MEET YOUR GUIDES 

Danielle Blackwood (she, her) is a bestselling Author, Registered Counseling Therapist (RTC) and certified Archetypal Astrologer located on magical Salt Spring Island Canada, the original lands and unceded territory of the xʷənen̕əč.

I am the author of the bestselling book, The Twelve Faces of the Goddess: Transform Your Life with Astrology, Magick and the Sacred Feminine .  and A Lantern in The Dark: Navigate Life’s Crossroads with Story, Ritual & Sacred Astrology. I have studied and practiced astrology for more than 30 years, and am certified in the Principles and Practice of Contemporary Psychological Astrology through world renowned astrologer and author, Erin Sullivan. My approach is Jungian, archetypal, and transpersonal. I encourage clients all over the world to live a life of authenticity, helping them consciously reframe their stories through an archetypal lens. In 2016 I completed the training intensive “Singing Over the Bones” with Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes, and I hold a certificate in Jungian and Post Jungian Clinical Concepts. As a priestess and educator, I have been facilitating workshops, classes, ceremony and retreats on astrology and the Mysteries since 1994. 

My astrology work has been published since 2009, I wrote Banyen Book’s Cosmic Weather Report for 12 years, and a goddess astrology column in Sagewoman Magazine from 2011-2019. My work has since appeared in countless annuals such as Llewellyn’s Witches’ Datebook, and The Witches’ Calendar among many others.

My academic background is in Counseling Psychology and Gender Studies (University of British Coumbia), and I have volunteered at PACE and PEERS (where I sat on the board) on Vancouver’s Downtown East Side. I also volunteered at The Young Wolves Lodge for the Urban Native Youth Association.

Seraphina Capranos (she/her) is a clinical herbalist, homeopath, and initiated priestess with a practice spanning over two decades.

At the age of 14, Seraphina began learning alchemical practices from shamanic practitioners she met through fated circumstance. From the age of 16 until age 18 she apprenticed with a medical intuitive, Elizabeth Hammond. Then, embarked on the priestess path in 1998 into which she was initiated in 2016 through the Reclaiming Tradition. Like many cast onto the path of healing and spiritual training, it was pain and suffering that led her into the forest to seek answers to life’s big questions. First, it was an injury that left her bedridden with debilitating pain as a teenager, and just a few years later, the intractable disease then the sudden tragic death of her beloved father which set her on a spiritual quest all before 21 years old.  She spent ten years in a Toltec apprenticeship, which radically shifted her perceptional world and help shape her world-view as one deeply connected to the earth. She has taught thousands of students and has held countless circles, classes, rituals and ceremonies for groups as large as 300. With a practice spanning two decades, she is now a sought-after international teacher and speaker. Her greatest teachers, as always, are the students and patients with whom she is grateful to work with. She is continually in awe of the strength of the human spirit. Regarded as a 'teachers teacher' her unique blend of gifts straddle the vast worlds of plant medicine, homeopathy, and ritual and ceremonial magic. She is known for her heart-centered, generous teaching style that speaks to multiple ways of learning. 

She would like to honour and thank the many teachers that have influenced the teacher and practitioner she is today: Elizabeth Hammond, Blade, Starhawk, Rose May Dance, Liz Forrest, Susun Weed, Willow Kelly, Urania Griffith, Robert Birch, Gwydion Logan, Suzanne Sterling, Rosemary Gladstar, Dr. Aviva Romm, MD, Amanda McQuade Crawford, RJ Stewart.