Meet Astara
I am Astara Raven. 
That wasn’t always my name. In fact, I wrote a whole book about claiming my name called How the Stars Tell Time — a cosmic love story about identity, destiny, and time travel in the quantum wilderness.
After 25 years designing sustainable spaces and exploring what shapes us — our environments, relationships, stories, inner worlds, and even the mysteries we can’t always explain — I’m passionate about helping people understand what shapes their lives, reclaim their innate gifts, and consciously design what comes next.
No matter the role I’m inhabiting — architect, mentor, author, sound artist, teacher — I know I am a verb, not a noun. And so are you. I am a systems thinker at heart, helping people see the hidden connections that reveal new possibilities.
The future you desire begins here.
Strengths: Empathy • Connectedness • Maximizer • Ideation • Positivity
Architect
Fun fact: I’m an architect licensed in the state of California. For 25 years, I designed sustainable spaces intended to support human well-being and the natural world. 
Alongside my work in eco-design (biophilia and biomimicry) and sustainability leadership, I spent decades studying the human psyche, dreams, consciousness, tarot, healing, creativity, astrology, quantum mechanics, and what helps people thrive.
I realized I was asking the same question in both worlds: What shapes the shape-maker?
I now design at a different scale in the heartland of Omaha, Nebraska. Today, I help people design their lives.
Because we’re all shaping our reality, I help my clients understand the inner world, stories, relationships, environments, and patterns shaping their lives — so they can consciously create what comes next.
I call it quantum architecture. It’s designing life from the inside out.
Heartifact Mentor
Everything I’ve studied comes together in my work as a Heartifact Mentor. I help people navigate transitions, uncover hidden patterns, reclaim their gifts, reframe their shadows, rewrite old stories, and permission their power.
Over decades of study and practice, I developed the Heartifact Ecosystem — a holistic approach to transformation that works with the many layers shaping who we are: mind, body, energy, relationships, environment, ancestry, culture, and soul.
My signature process, Heartifact Archaeology, helps you dig beneath the surface to reveal what has been shaping your life — sometimes reaching through childhood, ancestry, culture, and even other lifetimes.
I bridge ancient wisdom with new paradigm consciousness in the now. I make the mysterious accessible through pragmatic science. My joy is helping others see themselves more clearly, reclaim what is uniquely theirs, and consciously create a life that feels more fully their own.
Author
I’ve been a storyteller since I was a girl. I write books and poetry. I teach. I make films. I help people find the stories hiding beneath the stories they’ve been telling themselves.
My first book, How the Stars Tell Time: A Soul Adventure in the Quantum Wilderness, is a cosmic love story about identity, destiny, time travel, and the radical possibility that we can become someone new without abandoning who we’ve been. Its sequel, How the Heart Designs Time, is currently in the works.
I believe re-storying is a form of alchemy. The stories we inherit, remember, imagine, and repeat help shape the lives we live. Change the story — and something new becomes possible.
If there’s a book inside you waiting to be written, I can help you find the deeper story, give it form, and bring it into the world. I’ve walked that path myself — from the first spark of an idea through writing, publishing, and beyond.
Your love story starts within.
Sound Artist
Music was home long before I understood it as medicine. I grew up singing with my family, playing piano, and experiencing the strange magic that happens when separate voices find their way into harmony.
Years later, my work in Biophilia and Biomimicry deepened my fascination with sound. Nature is full of rhythm, vibration, pattern, and song — and so are we. Even the uni-verse is simply one greater verse we’re singing together.
Today, I create Sound Alchemy experiences using voice, drum, singing bowls, gong, and other acoustic instruments to sing people out of the noise of everyday life and into a deeper experience of themselves.
Sound is art and medicine to me. Sound Alchemy helps you to listen, feel, remember, connect, and come home to yourself — body and soul.
Ready to sing yourself home?
“Within minutes, Astara identified what I couldn’t articulate — the energy stuck in my body for a few years. She just came in and easily took it away. Wow, I have clear energy now in just one session!”
Osaze Nahla Omokaro
Interior Designer, Toronto, BC
Consciousness Teacher
I’ve spent decades exploring consciousness from every angle I can find — psychology and spirituality, science and metaphysics, ancient wisdom and emerging paradigms.
I’m endlessly fascinated by shamanism, Jungian psychology, intuition, creativity, astrology, Human Design, numerology, energy, emotional intelligence, quantum mechanics, math, sacred geometry, dreams and the imaginal realm, and the mysteries we don’t yet have language for. I’m a pragmatic mystic at heart: I love connecting the esoteric with science, the invisible with the material.
I investigate and live the mystery.
My shamanic path has included training with Laurie Bates, Nan Moss, David Corbin, Jose Stevens, Jill Kuykendall, Hank Wesselman, Michael Harner, and cultural anthropologist Angeles Arrien — teachers whose work helped deepen my understanding of archetype, ritual, healing, nature, and the unseen dimensions of human experience.
I created Inner Space Academy as a living laboratory for inner mastery. Through the Power Lab Collection, I teach people to explore the architecture of power from the inside out — training conscious architects of life.
I don’t tell you who you are — I help you remember.
I don’t give you answers — I help you hear yours.
