May is the month to honor our Mothers and it will be an awkward one as not only we are social distancing to keep the COVID-19 spread to a minimum, but also most of our mothers are entering in or in the age groups that are most affected by the possibility of the most severe of consequences of catching the coronavirus – death. Most of my readers are over the age of 25, a great number of my clients are closer to my age (born in...

        It is no coincidence that lately three cards are coming up in many, many clients’ readings – Iku, Oya-Yansa, and the Ancestros card. With the many tragedies that come with the pandemic we are in at this time, many of us will know of someone who has lost someone to coronavirus. It is even harder to imagine the suffering of the families who cannot say their final goodbyes and pay respects to family and...

    Yesterday, April 19th, was the feast day of Saint Expedite, Patron Saint of Procrastination. How fitting. Earlier in the year, I had posted a celebration altar ritual for him to be set on his day, but the scourge that is World is facing cancelled those plans. Now I can understand how little children, and teens graduating are feeling about the cancellation of their special day. Think of the weddings being cancelled. Life being...

          Happy Springtime! We are in the throes of the battle of our lives and yet we can have hope and optimism that if we follow the guidelines, we can diminish any threat to us and our families and loved ones. It was disheartening to see last month that beaches and parks were teeming with people not thinking about their health, but we must remember as Humans, we were given a Divine gift of Discernment, which...

  Grandma and Grandpa Graves had passed some time ago. They weren’t really my grandparents; they were friends of my Mom and my then stepfather at the time, and they became my babysitters when I was growing up. They lived across the street from the house we rented on Vermont Avenue, and theirs was the best manicured lawn on the block. Grandpa had been employed in the carpentry trade and Grandma was a homemaker, He was a tall,...