About artemis

Artemis Divine

I live and work in my hometown of Portland, OR. My creative work expresses through writing, divination, humor, performance, illustration, healing plants, hyphae, and a reclaiming of esoteric spiritual and ancestral traditions. Themes within these spheres manifest the divine, wounded, surreal, healing, and everyday contradictions of a lived human experience.

I am currently focused on offering and nurturing: plant medicine preparations, one-on-one divinatory client sessions, authoring a memoir Becoming the Sacred Clown framed on the archetypal spectrum of clown, fool, and trickster, and developing an animist series of hand painted and embroidered artwork for an original tarot deck, The Radicle Pleasures Tarot. These components form the tea + tarot + time travel of my generative practice.

I come from a family of green thumbs, and hold many fond memories from this foundation of flora appreciation. Time spent in the garden with my father, roses, bonsai bushes, peach trees and bee stings pop foremost to mind, countless warm summer days in the gardens of both grandmothers, marveling at their respective abilities to find four leaf clovers, summon varying flocks of birds, grow plentiful rows of shiny red strawberries, and convince me that full packets of M&Ms grew on trees, many rainstorms nestled beneath the protective umbrella of our front yard black walnut tree, digging for worms and mud, and spring afternoons spent in quiet conversation with the fairies that lived in the small prayer garden of a neighboring church, I have since learned that the plants were the fairies all along. I don’t know that I ever fully stopped talking with the plants, but there was a long period of time between adolescence and adulthood where the conversations became much quieter, more sparse. Calendula is one of the plants that very insistently drew me back into the messages, stirrings, and energy that exist everywhere in the more than human realm. I am ever grateful for their faith, patience, and sun-filled wisdom.

Radicle Pleasures was first the name of my plant medicine offerings. My practice of herbalism draws from a foundation of traditional western plant medicine practices and principles, with an emphasis on the ways that plants can help individuals engage with both the energetic and applied characteristics of medicinal plants. I believe that plants are a nourishing source of elder wisdom, and that we can learn a lot about our internal and external ecosystems from establishing an intentional and consistent relationship with the land as teacher. My education with the land is ongoing through the teachings of indigenous knowledge keepers, fellow healers, medicine makers, and my daily conversations with the plants themselves.

I am a proud graduate of the 2023 Under The Eagle’s Wing Mentorship cohort with Shayne Case.

Every day I seek ways to walk further into congruent integration with these varied practices that fill my life with purpose, a sense of wonder, and an appreciation for the ephemeral gift of earthly existence.

To listen to the wisdom of land and spirit is a careful, quiet, and enduring journey.