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I’m Galactic Ashley. My mission here is to help others build resilience so they can move through fear, embrace differences, and create something paradigm-shifting. I’ve dedicated my life to embodying radical personal accountability, relentlessly pursuing personal growth and mastery of experience. From these experiences, I hold a clean, integral, and safe learning space where I teach and channel, inviting all parts of everyone to be divinely held so they can explore their belief systems and feel witnessed and loved.

The Fabric of Memory:
Navigating Ancestral Legacy, Belonging, and Liminal Space

I have often felt a sense of detachment from being fully human. I carry the profound grief of remembering my separation from Source, from God—a sorrow I have always been deeply aware of and am here to hold. I know who I am: I am Dragon, I am death, I am the liminal space. I am not born of the stars but of the vast blackness that lies between them.

And yet, I am also human. I understand the struggles of navigating this middle world. Through a lifetime of cultivating intimacy with my Divine guidance, self-healing and study, combined with years of working with sacred plant medicines, I’ve learned to embrace more of my humanness by first embodying my Polynesian lineage. I now honor the depth and power of my family name—Marumaruatu Mo’o Tautu, which translates to “Shapeshifting Dragon, Protected by God”—and allow its essence to fully move through me as a guide and support system. Along the way, I have harnessed my neurodiversity, unearthed repressed memories, felt the deep fear of being among humans, and grappled with childhood complex trauma so deeply rooted in my body that survival itself feels like an awe-inspiring mystery.

I grew up hearing stories that rendered my grandfather a legendary pearl diver from Fakarava, an atoll in the Tuamotu’s Archipelago of French Polynesia. He could swim four Olympic-sized pool lengths in one breath “while all of us clung to his back with our heads just above the water,” recalls my mother. As a child, I began to notice that I did not look like my mother or her sisters. I did not have their prominent, thick jet-black hair, flat noses, or dark eyes, although I did inherit other subtle nuances: olive skin, flat feet, and a longing for water. Oh, how I loved the water. I held my breath in bathtubs, swimming pools, and the Pacific Ocean, watching the seconds on my pink wristwatch tick to minutes. I taught my body to slow its heart rate down so that I could dive longer and feel closer to my grandfather, in communication with my ancestors. The water has always been symbolic of connection, a place of identity, and even escape. After all, “we sweat and cry salt water, so we know that the ocean is really in our blood.“

As an adult, I am caught between not being visibly Polynesian enough when I am with other Pacific Islanders. Yet, I am not identified as a minority within non-minority spaces. In a society primarily divided by racial divisions of black or white, my own markings carry little currency in debates of race or authenticity. The use of photography and media arts has allowed me to examine the chaotic realities of separation felt within occupied spaces to recreate a sense of home through the exploration of cultural symbolisms, like water, used to connect groups or families.

While documenting my maternal homeland, during a 3-month graduate school research trip, my aunt gave me my first tifaifai, piecework, and appliqué textiles in the Society Islands. Tifaifai is a ceremonial cloth that envelops and punctuates important stages of an islander’s life. “Ti ” is a prefix that carries the sense of “wholly,” “entirely,” or “all over.” The word “fai ” means to “wrap up, to enclose with or in something, to encase or to fold together, to enfold.” Tifaifai wraps a baby at birth and the body at death; they form part of the gifts given during coming-of-age ceremonies, such as hair-cutting rituals where the blanket is wrapped around the hair and saved by the mother; they are wrapped around a couple during marriage; and they wrap rooms, buildings, chairs, and ceremony spaces themselves. 

In my experience, hosts often gift tifaifai to departing family members as an expression of their appreciation, love, and emotional bonds—bridging the gap of separation. My mother gifted me a tifaifai with a family pattern of the tiare (Polynesian gardenia), my favorite flower, always carrying the scent of homeland and place. I am now the carrier of my great Aunt Timenatu’s tifaifai, which my mother had stewarded for the last 50 years until her transition on April 04, 2024. For me, the tifaifai is a vehicle for experiencing spirituality, love, loss, and memory that transcends time and space, offering a profound connection across oceanic landscapes to home, to my ancestors, and now to my mother, who has entered her ceremonial procession into the ranks of our ancestors.

Whether hand-stitched or machine-sewn, the patched-together pieces of cloth make tangible the forgotten, making all pasts equally present. This is the embodied Polynesian Remembrance. Tifaifai is an important mnemonic marker in Polynesian society that provides my family and me with a palpable connection to embodied memory, the maternal homeland of our ancestors, Fakarava and Rapa Nui. It is a fabricated living map, symbolic of a geographic terrain that carries memories and lived experiences for and now of my mother, grandparents, and ancestors.

When I wrap myself in the stitched flora and fauna of ancestral memory, I shift—no longer viewing my body as an object but instead as a subject. It becomes a living landscape interacting and mark-making with the earth, carving out contours, lines, and tracing patterns with all of its interiority and depth, its needs and desires, its lights and shadows, its wisdoms and obscurities where I exist as both the map and the terrain.

I imagine the sky and the sea as both boundless and eternal to our Ancestors, for how the people lived and connected with one another was determined by how well they understood and could be in oneness with these two elements. This immense space of sea and sky was, and continues to be, the known world of the Polynesian. For we are the Wayfinders. Our view of the world is unique; it is as broad and deep as it is high, and unlike those who come from continents or large bodies of land, we see a world as limitless and liminal. The people of Polynesia carefully and meticulously recorded their lineage, thus establishing and strengthening their links with the earth, the sky, the gods, the heavenly realms, and each other. Our ancestors have an exquisite mastery of liminal spaces, inviting each one of us to consider ourselves as a hybrid, on the path of no arrival in the indefinite always becoming. Just as the sea is an open and ever-flowing reality, so should our oceanic identity transcend all forms of insularity to become one that is openly searching, curious, inventive, and welcoming.

From this space, I offer spiritual service, supporting those who are navigating transitions, processing grief, finding themselves in the in-between, and/or undergoing profound spiritual growth. At my core, I am continually confronting and embracing my humanity, deepening my capacity to experience what it means to be fully alive. For me, home is the nexus point between the living and the dead, a place where I am always balancing my dragon expansiveness and holding human aliveness. In this space, I become a threshold for transformation, supporting those whose bodies—spiritual, physical, and emotional—need to be wrapped in safety and love not solely for their own sense of well-being but so that they can be catalysts for positive change in their families, communities (human and nonhuman), and the planet.

I live on the traditional territories of the “Yam Hill” band of the Kalapuya people in McMinnville, Oregon, with my dog soulmates, Mahana and Mayu, where I create art, offer online sessions and courses, record the Living Ceremony podcast, and hold in-person ceremonies and workshops for individuals from all over.

Formal Education And Training

• Master of Fine Arts, Art, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
  Peace Corps Coverdell Fellows Program
  Areas of Specialization:  installation, photography, and video art
  My work reflects on the fragmentation associated with the movements of people in present-day culture when physical, social, and mental borders are being challenged and, at times, dismantled. 
• Center for Mesoamerican Research (C.I.R.M.A), Antigua, Guatemala
• Bachelors of Science, Visual Communications, University of California at Davis, Davis, CA
• University of Cordoba, Cordoba, Spain, Language and Culture Program

Education And Training

• Grief Tending Mentorship Program 2024 – 2025 (current)
  Lineage: Sobonfu Some from Dagara Tribe of Burkina Faso
  (Laurence Cole, Thérèse Charvet, Mary Hart)
• ICEERS Academy Ayahuasca Safety 2024
• Trauma-Informed Plant Medicine Facilitation Program 2023 (Atira Tan)
• Trauma-Informed Plant Medicine Facilitation Program 2022 (Atira Tan)
• Somatic Plant Medicine Integration Practioner Training 2022 (Atira Tan)

I believe this is the fourth time I’ve taken a light language course with Galactic Ashley, and I will continue to take the course whenever it is offered. I experience so much growth and expansion each time, not to mention a huge boost of confidence knowing that I’m unlocking abilities that are already inside of me.

Ashley encourages each student to open their abilities for where they are now, and is always super aware of those having a bad day or needing extra support. She provides many opportunities in a created safe space to explore at your comfort, while holding that container between all of the students. I have made so many great friends from these classes as well because we shifted and grew in that container together.

I am a completely different person at the end of every class, and I love that! I encourage everyone to be open enough to just try one of her classes because you will be amazed at what you can do and how you will expand.

– Jamie, The Shift Witch

Since I met and worked with Galactic Ashley, I have grown as a spiritual being and healer. Dragons, skulls, and galactic beings, oh my! Her energy has impeccable integrity. The Light Language course opened SO many doors for me, adding to my energy toolkit for myself and my clients.

She leads the class with gentle support, helping us all process the content in divine clarity and perfection. In working/playing with her at online events, she has held space for me to channel more than I thought possible. She treats it as “Of course, you can.” That kind of support is precious and essential.

–Susy Goins
Blue Lightening Healing

This is my first time taking Galactic, Ashley‘s light language Immersion course, I was immediately drawn to Ashley after I watched her do a dragon song and healing meditation with a group called dragon thunder with Kev, the English Mystic. I’m located in Hawaii so when I heard her mention the Mo’o which is lizard or sometimes synonymous with dragon

I was all ears and wanted to learn more about light language and singing light language. I’m a musician and sound healer myself and so this was a great experience to open myself up more to singing light language, healing, and embodying more light, I love Galactic, Ashley‘s group meditations and the transformation that takes place afterwards, it’s so soothing and deeply moving and she has such a loving presence and beautiful soul.

– Christina Gilmore

I had the pleasure and honor of working with Ashley for a year and a half doing a plethora of light language, channeling, meeting your dragon and galactic energy classes and workshops. In each of them, Ashley walked us through a series of transmissions to recalibrate our physical bodies to a blueprint more aligned to our divine essence. Each class I could feel my energy frequency elevate to the next octave. Her practices in class and in between classes helped me focus on my own spiritual path, be more intentional in what I want to co-create in this life and find a clarity on my abilities and the skills I want to hone in.

Her classes will be profoundly transformational to the very core of your DNA and will activate in your energy field a force capable of co-creating what you set your intention on. I love her classes and would highly recommend to anyone wishing to take their spiritual path to the next level.

– Stephanie Stephen,
Animal Energy Healer

 know, my 1:1 work with Ashley is and has been priceless. I imagine it like Venn Diagram with an embedded learning loop. As I continue exploring my own self-awareness and shifts into witness consciousness with Ashley’s unique and generously shared insights my soulful/source layers deepen. This innately gives added depth for my clients and the insights I gain with my client work in an ever-expanding co-creative learning loop of consciousness-living. A rather beautiful expression of human-ing. 🙂

– Mandy Allen

Self-Growth Alchemist & Intuitive
Diagnosed ADHD & ASD (autistic) Midlife
Proudly serving my neurodiverse tribe!