Maeve Stoltz | Just a Work in Progress
Hi! You’ve found my online base camp — a simple hub for all my current links and essentials.
While I still update a few online spaces, most of my work (and life) happens where it matters most: offline.
I still check my email, book through my calendar, and stay engaged — just directly, not through social media.If you don’t see what you’re looking for here, I’m only an email away. :)
Works in Progress
Creative Writing
Since 2013, I’ve taught creative writing workshops, mentored established writers in craft refinement, and worked as a developmental editor across both fiction and memoir. I have several short pieces published, and hope to release a full-length work at some point in the future.The Enneagram
In 2018, my focus expanded into personality psychology with a primary interest in the Enneagram. I completed Levels 1 & 2 of the Empathy Architects Certification Program and, in January 2025, joined the team to work more directly with clients using the Enneagram lens.
My work with the system continues to deepen with private and collaborative study, integrating the collective wisdom of teachers like Oscar Ichazo, Dr. Claudio Naranjo, and Katherine Fauvre, as well as new lexical research by Dr. Sterlin Mosley and Aaron Addonizio (a copy of their 2021 report is available here.AI & Coding
For a time, I also turned my attention to artificial intelligence and spent a season in independent, intensive study of Python and natural language processing. It proved less a new direction than a mirror: a way of testing, by contrast, what makes human meaning-making irreducible. I still play with these tools, but they're much less a focal point now.Spiritual Path
Today my work aims to deepen spiritual devotion through system synthesis and service. In addition to the Enneagram, I also work with astrology and dabble into Human Design, which I see as different languages pointing toward the same underlying architecture, all in service of the Path.
An Introduction to ASTRIS + My Background
ASTRIS is the umbrella for my visible, online endeavors — a container for my Substack and its associated projects, my work with Empathy Architects, and the development of other creative works-in-progress.I like to keep as much of my personal life as I can offline.
But I will tell you this:
Like many women of my generation, I reached adulthood before anyone recognized that I’m neurodivergent (AuDHD). The signs had always been there, of course, but let’s be honest: thirty years ago, no one was looking for them in girls.My obsession — or special interest, if you prefer — with writing started early. I remember tearing pages from my diary in the summer before second grade because I couldn’t make my written words evoke the same emotional charge they had in my head. Once the sentences hit the page, they felt hollow, as if leaving my body had stripped them of something essential.I wanted to know: How do I make words feel on the page the way they do in imagination?I’ve spent more than twenty-five years refining how to answer that question. My MFA in Creative Writing (Carlow University, 2015) gave that pursuit a formal container. Everything since has widened it — astrology, Human Design, the Enneagram, the "path to enlightenment" itself. I've watched systems that seemed to contradict each other turn out, on closer look, to be saying the same thing in different ways, from different angles, with different use cases in mind. That's when I understood: these aren't separate interests. They're dialects. Different languages describing the same architecture — the one we're each born into, the one we can spend a lifetime learning to read without using it to make meaningful progress or grow, simply because so many of us get tangled in the weeds of figuring out which way is "right."Such hindrances to the Path — the slow work of loosening the ego-mind's grip on our consciousness — are part of the process. Read as multiplicity instead of contradiction, these languages stop competing and start collaborating, each one lighting up a previously ambiguous or still-darkened corner. Meher Baba called the destination Realization — our souls remembering we were never only our body, our feelings, or our thoughts. Never only our wounds, our stories, or our reactions to stimulus. We have will. We can initiate ourselves on the Path. We can choose which lessons we learn, and which we will have to repeat.
Even AI has sharpened that understanding for me, oddly enough. I read everywhere about fears of "AI consciousness" or whether it will replace us, and this just strikes me as inherently incongruent with Reality. AI performs language with real fluency, but it cannot want anything or act on its own unprompted — it can only respond. A sophisticated mirror is still just a mirror.My childhood hyperlexia, nurtured over decades, brought me here: reading pattern not just in syntax and rhythm, but in personality structure, in chart and code, in the esoteric texts that tell us, if we're willing to accept it, who we've been all along.When I'm not writing, experimenting with Python, or daydreaming when I should be moving the laundry into the dryer before it needs re-washing — I'm with my family; collecting candles and vintage jewelry I don't need; altering clothes, customizing keyboards, building tiny "book nooks;" and generally not regretting my decision to step offline and spend more of my time where it matters most, IRL.
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Working with
Empathy Architects
Following completion of Level 2 Advanced Teacher Certification, I joined Empathy Architects as an Enneagram Coach. I currently accept new individual coaching clients, offer Enneagram Typing Sessions, and contribute articles to Substack.
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