Writing about myself is challenging. Not because I don’t know who I am, but because describing myself in any one specific way never felt quite right. Hence why I've had almost three rebrands! I joke and say I am a mural of constant change and evolution, and that's something I feel deeply. I am a spirit in a human vessel, navigating the human experience. Period. 

My life has been a series of butterfly effects, one thing always leading to another, eventually guiding me to become a facilitator and space holder for various containers: from Womb Portals to Energy Work Trainings (AEW)  to crafting workshops, and so much more in between.

Growing up, I spent much of my childhood in and out of juvenile halls. Later, I worked in various corporate jobs and survived multiple back-to-back unhealthy relationships.

My soul has always been deeply spirit-led; through prophetic dreams, inner knowings, and voices that kept me up at night. I’ve always had this guttural knowing. My intuition has always been powerful. But when you grow up in a society that labels these experiences as negative, weird, or “evil,” it begins to fog the lens through which you see your life.

In 2020, I began to take a deeper look at myself. I got curious about my triggers and began my shadow work journey. Even while moving through a few more misaligned relationships and shitty corporate world jobs, I kept going deeper. I kept doing the work. With the help of plant teachers, mushrooms guided me into my darker waters.

From there, I continued following the call.

Deeper and deeper I went into my practice, never really following anyone’s teachings, just feeling into what was right for me. Eventually, a friend referred me to Ayla Rose, my mentor, friend, and now partner. At the time, my life was shit. I was stuck in an abusive relationship and lost in the corporate world and facing huge mental health battles that almost took my life.  After a tarot reading with Ayla, I dove back into mysticism. I began attending Mystic Flora’s events as often as I could. Taking classes, attending workshops  and eventually committing to a six-month mentorship with Ayla. Soon enough I began to think more clearly, and my soul felt ready to move in a completely new direction.

Scared, nervous, and not knowing what the hell I was getting into, I chose to leave my ex and my corporate job and begin a new chapter as a tarot reader at Mystic Flora.

I am beyond grateful and blessed to be where I am, life has a way of continuing to teach lessons, even when you think you’ve learned all you needed to learn. The integration process has never stopped, and I love that for me. 

Over the past several years, I have deepened my practice, my rituals, and my magic, and I am ready to continue offering it to the world in a bigger way. 

My journey, my words, my courage is my offering to the world, to every single woman lost, stuck or at war with internal demons. I got you. Let my story be your light through the dark path.

My practice was originally named Cycles of Consciousness, an homage to the archetypes we all move through. It held its potency, but my inner compass was guiding me toward something different.

As I began to shift, and as the collective shifted with me in its various forms, the call was to create a space where magik was more accessible to everyone and anyone. A space where community can come together and tend to our rootz.

Rootz & Ritual is a name that speaks to the depths of the underground magik that is within us all, an ode to the unseen work that lies beneath the surface.

This is a space where habitual, copy-and-paste structures of practice, of spiritual jargon, of magik, of society, can be dismantled. Where the true essence of ritual is honored, felt, and experienced all the way down to the root.

The “Z” in Rootz is deeply symbolic and created with intention (As is everything I offer)

Z is the twenty-sixth letter of the alphabet, and in numerology, 2 + 6 equals 8, a number associated with power, abundance, and karmic balance.

In astrology, the eighth house, connected to Scorpio, represents depth, transformation, death, and rebirth. All of those who I hold dear to my heart are Scorpios or have Scorpio placements. The “Z” is representative to the level of depth I wish to invoke within myself and others with this work.

The “Z” also speaks to the energy: the closing of cycles, the evolution of consciousness, and the bridge between the earthly and the divine.

Lastly, the “Z” an ode to my upbringing. The “Z” is a nod to culture, to the hyphy movement, and to the beauty of slang and all that comes with it. It’s an expression of where I come from and a part of me that lives in everything I create.

I always lead with my heart forward. While sometimes that may not always benefit me, as I have found most wounded souls will take what I share, and weaponize it later. I do not let this change my being. I still walk with my heart forward,  it’s my truth, and I was chosen to walk this path in this way. With that in mind, I say this: writing this may be controversial and may be triggering for some audiences. If it is, I deeply apologize for its impact and invite you to take a moment in your free time to look at that trigger with love and compassion, not only for yourself, but for me as well. I am deeply afraid of sharing this, and sharing this anyway. 

I am not fully Mexican. Although I grew up in a predominantly Black and Brown community, and with Latinx neighbors, I am not from the homeland. I was born on Turtle Island, with my father, who was born in Tijuana, Mexico, and my mother, who was born in Indiana, United States. I grew up with my tías and tíos and many cousins who only spoke Spanish. I went to school in a predominantly white area with mostly white students. My identity has always been something that was forced upon me. I never got to choose. Either I was “la güerita” or “that Mexican girl,” when in reality, I am neither and I am both.

In my practice, I have struggled to lean on either ethnicity. For years, my white ancestors angered me. I was ashamed of them. They made me wish I wasn’t white due to the harm they have caused during my lifetime and throughout history. But through deep healing and constant primal integration, I am choosing not to shame or suppress my whiteness, but to honor my ancestors who are healed and guide me in all of my practices.

I do not feel called, nor do I feel it “right,” to call myself a Curandera or dress in the formalities or traditional clothing of my Mexican heritage, not because I don’t practice those techniques in my offerings, but because I am finding a way to integrate both my lineages without leaning toward one or the other. I honor both in a modern day way that speaks to my mixed ethnicities, my mixed heritage, and my ancestors.

Most of the collective is mixed here on Turtle Island, and I am not here to wear a mask or pretend I am one or the other. I am both. I do not wish to put on a costume unless it feels good to both of  my healed ancestors.

This is what makes what I do modern. It is different, is is me and honoring all that I am.

This is why I call myself the modern-day limpia lady.