Hi, I’m Erin. Like most people who end up on a healing journey, I first had to know what pain, sickness, and heartache feel like. Once upon a time, I was under the care of multiple doctors who didn’t know why I was so sick and their measurements and numbers were not looking good, so they kept referring me to more doctors. I never showed up to the appointment they scheduled to have my bone marrow tested for leukemia. Around the same time, I experienced a car accident that left me bedridden for months and I had to learn to walk again. By this time, I was both desperate and motivated. I knew that I had to change my life drastically, and somehow I did. I changed my diet, left my job of nearly a decade, left the state I lived in, left an extremely unhealthy relationship, and walked away from almost all of my worldly possessions all within the same year, while still grieving my father's recent suicide. To say that I know something of the catalyzing power of Pluto would be an understatement, and this is only one example.

In the years that followed, I went on to complete multiple herbalism certificates and clinical trainings, primarily in the western vitalist tradition, with some Ayurveda. As time went on, I began to recognize that there is a lot more to healing than just the physical.

As my interest shifted to depth psychology and energy healing, I began working with flower and gem essences, and completed multiple certificates and attunements in Reiki. Following this golden thread from body to soul eventually led me back to astrology, which I first took interest in at age 12. When astrology came back to me in adulthood, it was with a force that I could not have prepared myself for. This time, the archetypes came to life and astrology was pursuing me! After a few years immersed in self study, I went on to complete apprenticeship programs and courses through multiple astrology schools. Self-study is ongoing, and I anticipate that will always be the case for me, given the third house Virgo stellium I was born under.

In the midst of all of these changes, I fortunately ended up happily married and greatly fulfilled through motherhood and family life, which I am still deeply in the thick of. Becoming a mother initiated me into even more profound layers of wholeness and healing, as I explored what it could mean to birth freely and instinctually, and tend to the big task of raising children with the utmost care and responsibility. I quickly discovered that home birth, home education, and weaving community would be major areas of focus during this season of my life.

Why am I sharing this with you? In general, I need to know that someone has lived what they are teaching about if I'm going to take them seriously. Embodied experience is important to me. So, this is me, and some of the terrain I am familiar with. Everything I bring to Hearth & Sky stems from the wellspring of my own experiences and ongoing inspiration as a soulful woman devoted to healing, community, and human freedom.