Welcome

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

I’m Serra Rue. I am an animist, artist, ritualist, energy worker, ancestral healing practitioner, and spiritual companion to the living, the dying, and the dead.

This path has been shaped by devotion and the sacred ordinary. I have been taught again and again by grief, land, plants, ancestors, spirit, and the quiet ways the unseen speaks.

For me, spiritual practice is not separate from daily life. It lives in how I tend my home, raise my teenager, care for the land, make offerings, sit with grief, and stay in relationship with the visible and invisible world.

I garden with my hands in the soil. When I’m not working, I’m often tending chickens, feeding crows, harvesting herbs and flowers, or foraging plants for pigments, medicine, ritual arts, and natural dyes. These ordinary acts are part of how I stay in relationship with the living world.

Creative expression has also been a lifelong companion and teacher. Before this work became my primary practice, I spent years as a public artist, and I continue to trust the creative process as a way of listening beneath the thinking mind.

In sessions, creativity is not about making something polished, impressive, or useful. It is a doorway. Collage, painting, movement, image making, ritual craft, and symbolic exploration can help give shape to what has been buried, exiled, longing, or not yet fully known.

So many of us carry an ache to create, but were never encouraged to trust that part of ourselves. I believe the creative impulse is innate, and it is never too late to return to it. Creation can be healing, clarifying, and quietly powerful. It can help us remember that we are not only shaped by life, but capable of shaping, imagining, tending, and bringing something new into form.

Some of what has shaped me could only be learned through grief.

Death has been a primary initiation in my life.

I lost my mother at 18, my husband at 28, and my father at 32.

These losses widened me, softened me, and shaped how I accompany others. They taught me how to sit with what cannot be fixed, how to stay close to what is tender and true, and how to trust the kind of healing that unfolds through humility, surrender, and the arc of time.

My queerness emerged later in life as I learned to inhabit the deepest parts of myself more fully. That becoming deepened my commitment to authenticity, cultural healing, and inner freedom.

I am also a mother walking alongside a teenager who keeps teaching me how to soften, reflect, listen, and stay honest. Parenting keeps me close to the ordinary, daily practice of repair, humility, and love.

My animistic practice is rooted in feminist and liberatory values. To me, tending spirits, healing lineages, and deepening relationship with the living world are inseparable from questioning systems of harm, inherited conditioning, and the ways those patterns live inside our bodies, families, spiritual lives, and relationships.

However far this work travels into the unseen, I hold it in a way that is grounded, relational, and accessible. I see myself as a bridge, helping people return to relationship with spirit, ancestors, land, creativity, and the deeper wisdom already moving within them.

This work is not about becoming someone else. It is about remembering what is true beneath the noise, protection, grief, and forgetting.

Our wholeness has never been separate from the web of life that holds us.