Starr Fuentes has led an extraordinary life. Alcoholism ravaged her parents’ lives, and Starr spent her childhood hungry, cold, and abused, the victim of physical neglect and sexual violence. Starr’s only sister committed suicide at the age of 13, when Starr was only six years old.

As a child, Starr had comfort in only two places – the library and with her grandmother. Starr would stay in the warmth and comfort of the library, reading every night until the library closed at 10:00 p.m. She explored all the exotic and foreign lands that she would one day visit and fed her voracious hunger for knowledge.

Psychic abilities were as common as was alcoholism in her family and Starr became aware of her special gifts at a young age. Her grandmother was a practicing healer, and Starr spent endless hours in her kitchen, learning the art of herbs, healing, and magic. Even from the crib, Starr recalls seeing auras. In school, when she’d make drawings of people and animals, she’d draw in the aura quite naturally, not initially understanding that this was unusual. She began to recognize illness in others through the colors of their auras. She quickly learned that people were afraid of her abilities and for many years considered her gifts “a cruel joke.” When she was 13, Starr left home and began supporting herself by becoming a waitress at a truck stop. She went to college on a full scholarship, waiting on tables at night and teaching yoga. Starr finally came to terms with her awesome healing abilities during her senior year in college, after she put her hand over the tumor of a friend and it manifested into her palm. She knew she had a few choices – drown herself in alcohol like her parents had done or step into who she was being called to be. She chose to become a healer.

Starr stepped onto the healer’s path consciously and began to use her psychic abilities in many ways, doing readings for people and assisting local and federal agencies in solving crimes.

Starr made her first journey to study with a master in Colombia. From there, she went to Mexico City, then on to study with the Mexican curanderos in Vera Cruz, where she spent three years with her main teacher, Esperanza. Starr traveled the world studying with shamans in South America and Mexico, barefoot doctors in China, lamas in India, and witch doctors in Africa. She studied Tantric sex in India to heal herself of her sexual traumas, becoming a master in her own right.

During her three years with Esperanza, Starr worked very hard. Long hours were spent administering healing energy to the hundreds of people who came from miles around. Makeshift healing tables were set up using sawhorses and two-by-fours. Meals were eaten in haste and short breaks allowed for little else other than the basics. At the end of the day, Starr was too exhausted to care about sleeping in a hammock strung up outdoors. Starr’s apprenticeship taught her many things, including sacred service, honoring her master teacher, and preserving the integrity of the lineage. Her appreciation and gratitude grew beyond measure.

After many years of studying various healing techniques all over the world, Starr returned to the Western hemisphere to teach others to mend their own wounds and eventually to heal the energies of cancer. Starr has brought thousands of men, women, and children to emotional, mental, and physical health with her eclectic use of ancient healing techniques, modern psychological tools, her psychic abilities, deep compassion for human suffering, and her sense of humor. She has the ability to see a person’s essence and calls us to our highest levels of possibility.