HISTORY

One of my earliest collages of memories is of a delicate parchment place mat at The Oriental East, my dad’s favorite Chinese restaurant (we would frequent The Oriental East at least once a week back then). The place mat had the typical Chinese zodiac, some adjectives attributed to each, and corresponding years. I remember my dad proclaiming proudly, “I’m a dragon.” I looked down at the place mat as saw that I was a horse. “Cool”, was the only thought I had about it at the time. I was about 3 years old.

Astrology has always been a part of my life in some shape or form, just kind of floating there. A separate form of classification and categorization, but never really applied to my everyday existence and life. Well not until 2009, maybe the intrigue grew from being in cold Pittsburgh, or maybe it arose from all of the inexplicably strange occurrences that happened to me there. Pittsburgh never really “seemed real”. It always felt like a movie set. Parts and players moved like clockwork given that I believed they would. So, I decided then to “really see what this astrology sh*t was all about. After all, Mr. B. did tell us in HS that his mom told him, ‘Why wouldn’t God communicate with us through the biggest screen we have, the sky?’”

In regards to kinrui: another profound experience in PITTSBURGH happened, a chocolate truffle. the most visually appealing cocoa powdered palm sized mound crafted in amsterdam. With its perfectly tempered chocolate casing that gleamed like a miyazaki animated food scene, and its velvety smooth milk chocolate ganache, this chocolate truffle held the most undetected heroic dose of magical fungal infusion. You couldn’t taste it, at all. the appreHension and fear that typically accompanies the taste of such consumptions was completely elimInated. My then diagnosed clinical depressive and undiagnosed AuDHD brain was Able to heal and correct itself with the help of that one absolutely scrumptious, stunning and potent little chocolate truffle. Kinrui is inspired by that one lone healing truffle and was created to offer that same BEAUTIFUL and restorative Experience to others.

Needless to say, a decade later, I’ve mastered how to read the skies and apply astrology to my everyday life. It has truly made my life more colorful! If you’re new to astrology that’s cool; you are welcomed! If you “been bout this life”, what’s up, slim!

famed Astrologer & divination artist. mycologist. artisan. Featured in Color of Change Black Business Green Book .