Hi, I’m Savannah—Storyteller

SHARING STORIES THROUGH WINE, TAROT & ASTROLOGY.

SOMMELIER, TAROT READER & ASTROLOGER.

“Learning how to taste wine is an education in sensuality. In arousal of creative energy. A dialling in on what it means to be human—to be embodied…

Working with tarot and astrology engages and translates our intuition through symbol and story. Together they strengthen our inner knowing, helping us build trust in the part of ourselves that is both of us and greater than us.”

~ Savannah, Creator of Aowell—the art of wellness

I fell in love with wine through the lens of Italy at Il Covo in Toronto in 2017. This was the first time I had worked in a restaurant—anywhere for that matter—where sensuality was both celebrated and safe. I watched the two sommeliers running our wine program engage with their craft in a way I had forgotten how to engage with anything. Seeing these men light up when they spoke about wine, stuck their nose in the glass, tasted it and paired it with our food, illuminated its ability to communicate something of time, place and beauty. I quickly learned that through wine you could return somewhere. The faint scent of an old barrel brought me back to my childhood boathouse—the wet wood and the lake, full of possibility.

After a significant loss in my late teens, I spent years disconnected from my body. Many different therapeutic modalities temporarily helped turn the needle, but nothing returned me to a place of sovereignty like wine. Learning how to taste and re-engage with my senses brought my nervous system back online. Wine was how I found my way back into my body. I will forever be inspired by wine’s capacity to hold emotion, return us to the earth and inevitably, via nature, connect us back to source.

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The esoteric found me early around the age of 12. My aunt came to visit from Halifax and brought an oracle deck—Doreen Virtue’s Messages from Your Angels. I remember she and I cuddled up in my bed, pulling cards and listening to what the Angels had to say. She gifted me that deck when she left, and I still have it twenty-two years later. Oracle cards led to animal medicine cards, then tarot, and right around the time tarot caught my heart, so did wine…

At Il Covo I, and one other server, were the only english-speaking natives. Everyone else was Italian and spoke in dialect. We served Cicchetti (small plates) and traversed all twenty regions of the boot beginning in northern Italy—the birthplace of tarot during the early Renaissance. Coincidence? I think not…

Tarot and wine became increasingly intertwined in my life. I knew I wanted to work with them both professionally, but I wasn’t sure how. Wine came swiftly and easily—I was in the right place at the right time, working with a strong list and solid mentorship, but it took a few years to find a similar level of support with my tarot practice. Eventually I discovered Lindsay Mack’s podcast Tarot for the Wild Soul and Corrine Kenner’s book Tarot and Astrology. Lindsay’s approach opened the deck in an entirely new way, giving me the agency to work with the cards on my own terms, from a deeply intuitive space. Kenner’s book introduced me to the fundamental intersection of tarot and astrology. Through her work I learned that every card in the deck is rooted in the ancient technology of the stars—linked to element, modality, sign, and planet. In my desire to become a more fluent tarot reader, I realized I needed to become a student of astrology too. This led me to work with astrologer Nina Taylor, and that’s when I fell in love and awe of our relationship with the cosmos. Now I weave them both together in my own professional practice. They are unique yet inseparable, working in stunning relationship with one another.