Bone and oracle readings, custom trinkets, and editorial work — Workings from the Crossroads, in the Great Lakes region.
Consultation
Before we do any work or readings, we will sit down and discuss exactly what is needed and being sought out - free, no obligations. This is so I know what you are bringing and so we can find out if I am the right person for the work needed. I read for people I can genuinely help, and sometimes things will come out unprompted. I cut to the quick of the matter and am pretty no nonsense. If a question isn't mine to read, I will say so directly.
I read what is there - which bones or cards come up, how they relate to each other, and I weave together the patterns and motifs I notice. I can pick up on a lot of different things, but my favourite types of readings involve Ancestor work, and the spirits that surround a person. I can feel things out about communication and oaths that you might not have put the words for - if something is hiding, I will find it.
Payment
This work falls in the Faery Doctoring realm: people come to me for counsel and give what they can. If you need the work and don't have much to offer, that's okay, the door is genuinely open. If you have abundance, your offering helps me keep doing this for others. We'll talk about it before we start.
I offer readings on a sliding scale - $0 to $80, with $40 suggested if you're able. The suggestion is a question answered, not a wall: the price is never the reason not to ask.
What this isn't
I'm not a therapist. I can't provide mental health support - that's not what this is, and I'll be upfront about it. What I offer is guidance for your magical practice. If what you need is clinical help, I'll point you somewhere that can provide it.
The reading is not fate. The medium reflects what's there; it does not decide for you. You are the one who chooses.
Services
Bone Reading
This is approximately a 30 minute to a 60 minute reading where I throw the bones for you, and see where they land. They do not move after being cast. Afterward, they are interpreted and any follow-up questions can be asked with subsequent throws. These readings can be done over zoom, discord, or email, and will come with a PDF of the reading with pictures, interpretation, and any follow up questions or workings that may be discussed.
Bone readings are different from cards in that instead of a spread being cast, a constellation is formed around the client and then read. This is particularly suited to readings where more depth is needed. It is first and foremost a relational form of reading, so that makes it very well suited for a variety of questions and guidance.
The readings it does better than most:
- Ecosystem readings - The spirits you keep around you, how they function and work with or against you. Bone work is necromancy, and the remains are the connection to the spirit. This means it is very well suited to the presence around a person: who is near, what is unfinished, and matters of inheritance.
- The patterns of life - histories, mysteries, what is left behind or avoided, best areas of focus, agency, and direction. Cycles that we often go through and might not have the name for.
- The words between people. One of my specialties is helping people with negotiating with the spirits, and world around them. What is said, promised, kept, and twisted.
Bone work is not the best at determining dates, verdicts, and cold facts. There is no ultimate judge, minimal yes/no responses, and does not contain calendar precision. Bones read meaning, and relation.
Oracle Reading
Also approximately 30 minutes to an hour session. I read an oracle deck made by my own hands and meant to help guide people through a seasonal, lunar cycle approach to interpretation. While the bones read the field, these cards are designed to be read as a wheel, and in the shape of turning cycles. Every card represents a named moon, and the part of the cycle it is in - every card carries an actual date.
During these readings, I draw 3-9 cards and will interpret from there. Sometimes multiple spreads are needed.
What they are best suited for
- Timing and Season - where exactly you are in your personal cycle, It is good tool for recognizing what season your life is in, what the tides look like, and when the seasons will turn.
- Process, not Verdict. Every card is a quarter of a turning - The Dark, the Rising, The Full, and the Fade - this makes this deck excellent at reading the phase of a matter; whether it is growing, beginning, at its height, or fading.
- The Year Itself - In my practice, the year begins in February with the first snowmelt. This deck is based around a year, so its a natural fit for questions dealing with seasonal or annual questions, as well as navigating the cycles of your life.
- The Edge of Things. The Crossroads represent the Blue Moon or rare tidings, there are also cards that stand outside the year all together. The Threshold is marked and able to be seen in this deck, and can help you plan ahead magically.
Commissions
Custom trinkets
Anything the heart desires, made by hand: necklaces, bracelets, keychains, rosaries, earrings, devotional items, custom charms, you name it! Worked in bone, rock, wood and metal, scavenged and found as much as bought. Tell me what you're after and I'll ask the questions that matter: material, aesthetic, and what it's for.
Every piece can carry an enchantment made with an intention, passed through a custom smoke blend, blessed with water, earth and fire, with charms whispered to it in secret. Love-drawing, protection, success, luck, or whatever you can think of. The enchantment is free, and you'll get instructions for feeding and recharging your piece. (For entertainment purposes only.)
Prices run about $45–$280 CAD depending on the piece — necklaces $180–250, bracelets $45–75, keychains $50–75, rosaries $120–280, earrings $45 — shipping calculated individually, payment through Ko-fi via a custom listing. All commissions begin with an email.
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Editorial - proofreading, editing, sensitivity reading
Small editorial work for writers, zine-makers and small presses. A zine, a chapter, or a whole manuscript - all are welcome. This is the making side: you have the words (or the idea) and need a pair of careful hands on them.
Proofreading - the last pass before it goes out: typos, punctuation, consistency.
From $0.012/word, $75 minimum.
Copy-editing & line editing - the sentence-level pass: grammar, clarity, flow, and the line that isn't working.
From $0.022/word, $150 minimum.
Sensitivity reading - for work that depicts experiences outside your own. I read for queer and sapphic lives, Hmong and Asian diaspora experience, cultural memory and reconnection, neurodivergence and mental health, grief and disability, as well as lived pagan and occult practice. Only where I hold the experience myself and that's the point of it. Flag-only notes, or a full letter with suggestions and alternatives.
From $0.018/word plus a write-up fee, $250 minimum.
Every piece of editorial work starts with the same free consult as everything else so tell me the project and I'll quote it.
Zine & print production - case by case
Larger production work - designing, laying out and preparing a zine or book for print - taken case by case, quoted per project. Ask; if it's a fit, I'll say so, and if it isn't I'll say that too.
Collaboration & Trades
I work with other makers as well as for them - co-made zines, illustration for someone else's project, print runs that need two sets of hands, and straight trades with people whose work I already love.
This isn't priced like the commissions above. It's worked out per project, and often it isn't money at all, it can be a split of the run, or a swap, or one of us printing while the other one binds. If money is involved, we agree on it before anything gets made.
The terms I care about: if it's your book, you keep the file. I hand back everything I make, and anything of yours I've been trusted with. We settle up front who's paying for the print run and who's holding the stock. And my name goes on it in whatever form suits the piece.
Same as everything else on this page, it starts with a conversation. Tell me what you're making and what you'd want from me, and I'll tell you honestly whether I'm the right person for it.
Deposits & terms
All commissions and editorial projects begin with a 50% deposit - it holds your slot and starts the work. The remaining half is due when the work is finished, before final files are sent or your piece ships. If I have to cancel, your deposit comes back in full. Readings are pay-what-you-can and carry no deposit.
Testimonials
"It's really accurate and in depth. I tend to avoid giving details before a reading to gauge if it's accurate, and you definitely hit the nail on the head." — appalachian_blues
"The subject matter of the reading was immediately relevant to me. Their description and interpretation were easy to understand and easy to relate to my personal situation." — singingmousai
"Thorough, and only about an hour. I learned more about an ancestor I knew nothing about, and follow-up questions were swiftly answered." — astrodullahan