Hello dear reader,
I can’t believe we are mid way through the year. As much as I practice the divination of time, it is still endlessly enigmatic. I start a new class today, (not too late if you still want to join!, just send me an email and we can get you in), I am writing new class and will soon be writing my next post to share with you all, due out in Leo season 😉.
It is that time of the month, where I let you know my bookings are open for July! As you might have never a consultation with me before, and if you have, I figured I should give a lil review of my various offerings:
TAROT
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.
I offer an hour, 90 min, and erotic dreams tarot readings.
This Forbidden Dreams Erotic 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. As my fave writes. “I am one of those hopeless romantics who want every blowjob to be transformative.” (Billy Ray-Belcourt)
ASTROLOGY
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.
THE NATAL READING:
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.
THE REVOLUTIONS READING
This reading engages Medieval Islamicate timing techniques (fidaria, progressed lunations, transfer of years, solar revolutions, monthly transfers, transits, etc.) 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.
LIMPIAS
I am now offering in-person Limpias at my home in Golden Hill, San Diego. 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.
THE COYOLXAUHQUI CONSULTATION
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.
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.
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.
I’ll be offering some new offerings next month but till then I hope you’ll consider these offerings worthwhile.
Also before I leave you, I wanted to share some gentle reminders that this Saturday I am teaching, (for free!):
And then my Summer Solstice sale is running till July 3rd 🌞
I was thinking about starting a guided decan walk, and opening the full TENZ course for enrollment, as I think its just as good time to start a decan walk with cancer season, the 2-4 of cups. Of course the luminary of my life is the Moon, so I’m always going to champion MA.
Spirit said I should wait on running the full course (as I am continually birthing new courses and need some time to work on a new class I am really excited for!) So to satiate a solstice tithing, I’d figure I’d put the lecture bundle version of the course on sale for a limited time so you could self-pace your walk down the star-studded runway. Subscribers can get an *extra* discount than I’m offering the general public as a thank you for supporting this work. Use code REDSTARS for an extra discount on top of it being already automatically discounted on my site <3 Get access to all of the TENZ lectures / workbooks with this bundle deal and do a decan walk of dignity all your own.
Tis all for now darling reader. Stay hydrated and stay in touch.,
Christopher