Hi, I’m Michelle. Welcome to the Studio.
I picked out my first spell book from a Scholastic book catalog when I was ten.
I never really put it down.
Astrology, tarot, magic, the unseen architecture of things — I've been reading about it, practicing it, quietly building a life around it for as long as I can remember. It was never a phase. It was the constant.
Everything else came and went around it.
For most of my life, I was very good at being understood.
Not fully seen — just understood enough.
It was just another mask. One I wore so well I fooled even myself.
It started young — shaping myself to fit, first with friends, then later inside a structure at work that was never built for me. And I was good at it — I earned the awards, got nominated for the leadership roles, learned exactly how to be what everyone needed.
And underneath it, I kept disappearing. Burning out, recovering, burning out again — sure the problem was me. That I needed more discipline. More stamina. A better attitude.
It took me a long time to realize the framework was the problem. Not the person inside it.
In 2020, things cracked open.
I became a Holy Fire® Karuna Reiki® Master, certified through the ICRT — formalizing the energy work I'd been circling my whole life. I went deeper into tarot, the practice I'd been teaching myself since I was that kid with the spell book, alongside astrology and Human Design — the languages I've used to understand myself and everyone I work with.
And I started taking on freelance work for women building businesses on their own terms, watching the rigid 9-to-5 framework finally fall away.
For the first time, I could see it: there's more than one way to build a life.
So I started designing mine around my energy — instead of forcing my energy into someone else's design.
These days, the magic and the structure aren't two separate things. They're the same practice.
I'm a Virgo sun, Aries moon, Scorpio rising. A 2/5 Manifesting Generator. A Bay Area girl who has never once felt right away from the ocean.
I'm a Spiritual Architect. I don't hand anyone a blueprint. I help women draw their own.
Here's the truth underneath all of it:
What I wanted, in the years I was unraveling, was to know I wasn't alone in it.
I didn't always have that.
So I built it. This studio is the place I needed and couldn't find — and now it's here, for whoever needs it too.
However you find your way in — reading the essays, working with me one-to-one, or stepping into the Workshop — the work is the same. Building a life that's actually yours. By design.