About me

I didn't always make my living behind the cards. I've had a full and exciting life, and I've had many different careers throughout my life, including server, contractors' assistant, retail manager, bartender, karaoke host, nail technician, and salon worker. I started working when I was 15, and it was a very difficult time for me. I was dealing with all of the standard teenage BS, but I was also dealing with heavier topics. My mother was battling breast cancer, I was struggling with coming out, my sister was struggling with coming out, yadda, yadda. To help my mom out, my grandmother came to live with us. I loved her with all my heart, but my loving grandma was an alcoholic. At school, I was a social outcast. I had very few friends. Not because I didn't want them, but because I couldn't handle them. Puberty threw my empathic gifts into overdrive, and I wasn't getting the proper guidance. My mom and grandma were of no help, and my favorite aunt and cousins were too far away to help very much. Luckily, I come from a family of witches, brujas, and psychics. My aunt had instilled the groundwork for what would eventually become my spiritual path. She taught me how to see and feel energy. She taught me shielding, cleansing, how to work with the elements, but what I thank her most for was she taught me spirit communication. I work with my ancestors during my client sessions. My gods Hekate and Hermes, my animal guides, and my spirit guides/ ancestors all come together to help me give deep and thorough guidance to my clients in an effort to find the answers to their questions. 

As I said, I've had a variety of careers over the decades. I've been a waiter, a bartender, a clothing store manager, a nail technician, and a hair stylist, but through it all I've always been a tarot card reader. I used to think that I didn't have a path, but I didn't see the connection in all of my jobs. I worked in industries where I took care of people. I still take care of people, but I go about it differently now. Through my YouTube channel I am able to help people from all over the world. I love my life, and I thank the gods every single day for the people and events that surround me. 

I am someone who is battling serious physical health issues. I'm diabetic, I am HIV+, and I suffer from something called coccidioidomycosis, or Valley Fever. This a fungal spore that is common in the ground here in the Arizona desert. Usually, if a person becomes infected, they may have flu-like symptoms for 24 hours, and that's it. Unfortunately for yours truly, my pre-existing conditions created an inhospitable environment within me, setting the stage for the devastation that I was about to experience. I didn't get the flu. I got 4 lesions in my lungs, and a lesion on my cerebellum, which I had a craniotomy to remove.  The cerebellum is the part of the brain that handles voluntary movement and balance. What does that mean? I'm glad you asked! That means that I now use a can for balance, and I weaken easily. I can no longer cut hair or use an electronic nail file on a living person. I mean, I COULD, but... it's safer for everyone involved if I don't. It's not as bad as it sounds. I mean it was at first. It was devastating. My world was turned upside down in an instant. I had to learn to alchemize all of that crap that happened to me. To my credit, I was doing a great job. I have a loving partner who has been by my side through sickness and in health, for over 25 years. With his love and support I was able to regain some semblance of a normal life. Then covid happened, and the world lost its collective marbles. Now I do what I can to help people. I wasn't expecting to become a full-time tarot reader and teacher, and I sure didn't expect to become a YouTube personality, but life happens, and I'm glad it did. My life has become just what I've always wanted it to be.

It's a whole new world, Buttercup!

Face it with gusto, and always remember these words:

Never let your past define your future!