My Path to the Mystical: A Personal Origin Story

I didn’t grow up thinking I’d one day be reading tarot cards or tracking moon phases. Like many people, I spent years focused on the tangible — work, family, routine, the steady rhythm of doing what needed to be done. But somewhere along the way, something in me started to stir. A quiet knowing. A restlessness that whispered, there’s more.

My journey into the mystical didn’t begin with a single moment of awakening. It was more like a slow unfolding — a series of small, sacred nudges that eventually became impossible to ignore. It started in a time of deep grief, when life as I knew it cracked wide open. Loss has a way of rearranging your world — stripping away illusion and asking you to meet yourself honestly. In that quiet, raw space, I found myself reaching for signs, for meaning, for something beyond the surface.

That’s when tarot found me.

At first, it was curiosity — a pull toward the imagery, the symbolism, the mystery of it all. But the more I worked with the cards, the more they worked with me. They became mirrors, showing me the truth I wasn’t ready to speak aloud, reflecting both my shadows and my light. Tarot didn’t predict my future; it taught me to trust my intuition, to listen to the energy beneath the noise, to hold space for messages that wanted to come through.

Astrology followed soon after, like a map handed to me after I’d already started walking the path. The stars offered language for my cycles — the ebbs, the returns, the moments of expansion and contraction that shape a life. I began to see patterns in everything: in nature, in people, in myself. The universe started to feel less random, more like a rhythm I could move with instead of against.

Over time, what began as personal healing evolved into a calling — a way to help others reconnect with their own wisdom and inner guidance. Through Raven & Vine, I share that same energy of discovery: grounded spirituality, honest reflection, and the reminder that intuition is not something outside of us — it’s something we return to.

My work isn’t about predicting what’s next. It’s about reading the energy of what is — the lessons, the patterns, the potential that’s already unfolding. Each card pull, each chart, each intuitive message is a conversation with Spirit, a collaboration between what’s seen and unseen.

This journey continues to change me, and I’m grateful for that. The mystical isn’t something I do — it’s a way of being. A way of remembering.