Allow me to introduce myself
I was born the year of the Horse as a Capricorn to parents whom named me Tatiana the Fairy Queen and gave me ancestral names, Florentina- after my great Lola Flora (grandmother) and Tita Flora (aunt), Craft my mothers European maiden name and my fathers surname- Almendral which was a name given to my migratory Hmong ancestors by the first wave of colonizers settling in the islands of the Philippines. I must include my ancestors as they prayed the way for me to exist as I am now. Being born of a European mixed American mother and my immigrated Filipino born father I become the bridge between; honoring my cultural combination I pray to my Pinay Diwatas, Norse Æsir, Celtic Déithe, Druidic Awen and reverently acknowledge the land spirits of the Ohlone territories I currently inhabit.
Firstly I am an artist and I prioritize Art in my life.
Naturally drawn to creating and expressing chaos into beauty I choose and reach for mixed medias to express. Incorporating the art of divination and lucid dream into an expression of energetic art, these arts of the ethers are a natural beginning for me. It starts with inviting the muse as I walk lucid my waking dreams into reality. Invoking the spark of idea to fill and inspire. Using breath to recirculate the micro and macro cosmic toroidal energies. Flowing with the current of my emotional weather trusting in the fluidity of feelings as the language of my authentic self. I attune and listen.
My art is so often practical; performance, photography, film, sculpture, spagyric and advanced practical magick herbal medicine making. For 19 years with dedication I initiate, facilitate and hold space for Moonlodge. A Rites of Moonthly passage and performance art of sharing our personal mythologies. Because performance art starts with cultivating archetypical selves I've developed conscious glamour magick; earth based skin paints and self care potions to adorn into any archetype chosen to embody. I've been listening to plants my whole life, my Lolo, Lola, Tita's and Tito taught me their Babaylan and Abularyo ways as did my Grandma barefoot in her garden. Communing with plants and transmuting them into edible magick is naturally channeled. By alchemizing plants and minerals into medicine, talisman, and enjoyable food.
Naturally drawn to creating and expressing chaos into beauty I choose and reach for mixed medias to express. Incorporating the art of divination and lucid dream into an expression of energetic art, these arts of the ethers are a natural beginning for me. It starts with inviting the muse as I walk lucid my waking dreams into reality. Invoking the spark of idea to fill and inspire. Using breath to recirculate the micro and macro cosmic toroidal energies. Flowing with the current of my emotional weather trusting in the fluidity of feelings as the language of my authentic self. I attune and listen.
My art is so often practical; performance, photography, film, sculpture, spagyric and advanced practical magick herbal medicine making. For 19 years with dedication I initiate, facilitate and hold space for Moonlodge. A Rites of Moonthly passage and performance art of sharing our personal mythologies. Because performance art starts with cultivating archetypical selves I've developed conscious glamour magick; earth based skin paints and self care potions to adorn into any archetype chosen to embody. I've been listening to plants my whole life, my Lolo, Lola, Tita's and Tito taught me their Babaylan and Abularyo ways as did my Grandma barefoot in her garden. Communing with plants and transmuting them into edible magick is naturally channeled. By alchemizing plants and minerals into medicine, talisman, and enjoyable food.
I am a Healer and I became a healer out of necessity.
In my youth I had to learn to be a Healer. It was an archetype that was needed to transcend trauma, so when I was seventeen I found my voice and left home to start my journey in cultivating the Healers tool. I come from a mixed, multi cultural background. I've had tremendous initiations in the form of loss to growth, I've been broken down to break through many times in my life; from bridging mixed heritage, childhood trauma, death confronting illness and edge walking hyper sensitivity. The many tools I've cultivated are plant/mineral/environmental medicine, leading rituals/rites of passage, holding intimate one-on-one space, self care (for what can a drained healer offer?), and communion with spirit.
In my youth I had to learn to be a Healer. It was an archetype that was needed to transcend trauma, so when I was seventeen I found my voice and left home to start my journey in cultivating the Healers tool. I come from a mixed, multi cultural background. I've had tremendous initiations in the form of loss to growth, I've been broken down to break through many times in my life; from bridging mixed heritage, childhood trauma, death confronting illness and edge walking hyper sensitivity. The many tools I've cultivated are plant/mineral/environmental medicine, leading rituals/rites of passage, holding intimate one-on-one space, self care (for what can a drained healer offer?), and communion with spirit.
The kind of Witch Practitioner I am is in communion with.
There is synergy in dancing with the seasons of our environment, both inner and outer. My rituals reflect this compass of awareness by placing each earthly element in alchemical order; sparking forward with the ideas offered by fire, then utilizing the mind to organize the strategy, with the sea of feelings pouring forth as relational creativity towards the embodiment of physical action. Acknowledging the expanse of wood, the conduit of metal and the connectivity of ether, my approach is Wholistic, polytheistic animism. My aim is to unify all authentic parts of self as we welcome this Aquarian Age and accept all parts of each other and this Earthly experience.
There is synergy in dancing with the seasons of our environment, both inner and outer. My rituals reflect this compass of awareness by placing each earthly element in alchemical order; sparking forward with the ideas offered by fire, then utilizing the mind to organize the strategy, with the sea of feelings pouring forth as relational creativity towards the embodiment of physical action. Acknowledging the expanse of wood, the conduit of metal and the connectivity of ether, my approach is Wholistic, polytheistic animism. My aim is to unify all authentic parts of self as we welcome this Aquarian Age and accept all parts of each other and this Earthly experience.
As a self prescribed Opti Mystic I choose to consciously look for direct connection to Spirit/Multiverse/All of it.
Focus defines the direction of life. Compounding choices into a life being consciously lived, so because I need it, I make the chaos of our "interesting times" into beauty. It's what I need to bond with the knowing that I am connected to everything, we all are, to transmute trauma into growth. In this choice to water my energetic garden I weed out the dis-servicing patterns and water the flowers and harvest the fruits of my labors to share with community. Opti Mysticism is my ultimate purpose. Where your attention goes, grows.
Focus defines the direction of life. Compounding choices into a life being consciously lived, so because I need it, I make the chaos of our "interesting times" into beauty. It's what I need to bond with the knowing that I am connected to everything, we all are, to transmute trauma into growth. In this choice to water my energetic garden I weed out the dis-servicing patterns and water the flowers and harvest the fruits of my labors to share with community. Opti Mysticism is my ultimate purpose. Where your attention goes, grows.
Magick is Real
everyday we make choices
choose to make, see, focus on beauty
For me food is art, listening to wind through the trees is art, salt wet feet in the sand is art, hands formulating herbal preparations is art, holding space for human expression is art, speaking the mythology of current life experience is art, filming transformation is art, creating Rites of passage is art, flowing with the micro and macro cosmic orbit is art; forms of visual and energetic communication is art.