Serpentine Spiritual Arts

07/01/2025

Happy last day of Gay Pride month!

Santa Muerte Siete Colores, Siete Poderes, or Siete Potencias is helpful for any condition or desire, and she is often considered the patroness of all of those who are LGBTQIA+. Some feel that Santa Muerte Siete Potencias came about through influence from Siete Potencias Africanas from Santerismo (though some feel it’s Sanse). This theory of spirits (including La Madama and Los Indios) having 7 powers gained traction in the 1990s where siete potencias statues, candles, and products were popularized by botanicas to increase sales.

Santa Muerte is a Mexican folk Catholic saint of death who is known by many names such as Santisima Muerte, La Flaca, La Niña, and La Madrina. Santa Muerte is the embodiment of death with the highest power over life of any spirit or saint—second only to God. Many venerate her as she accepts people from all walks of life and does not discriminate against LGBTQIA+, s*x workers, criminals, and cartel members. She is often depicted as a grim reaper-like skeleton holding a scythe, scales, or a globe. Santa Muerte has three traditional robes or personalities: white (La Blanca), red (La Roja), and black (La Negra). Each robe represents a different side of her. La Blanca is the most approachable robe and is the aspect of purity, healing, guidance, peace, balancing emotions, clairvoyance, and cleansing. La Roja represents love, money, prosperity, domination, passion, fertility, justice, legal issues, fidelity, and marriage. La Negra is the fiercest of the robes and is feared by other malevolent spirits. She is associated with protection, reversing, revenge, banishing, and hexing.

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06/26/2025

Our Jennifer was photographed by Tom Atwood for his project Kings and Queens and their Castles, which is an intimate look at LGBTQ lives, ranging from famous actors to trans artists to drag queens and other iconoclasts. Kings and Queens and their Castles offers a glimpse into the homes of prominent members of the LGBTQ community. Modern day tableaux vivants, the images portray whimsical, intimate moments of daily life that shift between the pictorial and the theatrical. This book and exhibit from photographer Tom Atwood captures American celebrities and other icons of the LGBTQ community in their most intimate spaces—their homes. Kings and Queens in Their Castles has been featured in the New York Times, LA Times, The New Yorker, and Elle. Among the luminaries depicted in Tom’s photos for this project are the following:

* Jennifer Medway - Internationally renowned spiritual leader and practitioner
* Leslie Jordan – Emmy-winning actor from Will & Grace, The Help, Sordid Lives, Boston Legal, Newhart
* Billy Porter – Actor from Pose and Tony-winning actor from Kinky Boots, Jesus Christ Superstar
* George Takei – Actor from Star Trek, The Twilight Zone, Star Wars, Heroes
* Christian Siriano – Project Runway winner
* Alan Cu***ng – Tony-winning actor from Hamlet, Macbeth, Cabaret
* Jonathan Adler – Designer and homeware magnate & partner Simon Doonan – Judge on Making It, Television personality, and Barneys NY creative director
* John Waters – Director of Pink Flamingos, Polyester, Hairspray, Pe**er, Serial Mom
* Carson Kressley – Judge on RuPaul’s Drag Race and Bravo and OWN television host
* Meredith Baxter – Actress from Family Ties, All the President's Men, Glee, Family
* Don Lemon – CNN Anchor
* Rufus Wainwright – Award-winning singer and songwriter
* Ari Shapiro – Co-host of NPR's All Things Considered
* Anthony Rapp – Actor from Rent, Dazed and Confused, Psych, The X-Files, A Beautiful Mind
* Heather Matarazzo – Actress from The Princess Diaries, Sisters, ER, Strangers with Candy
* Greg Louganis – Olympic diver and gold medal winner
* Alison Bechdel – Cartoonist, MacArthur Genius Grant winner and author of Fun Home
* Joel Schumacher – Director of Phantom of the Opera, Batman & Robin, St. Elmo’s Fire
* Michael Cunningham – Pulitzer-winning author of The Hours, which was made into an academy award winning film starring Nicole Kidman, Meryl Streep, and Julianne Moore
* Michael Urie – Actor from Ugly Betty, The Good Wife, Partners, Modern Family
* George Kotsiopoulos – Co-host of Fashion Police and correspondent for MSNBC
* John Berendt – Author of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, The City of Falling Angels
* John Ashbery – Pulitzer-winning Poet Laureate of New York
* Terrence McNally – Tony and Emmy-winning writer and playwright
* Bruce Vilanch – Emmy-winning celebrity from Hollywood Squares
* Kate Clinton – Comedian and actress from The L Word
* Tommy Tune – Ten time Tony-winning performer and National Medal of Arts winner
* Mark Takano – US Congressman
* Jim McGreevey – Former New Jersey Governor
* Christine Vachon – Producer of Still Alice, Boys Don't Cry, Far from Heaven, I Shot Andy Warhol
* Richard Howard – Pulitzer-winning poet
* John Corigliano – Grammy and Pulitzer-winning composer
* Dan Savage – Columnist and media pundit
* Michael Musto – Village Voice columnist and television personality
* Barney Frank – Former US Congressman and chair of Financial Services Committee
* Randal Kleiser – Director of Grease, Grandview U.S.A., Big Top Pee-wee, The Blue Lagoon
* Mother Flawless Sabrina – Drag Queen and star of The Queen
* Frank Marino – Longest running headliner on the Strip, dubbed “Ms. Las Vegas.”
* Doug Spearman – Actor from Charmed, Star Trek Voyager, Noah’s Arc, Girlfriends with Mark Anthony Samuel (friend) – Actor from Imperfect Sky, Avenged, Parenthood
* Ria Pell – Chef from Top Chef and winner of Chopped

Jennifer Medway is a celebrity spellcaster, an energetic powerhouse, scholar, and generational spiritualist with ancestral roots in both Los Angeles and Louisiana. Jennifer descends from generations of Angelenos raised in Lynwood, CA, which is next to Compton. Jennifer began practicing the occult and esoteric arts at a tender young age when her mother gave her a tarot deck. Rootwork and hoodoo run in Jennifer’s family in Louisiana. Her mother’s cousin, Maybelline, was a professional rootworker whom locals called The Swamp Witch. Jennifer’s maternal great-grandmother was a professional photographer and predictive Vedic astrologer. She was also a devotee of Paramahansa Yogananda and photographed him. Jennifer carries on her family tradition and works as a rootworker, Sancista, Yaya Nkisi Malongo, witch, ceremonial magician, astrologer, and Reiki Master at her company Serpentine Spiritual Arts. Jennifer is also an aborisha who received her elekes, guerreros, ikofa, apetebi ceremony, hand of Ifa (isefa), and other orisha. She has celebrity, award-winning clients (including New York Times #1 bestselling novelists, Platinum musicians, actors, poets, models, artists, journalists, scientists, academics, and winners of RuPaul’s Drag Race) and international clients as far as South America, Europe, Africa, Canada, Australia, and Thailand. She trained with some of the top occult professionals internationally and is a member of Ordo Templi Orientis. Jennifer presented Working with Santa Muerte during the Dr. Daisy L. Machado lecture at Vanderbilt University. She is researching the occult sciences and folklore while a master’s candidate. Jennifer attended Stanford, UCLA, and UC Berkeley, where she earned her BA in English. She published poetry, fiction, and narrative nonfiction in several journals, including Gertrude, Cornell’s Rainy Day, and Goddess and the Moon Metaphysical Journal. Jennifer is also a successful equestrian with many championships, and her students won five state championships.

Jennifer presented at Starwood, Pantheacon, WitchCon, Gather the Witches, Kaleidoscope Gathering, Paganicon, Sirius Rising, DragonFest, WitchsFest, The Witches Gathering, Pagan Unity Festival, Los Angeles Pagan Pride, Philadelphia Pagan Pride, Chicago Pagan Pride, Puget Sound Pagan Pride, Nashville Pagan Pride, and New Orleans Pagan Pride.

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Photos by Tom Atwood

Tom Atwood's recent work has focused on portraits of people at home. He has shot over 100 luminaries including Hilary Swank, Julie Newmar, Buzz Aldrin, Mark Wahlberg (Marky Mark), John Waters, Don Lemon, Tommy Tune, Meredith Baxter, Greg Louganis, Barney Frank, George Takei, Edward Albee, Ross Bleckner, Michael Cunningham, Alison Bechdel, Ari Shapiro, Don Bachardy, Charles Busch, Alan Cu***ng, and Leslie Jordan.

His second book, Kings & Queens in Their Castles, was published by Damiani. The book won multiple awards including First Place in the International Photography Awards (book category) as well as a Lucie Award (book-other category). “I shoot subjects at home because our natural habitats bring out our character. The LGBTQ person’s home is an extension of him/herself. And for a community sometimes obsessed with image and beauty, our living spaces can also be the ultimate in self-expression. With a flair for design, many of these subjects have crafted playful, often outlandish homes that tell stories about their inhabitants.”

Atwood was included in the National Portrait Gallery’s Outwin Boochever Triennial (Smithsonian Museum). He won first place in Portraiture in the Prix de la Photographie Paris and Gold Medal at the Vienna International Photo Award. Atwood also won Photographer of the Year from London's Worldwide Photography Gala Awards, as well as first place in Portraiture.

He has won over 50 additional awards including from the Griffin Museum of Photography, Center for Fine Art Photography, International Photography Awards, Santa Fe Center for Photography, Photoville, Camera Club of NY, CameraArts, PDN, The Photo Review, Jacob Riis Award, Hellerau Photography Award, Passepartout Prize, American Photography Annual, American Art Awards, Photography Masters Cup, Manhattan Arts International, Moscow International Foto Awards, Kodak and American Photographic Artists. He was also recognized as a Photolucida Top 50 Photographer and a Photo Life Magazine Top 50 Emerging Photographer.

Atwood's work has exhibited over 60 times in over 15 countries including at the National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Museum), Royal Photographic Society (UK), Griffin Museum of Photography, George Eastman Museum, National Museum of Finland (Finland), D’Amour Museum of Fine Arts, Kemper Art Museum, LACMA Library, MoMA, Center for Fine Art Photography, Annenberg Space for Photography, House of Lucie, Museum of Photographic Arts, Frank Museum, Center for Photography at Woodstock, Benaki Museum (Greece), Museum of Science and Technology (Germany), Shibuya Cultural Center (Japan), Círculo de Bellas Artes Museum (Spain), and LA Center for Digital Art.

Galleries that have exhibited his work include ClampArt (NYC), Steven Kasher Gallery (NYC), Foley Gallery (NYC), Louis Stern Fine Arts (LA), Farmani Gallery (LA), PDNB Gallery (Dallas), Photo-Eye Gallery (Santa Fe), Jules Maeght Gallery (San Francisco), BBA Gallery (Germany), Galerie Huit Arles (France) and Proyecto Galeria (Mexico). And he’s exhibited at various art fairs such as Paris Photo, AIPAD, Photo LA, Armory Show, Art Basel Miami, Frieze, SCOPE, Art Los Angeles Contemporary, Photoville, Yixian International Photo Festival (China), Helsinki Photo Festival (Finland), and Athens Photo Festival (Greece).

His work has been featured in over 200 publications in over 15 countries including The Guardian, New York Times, New Yorker, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Denver Post, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Magazine, New York Magazine, Elle, Harvard Magazine, Art Newspaper, Artforum, Art Ltd., Artillery, Photo Life, Photo Selection, The Photo Review, Popular Photography, PDN, Rangefinder, LenScratch, Feature Shoot, Photographer's Forum, Huffington Post, Upworthy and VICE. Atwood has also appeared on Sirius, CBS, ABC, Bravo, Telemundo, and other networks.

Photos © Tom Atwood

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Hair and Makeup by Aurora Sexton

Aurora Sexton is a celebrity makeup artist known for painting the faces of icons like Trixie Mattel, Alaska Thunderf**k 5000, Lance Bass, Paula Abdul, Joey McIntyre, Margaret Cho, and the casts of Trixie Motel: Drag Me Home and Drag: The Musical. She also starred in the film Literal Nightmare. Creative, outrageous and original are just a few words used to describe Aurora Sexton. A Colorado native, Aurora has spent the last decade touring the United States thrilling audiences coast to coast with her celebrity illusions, drop dead beauty and personal brand of black comedy that always pushes the envelope of morality, decency and taste. With a background in theater and art, Aurora puts a lot of focus on detail when it comes to her music, costumes, and performance, making her a respected and nationally celebrated name in female illusion entertainment. Much of her early career was spent competing in national pageants and contests where she was crowned Miss Renaissance, National Entertainer Of The Year, and was a top 5 finalist at Miss Continental among many others.

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06/19/2025

Happy Juneteenth! Juneteenth commemorates when enslaved African Americans in Texas were finally informed of their freedom on June 19, 1865, more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, effectively ending slavery in the United States.⁣⁣⁣⁣

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06/12/2025

For Gay Pride month, we’re introducing spirits whom qu**rs can work with. Some consider Metresili the patroness lwa of gay men, but she’ll help anyone q***r or trans. She can be petitioned for q***r love, romance, lost love, wealthy men as partners, marriage, and partnership. Metresili may bring lovers of a somewhat lighter complexion than Ezili Dantor might bring. For fun and casual q***r encounters, one might work with Anaisa Pye, whom some consider Mestresili’s daughter. Anaisa could also bring a sugar daddy. Anyone they bring must be treated well.
Metres Ezili is a spirit of romantic love, marriage, healing, purity, wealth, self love, writers, confidence, unconditional love, attracting a wealthy man, and mental health. She is the most beautiful Metresa. In Haitian Vodou, her full name is Metres Mambo Ezili Freda Daome. She is syncretized with Mater Dolorosa. She is also called Metresili in Sanse (Puerto Rican Vodou) and 21 Divisions. Metres Ezili is a spirit to approach for assistance with luxury, beauty, love, abundance, prosperity, clairvoyance, breaking negative work, and writing. It is best to serve her on Thursday (her sacred day) and on her feast day of September 15th. She enjoys luxurious offerings of pink roses, perfumes, chocolates, jewelry, soaps, mirrors, and hand towels. She is partial to Chanel No. 5, gold rings, Lotion Pompeia, and the colors light pink, white, and light blue. She also accepts offerings of orange juice, milk, pink champagne, Royal Bain de Caron perfume, grenadine, basil, and fruit.

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06/04/2025

I wanted to take a moment during Pride Month to recognize someone extraordinary at the heart of this work. As a proud member of the community and the visionary behind this business, Jennifer’s leadership and passion deserve to be seen and celebrated.

There are people who enter your life and change the very way you understand love. Jennifer is that person for me.

From the moment she stepped into my world, she brought with her a kind of gentleness that doesn’t just soothe, it transforms. Through the years, she has taught me what it means to truly love and be loved. Not the kind of love that is performative or fleeting, but a steady, patient, fierce kind of love that’s rooted in loyalty, integrity, and care.

Jennifer is one of the most devoted and nurturing people I’ve ever met. Her loyalty is unwavering, even during difficulties. She shows up with her whole heart. Her presence is grounding. Her love is healing. She’s kind in a steady and real way. Not the kindness that’s about appearances or niceties, but the kind that comes from knowing how to hold pain and how to stand beside people.

She has modeled patience in ways that have softened me. She has held space for me in my darkest hours and offered kindness where others might have turned away.

Jennifer is not only a brilliant and gifted spiritual practitioner. She’s the kind of healer who knows the terrain of pain because she’s walked it. She doesn’t peddle false light or empty positivity. She offers depth, authenticity, and wisdom. She’s sharp, intuitive, and masterful in her energy and spellwork.

Her love continues to be a constant teacher to me. She has helped me grow into someone I can be proud of. She brings out the best in me, and in others too. There’s a reason so many people love her. She is honest, steady, creative, and deeply caring. Her intelligence shows up not just in how she speaks, but in how she listens, how she works, and how she carries herself.

Jennifer doesn’t need to try to be anything other than who she is, and that is more than enough. She is someone who quietly outshines everyone in the room, not by trying to, but simply by being herself.

She is loved by many, and she deserves to be.

Leah Lightspring
Sancista, Yaya, Psychotherapist, Spiritual Coach, and Mentor

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05/29/2025

The horses that appear in Jennifer’s story that we shared this week come alive in these photographs taken by award-winning Eric L Hansen, a director and fine arts photographer, whose work is collected by Drew Barrymore and other celebrities mentioned in his bio below. He also shot the photos of Jennifer above. Jennifer Medway and her horses have been featured in art galleries and museums all over the world. She purchased them as they were headed to slaughter, often for being wild or considered untrainable. She found many of them homes with families as a way of giving back to the horses who saved her from her childhood.

Jennifer started riding horses at age six by climbing the neighbors fence and jumping on their appaloosa pony while they were at work. Horses helped Jennifer overcome a childhood of s*xual and physical abuse and neglect. She became a working student, riding four to five horses a day in exchange for one lesson. With money she earned at her high school creating a journal for a mural project in Indio, CA, she purchased a difficult chestnut thoroughbred who was scheduled to be sent for meat processing. At 16 years old, Jennifer showed her thoroughbred at the most prestigious hunter jumper horse show in the United States where she won a championship over 300+ entrants, which included her own trainer and members of the US Olympic Equestrian Team. The above photo of Jennifer with her thoroughbred was published in Show Circuit magazine. At the time, she lived in Sky Valley, a working class community without even a stop light. The sign for Sky Valley appears on a Kyuss album, stoner rock legends whose members later formed Queens of the Stone Age.

Jennifer is gifted at working with the most wild and traumatized horses. She once purchased a thoroughbred gelding at a meat auction whom the cowboys warned her not to acquire because they couldn’t ride him successfully. With much training, he became a hunter show horse on a collegiate equestrian team. Jennifer has shared her love of horses with inner-city children, celebrities, executives, and their children. Her students won five state championships.

Eric L Hansen’s work has been featured in the Lucy award-winning journal Eyemazing and published in the Connecticut Review. His private collectors include the actress Drew Barrymore, producers Margaret Koval and Penny Adams, and film director James Contner. In 2010, Eric won three First's and an Honorable Mention in the Pollux Awards international competition. This work was exhibited in Buenos Aires in January 2012. Eric L Hansen is married to Stellasue Lee, Pulitzer-nominated poet and founding editor of Rattle (one of the most prestigious poetry journals in the US).
Museum directors who have curated his work include:
Director of Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art Robert Fitzpatrick, Director of the Smithsonian Museum of American Art Joann Moser, Director of the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery Marc Pachter, Curator of Photography at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Malcolm Daniel, former Director of the Museum of Photographic Art Carol McCusker, and Director Emeritus of the Museum of Photographic Art Arthur Ollman.

Jennifer was also photographed by Tom Atwood for his project Kings and Queens and their Castles, which is an intimate look at LGBT lives. Modern day tableaux vivants, the images portray whimsical, intimate moments of daily life that shift between the pictorial and the theatrical. Among the luminaries depicted in his photos for this project are the following:

* Billy Porter – Actor from Pose and Tony-winning actor from Kinky Boots, Jesus Christ Superstar
* George Takei – Actor from Star Trek, The Twilight Zone, Star Wars, Heroes
* Leslie Jordan – Actor from The Help, Sordid Lives, Will & Grace, Boston Legal, Newhart
* Christian Siriano – Project Runway winner
* John Waters – Director of Pink Flamingos, Polyester, Hairspray, Pe**er, Serial Mom
* Carson Kressley – Judge on RuPaul’s Drag Race and Bravo and OWN television host
* Meredith Baxter – Actress from Family Ties, All the President's Men, Glee, Family
* Alan Cu***ng – Tony-winning actor from Hamlet, Macbeth, Cabaret
* Jonathan Adler – Designer and homeware magnate
* Don Lemon – CNN Anchor
* Greg Louganis – Olympic diver and gold medal winner
* Michael Urie – Actor from Ugly Betty, The Good Wife, Partners, Modern Family
* John Berendt – Author of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, The City of Falling Angels
* John Ashbery – Pulitzer-winning Poet Laureate of New York
* Terrence McNally – Tony and Emmy-winning writer and playwright
* Ari Shapiro – Co-host of NPR's All Things Considered
* Kate Clinton – Comedian and actress from The L Word
* Tommy Tune – Ten time Tony-winning performer and National Medal of Arts winner
* Alison Bechdel – Cartoonist, MacArthur Genius Grant winner and author of Fun Home
* Rufus Wainwright – Award-winning singer and songwriter
* Joel Schumacher – Director of Phantom of the Opera, Batman & Robin, St. Elmo’s Fire
* Bruce Vilanch – Emmy-winning celebrity from Hollywood Squares
* Mark Takano – US Congressman
* Jim McGreevey – Former New Jersey Governor
* Randal Kleiser – Director of Grease, Grandview U.S.A., Big Top Pee-wee, The Blue Lagoon
* Christine Vachon – Producer of Still Alice, Boys Don't Cry, Far from Heaven, I Shot Andy Warhol
* John Corigliano – Grammy and Pulitzer-winning composer
* Anthony Rapp – Actor from Rent, Dazed and Confused, Psych, The X-Files, A Beautiful Mind
* Heather Matarazzo – Actress from The Princess Diaries, Sisters, ER, Strangers with Candy
* Dan Savage – Columnist and media pundit
* Simon Doonan – Television personality and Barneys NY creative director
* Michael Musto – Village Voice columnist and television personality
* Barney Frank – Former US Congressman and chair of Financial Services Committee

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05/27/2025

For Gay Pride month in June, we’re sharing a creative nonfiction essay published by Jennifer under the name Durenda Medway in Gertrude. Gertrude holds the distinction of being the longest consecutively published q***r journal internationally, with an acceptance rate lower than Ivy League Universities. They have published work by individuals from more than 40 US states and 13 countries worldwide.

You can read Jennifer’s essay on being a country le***an experiencing misogyny in the Midwest here:

https://serpentinespiritualarts.com/pages/gertrude

We also included an article where Jennifer was interviewed for being recruited by a top literary agent. Please see the above article in the photos. Jennifer also worked with Dorothy Allison extensively on refining her forthcoming novel. Dorothy Allison needs no introduction, yet we feel it necessary to mention that she’s one of the greatest feminist le***an writers of our time who’s also a New York Times bestselling novelist.

Jennifer began writing more seriously when she was an editor for her high school newspaper that had been named the top high school newspaper in the US. She was offered the position of editor-in-chief but had to decline it because of her demanding horse show schedule. At only 15 years old, Jennifer had been named in an article in the Los Angeles Times as a young journalist to watch out for. She was awarded a full scholarship to attend and major in English and creative writing at UC Berkeley, which consistently has the top English program in the US. Jennifer also received an award for excellence in Creative Writing from College of the Desert and the rotary club in Palm Desert, CA. Multiple editors and publishers have offered publishing contracts to Jennifer for both her novels and occult books in progress.

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05/25/2025

Today is my mother’s birthday. Though my grandmother was only fourteen at the time, she gave birth to my mother in Maywood, California, (southeast LA). They soon traveled east, and my mother grew up in migrant farmworker tent camps in Texas as part of the Bracero program. These camps lacked clean water and proper sanitation. My mother started picking cotton until her hands bled at age three and wore flour sacks for clothing. Later, she settled outside of Shreveport, Louisiana. She didn’t have medical care as a child and had to rely on the land for everything. She was raised with her Southern family who practiced hoodoo. She was mixed race and spoke Spanish fluently.

My mother experienced s*xual abuse from a family member while in Louisiana, so my grandmother moved all six of her children back to Lynwood, California, where she was from. Lynnwood is next to Compton, and my mother attended Lynwood high school. She had her first child as a teenager and went to work in a factory. My uncles told me that she always wanted a better life and, from a young age, talked about what she would manifest. She happened to be a powerful witch and landed a job working at Technicolor. She then married a TV producer for Sesame Street and Mister Rogers. She left him and married a man who was royalty. There are photos above of them and a card he gave her on her birthday. He built her a custom home in the Hollywood Hills. Woody Allen wanted to direct a film in her home, but my mother declined because she heard that he might damage it.

My mother was a member of Hugh Hefner’s private club PIPS in Beverly Hills and played backgammon with Lucille Ball. She had many celebrity friends and played tennis regularly. Her neighbor was musician Ray Conniff who won a Grammy. There’s a photo of him and his wife above while at my mother’s home. They spent holidays together. Wanting more children, my mother left that life behind. For part of my childhood, I grew up in Sky Valley, which is a community in Desert Hot Springs. DHS had the highest crime rate in California at that time. My mother stayed in Sky Valley until she passed of breast cancer. I was very devoted to her and was her sole caretaker. I miss her every day. She was loved by many.

05/13/2025

Santa Muerte has three traditional robes or personalities: white (La Blanca), red (La Roja), and black (La Negra). Each robe represents a different side of her. La Roja may help with love, money, prosperity, fertility, passion, justice, pregnancy, legal issues, fidelity, and marriage. Santa Muerte Roja was the second-born robe, resulting from the s*xual union between Adam and Eve (the original sin). The blood of the original sin stained her robe red. The red robe helps with day-to-day matters, which include work, relationships, s*x, commitment, school, and anything related to blood, such as the circulatory system, blood diseases, or death during childbirth, an accident, from hemophilia, or at the hands of a lover. La Roja can heal, heat up with passion, or bring stability and commitment to a relationship. She can ensure fidelity of a partner (including tying one’s nature), cause someone to obsess over a lover, and even help him or her fall in love with a petitioner. She is the force of blood and wraps us in love, warmth, and comfort. She guards, soothes, and repairs the heart.
Research from the 1940s and 1950s indicates her role aiding in love sorcery amongst people of mostly African descent. The oldest known Santa Muerte prayer is for amarres or love bindings. Research from the 1960s and 1970s documents women who prayed to her for domination over their husbands and lovers, chanting “Most Holy Death, torture him. Mortify him”. For most of the 20th century, many worked with Santa Muerte Roja for amarres, where humbled men returned or committed to their jealous partners. Many think of bindings as negative workings, but they can be beneficial. Amarres can protect a relationship from separation spells. Marriage can also help protect a relationship from witchcraft. Some spirits won’t cause marriage separation, and many believe this includes Santa Muerte, especially if they apply Catholic doctrine to their spiritual practice with her.
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