🐚 SIREN CALL

Much of my artwork aims to recontextualize the mythic Sirens- historically portrayed as hyper-sexualized femme-fatales that drag weary sailors to their peril. I recognize their queerness and healing power, as protective alarm systems whose calls help to reorient our bodies to the land and sea. As a current member of an ocean rowing club that evolved from volunteer ship wreck rescue rowers + a witness to several past life seascape ordeals, I consider this work part of my long-term spiritual assignment.

Siren Calls are also an extension of my artwork. You’ll find charms and messages from the sea and sky as you navigate my website and projects. I began offering client readings to raise money for medical expenses that my insurance won’t cover. I appreciate this generative opportunity to exchange healing gifts with you.

🐚 BOOK A READING

Book a reading with conchomancer and seawitch Strega Maria to gain wisdom from seashells, tarot/oracle card divination and guided ocean meditation. Uncover themes/behaviors you’ve kept submerged and prepare to work with gifts/challenges that the tides toss your way. Learn to embrace a seashell familiar to buoy your intuitive growth.

  • Schedule a Reading: My availability fluctuates. Contact me to find a time (email: Mariazitamolteni @gmail or Insta DM: @strega_maria) or purchase a Gift Certificate (for yourself or a friend!) via my online store and I’ll contact you to book.

  • Rate is sliding scale: $100-$165 for a ~ 60 min reading (sometimes we run over- you may want to hold 75 mins).

    Your reading includes 1) photos of your spread composed as an artwork + 2) an ocean meditation guiding you to work with an assigned psychic shell familiar.

  • Payment Method: Venmo is preferable (@maria-molteni). Paypal works too (mariazitamolteni at gmail). Online Gift Certificate takes credit card, but doesn’t allow sliding scale.

  • Shellphone or Zoom Room? We can do the call over FaceTime, Signal or Zoom. However if you want to record our reading over zoom, I ask that you set up the meeting and save the recording to your own device - unfortunately I don’t have the tech to save recordings on my end.

To prepare: just bring a pen and paper for note-taking and a special shell if you’d like : )

No need to bring an astrological birth chart but I may incorporate some knowledge of astrology. If you have some of this info on hand (even your sun, moon and rising signs), it may be helpful!

  • Gift Certificates: I’ve finally added them to my online store! Purchase here

Interested to learn more about Siren lore and the inner ear? Click the images above to watch a collaborative art film: A Visitor’s Guide to Reorientation on Spectacle Island 

There is a vagueness, remoteness and restraint about the Sirens which permits of multifarious interpretations and constitutes the charm of so many of these Hellenic conceptions. They are not the product of one mind, but a complex, many-faceted growth which reflects the touches of various layers of culture superimposed upon one another- fair but elusive shapes…

The Sirens, says one, are the charms of the gulf of Naples. No, says another; they were chaste priestesses They were neither chaste more priestesses, but exactly the reverse.

They were Sunbeams. They were perilous cliffs. They were a race of peaceful shepherds. They were symbols of persuasion. They were cannibals.

They were planetary spirits. They were prophets. They were a species of owl. They were the harmonious faculties of the soul.

From Siren Land by: Norman Douglas