Heronkind Stories & Healing

10/29/2025

Throughout our lives, each of us is guided by a team of spiritual advisors, beloved dead, or guardian angels who are ready to share their wisdom and unconditional love with us at every turn. But what happens if we aren’t sure who our blood ancestors are, or if we have a complicated relationship with family? No matter the case, every single soul has an opportunity to connect with the energies watching over them—human and non-human, blood and chosen—and to call upon their support when we are ready to listen.

Join me for Chosen Ancestors: How to Honor + Connect with Support in the Spirit World, a new virtual workshop, Sunday, November 9 from 4-5:30PM EST. In this interactive workshop, we’ll explore the idea of chosen ancestors and how we can begin to connect with them through meditation, tarot, and honoring those who came before. By the end of the session, you’ll be well on your way to creating your own personal ancestral practice that you can always turn to for guidance and support.

Developing a relationship with my spirit team, both blood and chosen, has enhanced my life in countless ways. My hope is that you’ll leave feeling empowered, inspired, and less alone on your journey. Register at www.heronkind.com/events. Can’t wait to dive into this work together! See you soon 🕯️💖

10/23/2025

More magic coming your way this November!🍁✨

Join me for events at local businesses in Boston & beyond. I am so excited to pop-up for tarot readings at Homie Goods at Bow Market, Dear Annie in Cambridge, and Petrova Chocolates in the North End! Plus, our Fall Tarot 101 class will be held at the rainbow crystal palace aka Highland & Heather in Andover, I’ll be teaching a special virtual workshop on honoring chosen ancestors, and our monthly FREE Virtual Reiki Circle is right around the corner. All are welcome!

Learn more & reserve your spot today at www.heronkind.com/events. See you there, witches🔮💫

10/20/2025

New Moon in Libra Collective Card Reading 🌙✨ Ace of Cups, The Chariot, Nine of Cups

The is a pivotal moment for learning how to trust the divine timing of our lives, to find the balance between action and surrender. The Chariot wants us to grow. We are called to bravely shake off the dust of repetition that hinders our evolution, even if it means moving through the discomfort of change.

Where are you ready to shift in a big way? How can you tune in with the right pace for your own rhythms? It’s time to believe wholeheartedly in your ability to succeed if you allow the moment to naturally unfold.

All of this water bolstering us makes sense for Libra, which is a very emotional and heart-led energy, even as an air sign. Relationships are Libra’s bread and butter. Tactfulness, peacemaking, and building bridges are all major gifts. The Ace of Cups wants to show us a new way of loving both ourselves and others, our immediate community and the world at large. Can you look around and find the steady stream of love flowing around you always, despite the heaviness of these times? Can we remind each other when we forget that love is the actual point of everything?

The Nine of Wands invites us to stop neutering the power of our dreams, visions, and desires. Action without heart and soul behind it very seldom leads to fulfilling outcomes. Practice letting yourself want what you want, both for yourself and for our planet. What will create the most nurturing, enjoyable, love-centered future? Start wherever you are, and know that even just holding the seeds of that dream in your heart is a powerful beginning.

May we remember that love is both an action and an infinite resource. May we know in our bones that love is the reason, the compass, and the way forward.

Cards from The Gentle Tarot by Mari in the Sky 💜

10/15/2025

✨THIS WEEKEND!✨ Join me for a spooky season tarot reading at All She Wrote Books in Somerville Sunday, October 19 from 2-5PM! 📚🔮✨

Come shop q***r and feminist books as we tune in with the wisdom of your intuition, spirit guides, and higher knowing. Together, we’ll ask for a message of guidance and support for your life right now. My readings are gentle, fun, and inclusive. All cards offer inspiration and healing!

Pick up a cozy fall read or a find a gift for a friend. Walk-ins are always welcome as time allows, or you can pre-book to skip the line and guarantee your spot at www.heronkind.com/events. See you there, witches! 🖤🎃

10/13/2025

The New Moon in Libra on October 21 brings the potential for tremendous gifts in the area of justice if we’re able to collaborate with the power of the stars.

Conjunct the Sun in Libra and opposite Chiron in Aries, we have a supercharged opportunity to set intentions for new growth in relationships, both personally and collectively, if we can work through some of the pain that comes with feeling isolated and alone, like the whole world is weighing on our shoulders. No one, not one single human, is meant to go through life solo. We all need connection, whether that be through romantic partnership, friendship, or community care. Love is the birthright of every being that calls this planet home.

Square Jupiter in Cancer and Pluto in Aquarius, it might take some coaxing to bring us out of our shells. We’ll need an incredible amount of trust, healing, and accountability to come together again, or maybe even to really see each other for the first time.

We have a Grand Water Trine AND a Grand Air Trine to work with on this new moon, giving us superpowers in our emotional and intellectual lives. Where are we ready to speak, write, create, and paint the world anew with our love? This is a potent moment for creative ventures, especially if they involve bridging the talents of multiple people invested in the same cause.

May the art we create during this time challenge the status quo and spark our hearts to keep moving forward in the journey towards greater wholeness, peace, and pleasure for all. 🌙✨

10/07/2025

Full Moon in Aries Collective Card Reading 🌕✨ Three of Wands, Ten of Cups, Eight of Stones

The fiery energy of Aries is meant to help us channel our spark into the world by blazing trails, embracing what makes us unique, and leading with our special gifts. At the same time, none of us are meant to move through life alone. We are each an essential part of a larger community. Our actions affect the whole, and therefore, we have a responsibility to consider our place in the interconnected web of life. The Ten of Cups reminds us to take stock of our chosen family. Who helps you remember that you belong, that you are always loved, always home? Especially in moments when the pain of the world feels overwhelming, call in the power of your emotional support systems. Decide here and now to reach out and connect.

The Three of Wands asks us to look at the big picture, to consider where we want our energy to take us going forward. Where are you ready to invest more of yourself? What really matters to you? What are you ready to learn, and who can you collaborate with to make your dreams and visions a real act of service in the landscape of what is needed? The Eight of Stones asks us to be patient with the process of becoming, to start where we are and know that it does not have to be perfect. We get to hone our craft over time and trust that each small step on the path, every single act of love we share with the world, adds up to the contribution our purpose guides us to make.

May we recognize the power of our relationships as mirrors for the light we as individuals are ready to shine. May we know how held and loved we are even in the moments when we feel alone. May we take good care of each other.

Cards from The Gentle Tarot by Mari in the Sky 🧡

10/02/2025

My earliest memory of feeling like a witch is playing around a tree my friends and I dubbed “The Magic Tree” in the parking lot of our Catholic school. I was in kindergarten. The sap poured out in thick, amber glops, generously dripping down the bark. I don’t remember all the specifics, but I do know I felt more inspired by that tree and picking the little flowers that grew at the base of its trunk than I did sitting in the pews during mass twice a week.

Still, coming out of the broom closet took decades. It was almost as hard for me as coming out as gay. I knew people would have misconceptions, even fears or prejudice. But I already knew what it felt like to be an outsider, defiant and proud as I carved my own path. It was a reclaiming, a homecoming to myself and all the things I believed before trying to conform. I credit my q***rness for helping me be brave enough to embrace the magic that was there from the very beginning.

Ask fifty witches what it means to be a witch and you’ll probably get fifty different answers. We each create our own lives, values, and beliefs while honoring those who came before. I come from generations of intuitive women and healers, not all of whom identified as witches, but I believe some did. I hope that in calling myself a witch, I can help reclaim it for all people who wish to live in the fullness and fierceness of their own magic and use it for good in the world.

As a witch, I believe that we co-create our existence with Spirit and the universe. I believe it is our calling to work for justice, liberation, joy, love, and pleasure for all beings. I believe that the great collective consciousness made up of our ancestors, spirits guides, and our own inner knowing is always there to guide us, protect us, and love us unconditionally. All we have to do is learn how to listen and connect.

What does being a witch mean to you? I’d love to hear below! Sending you so much love this Season of the Witch and always 🖤✨

📸 by my dear friend Carlie Febo

10/02/2025

So excited to be part of this event! Get tickets today 🥰🌈🎉

Come OUT & Celebrate 2025 will feature a number of entertainment activities, including FREE tarot readings from Heronkind Stories & Healing ! Sit down with Lauren Trombino-Walleser (she/her) for a 5 minute individual or pair reading🌿✨🔮🌈

Lauren is a q***r witch, tarot reader, astrologer, reiki master-teacher, and writer. She created Heronkind Stories & Healing after nearly fifteen years of personal devotion to energy healing and a lifelong passion for magic. Lauren is deeply honored to share these gifts through one-on-one sessions and community events centered on connecting people with their most authentic selves so we can co-create a more loving, just, and pleasurable future together. Originally from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Lauren has lived with her wife in Somerville, Massachusetts for over a decade. In all of her work, she hopes to inspire people to take care of the Earth, themselves, and each other.

Be sure to get your tickets to Come OUT & Celebrate! Early bird tickets are on sale NOW though September 30th - get tickets HERE: https://givebutter.com/2025Gay-la!

09/22/2025

Happy Fall Equinox, witches! 🍁✨

Today we celebrate the start of autumn and the balance of light and dark as we transition seasons. It’s a great day to offer gratitude for what you’re ready to harvest and gently compost what you’re ready to leave behind. May the thinning of the veil bring us closer to our ancestral magic and the seeds of wisdom we alway carry within us.Sending blessings and love for a gorgeous day! ☀️💕

09/14/2025

Join me for a some magic this spooky season in Boston & beyond! 🔮🎃✨

I am thrilled to be partnering with so many of my favorite small businesses this October for events featuring tarot, treats, ritual, community, and more! Come get in the spirit with me , .grocery, All She Wrote Books, , and more to be announced soon.

Walk-ins are always welcome, or you can skip the line and guarantee your spot by pre-booking at www.heronkind.com/events. Can’t wait to celebrate and tune into the wisdom and whimsy beyond the veil this season. See you there, witches 🖤👻🔥

09/08/2025

Full Moon Lunar Eclipse in Pisces Collective Card Reading 🌕✨ Four of Stones, Nine of Wands, Strength

The Nine of Wands—pictured here as a big cat waiting for the right moment to pounce as it hides behind the tall grass, under what totally looks like an eclipse—asks us to prioritize our energy and trust our divine timing. Where can you ease up and surrender right now, knowing that change is actively happening without you having to lift a finger? Can you allow the transformation to unfold in its own due time rather than struggling to push forward when your energy is calling for a sacred pause? Slowing down doesn’t mean you won’t get where you want to go, and maybe, just maybe, it will feel even better if you take your time getting there rather than rushing ahead.

The Four of Stones (Pentacles) emphasizes the need for rest on a physical level, a firming up of boundaries, a call to ground ourselves in the here and now. Our bodies, these vessels that house our spirit, deserve our patience, love, and care. What would be easier if you started listening to your body rather than bypassing its natural rhythms?

Strength asks us to harness the power of compassion and vulnerability even in the face of heartache. Make space for your emotions, but try not to react from a place that is solely driven by them. Instead, how can you open your heart even in the face of pain? Trust that you in doing so, you will be seen and held by those who love you both in this life and by those who came before.

May we honor our flame by tending it with gentleness and courage. May we rest easy knowing that who we are is always enough. Card from The Gentle Tarot by Mari in the Sky 💜

09/01/2025

The Full Moon Total Lunar Eclipse in Pisces on September 7 highlights our need to let go of the past, end patterns of overthinking, and embrace the spiritual gifts that are ready to awaken within us.

Eclipses are portals for change and transformation that we experience twice a year, a way of catapulting into new timelines or discovering more of our soul purpose as they activate the nodes of the moon, which are associated with our past and our future.

Conjunct the North Node in Pisces, we are encouraged to shed anything that stands between us and compassion, both for ourselves and others. There could be major creative breakthroughs, psychic downloads, or a tearful release as we understand more clearly what needs to end so new chapters can begin.

Opposite the Sun in Virgo conjunct Mercury and the South Node, we could find ourselves clinging to memories or stories that no longer serve us. Our inner critic could also be extra loud during this time, or we may feel overwhelmed by deep bouts of worry. The more we can let ourselves dissolve into meditation, writing, laughter, or any activities that help us feel more connected to the best of humanity, the smoother this wave of healing energies will be able to wash over us.

Trine Jupiter in Cancer and Chiron in Aries, this is a potent opportunity to reparent ourselves, to become our best inner caretaker, to firm up our boundaries, and say no to self-sacrificing ways of being. The world doesn’t need more martyrs; it needs more empathy. It needs more people with their hearts wide open, ready to make the boat bigger rather than jump ship.

Spend some time this Full Moon reflecting on what you love, what you know to be true, and what kinds of aid would feel like a balm for your own spirit even as you use your gifts to serve. Then, surrender, surrender, surrender. Make way for the newness. Trust your magic soul to know where it is ready to go. 🌕✨

I have a brand new tarot offering to help folks tune in with the healing lessons of this potent time. You can learn more and book a session at the www.heronkind.com/tarot. Beaming love this eclipse season and always 💖