For those of you who may be interested to know more about me:
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The Too-Long-Didn't-Read Version
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I've basically been a bit of a weirdo my whole life and became obsessed with God, magic, occultism and spirituality from a young age. I've been involved in Witchcraft since I was 14 and learning Tarot was one of the many skills I began practising at this time. I have a BA degree in Religion and Theology from the University of Manchester and used to be a make-up artist. I'm a priest of the Alexandrian and Gardnerian traditions but I'm currently coven-less and solitary in my practices.
I've technically been reading Tarot professionally since 2004, but for many years I only read for a small handful of clients a year until 2016 when it became a full time thing for me. I love connecting with people and always hope to shed light on my client's lives with my Tarot readings. I love this work.
I spent five years creating Oracle of the Witch Current during a challenging and mostly housebound time in my life. I love painting. Writing's not bad either. I really value kindness, compassion and wisdom. I love sharing knowledge on magic, be it through visual art, the written or spoken word. My magical and religious interests are pretty broad and I explore a lot of traditions whilst remaining rooted in a core practice.
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The Unapologetically Longer Version:
I was born in Hastings in the UK; a city which has been described as the occult capital of Britain and, by a certain priestess I know, as the place where occultists go to die. Both Aleister Crowley and Alex Sanders lived out their last years in that area of England. Despite the southern location of my birth, I consider myself a northerner having lived the vast majority of my life in the Manchester area. I'm of mixed heritage, half of me hailing from Spain as you may have guessed from the surname. My Spanish family is from the old historic city of Toledo, a place known for many things; once being the capital of Spain, being a "city of three cultures" (Muslim, Christian and Jewish), steel (especially swords), and, most interestingly to me, for being a centre of magic in the Middle Ages. Various Arabic astrological texts were translated there including the famous Picatrix.
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Religion, Mysticism and Magic
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As a child I was an avid reader with an active imagination and a love for legends and mythology. I was Christened into a branch of Protestantism but had a very secular upbringing and learned very little of Christianity. Religion and spirituality were not topics of interest to anyone around me and never discussed. It was at the very beginning of my teen years that I realised I was yearning for some kind of spiritual expression. I had begun to have spontaneous blissful experiences that I soon came to interpret as being tastes of divinity. I would be hit with these moments most days (sometimes two or three times a day). It would feel like just for a brief moment, time would stand still. Whatever trivial or mundane issue was on my mind would evaporate. I'd usually find myself gazing at the skies or the large ash tree outside my bedroom window and for a very brief point in time I'd find myself thinking how utterly vast the universe was, and yet, how absolutely everything in it was connected. I knew this force was cosmic and transcendental and that it ran through me, just as it runs through everything else. Despite the vastness, it was not impersonal, it was love. It loved me so much, just like everything else. The hairs on my body would all stand on end and I'd get these full body chills. It was ecstatic, and would usually leave me feeling at least a little misty eyed. Whilst I still regularly have these moments to this day, they were particularly intense and frequent during the first two years or so. To be clear, I do not think these experiences make me special or superior to anyone else in any way, they're pretty normal, especially for anyone with a regular spiritual/religious practice.
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It was around this time as a pretty introverted high school kid that I knew I wanted to investigate religious and spiritual traditions. I knew I was being called to something slightly off the beaten track. My strong inner hunch that I was gay kept me away from bothering to look at traditional modes of religious expression as, at the time I was not aware of some of their more liberal denominations.
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Getting into the Occult, Witchcraft, Goddess Worship
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Around the age of 14 I started having experiences that made me aware of the world of the occult. I was introduced to the concept of astral projection and spirit guides and also had my first psychic experiences (both involved premonitions around the death of pets I had at the time). One day a school friend told me he was going to take me to a "satanic" shop to buy a Ouija board. I had no idea how to feel about this but I went along with him. That local bookshop that I had previously never known about ended up setting the tone for the rest of my life. I discovered that it was not satanic and was in fact run by Pagan Witches. I quickly became a very regular customer.
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The first book I read from that place made it clear to me that modern Pagan Witchcraft was the direction I was being pulled in the strongest. Discovering the concept of The Goddess was revolutionary for me and gave me a label for the blissful experiences of oneness I had been having. I respond very powerfully to Goddess imagery and themes from ancient Goddess cults, for reasons I now understand a bit better after learning about my astrological placements, especially in Vedic astrology. In Witchcraft my fascination with divinity, interest in ancient Gods and curiosity around effective magical practices, all came together. It was also during this time that I picked up my first Tarot deck and began what was, for me, a very slow and gradual relationship with the cards and how to read them. In no time at all I was on a pipeline so many spiritually and magically inclined misfits of my generation found themselves on. I was identifying as a Witch and performing full moon rituals in the local woods with my teen coven.
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It was the 90's pop Wicca era and I was devouring all the titles that were being published on Wiccan style Witchcraft. Unlike a lot of my peers, however, who moved on to other things, I knew I wanted to taste traditional initiatory Wicca and ended up pursuing initiation into both the Alexandrian and Gardnerian traditions of the Craft. I was first initiated at the age of 18 by the hand of the first Witch and Priestess I ever met, the woman who ran the local Pagan bookshop. It was a heavily Wiccan inspired form of the Craft but it was several more years later that I received what would be considered a legitimate initiation into Traditional Wicca. I wanted to become an Alexandrian Witch first and foremost because the books of Janet and Stewart Farrar presented a version of Witchcraft that felt the most beautiful, dramatic, ceremonial and religious. I felt an affinity for Alex Sanders, knowing he had lived and practised his Craft in some locations that were very local, familiar and enchanting to me.
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Over the years I have been involved with multiple covens along with maintaining my own personal, solitary practices. I have also been blessed to meet and learn from people of other magical and spirit based traditions. Hermetic Qabalists, Thelemites, ceremonial and grimoire magicians, Druids, Hoodoo rootworkers, folk magicians, Tantric practitioners and more. Despite my connection to the Craft, some of my closest, longest running and most cherished friendships have been with mystical Catholic folk practitioners and members of African Disaporic traditions.
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For the last few years I have not been involved in any covens and my Craft and occult studies have been totally solitary. My love for the divine, fascination with magic, divination and being in relationship with a variety of spiritual beings continues.
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Career, Social and "mundane" Life
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I hold a BA degree in Religion and Theology from the University of Manchester, which probably isn't very surprising. I also used to be a professional make up artist for several years. My love of make up really took off when I started going to goth night clubs at 17. I partied hard for around 15 years in a variety of different scenes. Night life has been incredibly important to me as a person and for many years it was my main creative outlet. Loud music, dancing, costumes and make up are a winning combination for me. I've been goth, cyber, a raver, a "freak" influenced heavily by 90's Club Kids, and played around with drag. Make-up got me into teaching myself to paint.
Oracle of the Witch Current
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I spent five years working on Oracle of the Witch Current during a fairly low point in my life that saw me mostly housebound for three of those years due to health issues. All the painting and writing I put into the deck and book, often on a daily basis, took my mind off some of the struggles I was going through at the time. I created it because I felt guided to by something other, and realise that so many threads of my life experiences (and not just those that specifically relate to the occult) played a part in its manifestation. It is my hope that the deck can inspire, guide and inform anyone with a hunger, or even just a curiosity, for the worlds of Witchcraft, magic and occultism.
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