Kayla Garnet Rose, Phd

Kayla Garnet Rose, Phd Kayla is an enchanting holistic healer who lives in a fairy castle by the sea. The best part of her job? Seeing people become empowered before her eyes!

Since 1989 she has cast the cards, charted the stars, and guided people to achieve their dreams through H.E.A.R.T - Hypnotherapy, Energy work, Astrology, Reiki, and Tarot. Since 1989 Kayla has cast the cards, charted the stars, and guided people to achieve their most heartfelt dreams and visions. Clients experience insights for personal growth and transformation while receiving support, encouragement, and inspiration to foster hope and optimism. She also enjoys hiking in the redwood forests, reading both historical and science fiction, creating art in a variety of media from watercolor to collage, blogging about life as a holistic healer in Santa Cruz, and making videos/podcasts to empower/ inspire more people to become their authentic selves. Kayla is a volunteer docent at the Monterey Bay Sanctuary Exploration Center. where she runs Story Telling hour, as well as participating on First Fridays for marine-themed arts and crafts fun for the whole family. Kayla loves blogging, gardening, and her most recent passion is publishing children's books in honor of her grand children. Her current work in progress is called, "Laphrodite's Book of Spells."

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02/15/2026

Triangle Speakers Training
Date: Saturday, February 28
Time: 11:00 am–3:00 pm
Location: The Diversity Center
Ages: 18+
RSVP: tinyurl.com/2026trianglespeakers

Become a Triangle Speaker and use storytelling to build awareness and empathy for the LGBTQ+ community. Learn about the history of the speakers bureau, current SOGIE terminology, and how to craft a 5-minute story in a supportive training environment.

02/15/2026

A leader of wisdom compelling others to recognize the truth, Arturo Alfonso Schomburg embodies the King of Swords. Discipline, focus, and the written word are all in his realm.

A pivotal figure in the Harlem Renaissance and founder of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Arturo was an Afro-Puerto Rican historian, writer, activist, and collector dedicated to documenting Black history. While Schomburg was in grade school, one of his teachers claimed that Black people had no history, heroes or accomplishments. Inspired to prove the teacher wrong, Schomburg was determined to find and document the accomplishments of Africans on their own continent and in the diaspora. Schomburg amassed over of 10,000 documents in his lifetime from the African continent to the Caribbean, South America, and the U.S.

"With such crucial truths to document and establish, an ounce of fact is worth a pound of controversy" – Arturo Alfonso Schomburg (1874–1938)

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02/15/2026

"We can never go back. I know that now. We can go forward. We can find the love our hearts long for, but not until we let go grief about the love we lost long ago… All the years of my life I thought I was searching for love I found, retrospectively, to be years where I was simply trying to recover what had been lost, to return to the first home, to get back the rapture of first love. I was not really ready to love or be loved in the present. I was still mourning — clinging to the broken heart of girlhood, to broken connections. When that mourning ceased I was able to love again."

- Bell Hooks

[Image: Rise Up (2015) oil painting on canvas by Colorado based poet and artist Emily Kell.]

The Smart Witch by Elizabeth

Classic The Smart Witch
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02/15/2026

In a time of hate
Love is an act of resistance
In a time of fear
Faith is an act of resistance
In a time of misinformation
Education is an act of resistance
In a time of poor leadership
Community is an act of resistance
In a time like this
Joy is an act of resistance . . .

~ Loryn Brantz
Loryn Brantz Books and Illustration

Art: Jane Spakowsky
Artist Jane Spakowsky

02/15/2026

“Once we thoroughly understand how and why patriarchy acquired its power over us—the power of an entrenched mistake over the minds and lives of all people—once we understand and feel clearly that the fight of witch women is also the fight of earth’s people everywhere against mechanical subjugation and exploitation—once we reestablish the magic link between the individual psyche and the earth’s vital energy flow, between all-evolving matter and all-evolving spirit, and learn to encourage and teach others to do the same, in a loving return to what we always were—perhaps then, in the final time of crisis, the Serpent Goddess will shake herself loose from her deep exiled sleep in the earth’s belly. Perhaps the serpent of life’s flowing energy will begin to rise again, all luminous and of the earth, and the children of the Great Mother will rise up with it, and the universe will be our home again, as before. This flight is not an escape, but a return. The only way for human beings to survive the end is to return to the beginning.” –Monica Sjöö & Barbara Mor, The Great Cosmic Mother

Art: "Lilith in Her Own Garden Abundance" by Sue Ellen Parkinson

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02/12/2026

Double rainbow yesterday!

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Welcome to Mini Mindfulness Meditations

My name is Kayla Garnet Rose, PhD. I am a holistic healer in Santa Cruz, California and I offer tools of H.E.A.R.T - Hypnosis, Energywork, Astrology, Reiki and Tarot. Many of my clients come to learn mindfulness and how to meditate, but it can be so difficult to find 20 minutes (let alone an hour) to practice everyday. So I began making these one minute meditations while on a silent retreat. Check them out at www.Laphrodite.net. They are not polished by any means. My hand gets shaky, you can hear me breathing, or maybe the wind in the background. Let the outside sounds bring you to the quiet inside. Or turn off the volume completely, enjoy your own moment of peacefulness. Put it on a loop and enjoy for as long as you like. Remember to breathe.

The Temple of Laphrodite provides a sacred space for you to sit for a spell or two. Daily meditations in a range of modalities invite you to take a moment for yourself. Affirmations, poems, prayers, rituals, sometimes just an image to reflect upon, a time for you to cultivate your own lightheartedness. Not all is light and fluffy. At the ripe age of 53, I am going through menopause, and for a while there it was kicking my ass. I channel much of my frustration into artwork, writing, and going on silent retreats. Currently I am finishing my book of art, prose, poetry and ritual, Laphrodite's Guide to Mindful Menopause, Or the Adventures of a Baby Crone. Part of being a Patreon means getting to see sneak peaks, add your insights, and be a part of birthing this book into being. Supporting the Kayla will help to create more videos, more yumminess, more or***ms for peace. With deep gratitude, Blessed be! Kayla

Disclaimer: Nothing on this site is intended to indicate or imply that Kayla Garnet Rose, PhD, is a licensed medical or mental health practitioner, nor is intended to diagnose, treat, or cure any physical or psychological ailment or disease, and should not be used in place of treatment by a licensed physician or accredited mental health professional.