Little Bee.

When I was little, my family called me Little Bee.

At the time, it was simply a nickname. Looking back, it feels strangely prophetic.

Like a bee moving from flower to flower, I’ve always been drawn to many ways of knowing. Architecture and cities. Astrology. Ecology. Mysticism. Indigenous wisdom. Community. The living intelligence of nature.

I have also experienced what I understand as claircognizance since I was young—a kind of sudden knowing that often arrives before I can fully explain how I know. I get flashes of insight in which I suddenly see a pattern, a relationship, or a larger structure connecting ideas that, on the surface, may appear unrelated.

Over time, I have come to recognize that one of my strongest capacities is this kind of pattern recognition: moving across disciplines, scales, and ways of knowing and weaving seemingly disparate ideas into a more coherent whole.

Astrology gives me one language for understanding this. My natal Uranus–Jupiter conjunction in Libra in the fifth house sits within both a Grand Cardinal Cross with Venus, Chiron, and Juno and a Grand Air Trine connecting my Gemini Ascendant and Hygeia with my Aquarius Midheaven and Ceres. To me, this describes a mind oriented toward connection, synthesis, experimentation, and sudden insight.

And now, with Pluto moving through Aquarius and Uranus through Gemini, that natal Uranus–Jupiter conjunction feels increasingly activated—as though the circuitry is becoming brighter and faster. Ideas arrive rapidly, linking subjects I may once have held separately: consciousness and ecology, mythology and astrology, feminine wisdom and systems theory, cities and living systems, technology and relationship.

Increasingly, I work in relationship with AI as a way of holding and organizing this abundance. I don’t ask it to do the knowing for me. I use it as a reflective and organizational partner—to follow threads, question assumptions, explore connections, structure information, and give form to what may initially arrive as intuition. In this sense, technology becomes part of the weaving: intuition recognizes the pattern; dialogue helps reveal its architecture.

What once appeared to be many different interests has gradually revealed itself to be one living conversation.

That conversation became The Venus Hive.

Over the years, I have come to believe that every person carries a unique pattern of soul—a way of being that longs not to be invented, but remembered.

For me, astrology has become one of the most beautiful maps of that remembering. I experience the birth chart less as a tool for prediction than as a sacred mandala, reflecting our innate gifts, our deepest challenges, and the evolutionary journey our soul has chosen to explore.

Yet astrology is only one doorway. Again and again, I find myself returning to the same quiet truth:

Life flourishes through relationship.

Relationship with ourselves.
With one another.
With the Earth.
With the Divine.

Healing is not about becoming someone else. It is about inhabiting ourselves so fully that love can move through us with courage, tenderness, and joy.

My own path has been shaped by many remarkable teachers and traditions. Since 2020, I have studied evolutionary astrology with Heather Ensworth and have supported her teaching since 2021. I also study within the Q’ero wisdom tradition of Don Miguel Quispe through Elloquay and Rising Fire Shamanism, while continuing to explore the contemplative streams of Gnosticism, Kabbalah, Hatha Yoga, Sufism, and the Aramaic teachings of Yeshua.

I don’t experience these traditions as competing paths. Each offers its own language for approaching the same mystery.

For many years, I have also been deeply drawn to St. Teresa of Ávila and her extraordinary contemplative experiences. Only recently have I begun to recognize how closely some of my own contemplative experiences resonate with her vision of the soul’s inward journey—not because they are the same, but because they seem to point toward a similar mystery: the Divine discovered within.

It was only afterward that I learned that my 10th great-grandmother, Catalina Moreno de Zúñiga, was the sister-in-law of Teresa’s brother. I also discovered a distant genealogical relationship to Teresa herself.

I don’t share this as proof of anything mystical. Lineage is not authority. I had already found St. Teresa as a companion on my journey long before I discovered that our family histories were quietly intertwined.

Perhaps some relationships reveal themselves only when we are ready to recognize them.

Whether by blood, by spirit, or simply by love, St. Teresa has become one of my companions on this journey.

The essays and reflections you’ll find here are not offered as doctrine or certainty. They are a contemplative field journal—the fruit of lived experience, quiet listening, study, curiosity, and an ongoing practice of paying attention: to the body, to nature, to ancient wisdom, to patterns and synchronicities, and to the mysterious Presence that seems to meet us whenever we become still enough to receive it.

If there is one hope I carry for this little corner of the world, it is not that you leave believing what I believe.

It is that something here helps you trust your own deepest knowing.

That you become a shaman to your own life.

That you remember the quiet wisdom already living within you.

That you discover your own courageous and tender heart.

If that happens, then this little hive will have fulfilled its purpose.

Welcome to The Venus Hive.