Hi there! I'm Erika.
I am an intuitive Astrologer and Tarot reader, specialising in ceremonial readings® of birth charts and intuitive tarot readings.
Based in Athens and London, I offer online Zoom readings.
My Story
As an intuitive astrologer and tarot reader, I believe both astrology and tarot are powerful tools for understanding ourselves and the world around us. To quote Dane Rudhyar: "Astrology is a language. If you understand this language, the sky speaks to you." It's my job to know this language and interpret it for you.
There is nothing more enriching than diving deep into the multi-layers of a natal chart. My work is to highlight and awaken the brilliance of your soul; to help you connect on a deeper level to your purpose. I love that every chart has its own heartbeat and breath and that it organically transmutes with the movement of the cosmos and the soul's growth. I believe that we are spiritual beings having a human experience, and that guidance is available within the map of our birth chart.
I combine the knowledge I have been acquiring about the complex nature of astrology with an empathic connection to the birth chart. My approach is to sit in ceremony with the chart and then begin to unravel the symbolism and archetypes to interpret what the cosmos is saying within the natal chart. I spent two and a half years studying at the Faculty of Astrological Studies in London and am continuing my education in various offshoots of astrology. I am also a certified Reiki Master Usai & Holy Fire practitioner.
Tarot has been calling me for a while now. The same intuitive thread that led me to astrology eventually led me to the tarot, and I embarked on a journey to learn and understand just how deep tarot can go. What I found was a practice that holds the same reverence as a chart reading, but meets you in a different way, at the question you're carrying right now, and at what's underneath it. This is the heart of The Threshold, my ceremonial tarot reading: a space to look honestly at what's visible and what's living in the shadow of it, so that what you hadn't been able to name can finally take shape.
Ceremonial Readings®
What exactly is a ceremonial reading ?
As an intuitive astrologer and tarot reader, I connect empathically with your chart, or with the question you bring to The Threshold, before I ever begin to interpret it. This is why my readings are ceremonial and why ceremony is not an add-on to the work. It is the work.
First, I engage in ceremony before we meet. I begin by smudging the space I am working in, clearing the energy so that what I am sensing is yours and yours alone. I then ground myself before opening to your chart, or to the question you've brought, and allowing what needs to be seen to reveal itself. I feel into your placements, or into the cards as they begin to speak, before I analyse them. What I feel and what I know technically then come together.
Second, the ceremonial reading itself is a sacred observance. For a chart reading, it is a way of honouring you and the extraordinary document that is your chart. For The Threshold, it is a way of honouring the question you've brought, and what's underneath it. This space is precious; it holds your essence, whether that's expressed through the architecture of your soul's chart or through the doorway of your question, and I take seriously my responsibility to work within that container with care and respect.
I am inspired by times in the past when ritual and ceremony were a vital and understood part of how we paid respect to what mattered. We have largely lost that in the modern world. The ceremony is my way of bringing it back, of saying that you, and whatever you bring to the table, deserve more than a transaction. You deserve to be honoured.
And while a chart reading has technical and practical components, the aspects, the placements, the transits, the story and a tarot reading has its own language of cards and archetypes, I believe the ceremony is what connects us to something beyond the technical.
To the empyrean. The highest heaven. The place the name itself comes from.
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