I am an Enneagrammer and Astrologer from the Canadian prairies who uses both modalities to work with what we have control over (Enneagram) and what controls events in our lives (Astrology) to help us go deeply into our egoic structure and figure out how to integrate the parts of us that are neglected, hurting, or hidden.
Having grown up in the church, I found myself unhappy in my twenties and thirties, needing something more practical and precise for personal growth than they were offering. There is a passage in the Bible where a follower leaves Jesus, and the latter then turns to his disciples and asks, “Do you want to go too?” I found myself responding along with the disciples, “But Lord, to whom shall we go?” Thankfully, in my late twenties, I had a divine intervention moment- I was sent a brochure for upcoming programming at a nearby monastery and one of the workshops listed was for the Enneagram, an ancient, mystical system that helps us get out of our ruts in life. It was such a gob-smacking period of my life – I didn’t find my type right away, but when I did, it gave me a way to speak about my inner experience with precision and accuracy, and I discovered that our inner lives follow a certain universal pattern, in other words, our automatic patterns are more similar to others than we think. The Enneagram is a map of our painful ironies that holds our opposites in tension, telling us that despite our self-defeating patterns, we do make sense, the puzzle pieces we’ve been trying to jam together do fit together, but now we need to sit down and put the puzzle together to make ourselves whole. It provides a laid-out, personalized path of growth for our particular egoic type. For me, like many others, finding the Enneagram was the biggest sigh of relief of my life.
I have always been interested in Astrology, but I started studying it more formally in 2019 when astrologers were speculating about what would happen in 2020, with the Great Conjunction (a big pile-up) of malefic planets in Capricorn.
I also use the inquiry tools of the Diamond Heart as a vehicle to explore what is lying beneath the surface.
The Enneagram will blow your mind and Astrology will take your breath away, and the work of the Diamond Heart will provide you with good-quality means to do the inner work.
I have a degree in Political Science and a degree in Intercultural Studies (theology and anthropology).
Other Training:
- Parts 1 and 2 at the Enneagram Institute with Don Riso and Russ Hudson
- Coaching with the Enneagram with Ginger Lapid-Bogda (Enneagram)
- Timing with the Transits with Catherine Urban (Astrology)
- Certificate in Mindfulness Fundamentals from Mindful Schools
- Horary Astrology with Dr. Lee Lehman (Kepler)
- AstroCartography with Tamira McGillivray, Cindy McKean (Kepler)
- Psychology of Astro-Cartography with Maya White (Kepler)
- Solar Returns with Shu Yap (Kepler)