Astara Raven

12/04/2025

Sharing with blessings for The International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers.

12/01/2025

This month, instead of adding to the noise of holiday sales and countdown timers, we offer something quieter. Something solid, real, true. 🫶🏼

Not a sale — but an act of accessibility. 🫶🏽

For December 2025 only, I’m opening a handful of rare 30-minute Heartifact Archaeology Microdose sessions — little pockets of clarity designed to help you reflect on the year behind you and dream the year ahead. 🫶🏾

These sessions are rare because I usually only offer 60- or 90-minute Heartifact Archaeology sessions. ($177-$266) But this month only, you can experience a heartifact microdose ($89) — and for the first time, I’m opening them for in-person sessions at our Illuminating Hearts Heartquarters. You’ll also receive a beautiful hit of sound alchemy woven into your experience. 🫶🏿

And for those afar, the remote option is still very much alive. ✨

These sessions offer a moment to crack open your dream seed: soul reflection that lets your next chapter begin to take root, a gentle opening so your inner light has room to rise. 🌱✨

If this speaks to you, your Heartifact Archaeology Microdose session awaits.
👉🏾 book: https://calendly.com/illuminatinghearts/heartifact-archaeology-microdose-30-min

12/01/2025

I am offering rare 30 min Heartifact microdose sessions this month to help you step into the new year with clarity. More below.

11/20/2025

11/11/2025

On 11/11/18 at 11:11am Orion and I said our wedding intentions at the (former) Om Center, committing to a lifelong love partnership in sound and soulful resonance.

The last 7 years have deepened our connection in ways that are beyond my wildest dreams. Our conscious relationship has taught us not only how to love each other better, but also how to be better humans.

November is a month of anniversary energy for us.

Our first date was 11/9/14 at Aromas cafe. That’s 11 years exploring intimacy with this magnificent human.

Our first Illuminating Hearts sound alchemy event was Benson First Friday at YOGA NOW in November 2015. That’s 10 years of joyfully making healing music together.

Thank you beloved for choosing me to live this beautiful life with. I love you. ❤️‍🔥

11/07/2025

“The job of the artist is not to destroy,” Ono once said, “but to change the value of things.” – Sebastian Smee

A Yoko Ono retrospective in Chicago reminds us of her enduringly radical art.

11/06/2025

The Ta**us Full Moon is grounding our dreams into form as I write. Have you seen that moon yet? Go outside tonight and get a peek! It’s gorgeous. 🌕
..and our Supermoon Super Sale closes
tonight at midnight! 🕛

This moon reminds us to care for what truly matters —
our home, our body, our soul. 🌿💗

If you’ve been feeling the call to come home to yourself, this is your last window to our sweet deal of 22% off! 🌕

💫 Save big on:
all Heartifact Ecosystem offerings
Soul & Sound Retreats
Sale ends tonight, Wednesday Nov 5 at Midnight (CT).

Go to bio link.
https://astararaven.love/offerings
**us

11/05/2025

Happy Ta**us supermoon today. 🌕 Dream outside the box. Color outside the lines. Come home to you.

11/05/2025

Good news — our Spooky Magic Sale has been extended until the Full Moon! 🌕

This supermoon in Ta**us invites us to dream outside the box and color beyond the lines. 🎨
It’s a cosmic reminder to slow down, nourish your home, and tend to the temple of your body. 🏡✨🫀

When pieces of our soul scatter from stress or heartbreak,
they hover in the quantum field…
waiting for our call home. 🖤

We all ghost ourselves sometimes.
The real haunting is forgetting who we are in truth. 👻

Through love, sound, and presence, and I guide you to reclaim your light — calling every shimmering fragment back into your body, back into belonging. 💫

✨🪞✨ The Spooky Magic Sale — Soul Retrieval Edition

Save 22% on private sessions through Wednesday, 11/5 @ midnight.

Discount applies automatically when you click the booking link. 🗝️

Because wholeness is the wildest form of magic. 🌬️🌕
Your light is ready to come home.

11/02/2025

In Loving Memory of Unci Rita Long Visitor Holy Dance

Oglala Lakota Elder • Beloved Grandmother of the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers

🌿 Born on Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota ~ Journeyed to the Spirit World 10:37 p.m., October 24, 2025 🌿

From Nathan Blindman:

With a heavy heart and deep love, I share that my dear mother, Unci Rita Long Visitor Holy Dance, has journeyed to the Spirit World. She passed away peacefully on the evening of October 24, 2025, at the age of over 100 years old.

Unci Rita was the oldest living member of the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers and a revered Oglala Lakota Elder. Born on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, just one year after Native Americans were granted U.S. citizenship, she dedicated her entire life to her family, her people, and the preservation of Lakota language, traditions, and ceremonies.

From her early years caring for her dying mother after leaving school in the 8th grade, to her later decades working tirelessly for youth empowerment, cultural revitalization, and spiritual healing, Unci Rita lived every day in service. She taught by example—through love, humility, and prayer—helping generations reconnect with their Lakota identity and spiritual ways, from the Sundance to language preservation.

She leaves behind a vast family—children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and great-great-grandchildren—along with countless hearts around the world who called her Unci (Grandmother).

As my mother said of her Grandmother Sisters, “I often wondered about the other grandmothers and what challenges they had when they were young women.”

Now she joins them again in that sacred circle of prayer beyond the veil.

Honoring Unci Rita’s Journey

Her two-night wake will begin Thursday evening, October 30, and continue Friday evening, with the funeral service on Saturday afternoon, November 1, 2025, at the Sioux Funeral Home on Pine Ridge Reservation.

Our tribe will cover basic funeral expenses, but our family must provide for traditional needs—food, giveaways, gas, and ceremonial items—to properly honor her in the Lakota way.

If you are moved to help, your donation of any amount will be deeply appreciated and will directly support the costs of these traditional protocols.

💛 Tax Deductible Donation Link: bit.ly/UnciRitaElderFund

The Path
3103 North Maywood Avenue
Boise, ID 83704
Memo : Unci Rita Edler Fund

From the bottom of my heart, I thank each of you who prayed for my mother and walked beside her throughout her journey. Your kindness and support have carried us through.

Wopila Tanka – Deep Gratitude and Blessings All Ways,

Nathan Blindman
on behalf of the Long Visitor Holy Dance Family

PS: you can send condolences to Nathan Blindman, PO Box 1756, Pine Ridge, SD 57770