Ruby Intuition

A one-stop medium facilitating integrity, expansion, and joy

What to Expect

First and foremost I connect your conscious, daily self—the self who pays the phone bill and wonders if that person is ever going to text back and if you turned off the stove and, well, you fill in the blanks—with your “true self,” what some people refer to as the soul. The part of us that we typically only connect to first thing in the morning or in our dreams. In all my readings, I help you develop a more daily way to connect to who you really are.

Before our session, think about what you’d like to focus on.  Schedule a little time to regroup afterward, a “buffer zone” between you and the reality you’re stepping back into on new terms. Eat some protein to ground yourself, then turn off your other devices, and settle in with a glass of water and a notebook. If possible, set yourself up in a private space where you can plant your feet firmly on the ground and face the camera of a laptop or a tablet rather than a phone. I will have prepared by studying your astrological chart and tuning into you via deep meditation.

During our session, we will discuss your intent and/or question(s) and then I will begin to share the responses I receive, using both tarot and astrology to clarify what I have already intuited.

After our session, you may feel a little spacey. Be sure to hydrate and be gentle with yourself. Journaling also can be helpful. I rarely remember what comes through sessions, but you may continue to receive information over the next few days so be sure to write down your dreams.

Although quite often I gain insight into your past and future, that is not the central focus of my readings. Details about your past, present, and possible future arrive to expand your understanding of your life right now––of your challenges and strengths, of the circumstances and people around you. Sometimes they may be details you have forgotten and other times they may be details about what might happen, although I believe that our future is constantly changing based on every choice we make. Such tools as tarot and astrology help but often the most important information shows up while I am just tuning in to you. What emerges is your best path and how to align with it.

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About Me 

A professional intuitive since 2009, I hail from Massachusetts, and am the descendent of a long line of Scottish and Sioux factory workers who could tell you who was calling long before caller ID was invented.  The women on my mother’s side always could see what some call “auras” but they referred to as “colors around the head.” Often, nonchalantly, they reported ghost sightings. As the nerdier kid in the family who did well in school, I assumed that I was too much in my head to possess the same gifts, and was secretly relieved.

It wasn’t until I was an adult that I realized that I’d always had access to a lot more information than the average person. In dreams and impressions that came to me, I often saw things before they happened or knew where a person was from or what their parents were like or even what medicine they were taking. Sometimes people who’d died came to me in dreams to tell me things that I had no other way of knowing. To this day, I believe in what I call the “intuition spectrum.” I think everyone possesses a natural intuition they rarely access because technology has long supplanted its use. It’s just that for whatever reason the women in my family still actively access it, the way other families might produce really fast runners or unusually high abilities to calculate large sums.

Certainly, I did not set out to be a professional intuitive. I’ve always been curious but naturally skeptical. My dad is a computer science professor who taught me to methodically sift through information. I took degrees in literature and political philosophy with a concentration in gender/feminist studies at Bryn Mawr and Haverford Colleges, which emphasize the Quaker values of respect and accountability in a way that has impacted my entire world view. And I studied at the Integral Yoga ashram and with the astrologers and intuitives Virginia Bell, Maryann Russell, and Darlene Troiano, the energy healers Alysia Tromblay and Jill Purce, the integrative medicine physician Dr. Ann Marie Chiasson, and the authors Matthew Fox and Rupert Sheldrake, who have written extensively about the connection between science and spirituality.

When I first came to New York City it was to be a labor organizer in homage to my family’s background. But it became apparent as I kept sneaking out of demonstrations to attend afternoon movies that I was better suited to cultural commentating. Since 2000 I have commentated as a Brooklyn-based film critic for PBS, NY1, CBS, the IFC, Salon.com, Time Out New York, Flavorwire, Marie Claire, Vulture, and Us Weekly. It is a job I have felt incredibly lucky to do.

I always have been intuitive, though, and over the years my skills of claircognizance and clairvoyance only grew stronger until they began to leak out in ways that were funny but embarrassing. Once I ruined a dinner party by asking a woman if she’d told her husband about her affair only to realize she hadn’t told me about it. It was around then that I decided to formally build an intuitive practice as an ethical, constructive outlet for my abilities. Really, writing about culture and conducting intuitive sessions aren’t that different. In each pursuit I translate people back to their best selves whether it’s through tarot cards or through the vehicle of art and culture. Both jobs are about serving as a medium. All of it is about easing up the human condition.