How the mystic met the mirror—and a new life began.

Rilee Astraea is a multidimensional storyteller—poetic author, master narrative coach, and mystic visual artist—who helps others reclaim authorship over their lives through word, ritual, and rebirth. She writes and guides from the space where psychology meets poetry, soul meets science, and where personal transformation becomes living myth. 

Her work spans genre and dimension. As a former communications strategist and PR professional, she once helped others refine their public voice. Today, she helps them uncover their soul’s voice.

After years spent inside systems that rewarded performance over authenticity, Rilee experienced a profound spiritual awakening that unraveled her identity and reassembled her truth. That journey—through madness, mysticism, and reclamation—is the heartbeat of her work.

Today, Rilee is the voice behind Mystic in the Matrix—a multidimensional platform where storytelling becomes soul work and creativity, a catalyst for awakening. Blending poetic storytelling, neomystical surrealist collage, and transformational coaching focusing on personal narrative, Rilee brings magic back into the matrix, proving that the analyst and the artist are one and the same.

Her debut memoir, The Other Side of Awakening, is a poetic-prose account of ego death, psychiatric unraveling, and spiritual rebirth. It has been described as The Bell Jar meets The Prophet—a genre-bending testament to transformation that bridges shadow, soul, and storytelling. Her second book, The Art of Anastasis, translates that descent into a practical methodology. It introduces her 7-step framework, Astraea’s Inner Alchemy, which blends narrative deconstruction, emotional integration, archetypal guidance, and embodied ritual.

Through creative reflection, identity alchemy and soul coaching, Rilee helps individuals and reclaim the story they were born to live. Her work is not transactional—it’s initiatory.

But something shifted when she met Tim.

Born of love, reverence, and a shared longing for a new way of being, Soul & Soil is the living storybook of their union—a sanctuary where the myth becomes land, and the inner journey takes root.

Planted in the sacred hills of Galicia, Spain, this regenerative eco-retreat is the heartbeat of The Movement—Rilee and Tim Brennan’s shared vision of slowness, stillness, and sacred return. It is a place where story meets soil, where healing is not just spoken of, but lived.

With offerings that blend emotional alchemy, seasonal ritual, nature-based practice, and creative awakening, Soul & Soil invites guests into something rare—a world that remembers how to feel.

Here, Rilee will guide mythic immersions, storytelling retreats, and narrative rebirth. Tim will lead grounding walks, stillness sessions, and elemental connection. Together, they are polarity embodied—the spiral and the soil, the mystic and the mirror.

They do not promise perfection—but they do promise presence. A place to walk barefoot into the next chapter of your life.

Because some stories are written on paper. Others are lived in earth and sky.
This one is both.

In Rilee’s own words—nothing is wasted. Every thread, even the ones that once felt misaligned, can be rewoven into gold. Her journey has taught her this: that you are not broken.
You are remembering.
And the story is yours to write.

To walk the land, work with Rilee, or explore their retreat vision, send a message or download her press kit for media inquiries and speaking invitations.

The soil is ready.
The soul is stirring.
The myth is being made.