Hi there, my name Ash.
I am an Aquarius Rising, Aries Sun and Leo Moon.
My traditional chart ruler is Saturn and it is placed in my 1st house. The modern ruler Uranus, is in my 12th house. If you have no idea what that means yet, that’s okay. It’s my natal markings of having a close and intimate relationship and access to the non-linear, unconsciousness void of the collective unconscious (the 12th house). With Saturn in my house of self and body of the 1st, I have needed to create a rigorous and committed tending to the impact of the divine chaos that Saturn & Uranus bring to these areas of my life. I have found that in the practices you’ll find here with Wayfinder.
I was named Ashlee Stewack when I was adopted, and am more recently honoring and embracing my biological families last name, Luna. You can call me Ash.
I began exploring divination tools such as Astrology, Tarot and Dream Healing around the time I began my adoption reconciliation and healing journey over a decade ago in 2010. (Chiron in Cancer, hay!) This journey radicalized me and in 2016, led me into joining movement work in spaces that fight to protect and defend oppressed people and fight back against the ways people have been marginalized by capitalism, imperialism and patriarchy. Organizing and doing work with the masses for liberation, heavily informs the work I do and the position in which I approach this work.
Through meeting my biological family and connecting with ancestors, I have used and come to understand these tools personally as a practice to reflect and heal from generational traumas, patterns of abuse and the “imagination” of neo-liberal oppressive systems of power. By empowering individual agency & inter-connection with the “whole”, we can will and inspire new kinds of cultures within us. I started Wayfinder in the summer of 2018. I work with Wayfinder primarily as an Astrologer, tarot reader, and teacher.
I believe in our society's potential to change with design, culture and the integration of healing modalities such as those that you’ll find with Wayfinder. Design can happen in many mediums, across a variety of experience. Art, communication, language, facilitation, and how we organize as a collective contributes to this experience. My interest as a practitioner is in expanding our thinking and operating principles as collectives, to integrate more intuitive healing practices into our cultures and day to day lives. Astrology, Tarot, dreams and ritual can be major tools in this and can help create more balanced and actualized communities of care.
Through the healing and the reclamation of people power in the practice of self and communal healing, we can build strong communities that foster psycho-spiritual and mental-emotional renewal and resistance in our struggles for a more just world.
My astrological practice prioritizes the liberation of all collectives. I am deeply pro-working class and believe in using these tools to dismantle the dictatorship of the ruling class. I use techniques from both modern and ancient lineages of healing, both Eastern & Western, while also applying what I have learned from organizing in movement spaces. My hope for Wayfinder is for it to be an educational and community driven tool and resource for like-minded folks to unite, to learn, grow and practice alongside one another.
Openings, offerings and scheduling can all be found at the “Book a Session” link.
Education and teachers who helped shape me:
My Astrological education has been autodidactic in both Astrology and Tarot since 2010. I’ve studied both ancient texts and techniques, as well as learned from the hundreds of Astrologers and practitioners who have contributed to the resurgence of Astrology in the “modern” era. Some of my biggest influences are listed below.
My practice is heavily informed by interest in blending Astrology with systems theory, anti-oppression and a reverence of all indigenous systems and technologies.
My teacher, Bill Hayashi in consciousness from Eastern traditions who taught me acceptance, ritual, presence and mysticism. I’m honored to have been a student of Bill’s. As a teacher, he changed my life during my senior year at Columbia College in 2014 and gave me the courage to meet my life in a new way.
My ancestors and biological family in animism, farming, activism, music, tending to the land, and the Mexican folk healing tradition of curanderismo.
Music! There is quite literally a music to the spheres. There are many parallels to music theory within astrology. A living mathematics in constant conduction creating harmony and dissonance. It is a skill to learn the mechanics of Astrology, but music comes into play in the mathematics and conveying or delineating of the tones. As a life-long singer and multi-instrumentlist I have found music and Astrology to be completely compatible.