Hello, I’m Nicole. I am an astrologer, artist and parent located in the foothills of the Sierra Nevadas in Northern California, the ancestral and current lands of the Nisenan, home to what is called by the land’s original stewards as the ‘Uba Seo (Yuba River), Angkula Seo (Deer Creek), mok’os (manzanita), utim c’a (oak), hanhan (cedar), munmut (mugwort), pine, kapa (bear), tek tek (red-tailed hawk), mountain lion, river otter and countless more beings that shape and are shaped by the dreaming of and with this place.

As a guest here, I’ve been surprised to catch fragments of my own ancestors’ stories, in the wind rustling through the oak leaves, in the seeds rattling through the grey pine cones. And embodied astrology is one way that I offer back, making my dream-body available to this place, giving my own story-hearing and story-telling and lineages of love to the Life lived here.

The dreams of my ancestors are many and varied. I feel the particular ways that I ground in and orient to the energetic currents of the Sky through my body-mind as being deeply supported by my Filipino ancestors — their wayfinding by the stars, between many islands, relating and responding to wind, water, Moon and tides.

My path of remembrance has felt all over the place, defiant of any linear template, following threads felt but unseen. I went to a math, science and engineering college for biology and worked for five years in a bioengineering lab on a stem cell therapy for trauma brain injury. Then, craving the outdoors, I moved to Costa Rica and worked at a sustainability education center for four years, building with earth and teaching fermentation. I painted murals at music festivals for a few years, and was a goatherd for ten. I worked and lived at a high school semester program in the woods here as a math and art teacher, kitchen manager and intern coordinator, at which time I also became a caregiver for a parent recovering from brain surgery and began my training as a craniosacral therapist. Rhythm and regeneration, beauty and balance have been a common thread through it all.

And they continued to be when, in 2016, I gave birth both to my first child and to a daily practice of astrological contemplation. The two quickly became intertwined. Astrology radically supported me through the portals and initiations of parenthood. What had seemed to be a struggle to focus, aim and make progress, I got to watch come into a rhythmic and multidimensional weaving of my heart’s dream — a living wholeness that’s both inner and outer, horizontal and vertical, above and below.

I offer this work because it’s truly delightful, enriching, enlivening and whole-making. I’ve seen for myself and in my clients how astrology can be a living language that helps more parts of ourselves start relating with each other. Astrology can help hold us together, when it feels like we are coming apart. Or when things don’t make sense. Or when we fear we can’t re-member all of what’s being asked of us to remember.

Astrology supports our relationship to Self through times of world-altering changes, thresholds and initiations.