ABOUT LARA

Lara Vesta is an artist, author and educator exploring sacred stories, folk spirituality and lineage traditions. She holds an MFA in Fiction from Pacific University and is a Certified Life-Cycle Celebrant through the Natural Transitions Institute (formerly the Celebrant Institute and Foundation).  She weaves her background in creative writing and ceremony with explorations of myth as a healing tool.

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Rooted in her experience of disabling chronic illness as a rite of passage, Lara's work centers on transforming difficult life transitions into paths of empowerment and renewal. She is the author of The Moon Divas Guidebook: Spirited Self-Care for Women in Transition (2012), Wild Soul Runes: Reawakening the Ancestral Feminine (2020) and Year of the Dark Goddess: A Journey of Ritual, Renewal and Rebirth (2024). She shares her path of sacred art, myth, ritual and story through her writing at Our Lady of the Underworld on Substack, inviting people into lives of intentional ceremony and everyday enchantment.