As much as StaarCon is an amazing place to learn, grow, and be creative, one of the things I love best about StaarCon is the opportunity to spend time with old friends and make new ones.
For me, this often happens over the meals we share. StaarCon does not have a designated meal plan. We want each attendee to find the food that is best for their budget, diet, and tastes. At StaarCon 6, we are delighted with the number of dining options available to us.
At the hotel itself, The OZ Restaurant serves breakfast. They have a generous breakfast buffet that includes Heart Smart options.
The Fusion Lounge is our hotel bar, serving light bites with a view of the garden courtyard and waterfall pool. Eat and drink with your StaarCon friends inside or poolside.
The Made-Market at the DoubleTree has freshly brewed coffee, snacks, and quick grab-and-go items.
When you leave the hotel, you have a whole new world of options awaiting you. Just across North Military Trail is a plaza called Garden Square Shops, which has a Publix grocery store. Floridians know that the ‘Pub Sub’ is one of the best sandwiches around. Each guest room at the DoubleTree is equipped with a microwave and refrigerator, so easy, economical meals are at your fingertips.
Also in Garden Square Shops, you can find Greek and Mediterranean food at Mr. Gyros, a family-owned gem voted Best Casual Dining by the Palm Beach Post.
The Outback Steakhouse is in the same plaza. A few of us enjoyed a meal there on the Thursday before StaarCon 2022!
If Italian is your thing, check out Allora Pizza and Pasta. If you prefer a Guinness and some shepherd’s pie, Paddy Mac’s Irish Restaurant is in the same plaza.
Within a mile of our hotel and conference center, you can find food for every taste and every budget. Whether you prefer Japanese, Mexican, or Vegan, Palm Beach Gardens has something to offer.
The sessions at StaarCon 6 will give us plenty to discuss with one another. The fabulous restaurant within and around the hotel will allow us to feed our bodies with amazing South Florida cuisine and feed our souls with thoughtful conversation and friendship.
Tickets to attend StaarCon 6 in person in Palm Beach Gardens are now available, along with guest rooms at the DoubleTree at a favorable rate. Get your tickets and book your rooms now! We look forward to seeing you in October!
Virtual Presenter Spotlight: Kooch Daniels
Palmistry, Symbolism, and the Stories Hidden in Your Hands
Today we’re turning the spotlight on Kooch Daniels, one of the Live Track presenters for StaarCon 6 and StaarCon 6 Virtual. Kooch N. Daniels, MA, is a professional intuitive, author, and palmistry expert based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is the kind of teacher who has spent decades following her curiosity wherever it leads, and that curiosity has carried her a long way, including all the way to India.
Her fascination with esoteric traditions and what lies hidden behind the veil sent her traveling to study palmistry, and that trip turned out to be a turning point. It set her on the path to becoming a professional hand reader and, eventually, the author of The Art and Magic of Palmistry. Along the way she studied eastern mysticism with a number of teachers, most significantly the Tantric scholar Harish Johari and the beloved hugging saint Sri Mata Amritanandamayi. That blend of scholarship, devotion, and hands-on practice runs through everything she does.
A Lifetime of Books and Divination Tools
Kooch is remarkably prolific. Working often with her husband and frequent co-author Victor Daniels, PhD, she has written and created a long shelf of books and divination decks, including Stars, Cards, and Stones, Tarot at a Crossroads, Matrix Meditations, Tarot D’Amour, Awakening the Chakras, and Sacred Mysteries: The Chakra Oracle. Her newest project is The Zodiac Light Oracle, a 48-card deck built on the nakshatras, the 27 lunar mansions of Vedic astrology, illustrated by Pieter Weltevrede.
Tarot is only part of the picture. Through her practice at Mystic Secrets, Kooch offers readings across tarot, astrology, palmistry, runes, and chakra work, and she teaches all of it too. If there is a thread connecting these systems, it is her belief that they speak to one another, and that learning to read one deepens your ability to read the rest.
What is she bringing to StaarCon 6?
On Sunday, October 4th at 9:00 am on the Live Track, Kooch is presenting Divination Skill Building: Unveiling the Secrets in Your Palm. It is, by her own description, informative and fun, a relaxed look at how to actually read a hand.
Rather than a lecture, this one is a show-and-tell class. Kooch will share the essential techniques she uses to read palms, then put them to work on the hands of willing volunteers, exploring the symbols there and talking through what they might mean. The goal is to help you build real confidence with palmistry and, in true tarot-community fashion, to give you a new tool you can fold right into your existing readings. Bring your questions, and maybe your own hands.
This will not be Kooch’s first time at StaarCon. She previously presented Using Your Birth Chart to Create Astrological Tarot Spreads at StaarCon 5 and Finding Tarot Secrets in Your Birthdate at StaarCon 2023, so longtime attendees already know she has a gift for making complex systems feel approachable.
The presentation will also be streamed live on StaarCon 6 Virtual through StaarCast.com, so if you cannot make it to Palm Beach Gardens in person, you can still pull up a chair and read along.
About Kooch Daniels
Kooch N. Daniels, MA, is a professional intuitive, author, and palmistry expert based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is the author of The Art and Magic of Palmistry and co-author, with Victor Daniels, of many books and decks including The Zodiac Light Oracle and Stars, Cards, and Stones. You can find her readings, books, and classes at mysticsecrets.net and follow her on Instagram at @kooch_daniels.
