Get Red

My Work Aims To Honor And Expand The Literacies Of Liberation, The Languages We Must Learn To Pronounce Freedom.

Aesthetics and ideology contextualize matter. The tarot is useful in a world where the aesthetics of white supremacy distort and corrupt our perception of freedom, beauty and truth.

As a diviner, I appropriate my tools as a type of obsidian mirror, a kind of dark light that allows me to see psychically, the soul, the inner process, the hidden connections between all things. Tarot, like or as obsidian, alters our engagement with materiality.

Practicing divination and enacting prismatic perception is not an attempt toward total transparency of soul or cosmos, if that would even be possible, let alone ethical. The cards mean one thing in one context for one reading for one person. You shuffle them and their meaning, their image, their chart, their consideration changes. It’s not always crystal clear but you can trust the reading has a relevant gnosis nonetheless. As Édouard Glissant would say, the cards reserve a right to opacity by maintaining their mystery.

So often a reading engages generative frustration as we struggle to comprehend the augur, the omen, the silent language of the image or the chart. Divination demands patience. But it also is humorous, incisive and uncanny. But by endeavoring toward a de-hierarchalized kind of relations we can discover many openings toward multiplicity.

In this red reading we interrogate, uncover, re-collect, and re-configure the broken shards from the racist colonial shattering. The reading is a movement through a series of affects including anger, melancholia, desire, humor. A red reading claims space conducive to at least a temporary decolonization of the self. But the reading has an after-live, an echo, in that the words and images ideally ripple in the querent’s psyche till at last the augur actualizes. We write and read in watercolor. More on the sessions I offer below.

TAROT

The tarot is an obsidian mirror that sharpens perception. Angles and angles and angles create a balanced portrait of greater depth. Each card shapes overlapping aesthetic engagements with materiality and its metaphysical conceptualizations. To re-define our engagement with the tarot requires a reconfigured aesthetic to animate the shadow mirror with renewed agency. The mirror is more than a means of vanity. Mirrors maintain virtue. Mirrors are the mouth of light, light that articulates physical existence. And lighting is truly everything.

The classical western conception attributes to the allegorical woman representative of prudentia, foresight, the mirror that facilitates self-reflexivity which enables prophetic perception. Prudence discerns the underlying truth from appearance’s deceit. It has a regulatory responsibility, measuring what’s right or what’s wrong for you, at whatever moment and in whatever place you pull cards. The mirror, like the hermit’s lantern, facilitates in-sight while still lighting the seeker’s path. So the postcolonial future is constructed by looking backward.

And for this we need a decolonial imaginary, that space that Emma Pérez refers to as “that time lag between the colonial and postcolonial, that interstitial space where differential politics and social dilemmas are negotiated.” The tarot can be a tool to engage and enact a decolonial imaginary with its intervention toward conditioned modes of subjected colonial consciousness through divine communion.

We need the decolonial imaginary to enact anti-colonial politics. We need to continue undoing colonial imperatives before any ‘postcoloniality’ can be claimed. We need to completely reimagine who you possibly could be when we are all finally free. When the card comes between your hands it is a moment to work with the flesh embodied before you. With the specific time-place of the reading, the artist’s inspired card, the querent, the question, and you, we reach toward an intersubjectivity that decolonized self-conceptualizations emphasize. Working through generations of psychological response patterns from the abrupt and consistent colonial disruption of deeply held cultural life and belief systems requires spiritual rehabilitation.

By using the reading to queer time and place, I aim to use the tarot as a decolonial tactic that allows us to recognize liberatory possibilities for a postcolonial future. Emma Perez reads Cherie Moraga to tell us “the possibility of a decolonial future is reliant upon the subversion of methods that produce normative notions of gender, sexuality, race, and being in general.” The reading requires comprehending temporal unity. To see into a tenable future red reading reconsiders our self understandings, sense of belonging and subjectivities.

These are very popular sessions that allow us to uncover a myriad of issues, dynamics, and influences operating in a clients life. A variety of decks are used. All sessions focus on clarifying prognostication and impactful remediation.
Book a 60 min ($120) reading here
Book a 90 min ($150) reading here
This reading looks into the cards as gateways of sensual speculation to provide perspective into our innermost desires and erotic processes. The cards were made for pleasure. And in their divinatory capacity most predictive uses are usually geared toward love, erotic and sexual relations. Relationships are places to bond, merge, get lost, hide, blame, heal, to discover the self. Ultimately, we seek communion with others, we want to cum, together. But we are always being foiled, repressed or shamed. The power of love, Eros, is invincible, eternal and infinitely diverse in its manifestations. This reading uses a variety of explicitly nude decks and is designed to work through colonial puritanical shame as it inquires into further articulating sexual, erotic and relational liberation. This reading is for those who are comfortable or courageous enough to venture into the taboo, toward a naked beauty, a sensitive love. These erotic readings are perfect for the solo seeker or partnered couples. I will use a variety of erotic decks along with providing sensual suggestions. We will examine how to release, how to join through feeling eros in its freest expression.
Book a Forbidden Dreams Erotic ($120) reading here
All over the world altars are being assembled so that the ancestors may be honored. Once you lose someone you love, you wail and wail and wail without end. In the anti-space of where they aren’t, grief eclipses the bereaved. All year long you keep on living and anniversary after anniversary their absence is all the more cold to touch, an all absorbing afterwards. The bereaved are left to fare for themselves, and its so often so tedious. But during this ritual season widows are welcomed into the social order once more, none are left behind because we, the ones left alive, walk the world in the way of death. We know we will die, so might as well tear away the flesh to crown the skull of our mortality. Its reverence rather than revulsion. In our collective we leave a cup for the dead to drink from. We enjoy a reprieve from the worry about the death that comes in threes, because our altars are tri-level. We say their name, we share their memories, they light our way.
I’ve been in search of my own mode of mediumship. A way to relate to the dead more deeply, but in such a manner so as not to disturb their peaceful rest. I’ve just finished a study with Sterling Moon and another with Laetitia Barbier. But I’ve been also been around death my whole life. One navigates the cemetery cautiously once you’ve seen your grandmother claw at the earth crying over who she’d be forced to bury there. For all the loss we endure, social media mourning will always be insufficient. I can’t or I won’t perform mourning for you there. I need a dark room to break down in. I need candle-light as I cry. I need silence, even in my song. I need to never forget. I need time to translate the grief they have left me with for love. Because Mercury is a psychopomp escorting the newly deceased back to source, I make my altar a text. I am offering a new consultation, the Muertos reading to utilize tarot in a mode of mediumship for clients who are struggling with the grief of their lost loved ones, and / or for those who want support in connecting with and honoring their ancestors, and safely receiving their guidance, using tarot as a tool.
Tarot is surely strong enough to provide a symbolic language between the living and the dead, the seen and unseen. Follow the structure of the Major Arcana and you will know death is not the end.
In this reading we will work with varied strata of ancestors. And because this is a new reading, I will be offering it a lower price than my standard hour rate for the time-being, as this experimental, psychic shrine gets more fortified.
Book a Muertos reading ($100) here

ASTROLOGY

is a profound tool for personal growth, and can significantly enhance self-knowledge when it works to shrink the fiction of the West. As Alice Sparkly Kat in Postcolonial Astrology writes: “Our job as astrologers is not to tell the story of the West better or to tell more stories using the West’s vocabulary but to acknowledge that the story of the West was built by real histories of pain. The West may be a story, but your trauma is real. Use Western astrology to only acknowledge the influence of the West and to talk about capital, power, labor…Western astrology is like race—it is an archetypal and magical imagination that classifies and limits. Any counseling session that does not acknowledge race, patriarchy, and capitalism will not be a counseling session that heals.”

We give the sky meaning, we are what keeps the heavens animate. The moment you were born has significant meaning. It is a map of the heavens, it is a promise of potentialities, and finger-print of grace. My astrological practice is historical. I calculate my charts in a whole-sign configuration, I use decans and fixed-stars, I use the major aspects. But I also examine the outer planets, and I use astrology despite and in resistance to the West.

If you have never had a birth-chart reading than I recommend this session first, before a revolutions reading. We will examine some star parans, decanic delineations and images and some current timing activations. We will work toward a shared language of the soul that is historic and intimately bespoke, so that you can tell your own story with your own planetary significations, syntax and diction.
Book a natal reading ($160) here
This reading engages Medieval Islamicate timing techniques (fidaria, progressed lunations, transfer of years, solar revolutions, monthly transfers, transits, and great turns, great years) to examine and provide clarity on the chapters, paragraphs and punctuations of life. These are often booked for a client’s birthday or solar return in order to gain guidance for your year ahead but to also understand it in the larger context of larger life periods.
The self acceptance, scale and sense of significance that comes with learning about your chart is incomparable with anything else. It’s being witnessed by the universe. And it would be an honor to witness your stars.
Book a revolutions reading ($180) here

LIMPIA SESSIONS

I am now offering in-person Limpias at my home in Golden Hill, San Diego. As I am engaged in on-going with my mentor Erika Buenaflor, I feel called to begin offering these cleansing rites and carrying on traditions. My ancestors understood filth as chaos. Filth is not sin but decay, disorder and disorientation that can be deeply damaging without the cleansing catharsis that restores, renews and rebalances wholistic coherence. When many generations have been traumatized, it takes a deep washing of the soul for future generations to heal. As a badass curanderx I take responsibility for the collective healing and cleansing we all need through these personalized sessions. Read more about how these sessions which are a cleaning after crisis are a manner in which I carry on my grandmother’s gifts here.

These sessions will typically combine divination, platicas, and shamanic energy clearing. Depending on what is needed based they can involve cleansing with:
Herbs - Flowers - White Fire - Onion -Garlic - Lemon - Florida Water -Smudging & Fanning - Egg Sweeps & Divination - Herbal Barridas. These sessions are great to break curses, clear away mal ojo, remove dense energies, bolster spiritual strength. Deploying sacred elements and relationships provide incredibly effective healing, purification and open up pathways for new beginnings. These usually include a brief tarot reading as well.
Book a limpia ($150) here
Like all my readings, this is a type of platica, that helps women and queers of color work against the injunctions of culture, family and ego that say we should fear our own darkness. Together we will not just interpret or describe your natal chart, present circumstances or consciousness but create a new reality through language and action, symbols and images. In the aspiration to evoke healing and transformation, we will use the chart, and the cards, finding words, images, spirits, and stories to work from the inside out. We will turn to the Moon of course, but also Mars and Saturn especially, probably Pluto, and Chiron, and surely the dark, cadent houses, to map an alchemical transformation grounded in a metaphysics of interconnectedness. Then, whether in-person or guided online, I will begin a limpieza to further heal the soul and restore the body. Read more about the legacy this consultation carries on here.
Book a Coyolxauhqui Consultation ($160) here

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"Chris was lovely and it is quite clear that the work they do is a labor of love. There is intention, clarity, and reverence to the spiritual work and guidance they provide to others. I've found great solace in their guidance through my birth chart as I navigate my Saturn return. They provided a depth of knowledge, wisdom, and patience in walking me through my birth chart and stopping to explain what it means in the context of my life. With their limpias, again, there is so much tenderness and attentiveness in ensuring my spiritual hygiene was taken care of and my needs were met. I'm grateful and so full of love and esteem for them."
I've never received a limpieza & scheduled one because I felt a lot of negativity in my life. Beyond the limpieza, Christopher listened to what was bothering me & reaffirmed my experiences. They did their research on my birth chart & explained how various aspects of my birth chart fit not only into my life, but also the tarot reading I received. I have never felt such a lightness in my heart and body until this limpieza. When they said make sure you hydrate before, they weren’t kidding!
Christopher also explained everything in a digestible and relatable way as it connects to queerness. If you’re considering booking an appointment with them, trust your gut and do it!"
"If you're on the fence about connecting with Chris, read this and you'll know why you should schedule.
For my 30th birthday I gifted myself a natal reading with Chris after hearing them on the Witch Wave podcast, the timing could not have been more perfect if I had written it. Throughout our time together Chris' energy was so warm, it felt like reconnecting with an old friend...especially how much they knew about me!
Firstly, Chris came to the session so prepared with notes and major talking points about my charts while also being extremely fluid and flexible during the session. I felt so safe and seen throughout my session with Chris. During the session I learned that the timing of my partner and I getting together and their personality align super close to my Saturn return. I also learned how my chart reflects the lessons I've learned and survived thus far, again lining up creepily well with my charts.
Chris also allowed the session to be recorded so I've been able to re-listen/ watch it a couple times since the session and it's been extremely helpful. I know that despite the rollercoaster of things that have happened, I am absolutely on the right path and feel validated.
Thank you so much Chris for this reading & I can't wait to speak again in the future!"

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POLICIES

I commit to providing services that are within the purview of my training, practice and profession as a teacher, astrologer, and tarot reader. If a client’s needs exceed the scope of my training, I will refer the client to another specialist when possible. My services are an alternative form of healthcare and can provide meaningful support for the processes of self-actualization, but is distinct from mental healthcare, medical care, legal or financial advice.
All information shared during a reading is kept confidential between the client and I. It will not be shared with others without explicit consent. Digital records of client’s natal charts, recordings of sessions &/or spreads shared with clients are able to be recorded by the client during the session.
I seek to convey the messages as compassionately and authentically as possible. Although various forms of predication are part of what I can offer using astrological techniques, my practice does not offer definitive future-prediction. Spirit manifests in multi-dimensional and multivalent manners and I am committed to helping clients face massive uncertainty by trusting the clarity a reading yields, while identifying possibilities and periods of potentiality in one's life.
My practice does not attempt to know another’s thoughts or actions, past, present, etc. if they are not consensually aware of or participating in the reading. Again the reading is focused on your growth and development, as I aim to calm the client as we dive into the deep waters of the subconscious to explore the emotions, the creative imagination, and the deepest sources of faith.
All readings, except limpias, are conducted via Zoom, a free audio & video conferencing software. After booking you will receive a zoom link for the reading. Each reading is opened with a grounding practice and a candle is anointed in your honor. The reading is a sacred space, aimed towards empowerment, creative understanding & healing. Each reading is aimed at providing a greater sense of peace and acceptance through creative envisioning of yourself and your circumstances. We work together to radically imagine new outcomes and modes of responding to what you are growing through. By the end of the reading you will have greater clarity, peace and acceptance of your hearts deepest truths.
In aim to make my consulting practice a feminist praxis, I offer a limited number of sliding-scale readings for QBIPOC folx who wish to work with me but lack the financial flexibility to pay my full fees. I believe healing services should be as accessible as possible for as many QBIPOC as possible and as a browntrans femme myself, I can only make a limited number of these sessions available to maintain my livelihood. This work is in solidarity and in service to folx who are trans, gender non-conforming/nonbinary, immigrant, non-white-passing POC, Indigenous, care-workers (including SWs), and progressive activists.
Please email me to inquire about these sliding scale sessions.
To support my sliding scale work, I invite folks with larger disposable incomes to pay more than my standard fee. If you would like to sponsor a full session for someone with less disposable income, please do or donate more when checking out.
Please note that sessions cannot be booked less than 48 hours in advance as each consultation requires hours of preparation in advance of our session. Once sessions are booked, this prevents other potential clients from accessing services at that time. As such, in order to honor the advance preparation and the work we do together:
- Consultations can be rescheduled without additional charge up to 48-hours in advance of the scheduled time
- Rescheduling with less that 48-hours notice will require an additional fee of 50% of the original compensation paid for services.
  - As some consultations are made available at a sliding scale, 50% of the original compensation will vary based on each client’s individual circumstances.
- If clients need to cancel a session for any reason, they can do so up to 48 hours before the scheduled session to receive a full refund minus any applicable processing fees.
- Cancellations less than less than 48-hours in advance of the scheduled session forfeits the services and total cost of the session.
  - This is to compensate for time spent in preparation for the session and the time spent in the session itself.
  - Missing a session without prior communication will require purchasing the service anew to reschedule.
- I am unable to offer refunds for completed readings.
- No-shows are ineligible for refunds.
  - A session will be considered missed/no show if a client is 20 minutes late past the session’s scheduled start time.