about kris
they/she
A Cartographer's Note
hellenistic / intuitive astrologer & ritualist currently based in santa fe, nm.
readings are framed around the desire to point people back to themselves: a deepening into the present, reflections into the past, and finding a jumping off point into the next timeline.
my practice has been informed by the traditional hellenistic framework, jyotish (vedic) principles, and electional techniques. I deeply value timing techniques: knowing the right time to begin, refine, release.
astrology first met me during a moment of release and grief in my late teens, and has ushered me into era after era since then, becoming a treasured path of study and practice. tarot has anchored me most in times I’ve needed to transcribe the invisible; most often in the eye of grief, or at the edge of change.
my intention as a reader is to steward people toward deeper pockets of their own awareness and experience: to help point out the areas of your chart you need to see at the time you, as the querent, reach out for a reading.
my practice is anti-colonial, queer, anti-racist and pro-freedom. I do not make judgement calls for you, or purport to know your life better than you do. readings are not fixed: time moves, paths open, you engage your will.
hellenistic
- from
- the hellenistic mediterranean, centred on alexandria in egypt, where babylonian, egyptian and greek traditions met.
- circa
- from about the 2nd–1st century bce to the 7th century ce.
- primary notes
- the root of western horoscopic astrology: whole-sign houses, sect (day and night charts), the lots, and time-lord techniques such as annual profections and zodiacal releasing. its voices include dorotheus of sidon, vettius valens and ptolemy.
jyotish
- from
- india. the name is sanskrit, often translated as "the science of light."
- circa
- roots in the vedic period, where it began as calendar and ritual timekeeping; the horoscopic texts most used today took shape over the first millennium ce.
- primary notes
- the sidereal zodiac, set to the stars; the 27 nakshatras, or lunar mansions; the dashas, planetary periods that time the chapters of a life; and divisional charts.
electional
- from
- a branch of practice rather than a place: found in hellenistic astrology, in medieval persian and arabic astrology, and in jyotish, where it's called muhurta.
- circa
- from at least the 1st century ce (dorotheus of sidon), refined in the 9th century by sahl ibn bishr.
- primary notes
- choosing the moment to begin, since a beginning carries its chart forward: attention to the moon's condition, the strength of the benefics, and the ruler of the matter at hand.