AOA Apprentice Spotlight: Phoebe Fae — Animist Arts & the Oracular Body

Dancer • designer • expressive arts therapist • ritual theatre creator (Salt Spring Island)

At the Academy of Oracle Arts—our school of sacred sciences, mystical arts, and mystery studies—we gather as a living temple of practice, a gathering place for oracular consciousness where ritual becomes a way of life and study becomes service to the web of relations.

Meet Phoebe

“My name is Phoebe Fae. I am a dancer, designer, expressive arts therapist, and ritual theatre creator based on Salt Spring Island.” Phoebe’s work moves at the confluence of myth, movement, sculpture, somatics, and the land—all woven by a devotion to help individuals and communities remember our innately miraculous human capacities. Across her mediums, she creates spaces where people reconnect to power and magic, and enter sincere communion with self, each other, and Earth.

Her prayer is elegant and elemental: to place real beauty and sustenance back into the web of life and enliven the inherent magic within us. This is the current we steward together at AOA—oracular technologies for modern times, harmonizing ancient wisdom with contemporary embodiment so our gifts can serve life.

Animist Arts — A Theatre of Council

Phoebe is the founder of Animist Arts, a ritual theatre company that brings the more‑than‑human voices into council during changing times. Through large‑scale oracular sculpture, intermedia performance, and community rites, she builds containers where the local beings of a specific bioregion can be heard and honored.

At the heart of this practice are oracular sculptural vessels—site‑sourced works that invite deeper communion with the presence, voice, and medicine of place. When a river, cedar grove, or shoreline calls for attention, these vessels become listening posts—altars of relation—so communities can witness what the land is asking and how we might respond. This is art as ecology, ritual as public service.

The Call to Apprenticeship

“Finding Isis’s teachings and ceremony felt like coming home,” Phoebe shares. “For the first time, I could set my medicine bundle down on an altar that truly resonated.” She was seeking a deeper grasp of the architecture of creation—the principles that bridge formless and form—and knew this apprenticeship would offer the bones and breath for that study. Just as importantly, she felt called into a collective devoted to tending the world through prayer, intention, and true devotion. The container matched the prayer.

How the Path Is Shaping Her

Braided with her Saturn return, the apprenticeship restructured her life. Phoebe left her home base, moved to Nevada City for a season, released an old relationship, and met a new beloved. The program reshaped her approach to ritual and leadership, clarified the values she carries around spaceholding, and gave her a living library of content and resource forming the backbone of her art.

“I feel connected to something powerful, enlivening, and deeply supportive—a current that’s changing the way I walk in the world.”

Edges & Rewards

Most challenging: Keeping pace with the immensity of the teachings. “Every piece feels like gold and opens an entire world.” The practice has been finding peace with not grasping it all at once, letting the library remain living, and surrendering the need to “get everything.”

Most meaningful: Being part of a current of beautiful souls whose values echo her own. “Being held under Isis’s wings in a field of prayer and creation has been profoundly meaningful.” It’s the felt sense that the altar is communal and the work is shared.

Influences & Inspiration

Phoebe names Isis’s leadership as her clearest imprint: “Soft and strong at once—tending the space like an ecosystem, pouring nourishment into everyone, and empowering us to rise into our own prayer, gifts, and contribution.” Experiencing a leader who holds equal space has deeply shaped her understanding of circular leadership and co‑creation—tenets at the heart of our school’s ethos.

Her Medicine, In Practice

• Ritual Theatre & Performance: Immersive, intermedia rites that convene human and more‑than‑human voices.

• Oracular Sculpture: Bioregion‑rooted vessels that serve as portals of listening, reciprocity, and response.

• Expressive Arts Therapy: Somatic and creative processes that help participants remember capacity and restore communion.

• Community Rites: Seasonal, site‑specific gatherings that metabolize change into relationship and responsibility.

Together, these forms invite what we cultivate at AOA: a fluid relationship with the Divine that becomes practical care for place and people.

A Note to Future Apprentices

If you’re feeling the call, you’re exactly where you need to be.
Move at your own pace. Be real. Bring your heart.
Share your gifts and your voice. Have courage. Go all in.
This is a rare field of devotion and creation—let yourself receive the fullness of it.

We echo Phoebe’s blessing. If the altar is calling, step into the circle. Bring your medicine bundle; there is room for it here.

Connect with Phoebe

Instagram: @phoebe.fae
Website: www.animistarts.ca
Inquiries: phoebefae.art@gmail.com

AOA Apprentice Spotlight is an ongoing series honoring apprentices whose lives are living temples—where art becomes ritual, and ritual becomes service to the web of relations.