free-range' priestess?
I’ve been an ordained minister and wedding celebrant for over 20 years.
An Artist by nature, creating has always been a part of my existence. Making ceremonial objects like my free-range Rosaries is a natural outcropping of my life’s work. It’s a joy for me to create them and imbue them with aloha (love).
My creations are informed by my deep love of the natural world and spiritual inquiry in the many years since leaving the Catholic Church. It's a strange and beautiful path that has me once again connecting to the Blessed Mother / Divine Feminine through making rosaries and prayer beads.
The work of Jungian analyst Clarissa Pinkola-Estes and the book The Way of the Rose by Clark Strand and Perdita Finn has been an inspiration for re-contextualizing this ancient practice for modern times.
I've always had a deep love of the Blessed Virgin Mary who has many guises, names and iterations. Her love is unconditional.
Since leaving Catholicism many, many years ago, I haven't adopted any one religious system to call home but have studied many religions as well as esoteric belief systems. I am and remain "free-range". I suppose you could say that I've gone from 'trying to sort out the whole God question' to simply living the question, which isn't simple but far more authentic for me.
I am a co-founder of the long-running Archetypal Tarot Podcast where we explore the myths and archetypes of the tarot as well as symbolic patterns arising in the culture.