Lauren LaRocca spent most of her life in Appalachia (Pittsburgh to Western Maryland to Asheville to West Virginia), stopped in Baltimore for a short time, lived nomadically for a while (read about that here), and recently landed in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

After studying creative writing from Warren Wilson College, she spent 15 years working in newspapers and magazines as a features writer and editor, with a focus on arts and culture, the environment, and spirituality.

Her interests in transpersonal psychology, astrology, energy work, and plant medicine, as well as her own healing journey, have led her to become an astrologer, herbalist, and Reiki Master. She has studied astrology for more than 20 years and draws from her studies in metaphysics, energy work, dreamwork, Eastern religion, Jungian archetypes, Western herbalism, meditations and guided visualizations, and the wisdom of lived experience when in a 1:1 astrology session, aiming to help connect people with their soul purpose, to heal until whole, to align and manifest their vision, and to always, above all, live from the heart and live in joy.