Linda passed over the threshold at home on July 14th, 2025. Friends and family lovingly cared for her as she confidently, intentionally, and fully embraced her transition.
You can help her on her journey by wishing her clarity and confidence and peace as she seeks her path home. May she be guided by love, light, and beauty.
— Robert Knodle
1990 — 2006
During these sixteen years, my focus was to bring my personal experiences of childhood, puberty and adolescence alongside my research and understanding of child development in order to meet the needs of students in my classroom. The foundation for this focus began with a two year teacher training at the Rudolf Steiner College in Orange Grove, CA. Subsequently, I took a class of students at first grade and taught them through eighth grade. I continued teaching in Waldorf middle schools substituting and bringing my Human Fertility curricula to the classroom.
During the 90’s, another theme centered on rites of passage for teens transitioning to adults in a welcoming community. My appreciation for the importance of community festivals and ceremony grew out of my early childhood experiences in the Roman Catholic Church, my participation in theatre production and my deep connection to indigenous cultures.
A turning point came in 1996, when I met Tamara Slayton while searching for a holistic approach to puberty and adolescence to bring to the Seattle Waldorf School and my own middle school students. She was a dynamic and inspiring teacher! The collegial relationship that Tamara and I shared until her death in June 2003 gave me the focus to do this destiny work. Our initial focus was meeting the needs of youth and supporting those adults, parents, teachers and professionals who worked with youth. A collaboration with Tamara, Anne-Marie Fryer and myself as contributor, editor and publisher resulted in the I Find My Star publication in 2003. Creating, self-publishing and teaching the Human Fertility and Middle School Issues curricula was the next step for me. Also, our individual work with the relationship of the physical and spiritual bodies of the feminine naturally led Tamara and I to explore our relationship with death. To work with this theme with another woman was powerful. Coming to the Threshold.
— Linda Knodle
2006
During the second half of this year, two events moved my primary focus on youth to the needs of elders and my future calling. This was the year of my 60th birthday. I wished to mark it in a communal way through a Croning (Crowning) ceremony. I began preparation in the summer and asked two close friends and Waldorf teachers to participate, Ann Marie Hahn and Carole Street. In September, Carole suddenly became ill. October brought my Croning and one month later Carole died. She asked me to create and host her memorial service which took place in December. The process of creating this ceremony and authoring a workbook on Rites of Passage brought me to develop ceremonies to mark seasonal and cosmological events throughout the year.
— Linda Knodle
2017 — 2025
I completed patient care training with Providence Hospice of Seattle and worked for two years with a hospice team. I became a National Home Funeral Alliance founding member and completed two trainings in the art of caring for our loved ones who have died. Next, I spent one and a half years of study in the Funeral and Social Services programs at the Lake Washington Institute of Technology. I also completed patient care training with Evergreen Hospice and worked for one year with a hospice team. I cared for both my parents in our home and then in assisted living for more than 3 years until their death.
In 2014, I began distilling my work with astrology, Tarot, and my spiritual path toward a newly interpreted 74 card Tarot deck and a companion guide that is rooted in the non-gendered duality of the feminine and the masculine from the point of view of the Goddess. The work is rooted in years of research, meditation, a personal cosmology, and my spiritual practice. Journey from Cosmos to Earth: Intuitive Astrology, the Tarot and the Feminine Spirit was published in November 2023 as a boxed set.
My husband and I moved to Tucson in the spring of 2019. I was called to work with the Web of Life Church and Quynn Red Mountain to further my spiritual and personal development and to connect to the Animist community. I have led workshops concerning our relationship to death and end of life documents.
The last eight years of daily focus toward completing the Journey from Cosmos to Earth, Tarot Deck and Companion Guide was published and launched in November of 2023.
— Linda Knodle
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