In a nutshell:

 

I'm D. Spring, folk magic practitioner, Reiki Master, tarot reader, and the kind of person who has been deeply, helplessly obsessed with the weird and the sacred since before it was a personality type.
 

My practice draws from three living roots: my maternal family's nearly 200-year presence in New Orleans, my Mexican heritage, and over two decades of devotional Hindu practice including formal initiation and pilgrimage to India.
 

As someone who has navigated ADHD, PTSD, chronic illness, and periods of disability, I have a particular soft spot for clients facing similar challenges. You don't have to explain yourself here.
 

For those who want the credentials up front:

• Religious Studies B.A., University of Toronto

• Usui Reiki Master-Teacher and energetic healing practitioner since 2000

• Professional tarot and spellwork consultations since 2009

• Certified Meditation Teacher, Vedansha Institute of Vedic Science, Rishikesh, 2019

• Certified Sound Healing and Tuning Fork practitioner, Colour of Sound Institute, 2016

• Initiated in Western ceremonial magic, Temple of Isis Urania, 2010

• Published in Witches & Pagans, newWitch, SageWoman, Circle Magazine, Hoodoo & Conjure Quarterly, among others

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The long way round:

 

The women on my maternal side have long been known to have various spiritual gifts. My mother is very clairvoyant and a gifted reader, and that sensitivity runs through the whole line.

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My own strongest gifts are clairsentience, claircognizance, and clairaudience, with flashes of clairvoyance that tend to show up most reliably in meditation and ritual. Spirit communication comes easily to me, though I don't consider myself a medium as the spirits I work with are generally not those who have passed.

My practice has evolved the way it has because of where I come from. My maternal family has been present in New Orleans since the mid-1800s. We even have a family crypt in Lafayette Cemetery #1 that is still in use today! I grew up on my Granny's cajun cooking and her endless tales of life in NOLA, including more than a few bits of folk belief woven in along the way. Returning to New Orleans as an adult has helped me reconnect to a city that is very much a part of me.
 

My father is Mexican-American, and that heritage runs just as deep in my practice as my Louisiana roots. Folk Catholicism, indigenous spiritual expressions, and traditional Mexican medicine were always a source of deep reverence and fascination for me. On a 2008 trip to Oaxaca, I was privileged to receive a limpia from a traditional curandero healer, an experience that helped me understand my own spiritual makeup more clearly than almost anything before it. My devotional relationships with Santisima Muerte, and the blessed Dr. Jose Gregorio Hernandez grew directly from that deepening connection to my Mexican roots.

I had been working through Golden Dawn ceremonial magic as a solitary self-initiate for over a decade before I found the Temple of Isis Urania. I wanted the experience of working in a real temple alongside adepts to deepen my practice. That time in a working lodge gave me hands-on training in Qabalistic ritual magic - invocation, evocation, herbs, incense, talismans - that solitary work simply couldn't replicate. It was also where I re-established a relationship with the angelic realm that my mother had first introduced me to as a child, and that had quietly faded during my teenage years.

Studying Religious Studies at the University of Toronto with a focus on Eastern traditions opened a door I walked through completely. Academic study of Hinduism led to lived practice, which led to formal initiation into the Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Math lineage of bhakti yoga. I maintain active altars for Sri Radha-Krsna, Sri Ganesha, Durga Ma, Lord Shiva, Kali Ma, and others. I later trained as a Meditation Teacher at the Vedansha Institute of Vedic Science and Alternative Medicine in Rishikesh, combining that residential program with pilgrimage to Varanasi — a trip that had been a lifelong dream. I have also taken several Buddhist lay vows and practice Buddhist-based meditation as part of my regular spiritual life.

 

Pilgrimage is one of the great loves of my life. I travel as often as I'm able to Hindu ashrams and temples, Buddhist monasteries and sacred sites, and to significant folk shrines and pre-colonial sacred locations in Mexico. Being received at the Tepito shrine of Santisima Muerte and paying respect to Dona Queta directly was one of the most powerful experiences of my spiritual life.

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Since 2000 I've been a Usui Reiki Master-Teacher, adding complementary modalities over the years including sound healing, flower & gem essences, vibrational aromatherapy, and other energetic work. Understanding how energy moves, where it stagnates, and how to redirect it informs everything I do, from pulling cards, burning a candle on your behalf, or sending distance Reiki across the world.

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