Working with Spirit Guides & Sharpening Your Intuition with Head Witch of The Moon Deck Aarona Lea

Today I’m opening the gateway to serious soul sister energy with Aarona Lea, who has devoted the past 25 years of her life to carving and curating a spiritual practice deeply rooted in sacred ritual, intuition and self-love.

Our conversation sparked flashbacks of the different spiritual chapters in our lives. We’ve experienced enlightening transformations and major spiritual awakenings in cramped studios in Brooklyn and driving through LA traffic and earth-quake realizations moments in Latin America and India. Sometimes a pause, where you honor a quiet moment for yourself, with an altar in your room, is all you need to connect to your highest self. Her potent and powerful The Moon Deck (which she gifted me years ago and I draw from daily), has helped thousands of people tap into their inner-knowing. 

While walking through the darkness of death and divorce, Aarona was anchored by her spirit guides, animals, and intuition, which helped her find her way back into the light. Today, her story and insights allow you to explore your own shadow spaces, triggers, and traumas. Through which you can examine if your “gut” reactions come from a place of trigger or truth.

The Ceremonial Offering

This three-part ceremony begins with a card reading from The Moon Deck, where we meditate on the significance of the butterfly. Next, Aarona invites us to communicate with our spirit guides in a visualization meditation that roots you to the heart of the earth. Finally, we close the ceremony with a sacred drum and singing circle. 

We talk about:

  • Lessons learned from death and divorce

  • Power animals and her personal relationship with the hummingbird

  • Exploring shadow 

  • Celebrating the spectrum of ceremonial experiences,  including her life-changing one in India

  • How to determine what “investing in yourself” looks like

  • How to open your intuitive powers 

  • Top things to be aware of on the spiritual path & when selecting spiritual teachers

  • Trusting intuition, triggers and truth, and spiritual evolution

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Guest Bio:

What began as a need for survival eventually became a passion turned profession, guiding Aarona to help demystify intuition, ritual, and emotional health. As a teacher, writer, business owner, and oracle reader, she authored and founded 'The Moon Deck', which has reached thousands of women globally. Aarona also created the Intuitive Oracle Training, a live online experience that develops intuition while learning how to be a fluent Moon Deck Oracle Reader.

With yoga, meditation, alternative therapies, and various healing modalities guiding Aarona’s journey over the last 25 years, she shares these combined tools with others. Beginning on a healing path as a child, this curiosity led her on a life-long journey of study, practice, and modern ritual - where she explored the shadowy depths of healing trauma, recovered from chronic cycles of bulimia, and is now helping to normalize conversations around emotional and spiritual wellbeing.

She also facilitates empowering workshops and trainings, leads sacred circles and retreats worldwide, offers private and group Intuitive Oracle Readings + Trainings, and runs The Moon Deck business full time. Aarona has been profiled in Goop, MindBodyGreen, Gaia, Hello Giggles, Thrive Global, Traveler UK, 24Life, Yoga Journal, and has been featured on major wellness podcasts such as The DENTalks, Shaman Durek’s Ancient Wisdom Today, and IGNTD podcast amongst others.

Alyson Charles