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About Theresa
Theresa C. Dintino is an ancestral Strega (Italian wise woman), Earth worker, initiated diviner, author of nine books and co-author of The Oscan Oracle.
For more than 30 years, Theresa has studied and practiced an Earth-based spirituality. In 2011, she was initiated as a diviner in a West African tradition. She currently helps others reclaim their personal medicine lineages through her divination work.
Theresa’s most recent book is Guided by the Moon, Wheel of the Year: Pagan Holy Days the Italian American Way.
The Wheel of the Year is an annual cycle honoring eight “holy days” which demarcate the solstices and equinoxes and additional seasonal dates important to our ancestors. These dates remain meaningful for those who wish to observe the natural rhythm of our planet. In Guided by the Moon, Theresa C. Dintino offers rituals to carry out yourself or with a group that celebrate the Wheel of the Year in an Italian American Way.
Between the ritual days, Dintino shares more about indigenous Italian spiritual traditions as well as personal memories of growing up Italian American. A celebration of all things Italian American as well as the traditions of our ancestors makes Guided by the Moon, Wheel of the Year: Pagan Holy Days the Italian American Way a wealth of information and engagement for all.
Theresa is also the author of Membranes of Hope: A Guide to Attending to the Spiritual Boundaries that Keep Life Systems Healthy from the Personal to the Cosmic, The Amazon Pattern: A Message from Ancient Women Diviners of Trees and Time, Notes from a Diviner in the Postmodern World: A Handbook for Spirit Workers, and Teachings from the Trees: Spiritual Mentoring from the Standing Ones.
With Rauri Tor, Dintino co-authored The Oscan Oracle: from the Ancient Janarra of the Moon. The Oscan Oracle is a book and divination system from ancient Italian wise ones, the Janarra, with a twenty-one card printed deck.
Other books include, The Strega and the Dreamer, a work of historical fiction based in the true story of her great-grandparents, Ode to Minoa and Stories They Told Me, two novels exploring the life of a snake priestess in Bronze Age Crete, and Welcoming Lilith: Awakening and Welcoming Pure Female Power.
My Work
#Nastywomenwriters
#nastywomenwriters is a website co-founded by Theresa with her sister Maria, which celebrates and gives voice to powerful women of all times and places.
Join us for weekly posts about the work of vibrant and essential women who tend to be called #nasty.
Strega Tree Collective
Strega Tree is a collective of diviners dedicated to the earth, elemental beings, restoring ancestral lineages and the wild.
While our core group is located in Sonoma County, California, many of us are spread around various locations. We offer in-person and remote divinations.
Theresa on Medium.com
Follow Theresa’s medium.com page for essays and articles on current topics that are inspiring her.
Divinations & Intuitive Work
Learn more about Theresa’s divination work and offerings here.
Brilliant and Inspiring! I was completely transported and so utterly immersed in The Strega and the Dreamer, that by the end, what began as a finely woven tapestry had become a familiar cozy blanket that enveloped me like a big warm hug.
I simply did not want the story to end!
Karen Vartanyan
If you are interested in learning to listen and work with trees, Teachings from the Trees by Theresa C. Dintino is a must have. Wonderfully written.
Amy Tanzanite
Theresa is an extremely gifted Diviner. The depth of her skills, insight, humor and generosity have helped me navigate and tend to the healing of my ancestral lineage