Hey, Divine Pine Family!

My name is Rachel and it’s wonderful to meet you. I am an artist of many facets and well, I don’t jive with labels or boxes, so multidimensional is how I describe what I do.

In this life you’ll find me creating beauty in the physical realm, like this altar space, singing songs I’ve caught on the wind, holding space for my community, realigning energy bodies in the astral, and dancing with the force of my entire Spirit.

Creating this Grief Altar was something near and dear to my heart. It seems lately grief is palpable in the air. As an experience that is often relegated to the shadows, grief can be hard to talk about, to be met in, and to sometimes notice within ourself, as it can become a baseline for how we live. I’ve been meeting myself in grief heavily for the past year and it goes beyond a physical loss of a loved one, though I’ve held myself in that too.

I’ve grieved for the woman I have been, for the changes in my life, for the Earth and her people. I’ve grieved for the destruction of the Amazon forest and the pollution of our waters. I’ve grieved for Palestine and Congo.

I grieve and make space for grief to teach me. So I can contact the truth that lies within this human experience we all will go through. The truth that each present moment is sacred and the constant of life is change.

I see you in your grief and I hold you here with love and tenderness. I am immensely proud of all who have the courage to look into this portal and feel to heal.

If you’d like to stay connected with my journey, sign up for my email list or find me on socials at the links below! I also hold monthly virtual grief gatherings, free to the community, which you can find the registration information for on my offerings page. I’d love to hear how this Altar spoke to you, whether you find me here at the gathering or send me a message later on! Have a beautiful weekend and enjoy the Pines!