Welcome

However you arrived, I’m glad you’re here.

I’m Serra Rue. I’m an animist, plant witch, and artist, and much of my work is about tending relationship: with ancestors, plants, spirit, and with people moving through life, death, grief, and change.

For nearly two decades, I have studied and practiced across shamanic traditions, energy healing, mediumship, ritual, and spirit work, learning through mentorship, apprenticeship, and long relationship with teachers, communities, and the work itself. Over the years, that path has expanded into ancestral healing, somatic parts work, energy healing, plant spirit mediumship, grief and death care, and psychedelic preparation and integration. Before this work took its current shape, I also spent many years as a public artist creating projects rooted in community engagement and participation.

My spiritual practice is woven into the ordinary fabric of my life. It lives in how I tend my home and garden, raise my teenager, make offerings, sit with grief, care for bees, feed crows, and harvest herbs and flowers for spirit medicine, ritual, anointing, pigments, and natural dyes. Walking a path where the sacred and the mundane are not separate asks me to stay close to what is here, to practice reciprocity, to pay attention, and to care for what asks something of me. Because this is how I live, it is also how I meet others.

Death has shaped me deeply. I lost my mother at 18, my husband at 28, and my father at 32. Those losses taught me how to sit close to grief without asking it to become something else, and how healing can unfold slowly through witness, surrender, care, and time.

For me, those relationships did not end with death. Learning how they could continue, change, and take on new form across that threshold became an important part of my spiritual life and eventually of the work I offer. I support people who want space to explore relationship with their dead in a grounded, open, and personal way.

That relationship with the dead also informs how I understand ancestry and inheritance. My animistic practice is rooted in feminist and liberatory values, and I do not experience spiritual work as separate from the histories, systems, family patterns, and inherited conditioning that shape our bodies, relationships, and sense of belonging. Ancestral work can bring us into contact with both what is beautiful in our inheritance and what caused harm, asking us to notice what was lost, what survived, what became distorted, and what we want to carry forward differently.

I am also a single mother to a wildly bright teenager. Parenting continually asks me to hold both my own humanity and hers, to return to a beginner’s mind, to trust what I cannot yet know, and to keep making room for joy. Because I work with many other parents, I carry a deep compassion for the complexity of parenting and for the common humanity beneath the places where we struggle, repair, and keep learning one another.

I’m part of the LGBTQIA+ community, and I came into clarity about my queerness later in life. That discovery became an important part of growing into greater authenticity and strengthened my commitment to creating spaces where queer and gender expansive people are affirmed, celebrated, and free to inhabit themselves in a culture that still privileges heterosexuality and the gender binary.

When I work with someone, I meet them where they are and listen for what is asking to come into fuller relationship. Often there is a yearning beneath the surface that does not yet have a name, and I accompany what is already trying to come into being, giving it room, attention, and care as it takes shape. I often find that some of the meaning, connection, and belonging a person has been seeking has been patiently waiting for them here all along.

Creativity has a place in this work too. I have always believed that creativity belongs to everyone, and image, movement, collage, and making can sometimes reach places that words alone cannot. Creative expression also brings us into contact with the edges around perfectionism, visibility, self trust, worth, and authentic expression, offering another way to work gently and directly with what gets in the way of trusting our own instincts and wisdom.

I also often work with people who are coming out of what I think of as an intuitive closet. They may be having experiences with spirits, deceased loved ones, plants, energy, or the unseen that feel meaningful but are difficult to understand or trust. Sometimes these experiences happen spontaneously but feel hard to engage with intentionally. Sometimes there simply has not been anyone around them with whom they can speak openly about what they are experiencing.

I do not think of intuitive perception as a rare gift given to a select few. Some people may begin with a wider aperture or more developed sensitivity, but I understand intuition as a capacity that can be cultivated through attention, curiosity, practice, and relationship. I approach energy work in much the same way, supporting people in becoming more familiar with their own energy, ways of perceiving, and the practices that fit their particular sensitivities and ways of knowing.

I want relationship with the unseen to feel less foreign or inaccessible without stripping it of mystery. Spirit communication, intuition, and energy work can become part of learning how to listen more closely, become more intentional with what we perceive, and open into a world that is more alive than we may have been taught to imagine.

However far this work travels into the unseen, it stays connected to actual life: the body, our relationships, our choices, and what can be carried beyond a session and lived. The purpose is not to escape ordinary life through spiritual practice, but to inhabit it more fully and come into closer contact with ourselves, our people, and the living world around us.

If something here feels familiar, gives language to an experience you have been carrying, or leaves you curious about working together, you are welcome to reach out and begin a conversation.

Our wholeness has never been separate from the web of life that holds us, and when we return to relationship with that field of aliveness, something in us remembers the way home.

Tending Thresholds Ministry Mission Statement