Hi there, I’m Mollie.

I'm an astrologer and a bit of a renaissance person. I'm that kid who got into trouble for talking all the time, and who was always daydreaming and drawing pictures. Now I still do those things, but I also get to read charts for a living and support other curious souls in finding their way through life’s transitions, ruts, hard decisions and uplevels - though times of confusion when it would be really nice to have someone else to walk alongside and offer insight.

I’ve had a meandering career path, including having my own business as an ayurvedic practitioner and bodyworker in Oakland, California for five years after I finished ayurveda school. I also worked in many a kitchen and farm (and lots of other places), both as a younger person and then again after I left my career in ayurveda and was trying to figure out my next move. Traditional school didn’t work as well for me, but I have a nearly-endless love of learning and am continuously taking classes and exposing myself to new ideas.

I live with my partner and our old cat in a little house with a big garden.

With the baseline understanding that we are all ninety-nine point something percent sea water, which is the constant lovemaking of spirit & matter, and our differences are pretty minimal…

Let’s get to know each other a bit better. Some stuff about me:

I love to…

drink tea and write in my journal (if I’m lucky the cat will join me)

meet new people and encounter new ideas

walk in the woods & swim in wild waters

adventure and celebrate with friends

feel paintbrush on paper

putter around: re-organize my room, weed the garden, etc.

nap

My Favorite Books & things

The Enlightened Heart: An Anthology of Sacred Poetry. Ed. Stephen Mitchell

I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith

His Dark Materials series by Phillip Pullman

Damien by Herman Hesse

Favorite Show: A World of Calm

Favorite Album: Deja Vu by CSNY. I listen to new music all the time, but this is still my fave.

Best memories I keep coming back to

Riding on the open-air back of a train for hours and hours through northern Thailand, dangling my feet as we passed through forests and by villages

My first kiss with my love

Star gazing from the back of a snow bike one night in Utah, my face completely frozen but worth it

Walking all day & playing my flute in the East Bay regional parks (many times, but they all blend together)

Catagories of personality + energy

Capricorn Sun / Cancer Moon / Libra Rising + Asc. Ruler Venus in Capricorn

Enneagram type 9 (+ numerology 9 too, but I haven’t delved much into that)

Human design: 3/5 Generator

Four Tendencies: Rebel

Extroverted introvert/introverted extrovert, and possible INFP

I’ve always been on some sort of journey of marrying wildness and freedom with grounded practicality, and of bringing beauty and magic into the everyday. 

So far, the big, ongoing projects of my adult life have been: Healing my attachment stuff (creating security internally), and figuring out how to navigate the material plane and care for myself without losing myself in other people’s stories and in all the distractions. 

My Journey with Astrology

I had been interested in astrology for a long time…ever since I became a lesbian. 

(Honestly I’ve always been bisexual, and it’s never been a big part of how I define myself. But what happened is when I was twenty-one, I dated a woman for real for the first time and she and her friends were REAL lesbians - many of them did not like me - were always asking strange questions like, “What are your signs?” (like, plural) and speculating about the astrology of their various adopted shelter cats, whose birthdays were unknown. 

I had no idea what they were talking about and it seemed a bit silly, but I wanted to be in on it, so I picked up a copy of Linda Goodman’s Sun Signs at the bookstore with my mom one Sunday afternoon and proceeded to read the entire thing quickly, just soaking it in. 

For many years, I was your average astrology enthusiast, reading a book or taking a class here and there. I was never that into reading my horoscope but I loved to read about the planets and signs. 

Eventually time found me between careers, working alone in a kitchen for hours at a stretch, binging the Astrology Podcast while I made cookies and cinnamon rolls and cakes. I could see myself from the outside: a tired woman sliding into middle age with sore feet and graying hair under an old bandana, but something inside me was growing quietly, like an onion sprouting in a cupboard: I was becoming an astrologer.

There was this ravenous hunger in me to learn astrology. I couldn’t explain it, it made no sense, but I went with it. I went as far as I could with podcasts and then moved onto online courses and books (listed in my CV, below), and spent hours at a stretch learning to delineate and interpret charts. In those early days, I had a study buddy who lived in my neighborhood, someone I had known for years and years, and she would walk over and we would study together. She moved away, but I still have regular study buddies online. 

At a certain point, I started reading charts for friends for free, and that helped me a lot to put the pieces together. Then I went to reading charts for donation or trade, and eventually I felt clear that it was time to start charging money - but I kept a day job for two years after that point.

Astrology is endlessly interesting to study and practice, and it turns out it also gives me the opportunity to do what I love:

Connect deeply with another soul on their journey

get to the heart of things right away

Serve as a guide and a catalyst

listen, ponder, reflect, share wisdom

hold multiple truths at once

Being an astrologer involves other things like writing, teaching, now podcasting (new project), and businessy stuff, and I love nearly all of that too.

If you’ve made it this far, thank you for the gift of your precious time and attention.

Curriculum Vitae

ASTROLOGY STUDIES

Solar Revolutions Workshop | Benjamin Dykes (2022)

Horary Certificate | School of Traditional Astrology. Course based on 17th century astrologer William Lilly’s work. Deb Houlding.  (2021)

Medical Astrology | School of Traditional Astrology. Course on medieval Hippocratic-Galenic astro-medicine.  Lee Lehman.  (2022) (I didn’t finish this one though, by the way)

Traditional Astrology 101 + 201 | These were two self-paced courses offered by Demetra George. (2019)

Northwest Astrological Conference | Attended the full NORWAC conference in 2020, 2021 + 2022.

+ there have been many books read and lectures listened to as well +

HISTORY OF OFFERINGS

Soil & Stars | Creative container for all my astrology offerings. Classes, resources and consultations. (2020-present)

Wild Roots People’s Clinic | Clinical herbalist at volunteer-run nonprofit offering free herbal consultations and apothecary services to the South Omaha area. (2020- present)

Teaching

Southeast Community College | I regularly teach a 4-part introduction to astrology course there. I’m also teaching some herb classes there coming up.

Midwest Women’s Herbal Conference | “Living Landscape: Getting to know common landscaping plants as food, medicine, and more” class, &  “Evolving Plant Relationships” discussion. (May 2023)

Prairie Herbalists Conference | “Plants, planets, and feelin’ good” lecture on humoral astro-medicine. (2022) 

Herbal Medicine-making and plant ID classes | held at my home and in local parks. (2017-present)

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Moon Rabbit Ayurveda | My first business! I offered ayurvedic health consultations (nutrition, herbal remedies, lifestyle support), ayurvedic body therapies & mindful community events. Oakland, CA. Certified massage therapist in California #48730. (2012-2017)

Meditation & Ayurveda Immersion | Co-facilitated this 4-day retreat at Mayacamas Ranch in Calistoga with Vedic meditation teacher Shannon O’Bryan. (2014)

Embody Lab & Retreat | Co-facilitated this interdisciplinary series with Qi Gong teacher and movement artist Margit Galanter. Oakland, CA and WindTree Farm & Retreat Center, Santa Cruz Mountains. (2015)

Yoga Teaching | Prairie Life Fitness + Summit Care and Wellness in Lincoln, NE; Uptown Yoga + East Bay Community Yoga in Oakland, CA + subbed at different studios. (2007-2012)

I TOLD YOU I HAD A LOT OF JOBS

Dog Walker (2021 - Present)

Farm Hand | Robinette Farms | Martell, NE (August 2021 - December 2022)

Baker | Meadowlark Coffee | Lincoln, NE (May 2019 - August 2021)

Assistant Tile Setter | Johnson Tile | Lincoln, NE (August 2018 - May 2019)

Baker | The Coffee House | Lincoln, NE (October 2017 - May 2018)

Personal Care Attendant | Inclusive Community Resources | Berkeley, CA (April 2012 - June 2014)

Shop Girl | Happy Girl Kitchen Co. | San Francisco, CA (July 2011-June 2012)

Shop Girl | Farmstead Cheeses and Wines | Alameda, CA (March 2010- July 2011)

Cheese Maker + Girl Friday | Branched Oak Farm | Raymond, NE (May 2008-Oct 2009)

Sandwich Maker + Prep Cook | Highnooners Deli | Lincoln, NE (2006-2008)

Call Center Fundraiser | Hudson Bay | Lincoln, NE (2007-2008)

Server + Host | Blue Orchid Thai Restaurant | Lincoln, NE (2006-2007)

Server | Sher-e-Punjab Indian Cuisine | Lincoln, NE (2006)

Cashier + Stocker | Open Harvest Co-op Grocery | Lincoln, NE (2005)

+ I walked dogs and watered plants for people throughout junior high & high school.

GENERAL STUDIES [PLANTS + HEALTH]

Water Is Life Retreat | Week-long Intensive to connect with the spirit of water. Water ambassador Isabel Friend. (2023)

Ethnobotany Studies | University of Alaska - Fairbanks. Coursework included ethnomycology, field botany and anthropology. (2019)

Intuitive Plant Medicine | 8-week course in flower essences with herbalist Asia Suler. (2019)

Folk Medicine & Magic of Old Europe | 30-hour course with herbalist Liz Migliorelli. (2017)

Feminine Leadership Academy | 8-week personal leadership course with coach Luna Battalia. (2017)

Good Medicine Confluence | herbal conference (2018)

Northern California Women’s Herbal Symposium | herbal conference (2017)

Vedic Meditation Course | 4-day meditation transmission with Shannon O’Bryan (2014)

Marma Therapy | 7-day training at the California College of Ayurveda. (2014)

Pranic Healing Level I | 2-day training in San Francisco. (2015)

Reiki I Attunement | 2-day training in Marin. (2014)

Ayurvedic Body Therapies | 5-day training in abhyanga and shirodhara at the California College of Ayurveda. (2013)

Clinical Ayurvedic Specialist Certificate | The program covered ayurvedic herbology, nutrition, lifestyle medicine, body therapies, included two years of study and two clinical internships & was basically what I did instead of university. California College of Ayurveda. (2009-2013)

Yoga Teacher Training |200-hr intensive training with Gayna Uransky & staff at Heartwood Institute near Garberville, CA. (2007)

Environmental Science | No Degree. I briefly attended the University of Nebraska - Lincoln. This included a semester abroad in Spain. (2004-2005)

The Arts & Humanities Focus Program + Lincoln High School | I’m pretty proud to have attended this cool program where I mostly did studio art as a highschooler. (2002-2004)

BUSINESS COURSES

Frequency First Business Foundations | Business Course with Pilar Lesko. (current)

Business Foundations + Livelihood Community | Year-long course +support with business mentor Yarrow Magdalena. (2022-2023)

Business Mentorship | 6-month 1:1 mentorship with coach Julie Wolk. (2017)

Get Known, Get Clients | 6-month business course with publicist Selena Soo. (2016)

+ I took some classes through the Small Business Association too, and some other places here and there.

EXTRACURRICULARS

Irish Traditional Music | Attempting to get better at the bodhran + penny whistle. (2021-present)

Qi Gong | Classes with Margit Galanter. Berkeley, CA + Virtual. (2016, 2020)

Torch Singer 101 | Vocal performance course with Jackie Allen. (2019)

Traditional Hand Drumming Classes + Mentorship | with Afia Walking Tree, Amber Field + Debbie Fier. Oakland, CA (2014-2017)

Born to Drum Camp | 3-day Traditional drumming immersion for women with world-class performers and teachers. Oakland, CA. (Attended in 2014 + 2016)

Flute lessons | with a nice lady named Jenna who was a professional flautist. (2013)

ART STUFF

New art site and digital portfolio coming later this year. (I used to have it all here on this site, but it was confusing.) In a nutshell:

The Farmer’s Market | Slingin’ art prints at the Lincoln Haymarket Farmer’s market. (2022 + 2023, coming up)

Shows | No Bad Plant solo show at Meadowlark Coffee (2021), Solo retrospective show at the Coffee House (2017), Two pieces in a group show at Turbine Flats. (2023)

Art at Cedar Point Residency | 2-week artist residency at UNL’s Cedar Point Biological Station, focused on the intersections of art and science. (2018)