About the Author
Born raised and educated in New York city, Gari graduated form the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan, learned classical dance with pedagogical masters, and studied ancient method jewelry making. She moved to Arizona in the late 1980's a move that would influence her life and work. Choosing the beautiful red rocks of Sedona as home, she found the rural lifestyle, peaceful and full of beauty.
Her first published work was, Crystal Energy: Put the Power in the Palm of Your Hand, the second, a dictionary, The New Age A to Z, were books well received, full of information that Gari pursued first as a personal quest and secondly to make the information clear, comprehensively researched and accurate for others. While compiling the dictionary, she worked on developing the oracle, Ivatos. Perhaps this was as a result of the books she had written, but the oracle also incorporated her education in the arts. This book and accompanying pewter sings that are cast (or tossed) for a reading, met with many questions such ashow did this come to you?, how did it come to be?, how is it that these pieces came together as a group?.
The book that followed The Wizard's Mirror is an answer to these questions and more as Gari's first novel transmits metaphysical and philosophical ideas through characters and events that live only in imagination.
Gari Gold, (formerly Gari Gold Kennedy,) teaches classical ballet and yoga, and has created The Sedona Jewelry Collection a fine line of sterling jewelry based on the Ivatos oracle casting signs.
