About
I'm Ginger Canning
Astrologer · Reiki Master Teacher — based in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, and reading for people wherever they are.
This website feels like a bit of a leap for me — taking something I've been doing organically and saying, "Okay, I'm ready to give this a home and see what it wants to become."
How I came to this work
Astrology has been part of my life for as long as I can remember. My mom was a Sun sign astrologer, so I grew up with astrology and always had a natural curiosity about it. At the same time, I never fully resonated with the description of my Sun sign alone.
It wasn't until much later, when I discovered the other parts and layers of the birth chart, that astrology truly blew me away. For the first time, I saw parts of myself reflected back to me that I had always felt but hadn't necessarily understood or had language for. Astrology gave me a deeper understanding of myself than any other modality I had explored.
It didn't tell me who I was — it helped me discover who I had always been.
Over the years, that curiosity became a much more serious area of study. I've had the opportunity to learn from some incredible teachers in both astrology and tarot, and I began studying charts, exploring the many layers beyond Sun signs, and eventually reading for other people.
Tarot became another part of that work. I use tarot intuitively, and I love how beautifully it works alongside astrology. Astrology gives us an incredible map, while tarot can bring us directly into what is alive and asking for our attention in the present moment.
Reiki came into my life as another layer of that journey. I eventually became a Reiki Master Teacher, and over time I've become increasingly interested in not only offering Reiki but mentoring others as they learn to embody and trust it.
That's what I'm developing now with the Dharma Reiki Mentorship. It is much more about embodiment and practice than simply moving through levels and collecting certifications. I want people to live with Reiki, practise it, develop confidence in it, and discover what it becomes within their own lives.
Where this is going
For a long time, astrology and tarot accurately described what I was doing. But what I'm building is becoming broader than those two alone. Reiki is part of it. Meditation is part of it. Embodiment is part of it. The deeper spiritual teachings of yoga — not only the physical practice on the mat, but the different limbs of yoga and how we live them in everyday life — may become part of it as well.
I keep returning to the idea of inner union: bringing the different parts of ourselves into relationship, reconnecting body and spirit, and learning to live from a more integrated and authentic place.
I'm also writing my own Reiki manual, and a book on astrology, and I can see writing, teaching, mentoring and creating resources becoming increasingly important parts of the work.
At the heart of it all, the thread remains the same: helping people understand themselves, reconnect with themselves, and move through their lives with greater awareness and intention.
I'd love to hear from you
Whether you know exactly what you're looking for or simply feel drawn to begin, tell me a little about what's bringing you here.