
Confluence Oracle
Polestar Astrology ~ Qi Node Guidance ~ Spiritualist Works ~ Retreats

About Me
Hi, my name is Tara. These offerings are the fruit of the deep commitment I have to developing a balanced view of the experience of life. For me, oracular work is a gift that can allow us to understand how to move through life's choices and challenges with flexibility and ease. It's also a wisdom practice that allows us to relax more fully within our own character and develop freedom in the dance between fate, ancestry and nature. I love to travel, cook, soak in hot springs, dance, nerd out reading, and tinker in my garden.
Offerings
I've dedicated myself to studying and practicing Chinese medical philosophy since the 90s and have spent 30 years going back and forth to Brazil to initiate study and be in community with elders and family there in the Candomble de Ketu and Umbanda traditions. By linking up practices that deepen that support a point of view, and vice versa, I've experienced personal and spiritual fruition, in my own life. My hope is that these offerings will enable anyone that works with me to do the same.
I'm thrilled and grateful to be able to offer divination and spiritual works. I've been lucky to have studied beautiful teachings by trusted elders in several traditions, to read more about my lineage experience click here. What I've come to believe is that all spiritual practices and religions, whether it's explicitly understood or not, are created to develop a path to self-discovery and balance as nature with each other.
The offerings here are possibility and an exploration of the human capacity to align with the influences of heaven~time, spirit, the ancestors and earth ~the space of the material world~ to experience and enjoy change; our eternal true nature (Dao).
Over the years I've come to develop a non dual, expansive point of view of the animate world. Lately, I've been diving deep into the Chinese (animist, Daoist, Confucian and Buddhist) View teachings, that are tended to by Da Yuan Circle left by the late Liu Ming, These teachings have revolutionized and synthesized my approach to traditional lineage spiritual worl, untied knotty areas in my life, to allow for the experience of more freedom and less judgement.

When character and fate resolve
Adepts directly experience their nature
Resting in their nature,
Space opens up, full of luminous filaments
Pure natural intent then manifests as great completion
~Liu Ming
Zi Wei Dou Shu, also called Polestar or Purplestar astrology is a Chinese Song dynasty (960-1274 CE) birth calculation system brought to California and developed, in the form I practice, by the late scholar and teacher Liu Ming. I'm lucky enough to study with his students. Its an oracular system, that helps us understand ourselves in time and space through the exploration of the qi character we were born into and the dance of fate, freedom and nature in our lives. Consults assist in applying the Chinese wisdom tradition to understand how ancestral rhythms and the cyles of time interact with your birth and life situation. It helps develop a way to think about, make decisions, answer questions and make plans, in an empowering and freeing way. To learn more click here
Chinese Polestar Astrology Sessions
available starting Fall 2025 by donation, recommended $150-250 but no one turned away for lack of funds
Available in person or at a distance, booking availability currently viewable through my Acupuncture practice website booking page, let me know what time works for you via email
Divination Testimonials

"Tara does what no other astrologer has done. She gave me concrete actions to take! And suggested ways to support what she was seeing in my astrology! Never before have I found a reading to be so incredibly helpful. This wasn't the sole focus of our session, she affirmed my knowingness of myself, and reframed things I have struggled with in a way that related to fate of my astrology that gave me a huge sense of relief. Of knowing, that I am held by my ancestors, that the karmic ties that I came into this life with are not just mine, that I am the Prince of this inheritance. Tara brings the vast knowledge of her education, learning from other traditions, rooted in a framework of liberation and historical context. What a gift to be held by her wisdom and supported to better understand myself and my fate this lifetime. If you haven't had your Chinese Astrology read, please allow Tara to be the one to illuminate your fate."
Wanda, Acupuncturist

Qi Node Alignment Year 2026/2027
Join our monthly meetings beginning in February 2026 to learn to align with seasons and develop our practice of the Dao. We will explore nourishment through food, tea, herbal medicine, and movement through qi gong. Through grounding these practices in wisdom texts and teachings, we will build and connect our point of view to develop greater physical and emotional health and spiritual fruition
"The Path turns us inward on ourselves through jing, a sense of embodiment, thorugh qi a sense of movement in the flow of time and through shen, the continuous unified appreciation of jing and qi as our experience - presence, totality. These three aspects of our experience are, thorugh practice (of methods) revealed to be none other than Nature itself (Dao)" -Liu Ming


Retreats
Coming soon