my path
Life began initiating me early.
I was born into wealth without integrity, into a family system already unraveling beneath the surface. What followed were years shaped by lies, blame, and instability — a descent into homelessness, fractured relationships, and a nervous system calibrated for survival.
Chaos became familiar. Drama became magnetic. And beneath it all lived a quiet longing for truth, safety, and something unshakeable.
These truths unearthed themselves in the patterns that repeated in cycles over time.
I learned to break these cycles.
My life’s work has been stripping back what doesn’t build a harmonic future. It has been quite the journey studying, experiencing and integrating these teachings so that I can be a guide.
We all have gifts to unearth from this process, this medicine I wish to share.
Initiation. Transformation. Reformation. Reconstruction. Insight.
To make sure I the right guide to hold your process
LINEAGe
GYPSY | MYSTIC | PILGRIM
I come from a lineage of South African Farmer/Gypsies. We are warriors of spirit, revolutionary in ideas and protectors of the cosmic family.
My great-grandfather, Gerrit Maritz, was one of the revolutionary leaders of the Voortrekker movement. They knew the bush within an inch of itself. Movement, walking the land, visiting sacred sites and working with ecology as an ally were passed on to me through blood and providence. The essence of pilgrimage, and what it means to journey, extends beyond the fascial layer. Embedded within the language they spoke lay timeless wisdoms carried through the generations.
With great wisdom also came an epoch of pain: families torn apart by war, misogynised women forced to fault their intuition, discrimination, racism and separation from spirit.
I know that all lineage carries the burden of itself, and that the future of it depends on our ability to remember our gifts, our strengths, our compatibility and our relations.
For me, ancestral work is not about romanticising the past. It is about learning what has been given, what has been wounded, what can be reclaimed, and what we choose to carry forward.
Every detail felt intentionally curated, as though crafted solely for my enjoyment.
Elder, Shamanca Medicine Woman and Friend
The Path of the Pilgrim
I am a thresholds guide from the Voortrekker lineage, choosing the path of pilgrim as my foundation for ancestral ontology and shamanic practice. Life purpose has arisen from navigating the inner landscapes, the way my lineage traversed the outer landscapes.
That which is personal is collective, and the collective is personal. My perspective holds importance around lived experience, tenderness, attention, curiosity, prayer, relational rhythm, memory and remembrance.
As an artist, I am naturally observational and able to attune to the subtleties, the wider conversations and the beauty. I have developed a unique intuitive visual language that comes straight from the collective unconscious, where the symbolic has the power to permeate vision and transcend transformational processing.
I use intuitive art to communicate human complexity and the initiatory nature of our soul in a visual format. Philosophy and the Mystery Schools permeate my life. I am an avid student — constantly collating, contrasting, contracting, contradicting, inturning, exturning, returning.
I have come to understand that all divine cycles are initiation.
They provide skills in response, registration and reflective inquiry, bridging pain to purpose.
Healing our pain — whether personal, collective, environmental or ancestral — requires us to sink deeper into the ways in which all of these states interconnect.
This is where my work lives: at the threshold between what has been inherited and what is ready to become conscious; between inner experience and the material world; between the story we have been given and the life we are choosing to create.
I am not interested in spirituality as something separate from life.
I am interested in what happens when we learn, apply, integrate and ground the spiritual in the material.
Initiation
Ceremony, Integration & Belonging
Right now, I am living in Glastonbury to honour my relationship to the Holy Waters, the Ley Lines and the Earth. In the last year, my family felt called here to support our friend Joe Rising Sun with Lakota ceremonies, supporting at Sweat Lodges, Vision Quests and Sundance here in Avalon.
The prayer of unity is one that I carry too.
It is for this reason I do this work. Witnessing these incredible initiation ceremonies has brought about important questions for me.
How can we honour these ceremonies and traditions by continuing the soul's development, rather than consuming them as a quick fix?
Who — or where — is the village holding the alchemy that ceremony and medicine bring to the surface?
These initiations cannot be single events, once a year amidst our normal 9–5 jobs. I believe it lacks purpose and integrity if we cannot learn, apply, integrate and ground what has been opened through ceremony into the way we actually live.
For me, the journey is what happens afterwards.
The Teachings That Have Shaped Me
Initiating through Mami Onami's Spiritual Business School gave me the language and framework to communicate what I felt deep inside me. The skills she passed on healed the background noise that was polluting my prayers and relationships.
She gave me permission to intently use my natural gifts and step out of the cave. I continue to study in her school, and I am deeply grateful for the teachings and guidance that have shaped my path.
This journey that brought me home to myself could not have been achieved without the teachings and guidance of those who have walked before me.
Carl Jung taught me to listen to dreams and the symbolic language of the unconscious. Gurdjieff showed me the possibility of bringing spiritual practice into the modern world. Mami Onami gave me strength, language and permission to meet my gifts with authenticity. Anodea Judith's breathtaking investigation into the Chakras expanded my understanding of the relationship between body, energy and consciousness. Sajah Popham's evocative analysis of alchemy opened new ways of understanding transformation. Nor Hall offered exceptional wisdom around the female archetypes. Ido Portal's devotion to posture and physical alignment taught me to pay attention to the intelligence of the body.
Yolande Norris-Clarke gave me the courage to rise beyond victimhood. My partner Jed continues to hold me to account. My daughter, Avalon Rose, has given me the chance to continually reevaluate my values, my morality and the kind of world I want to help create.
And then there are all the philosophers, mystics, writers and alchemists who trusted in the evolutionary path of the soul enough to study it to death — and share what they found with authenticity and without apology.
I remain a student.
THE PILGRIM WITHIN
As well as being a new mother, I am finding inspiration in translating these experiences through illustration and the design of a new type of Tarot: Initiation Tarot.
It is another way of asking the questions I have spent my life asking — through image, symbol, story and the language of the soul.
Ultimately, it is my deepest desire to awaken your inner pilgrim — the guide and voice within you that gives you the answers you need to hear.
The part of you that can reconnect you with purpose, sovereignty, belonging and trust in life.
I don't believe my role is to become your authority.
My role is to walk with you towards the places where you can hear your own authority more clearly.
To accompany you through the threshold.
To listen.
To notice.
To ask the questions.
To help you integrate what you discover.
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A Place to Begin
An Invitation
If something in this journey resonates with you, I offer several ways to enter the work.
“PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT, BUT PRAYER MAKES IT PERMANENT.”
If something in my story resonates with you, you don't have to begin by working with me.
You can begin with a question.
What are we here for, if not to pray?
I created this free guide as a place to pause, listen and get honest about where you are, where you are being called, and what you are ready to move towards.
It is an invitation into clarity, reflection and prayer — a way of bringing the inner and outer worlds into conversation with the Divine Masculine and Divine Feminine.
Take what resonates. Make it your own. Let it meet you where you are.
1:1 Coaching & Mentorship
For those who are navigating a threshold in life and want a space for reflection, integration, perspective and conscious change.
1:1 Shamanic Journeys
A deeper, experiential space for exploring inner landscapes, symbolism, ancestral material and the intelligence that can emerge through guided journeying.
Group Initiation Containers
Held spaces for moving through transformation alongside others, where the personal can meet the collective and experience can become integrated through relationship.
Artistic Commissions & Collaborations
Intuitive visual work for those wanting to explore personal, ancestral or collective material through symbol, image and art.
My work is an invitation to journey.
Not away from life, but deeper into it.
To remember what is yours.
To meet what is asking to change.
And to awaken the pilgrim within.
The work moves through cycles rather than a fixed sequence. We may return to the roots many times. Some journeys ask us to grow; others ask us to release, soften or surrender. My role is to notice where you are and help create the conditions for what wants to emerge.
HOW I HOLD YOUR JOURNEY
THE ROOTS //
Safety * FOUNDATIONS
Creating intentional containers is fundamental to our work.
We cannot meaningfully experience initiation or integration when the body or mind feels unsafe. Structure creates safety — and from safety, authentic expression becomes possible.
The roots are our foundations: the boundaries, agreements, rhythms and relationships that allow us to meet what is emerging with enough steadiness to remain present.
THE BRANCHES //
PATTERNS * GROWTH
Branches can only grow as far as the roots go deep.
Without knowing what we are made of, we cannot fully conceive what we are capable of growing into.
By cultivating an inner understanding of our patterns and behaviours, we begin to see what shapes the way we move through life.
With awareness, we can begin to bend our being back into alignment — creating the conditions for growth.
THE BLOSSOM //
SOFTENING * SOMATICS
Softening is a conscious choice.
When we are willing to soften our beliefs, what is true can be revealed.
After major upheaval, softening is a sacred act of personal sovereignty and agency. It is also where we can find our joy.
Through the body, we learn to listen differently — not simply to what we think, but to what we feel, sense and know.
THE TRUNK //
Maps * PATHWAYS
Within each Mystery School are maps of evolution — systems that have stood strong through the cycles of time.
They offer integrative pathways for psychological and spiritual expansion, helping us orient ourselves as we move deeper into our unfolding journeys and weave our way back towards unity.
A map can offer orientation, but it cannot walk the path for us.
THE LEAVES //
TOOLS * SHELTER * COMPOST
Devotional release is foundational to growth and expansion.
Loss clears the ground, allowing light to reach what was once hidden. Growth requires intentional shedding — a willingness to offer what is no longer aligned so something truer can take root.
The leaves teach us that what falls away is not wasted. What has completed its cycle can become nourishment for what comes next.
THE SEEDs //
SELF INITIATION * CYCLES
There is liberation in knowing you have taken something as far as you are able — and then choosing release.
Surrender is not passivity; it is trust. The seed carries the possibility of what comes next.
Self-initiation is the willingness to recognise when a cycle has completed, listen for what is emerging, and choose to participate consciously in your becoming.
Frequently Asked Questions
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I’m offering ceremonies and courses for self-initiation, personal growth and soul-ful evolution. I help people navigate human complexity with ancient tools that can be used at home and easily applied. I use a Shamanic framework and you can work with me 1:1, in-person workshops/courses or online group workshops.
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I don’t mess about.
My gift is pattern recognition and my art is prophetic in it’s nature, the work speaks for me as it is drawn intuitively with prayer and connection to God. The ability for me to bring forward what is hiding within and without is what can support you with your vision when the symbolic bridges communication with the subconscious. -
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