Winslow Eliot, PhD, is an award-winning author and metaphysical practitioner who offers clairvoyant readings through tarot, palmistry, astrology, angels and the akasha, as well as writing mentoring. She loves poetry, belly-dancing, singing, people, sacred places, teaching, writing, and sleeping. Most of all, she loves stillness.
An ordained interfaith minister in the International Metaphysical Ministry, she earned her PhD in Transpersonal Counseling from the University of Sedona; her dissertation was on Transpersonal Stillness: An investigation into the healing uses and applications of stillness in transpersonal counseling, personal development, spiritual growth, and life.
Her latest book, “Be Still–How to Heal and Grow” is based on her PhD dissertation. “Touching every aspect of life, Be Still gives you a grounded, scientific, spiritual and practical approach to living with stillness. It is through stillness that we discover our highest potential, lighting the way back to our true essence.” –Annabel O’Neill, Forest Therapy Guide; Soul Level Astrologer
An earlier book “What Would You Do If There Was Nothing You Had To Do? Practices to create your life the way you want it to be“ (2012) won three awards: WINNER of the Indie Excellence Book Awards (self-help/spiritual); a finalist in the new age non-fiction; also a finalist in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards (self help).
In her metaphysical counseling sessions, she uses th
e tarot, your hands, and the heart energy that flows between querent and reader to balance, center, and encourage her customers, many of whom return again and again. Here’s what one client says: “My recent tarot reading with Winslow was truly an extraordinary experience. I arrived with a ragged assortment of concerns, out of which Winslow, cutting to the essence, skillfully helped me formulate some very targeted questions. In every one of the spreads, the cards then fell with uncanny “rightness,” and with her keen intuitive sense and loving, supportive presence, Winslow guided me toward a deeper understanding of their significance and of the underlying currents of my life and of the choices open to me.”
If you’re looking for writing inspiration, visit her WriteSpa Oasis, where she offers mentoring and consulting. Her book Writing through the Year is a compilation of creative practices that have been generated over many years. The oasis is a place where creative souls can feel rejuvenated and encouraged. It’s a place that’s fun, fulfilling, serene, and nourishing.
She is also a novelist. Available now: The Satyana Mystery Series! The first in the series is called Sati and the Rider and it won first place in Chanticleer’s prestigious Mystery & Mayhem Awards. Sati and the Clover is the second in the series, and the third one, Sati and the Ship, will be available soon. Loosely based on the fascinating lenormand oracle deck, this series features a psychic sleuth who’s a smart and sensitive.
Her other novels include: The Happiness Cure, Pursued, A Perfect Gem, Heaven Falls, and Bright Face of Danger. Originally, Bright Face of Danger was published by St. Martin’s Press (1993). It’s also been published in four separate French editions: as Fatale Vengeance (Harlequin) and, most recently, as L’Innocence du Mal (Mira Books and Harlequin Bestsellers 2009). [View the book trailer here.]
Heaven Falls is another romantic novel edged with Gothic DuMaurier-esque suspense (Telemachus Press 2010). It won 1st place Reader Views – Reviewers Choice Awards for the Romance category. [View the book trailer here.]
She also teaches seminars at the Berkshire Waldorf High School. Some of these courses include: History through Poetry, World Religions, Shakespeare, History through Language, The Odyssey, The Novel, and Parzival.
She’s written dozens of magazine articles and was a contributing author to Area, the Oriental Rug Magazine for many years; she was also a reader for the Independent Film Project in New York City.
Another passion of hers is poetry – reading it, teaching it, and writing it. You can read many of her poems on her website, or in a volume of poetry published in 2012: Poems from the Oasis. Many years ago, when she still lived in New York City, she cofounded the Saturn Series Weekly Poetry Readings. Twenty-tw0 years later, it’s still going strong.
Earlier books: The Wine-Dark Sea, Painted Secrets, Red Sky At Night, A Distant Light, and Roman Candles were published under the pseudonym Ellie Winslow by Signet/NAL. The Wine-Dark Sea was bought by ITC in Hollywood, and made into a screenplay. Altogether, her novels have been translated into eleven languages and published in twenty countries. She says one of the highlights of her life was when she was in Athens and saw one of her novels (translated into Greek) for sale in a sidewalk kiosk.