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Email: tai@divinephoenixing.com
Everything is built on relationships.
Through them we discover who we are.
All of my work is about relationships. I provide trauma-focused therapeutic coaching, somatic sex education, astrology readings, magical wares and jewelry, and workshops for transformation, liberation, and social change. The coaching and education work I offer is about supporting and enriching the relationships my clients have with themselves, others, and the world. The divination and ritual work I offer is about helping my clients get more in tune with their own life through relationship with the other-than-human world.
I am a trans genderqueer being who is a fat, neuroqueer, kinky, polyamorous, queer witch and sex worker. Culturally, I am white (primarily of English and Irish ancestry with some German, French Canadian, and Eastern European), American, and middle class. I work on the unceded Duwamish and Coast Salish land, now named Seattle, live and work on the ancestral lands of the Noo-She-Chatl band of the Squaxin and Nisqually Tribes, and grew up on the Tlingit and Haida land of Southeast Alaska.
As a student and practitioner of magic and witchcraft for over twenty years, I have a love of bringing the sacred and ritual into all aspects of my life and work. I am a Devotee of Babalon and Hekate, a queer erotic witch, a practical Alchemist, and a member of the Seattle temple of The Fellowship of the Phoenix, a queer hermetic neopagan tradition and non-profit. I am also an initiated Adept in the Open Source Order of the Golden Dawn, though that order is now closed and I would no longer consider myself a “ceremonial magician,” it still deeply influences my magic. As above; so below.
I started seriously studying tarot and astrology around the same time as magic and witchcraft, though I began my relationship with them while I was still in single digits. I have been giving readings to friends and lovers for most of my life, and began offering professional readings in 2018. I have completed coursework for Austin Coppock’s Fundamentals of Astrology Course Years I, II, and III (Grad Project in progress) and attended classes and courses with Kelly Surtees, Demetra George, Bernadette Brady, and Chris Brennan.
Before all else, professionally and personally, I am dedicated to liberatory, anti-oppressive trauma healing work utilizing somatics, ritual, and pleasure. My life and work is dedicated to anti-oppressive trauma integration and recovery, encouraging and supporting body wisdom awareness, and furthering the healing of relationships with ourselves, others, and the earth.