Cavern, fire and ink

  When I first opened Manticore’s Den years back, I had a small Etsy shop where I worked alongside my mother to offer custom dresses for Santísima Muerte. Every statue is different, every figure carved in its own way, so each client would send measurements and my mother would bring the dress to life by hand. That service wasn’t just sewing — it was spirit-led. My practices were deepening, and I was forming alliances with spirits along the way. Santísima Muerte is one of those forces I don’t speak about often, but the relationship has always been there. I used to talk with my mother about my ventures into the occult, and it was Santísima herself who sparked an image in my mother’s mind: the vision of a dress. That first dress was beautiful, unique, alive. After that, friends who worked with Santísima began asking for their own. Each dress followed the same rhythm: contemplation, vision, creation. My mother always started with her personal statue, dressing it as the model, and from...

As most of you know my base knowledge is conjure as it’s taught to me by mama Starr from Old Style Conjure.     Recently I visited Texas, family and friends, I got a private class with mama on doll making which refreshed my mind and got me on the mood to go back to basics so to speak. With a renewed spirit, I felt inspired to work on traditional amulets and began working on these mojos aimed to be a crown of success. One of course can find multiple styles and colors on the web, but I wanted to keep things as they were taught to me, so I began working with my patron spirits after a couple of offerings, formulating a recipe for the mixture load and ways of empowering these amulets. Soon enough, I found myself hand stitching and praying each bag getting them all ready to make a batch of mojos, activating herbal elements to be added to the mixture and a collection of oils and powders added as well. With completion of crafting these bags, I took multiple days of working daily over ...

  A month after collaborating. It’s been a fun time to work in collaboration with Lady malandra  on the giveaway “Blast of confidence”, and enough time for me to try first hand the shower set and provide with a review. Shower me with confidence! When I first received this shower set, I felt in love with the feeling it emanates.  What a way to make a shower experience a magical one, in this busy world we live in, sometimes there’s no time to make full on spiritual baths, well this is where this shower set shines at.   Providing with the ability to clear the energy picked up during the day, dispose the bad and enhance that confidence needed to push forward in your plans. I noticed right away an extra spark of energy and through the week as I worked with this shower set, I noticed that mental focus was enhanced, I could smell the fragrance of the shower set and it would remind me of such an awesome refreshing feeling and would then re-light my fire of confidence, even m...