Hi! I've been familiar with Steemit for some time and had one account that I lost.... well you know what happens so here's this one.
My name is Niki, I'm usually seen as NikiAnarchy, without or without the 333 in various social media. Yes I am an anarchist! Black flag, voluntaryist, agorist, but we don't need to argue as long as we both understand that coercion is wrong.
I'm 38yrs old, I live in Michigan where I was born, with my 16yr old. We love nature and animals, and have 2 dogs and 3 cats as pets.
I've had a variety of interests and careers already.
Some of my interests include a lot of reading. Mainly philosophy, psychology, alternative medicine, and the occult. I love arts and crafts, and music, especially live music, especially underground indie and indie hop and the like. I am teaching myself to play the ukulele and I love to sing.
I grew up in an in-home daycare for many of my childhood and teen years, worked in hospitality, in restaurants, in retail, in online and phone telemarketing, for a 0-6 early childhood education program as a number of roles, system administration on unix servers for an alarm central station software company, as a tattooist and body piercer for 15years and owned a professional body art studio for 8yrs on my own.
I suffered from an injury rollerskating 2 years ago, leaving me unable to continue to tattoo, and during that time felt inspired to use my mind and stay occupied on things that would keep me positive as my body did not seem to be healing as I needed it to. Eventually I was guided to realize that keeping this tattoo shop open was causing me to be depressed, so I opted to close it and instead be self employed as an artist, and by helping others heal and find wellness for themselves.
Currently, I operate a business called Art Expressions in Saginaw, Mi as an independent artist and a Reiki practitioner, Tarot Reader, guide, and natural intuitive. There are 2 other independent business owners in this building: a professional nail technician/esthetician, and my parter, a former apprentice of mine who is now his own private tattoo and piercing studio.
This might seem like a little bit of a drastic change.... but for those who know me personally, there is some reason behind it and while I'm sure to post a number of various subjects, I intend to predominantly use this account for my art and information about Reiki and my other services as well as share experiences from my clients and information that might help people. For that reason, I thought I might give a little background and information and offer myself for any questions you may have about my services here in my introduction.
I am first, not a traditional Wiccan, though I used to be, about 20-25 years ago. Witch is the commonly accepted term for a wide range of belief systems so I use it for simplicity, but I consider myself an occultist, or chaos mage. I study philosophy and this is way too complicated to get into depth here but maybe some future q&a sessions? Anyway, this background is where the Astral Manifestation and Healing, Tarot, Energy Healing and Reiki services come from that I now offer. When faced with the prospect of no longer tattooing, the occult was one of the areas of knowledge and practical experience I already had, and felt naturally inclined to share, aside from but also alongside being an artist. Using this energy to heal with Reiki only made sense, so I recently took my classes and became certified, but I have been studying the occult and theology since about age 12.
I knew I was very different as an even younger child, I can remember as early as 8yrs old with an imaginary friend who showed me the house that used to be there in our front yard when it was all fields. I can still see it perfectly, and her. I often felt that I could talk to people who were there, but were not there, and they often told me things I would otherwise not be able to have ascertained certainly, though I had very little understanding of it then, and even less trust in myself and my instincts. Stress and other factors can and do dampen these abilities, but after going through a number of life "rebirths" or major life overhauls, I am fully aware of my ability to read and learned to control my emotional perspective better, for myself, as well, including knowing when it was time to make a hard choice that was best for me, like closing my tattoo shop, and removing some toxic people from my life.
As a child I was also able to bond with animals in a way that very few people understood, calming injured wild animals and attracting them in various neighborhood spots while I read. Growing up, I had so many questions about Catholicism that were left unanswered that I began to check out any book on religion I could find in the public library. I have since come to respect a number of belief systems for their style in teaching a necessary truth but concealing it in plain sight but I wish to teach from the Garden in my own way.
While I have studied and am experienced in all types of magick, and having studied a number of philosophies, I still consider myself a baby in the universe, but one who has been given a great gift to share and use in this life. I have been a Natural Intuitive as long as I can remember, though I do not use the word Psychic, it is essentially the same. I don't dislike the word I just don't think it suits me as well as others. I do have the ability and knowledge and experience to TEACH YOU how to also improve your mindset and life and draw more of what you want to you.
I have read the tarot on and off since the mid 90's. I recently changed to a more suitable deck for more detailed readings and as soon as I am fully immersed in it, I will begin to use it to help guide you through your life as well. I am able to safely (not scary!) use a Ouija board as well as other means like self-hypnosis and automatic writing to channel higher consciousness to help you answer any questions you aren't finding the answer to. I can teach you how to Lucid Dream anytime you want, how to make your goals and dreams occur on the Astral Plane and how to manifest those goals in the physical. I have studied and utilized the Law of Attraction successfully a number of times and I will share how it's really done in a series of seminars that will be extremely affordable.
So...As many ask: No, I don't do dark scary stuff here. Do I know it? Yes. I have to, in order to teach what I want to teach, because it's my job to keep you mentally and emotionally comfortable. I take it very seriously. I also seriously want you to learn how to manifest and control your life and it's direction ON YOUR OWN, using all the wonderful pure perfect energy that exists right within you!! That's not scary, that's positive and wonderful and empowering.
As an artist, and a guide, I am not expecting to live a plush life. It doesn't interest me. I only want to be able to handle my responsibilities and enjoy my own life, while sharing and teaching my knowledge and experiences to people because I believe this is how we can improve our world. It's just improving ourselves first. Words and thoughts have POWER. I can teach you to use your emotions and give your thoughts even more power. I can teach you how to allow these things to come to you. I can do Reiki and alignments to help you be ready to receive what you've been asking for. If any of this is interesting or you have questions please contact me directly. Our conversations are discreet and professional.
Your upvotes and comments are welcome and appreciated! Please be respectful as I always will be to you!
I hope this gives you a little insight to me and what kinds of things I'll be talking about.
Thanks for reading!
Nice to meet you!