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Healing Sessions + Ancient Pocket Workshops
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Healing Sessions + Ancient Pocket Workshops *
Ancient Pocket is the heart of my healing and divinatory work, while Terra Heaven Eco Arts and Earthen Futures Studio expand into Indigenous eco arts, healing modality, clay, visual arts, sound, ritual technologies and relationship with the living world. Together, these interconnected projects form a living body of work devoted to creativity, restoration, spiritual inquiry, ecological awareness and reconnection with animate existence.
Since 1997, I have walked the path of a magus, working with plant medicine, tarot, ancestral guidance, subtle energy practices and mythotechnic ritual arts. My work weaves together intuitive insight, herbal wisdom, quantum healing and spiritual care through one-on-one sessions, workshops, ritual spaces and reflective educational offerings.
Experiences with Ancient Pocket are gentle spaces for reflection, clarity, restoration and honest guidance. Together we may explore life transitions, grief, spiritual questions, energetic patterns, creative blocks and reconnecting with your own intuition and inner knowing through tarot, plant allies, ritual, workshops, sound and energetic attunement.
Offerings are provided through private appointments, healing sessions, divinatory consultations.Or by purchasing tickets to Ancient Pocket classes, workshops, gatherings and immersive experiences. To work with me and connect you may also email ancientpocket@gmail.com
Tela Arcana Tarot Xpress Email
Readings
$13
A one-card divination delivered via email.
Includes:
direct answer
symbolic interpretation
energetic reflections
image of the card pull
$33
Tela Arcana ~ The Veil Tarot Reading
A three-card expanded reading exploring the hidden layers beneath the question.
Sent to your email
Group photo of your cards
Brief yet thorough explanation typed out with artistic elements for symbolic reference
Delivered within 24 - 48 hours
A longer, immersive poetic reading written as a ritual letter.
This is not a quick answer or surface-level interpretation. It is a field reading; a written transmission that follows the threads beneath your question and listens for what is forming underneath it.
Each correspondence is composed as a ritual letter from the Tela Arcana, blending Tarot symbolism, intuitive perception and poetic/esoteric language. The reading unfolds as a layered response rather than a linear explanation, often weaving imagery, archetypal reflection and subtle energetic observation.
This offering is designed for moments when a question is not just a question, but a threshold.
You may receive:
A 6 card spread
A photo of your full layout
A written ritual letter (long-form, poetic interpretation)
Symbolic and archetypal decoding of the situation
Insight into underlying patterns, timing and energetic movement
Gentle directional guidance rather than fixed prediction
A closing invocation or reflection to carry forward
This reading is delivered as a digital oracle document via email, typically within 24-48 hours (sometimes longer if the reading is particularly complex or layered).
It is intended to be returned to, re-read and absorbed over time; less like a message, more like a text that continues to unfold.
Healing Arts Training & Certification
Vanessa Ehecatl Santos (b. 1978, Los Angeles, CA)
Internship Chicken Soup Chinese Medicine Acupuncture Clinic - Focus on Eastern medicine for terminally ill patients; uterine/ gynecologic health; moxibustion, gua sha, tui na, needle removal and herbal medicine preparation w/ Misha Ruth Cohen, OMD, L.Ac.,San Francisco, CA (2003–2005)
Synergistic Herbalism Intensive Certifications - Pokeroot Foundation; Portland, OR. (2005-2008) & Wise Woman Center Susun Weed; Woodstock, NY (2011-2015)
Usui Reiki Level I - Steve Nunley Reiki Master Teacher LMT, NW Healing Arts; Portland, OR (2007)
Usui & Johrei Reiki Level II + Master Certification Level III - College of the Lakes Kathy Heng Reiki Master Teacher and CH; Emmetsburg, IA (2014–2016)
Medicinal & Edible Native Plants of the Prairie - Water’s Edge Nature Center; Algona, IA (2014)
Ongoing mentorship and study in Lyme and Heavy Metal Detoxification Protocols w/ Katie Blair, L.Ac., M.A.O.M., Dipl. O.M., BS.; Dubuque, IA (2017–present)
Ordained Minister ULC Church - October 2017 Certification to Perform Marriage Ceremony (Marriage Officiate)
Postpartum Doula Training (DONA International) - Dubuque, IA 2019
Bio-Dynamic Certification in Agricultural Justice & Beekeeping - Rochester, NY & Floyd, VA (2019–2021)
Sacred Bee Healing Center Apitherapy Mentorship in the Hoshindo Method w/ Joyce Roetter; Los Cerrillos, NM (2020-2022)
Kambo Self-Treatment Training Intensive & Mentorship in Ceremonial Medicine w/ Master Practitioner Taylor Eyewalker; Los Angeles, CA (2021-2023)
* for more info see Ancient Pocket full CV here
