Katherine Skaggs

Founder of SoulWizdom Academy for the Soul

Spiritual Teacher & Soul Guide, Author, Shamanic Practitioner, Channel, Visionary Artist and Painter of Souls

The Path of a Once Reluctant Mystic
Traveling the World Where Spirit Has Led Me

SoulWizdom Academy is the culmination of a lifetime devoted to healing, remembrance, and the reclamation of ancient wisdom in modern life.

For more than four decades, I have walked the path of the mystic, the visionary artist, and the initiatory teacher—traveling the world in pursuit of healing, illumination, and soul remembering. My journey began as a personal call to heal and understand my own inner world, and it has unfolded into a living body of teachings now shared through Soul Wisdom Academy.

I have studied and trained within diverse shamanic, goddess, and mystery school traditions across the globe. This work has taken me deep into ceremonial lineages with Shipibo shamans in the Peruvian Amazon; Huichol shamans in Mexico; to Babaji's Ashram for celebration of the Divine Mother and Hindu ceremony; into sacred European sites in Rome and Paris, once devoted to the Goddess before the rise of patriarchy; and into Egyptian ancient temples and initiatory chambers—including profound activations within the King’s Chamber of the Great Pyramid... to name a few of my personal initiation journeys.

Along the way, I have apprenticed with elders, scholar-artists, healers, and wisdom keepers, and participated in countless ceremonies, rites, and initiations across cultures and continents.
It has been about integration—about awakening, authenticity, and learning how to live a sacred life within the complexities of the human experience.

Everything I teach has been lived, tested, and embodied—through illness and healing, creative breakthroughs and dark nights, devotion and doubt, collapse and rebirth. My work bridges the mystical and the practical, the visionary and the grounded, honoring both the ancient roots of these traditions and the very real challenges of living as a soul-led human in the modern world.

Award-Winning Publications to Illuminate the Soul
Over the years, I have had the good fortune of collaborating with wise woman and author Sage Holloway, painting the imagery for the best-selling Mythical Goddess Tarot. This collaboration led to the founding of my publishing company, Star Chalice Sisters Publishing, in 2008.

In 2021, I published the internationally multi-award-winning book Artist Shaman Healer Sage, bringing decades of shamanic experience, creative practice, and spiritual teaching into written form to share with the world. This was followed by the creation of another award-winning oracle deck, Masters of Light Wisdom Oracle. Through this oracle, ascended masters, archangels, and other celestial beings of light step forward to guide humanity in understanding universal law and in consciously walking the path of awakening and empowerment alongside the Divine.
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This picture  from one of many trips to the jungles of Peru where I sat with the Shipibo Shamans on the Amazon river. 
Soul Portraits & Spirit Guide Paintings
Since 2005, I have painted more than 3,000 soul portraits and spirit guide portraits, each created as a living mirror of the soul. Through these paintings, many have been able to see themselves beyond the limits of identity and circumstance—remembering themselves as soul, rather than solely as a finite human being.

One on One Soul Sessions - Healing, Guidance, Remembering
Alongside this work, I have guided thousands of clients through shamanic healing sessions, soul retrieval work, soul guidance, channeling, and my Soul Codex of Remembering work. In each of these offerings, the intention is the same: to support deep healing, restore inner coherence, and assist individuals in remembering who they are at the soul level—so they may live with greater clarity, empowerment, and authenticity in their human lives.

What I Teach

At Soul Wisdom Academy, I offer teachings that draw from:
  • Mystery school wisdom and initiatory teachings
  • Shamanism and earth-based spiritual practices
  • Tarot as a sacred language of soul and archetype
  • Divine Feminine traditions and Goddess wisdom
  • Creative ritual, ceremony, and embodied spiritual practice.

These teachings are not about escaping reality or chasing enlightenment. They are about remembering who you are, reclaiming your intuitive and creative power, and learning to live in alignment with your soul—here, now, in this lifetime.

My approach honors the intelligence of the body, the wisdom of the Earth, and the deep knowing that already lives within you. I believe true spiritual awakening is not about transcendence alone, but about presence, sovereignty, and conscious participation in life.

Soul Wisdom Academy
Soul Wisdom Academy exists as a modern mystery school—a sacred learning space for seekers, artists, healers, and mystics who feel the call to go deeper.

Here, ancient wisdom is translated into living teachings. Tarot becomes a mirror of the soul. Shamanic practice becomes a relationship with the unseen that is ethical, grounded, and alive. The Divine Feminine is not an abstract concept, but a lived intelligence that restores balance, creativity, and wholeness.

Whether you are just beginning your spiritual journey or have been walking this path for decades, Soul Wisdom Academy is an invitation to step into deeper remembrance, trust your inner authority, and embody your wisdom in the world.
I am honored to walk this path with you.
— Katherine Skaggs

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