Hi, I’m Darla
and I used to be
terrified of the
spirit world.
And at the same time I was deeply drawn to it.
When I was a teenager, I started having psychic messages, symbol-laden dreams, and sudden intuitive knowings (what seemed like) all of the time. I’d glance at someone and instantly know too much about what they were thinking about.
And I had no idea what to about it or with it.
This was the 90s in rural America, so I had two sources to turn to for learning more about the spiritual layer of reality.
The first, was the church.
(That didn’t turn out so well.)
The second was nature.
(Which turned out to be the best
teacher of all.)
One Part exposure therapy and two parts education and mentorship slowly helped me become comfortable and skilled at navigating the unseen world all around us.
Around 2008, I began working with the first of many psychic, intuitive and spiritual worker mentors.
After a stint living in the heart of Madrid, Spain, where I never saw the sunset on the horizon, I serendipitously found myself on the beaches of Costa Rica.
Fast forward almost 20 years, and I live on 16 acres in a small Costa Rican village, with my Costa Rican partner and our two children. I've also become a certified ancestral healer, completed a 4-year spiritual worker apprenticeship, a 3-year initiation into Hekatean sorcery, and am currently a Hekatean priestess acolyte (in-training).
But. The isolation that was required to go deep with my studies was brutal.
First, the isolation of motherhood. Then, the heartache of being culturally, linguistically, and geographically isolated from my ancestral homelands and family. Then — the isolation required to study, practice, and explore the spiritual realms.
At the same time that it all was exciting, new and fulfilling, it was also taxing, lonely, and painful.
As all initiations are.
So much of the modern spiritual community would have us believe that your spiritual journey should be all love and light.
Just think positive, manifest effortlessly, and everything will align perfectly.
But you and I know that real transformation — the kind that reshapes your soul and rewires your reality — doesn’t come from bypassing the shadows.
It comes from stepping into them.
The Dark Moon path isn’t about pretending everything is easy.
It’s about learning to navigate the unknown, to sit with uncertainty, and to transform isolation into sacred solitude.
It’s about embracing the descent as an initiation, not as a punishment.
If you’ve read this far, you already know — you’re here for a reason.
Maybe you’re in the midst of your own descent, navigating a season of isolation, upheaval, or deep transformation. Maybe you’ve tried the love-and-light path and found it lacking when things got hard.
Whatever brought you here, know this: you are not broken, you are being initiated.
The Dark Moon path isn’t for everyone, but if you feel the pull, I invite you to step deeper.
Explore my offerings, join the conversation, and claim the wisdom waiting for you in the shadows.
Your journey is unfolding — let’s walk it together.
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