Anthony Rella

Summer 2026 Special - Psychospiritual Consultation

These consultations are non-therapeutic opportunities for you to get an outside perspective on your desires or places you feel stuck in your personal work. I offer skillful reflection and the intuitive tools of tarot or astrology to help you orient yourself in your spiritual life, clarify conflicts, and develop a practice to move you forward.

From now until September, I am offering a 40% discount on my rate: a half-hour consultation for $50. Contact me at [email protected] requesting this special, and I will provide my availabilities.

Poet John Keats wrote about what he called "Negative Capability" as a literary capacity that speaks to a way of being in the world. An artist with the capability "of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason" creates works with great depth, humanity, and complexity.

I think of the work of David Lynch, whose filmmaking relies heavily on feeling and symbolism. So many wish that Lynch could have simply explained what he meant by his various storytelling choices, but if he had done so, it would have foreclosed our experiences. Because there is no simple moral to Twin Peaks, or a tidy summary of what it "means," we as the audience are able to be participants in creating the meaning of the story. The depth of the show forces us to grow beyond our simple understandings, but we arrive at meaning through our experience of it.

We could stand to allow for more negative capability in our art. The greatest stories are the ones that feel well-told, complete, and yet mysterious. Such art remains alive within us and inspires us to create, unlike propaganda whose moral and ideological meanings create flat, two-dimensional works that foreclose mystery with too much certainty.