About Me
Hi, I’m Andrea.
I am an artist and intuitive energy curator working in the healing arts.
My path in life has seemed chaotic at times, but it is really not that surprising in hindsight! I’ve heard stories from my parents about me casually predicting phone calls and visitors from a very young age. I grew up hearing about my mom, Nana, and aunts booking sessions with psychics, numerologists, and mediums. To complement this, my dad and his parents gave my brothers and me an appreciation for nature and building things with our hands. I’ve had an innate inner trust for as long as I can remember, believing that I would manifest what more than I needed in life. Fast forward a few decades and I am now an intuitive practitioner, and an artist working in the process-oriented mediums of sculpture and printmaking!
The journey to get here has been rich with experiences, but definitely not fast. After a career in fashion merchandising, I went back to school for Studio Art a few months before my 30th birthday. I was scheduled to the max between school and work, until the pandemic hit. Not knowing what to do with this newfound free time, I returned to my spiritual practices and dusted off my oracle and tarot cards. After a couple of months, I started looking on social media for spiritual community. I found Danielle Searancke and joined the Spirit School Collective, where I found out that I could really help people with my intuitive abilities!
In my final year of university, I had only studio art credits in my schedule. Without any other subjects, my spiritual practice began to seep into my art practice. In that final year, I started doing energy healing, intuitive readings, recording and editing podcasts, and making prints from Reiki sessions! As all of this was manifesting, I was also experiencing a deep dark night of the soul. While my whole life was changing, I was spending time in the campus arboretum to ground myself. For the first time in years, I was able to fill myself up with earth energy and focus on what inspired me.
Thanks to the trust I had in the Spirit Crumbs leading me, I am able to spend my days connecting with amazing people like you!
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I am a Capricorn sun, rising and Mercury in astrology, so I have a need to ground with tangible experiences. I love being in a forest surrounded by trees and away from the busy energy of daily life. I have many houseplants, crystals and neutral clothes.
In my spiritual practice, I am always seeking to make the abstract into material by using crystals, incorporating the five senses and finding clear ways to describe mystical experiences.
In my art practice, I love being in the physical process of making. In university, the only mediums I studied were printmaking and sculpture - the most labour intensive. I like to see things come to fruition, so processes with many steps allow for lots of mini accomplishments (so Capricorn!).
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I have many interests and I love to research! The most satisfying feeling is when I am able to combine multiple passions into one offering or art piece.
Nature, art and spirituality are always intertwined in my life. In university, I took so many environmental science, geography and botany classes that I almost added a minor in plant science to my studio art major! I did inject spirituality into my final projects and am looking forward to merging these two practices more in the future.
Ideas, inspiration and creativity are my life blood!
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I have a Cancer moon and resonate with the watery sentiments of nostalgia and compassion. I can get lost in memories and keepsakes. Although this can be seen as something that holds me back, I think it helps me to find gratitude in the little things.
I am not a swimmer, but I love being near or on the water. Looking out at a still lake is a special kind of magic. Water brings clarity, and I have definitely received some of my most profound downloads in the shower!
Whether it’s in the form of rain, rivers, lakes, the shower, a tall glass, or watering my plants, water is nourishing for my soul.
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My Jupiter is in Aries, so there are times when I take a huge leap and find more success than I would have allowed myself to imagine with more time and consideration. With so much earth energy, this fire is necessary to keep me from being stagnant for too long!
Having both my 11th and 12th houses in Sagittarius helps me to come out of my introverted nature and find enthusiasm for spiritual connection. I can be surprisingly chaotic but am driven by passion and fascinated by the shadowy aspects of life!
Inner Child Essence
The first home I knew was on a 4.5-acre property with a trout hatchery, next door to a farm. My child self dreamed of having a relationship with woodland creatures like a Disney princess. That was partly because my dad never hesitated to bring small animals into our home. For short periods of time, we cared for baby bunnies, a robin, and even baby raccoons. My favourite pastime was feeding chipmunks at a cottage each summer!
One of the things I am grateful for is the magic in everyday life that was instilled in me there. My mom was home with us when we were small and I loved to spend time with her learning to do things like baking or hanging laundry on the line. At my paternal grandparents’ house, my Grandma would take us for walks through the garden to identify plants and flowers. I loved sitting quietly with her on the porch swing and putting out peanuts for the blue jays. Even a walk to the post office was a thrilling experience!
My childhood fascination with collecting fossils and stones was enhanced by annual trips to the rocky terrain and starry skies of northern Ontario. I collected brachiopod fossils, rocks, and geological souvenirs from many memorable places. As I grew up, my rock collection became a crystal collection, but a gravel driveway is still a major temptation!
Regardless of the pace of everyday life, sitting on a rock has always induced an easy stillness I have yet to duplicate on my own. Maybe being in the presence of something that hasn’t moved for millions of years is contagious. The slow pace and isolation of the pandemic prompted the most concentrated period of spiritual and artistic development I’ve ever had.
I started going for walks in the forest, picking up pieces of bark from the sidewalk, and looking to moss and lichen for artistic inspiration. I realized that chipmunks and rocks still bring me so much peace and joy.
One of the compliments that always speaks to my soul is when a client tells me that my energy is grounding. This reflects the earth energy and presence that I truly try to embody in my everyday life. The only thing better than hearing that is to see someone’s eyes light up when they reconnect to a part of their inner child that has hoped for the day they would finally be seen.
If I could, I would go back and tell 9-year-old Andrea that one day she will have a degree in Studio Art, take classes on plants, make her own schedule, spend a lot of time walking in the forest, and work with crystals to help other people heal.
(And that magic is real!)
