Hi, Astrea Sophia Gold is my bardic name, not on my birth certificate, but not simply a pen name either: I received this name in dream many years ago, and had it confirmed in meditation.

I write out of a sense of allegiance and awe to the Earth, the Cosmos, the elements, and all that is: in a word, the mystery that encompasses all life, death and transformation.

I am a writer and poet that believes in the power of the imagination, in a world full of grief and broken beauty.

The fact is that…