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About

Jennifer Helmer

Jennifer Helmer is an Evolutionary Astrologer, Clinical Herbalist, Oracle Card Reader and Artist. For the last 15 years Jennifer has served her community with her unique blend of knowledge, passion and talent for connecting to the natural world and its healing abilities. She believes in a holistic approach to living and healing and weaves her diverse knowledge into all of her consultations. Her passion and mission is to support the collective healing of Mother Earth by guiding and empowering others to having healthy connections to themselves and the world they live in.

Jennifer Helmer
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Many Paths, One Journey

My Story of Collected Knowledge and Experience

Art … 

My first love has always been creating. At a young age, I found great joy, peace, and flow whenever I drew. That began my love of art. When I reached high school and discovered that I could sculpt an emotion, new worlds opened. My art teacher asked me to sculpt love and I asked “You can do that?”, the thought of creating an emotion in 3-D never crossed my mind. Through that project I found I could express emotions better through art than with spoken word.  It was then I found the true healing power of creating.    

 

I loved creating so much I pursued and received a BA in Fine Art in 2003.  

During the years after college, I created, travelled and explored until my body – worn from wandering – had a healing crisis. Everything stopped, and I was forced to learn to ground in my body.  Because I had pushed my body to its physical limits with excessive hard labor and travel, my joints and muscles suddenly became damaged, and I was in extreme pain due to my neglect in honoring my body's limitations. When I went to the doctor, they simply said I was too young for the pain I was experiencing and they saw “nothing on the tests” that would indicate that anything was out of balance. Conventional medicine had nothing to offer me because it could not measure my bodily disharmony with a lab test. This crisis stirred a deep knowing that there was a better way to heal than what the conventional western medical system offered.   

 

Herbalism … 

I knew I needed to begin pursuing a different life path, but what? I was still healing and looking for alternative answers. What now feels like fate brought me to a Wellness Expo shortly after my healing crisis.  There, I encountered Wildwood Institute’s booth and a flyer about their Herbal Apprenticeship.   While I didn’t think much of it that day, a week later, that flyer called to me.  And as they say, the rest is history. 

 

The very first class with Kathleen Wildwood was magical; I knew I was where I was meant to be. While I had always loved plants, their power, beauty and wisdom began to clearly speak to me. Over the course of eight years, they helped me come back to Earth and into my body. Before finding the wisdom of the plants I pushed my body to work far too hard for far too long as well as not properly using my body when lifting heavy things or moving things. In my mind my body could do anything and did not have limits or need structure. This literally kept me off balance and prone to injuries when my feet where not planted firmly into the ground while working. The plants helped me find my roots.  

 

Since beginning the program in 2007, I have been passionate about sharing that joy and wisdom I found in plants with the community, through teaching classes and working at Wildwood Institute and Community Pharmacy, both in Madison, Wisconsin. I love to forage for wild medicine, tend to my garden and make herbal medicines. When I began my herbal apprenticeship, I had one mission in mind: to help myself and those around me with the wisdom of herbs. I completed my training in clinical herbalism in 2015 and remain committed to that same mission, knowing, more than ever, that if everyone helped those around them with their unique gifts, the whole world would become a better place. 

 

Astrology … 

While learning and practicing herbal medicine, I noticed that there were times when many people would be going through very similar life situations. It seemed uncanny; how could three people I know be going through the exact situation at the same time? I sensed that this was attributable to shifting patterns of energy constantly unfolding around me, in me, and throughout the world and galaxy. As I began to notice these energies, I had the great privilege to meet Jon, a fellow artist, herbalist and astrologer. He taught me the foundations of astrology.  

 

I was so curious to learn about how the location of planets when one was born could reflect how one moves through and reacts to the world!  Once I began to learn the beautiful language of the eternal dance of the planets and the constellations, I was hooked.  I had always been interested in astrology as child, and once I began to learn the science and mythology that was woven into astrology, I immediately recognized its deep truth and impact. I began studying Evolutionary Astrology, which focuses on the evolution of one's soul while on earth, in 2014, and since then I have incorporated Hellenistic techniques to my practice. Hellenistic astrology allowed me to interweave techniques such as annual profections and zodiacal releasing to understand birth charts in a new light, as well as how to understand predictive charts.  

Since 2015, I have been doing chart consultations for those who seek a deeper understanding of themselves through astrology. My core philosophy with astrology is that we are not “fated” to the stars’ movements and placements; rather, if we become aware of the shifting cosmic energies and where they will impact us and when, we can actively approach every changing situation with insight and wisdom.  

 

As I continue my journey, it is a privilege and honor to share all of my gifts with those who seek self-empowerment, self-knowledge and holistic healing. 

With deep gratitude, 

 

Jennifer  

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