Adrianna Renee Velez, Oakland, CA (2026)

01/31/2026

As the world undergoes exquisite transformation, we must liberate our strange magic.

It is the antidote to the venom.

It is the reason you are here.

Something has been brewing in my heart cauldron that is almost ready…

“The creative adult is the child who survived.” - Ursula K. Le Guin

Broken open 🫀

Thank you to for this soul image of Mapacho and I ✨

01/31/2026

As the world undergoes massive transformation, we must liberate our strange magic.

It is the antidote to the venom.

It is the reason you are here.

Something has been brewing in my heart cauldron that is almost ready….

“The creative adult is the child who survived.” — Ursula K. Le Guin

Broken open 🫀

Thank you to for taking this soul photo of Mapacho and me

01/23/2026

Beloved Ma, delivering obstacle miracles so exquisitely.

Showing me where I haven’t completely stepped out of the past and into the raw innocent truth of who I AM.

It’s a strange thing the way we can unconsciously wear garments of the past,
even if we have updated our wardrobe so many times…

As we continue this epic shed, may we have the wisdom to honor the challenges on the path as helping allies.

Some of the biggest prayers of my life has been answered in Peru -
It is one of community, love, friendship and the opportunity to live into my true self

Sometimes the heart vessel must break to receive the vastness of the blessing.

And sometimes the answer to the prayer first presents itself as a wtf moment.

To be served an exceptionally strange obstacle in a new country and be met by such generous, wise, loving souls - surrounding me in ritual, love, beauty and embrace.

I am in awe.

THIS. is some of the greatest magick I could dream into.

The obstacle will lead you to the miracle. If you have eyes to see and a brave heart 🫀{I know you do}

It is all Her. Showing us what we need to see.

Thank you to my coven here in Valle sgrado del Peru, I love you. It wouldn’t be home without you. Each one of you is a shimmering treasure in my heart, a wild howl and a safe place to lean into.

Thank you Pachamama.

I am home.

Matriarchy. Goddess. Wizard.

And last but obviously not least - thank you Isis for delivering the most magickal kittens I have ever had the great honor to foster. I don’t have words for the depth of love they continue to bring.

10/28/2025

💧El Día de los Mu***os para los Animales- the Day of the Dead for animals.
A time to set our altars for our beloved familiars.

Yesterday I went the market, gathering flowers for Nyxie. I filled her altar with all her favorite things- a little food, fresh water, and many tears.

It’s said that the animals are the first to return during this sacred liminal time- they open the path, walking our ancestors home to us.

Ever devoted.

This is my first Samhain without Nyxie by my side in this realm. I see her still, outside our last home- peaceful, observant, surrounded by fall leaves, pumpkins, and flowers. Moving slow and gentle in her elder years. I miss our life together.

Impermanence. Stars. Tear drops and moonbeams.

Wishing you a beautiful reunion with your familiars, and may their spirits find their way home through your love.

10/22/2025

The art of enchantment is simple. Notice everything.

To make my deipnon offering to Hekate {this is her traditional feast made on the Dark Moon} these precious characters appeared on the way.

(I can not even handle the look on the sheep’s face 😅🥹)

I always notice what arrives on the path as I walk to the crossroads. These are the way She speaks to us. If we are aware we will gather signs and magickal information.

The simple yet profound art of paying attention. Slow magick.

This month many offerings were made to Hekate. We had our first Dark Moon ritual to Her in Peru, the mountains holding and amplifying our prayers.

I am in awe of the prayers cast, tears shed, wild laughter, sisterhood and offerings made. I mean, check out this epic love altar ❤️‍🔥

To live in this way is a life of overflow and enchantment.

HAIL HEKATE. You in all your forms. Potnia Theron. Beloved Átalos soul guide, One of stars, sea and the beloved underworld. Dragon, lion, wolf. Keeper of the Keys of all the Universe.
Come, let us adore you 🖤🐺

10/19/2025

The grave awaits us all. Life is a tenuous beautiful thing, brief and yet expansive.

May we turn our gaze towards wonder and create beauty. Weaving heavenly fields of loving kindness.

Enough with the talk of healing ⚔️

You are already whole and complete. Even in your process. Own your unbecoming.

HEKATE. Keeper of the Keys of all the Universe Phosphorus. Khthonia. Soul guide. Átalos.

This month in Serpent of Light we ask her to turn her torches towards us, skeleton keys rattled as she opens doors and illuminates what needs to be seen.

HEKATE who is not interested in perfection, rather our rot, our truth our deliciously frayed edges. Tear stained and forged.

Private invocation to Her tomorrow on the Dark Moon in the Sacred Valley of Peru. This is my first group since moving and I am thrilled to open the gates with HEKATE.

….oh mountain wanders whose voice I hear in the wind and water and rumble of Earth.

I find it fascinating that whenever I write her name on my phone it automatically goes to all caps. She speaks.

Hail HEKATE 🗝️🐺🔥

10/19/2025

The grave awaits us all. Life is a tenuous beautiful thing, brief and yet expansive.

May we turn our gaze towards wonder and create beauty. Weaving heavenly fields of loving kindness.

Enough with the talk of healing ⚔️

You are already whole and complete. Even in your process. Own your unbecoming.

HEKATE. Keeper of the Keys of all the Universe Phosphorus. Khthonia. Soul guide. Átalos.

This month in Serpent of Light we ask her to turn her torches towards us, skeleton keys rattle as she opens doors and illuminates what needs to be seen.

HEKATE who has no interest in perfection, rather our rot, our truth, our deliciously frayed edges. Tear stained and forged.

Private invocation to Her tomorrow on the Dark Moon in the Sacred Valley of Peru. This is my first group since moving and I am thrilled to open the gates with HEKATE.

….oh mountain wanders whose voice I hear in the wind and water and rumble of Earth.

I find it fascinating that whenever I write her name on my phone it automatically goes to all caps. She speaks.

Hail HEKATE 🗝️🐺🔥

09/18/2025

On September 15 I celebrated 48 years on this fantastical planet.
This day last year I landed in Peru with my beloved familiar Nyxie Jo.
Her birthday the day right after mine. She died on Jan 8, months after we arrived.

As I wisen, I forget many things.
Sometimes I repeat myself.
Yet I always remember what is most important.
Essence. Soul.

Leaves are falling off my tree
Yet my roots and bark are stronger
My face holds both darkness and
If you look close enough
You will notice strange
sparkling spots in my eyes.

I came to Peru to live
an extraordinary life
I came here for love

And as the Goddess sometimes does,
she took my prayers and visions
She placed them in a great and fierce pyre
And set them aflame

My love became ash
Ash a fertile soil
On my knees
Under the eye of the moon
My tears dream
Tenaciously into the soil

Remember wise woman,
We still ride on the scales of the serpent (until March of next year)
And eclipse season has taken us
into her belly 🔥

What is your inner witches eye noticing as we travel into the dark? Where are you still singing sorrowful songs to? And what are you harvesting with a full heart?

Count your blessings sisters.
And then count again.
This life is a dragons blink of an eye.

I continue to celebrate my grand success landing in a foreign country. I have rescued, provided vet care and rehomed 15- going on 16 cats here. It is my intention to continue this mission as best I can.

I am grateful for the sisters on this path who have been holding me up. The shimmering silver lining of my life here is the epic women.

07/15/2025

Fly free magickal one ✨✨

Andrea Gibsons Love Letter to the Afterlife changed my life. I sent it to a client two days ago. Andrea died yesterday.

Rest in beauty love and thank you for your shattered broken open heart. The way you were so fierce in your tenderness. You taught me how to love deeper ✨🙏🏽💧A prayer and healing balm to the many hearts grieving you.

Look up the poem I mentioned above. I promise it will change you.

06/25/2025

New Moon. New spell.
Clarifying.
Receiving.
Remember: You are a creator-being—
born to shape reality,
to play in the fields of magnetism,
to co-conspire with your Divine 🌑✨

Happy New Moon and all that expansive, benevolent Jupiter juicy! 💦

These are the vibes I am anchoring. Eros, partnership, LOVE, joy, ease and the fine art of luxuriating ✨

Plant your seeds and know they will flourish💫🔥🍒

06/23/2025

This weekend, I had a challenging and liberating conversation with a friend 💦

I felt unimportant and forgotten by someone I love and a connection that means a great deal to me.

A heart felt message not responded to for weeks, a comment he said months ago that still looped in my head and stung.

A slow disconnection that was haunting my heart. I kept doing my best to dim it, telling myself I was over reacting, trying not to care, dipping in to anger, avoiding, etc.

But my truth is that I do care. A lot.

I was afraid to share my sadness because I was afraid of being seen as *too much* I was afraid he would turn away even more if I shared. Embarrassed that I seemed to care more about our friendship than he did.

Yet, because of the continued work we both do to feel safe in our body and to stay committed to love as Path, it felt safe to share.

There were a lot of tears on my end.

And instead of defensiveness or distance, he received me.

Strong spine, open masculine heart.

Owned the impact. Immediately.

Reflected back that yes, it did suck.

And said — “I will do better.”

Immediately I was able to breathe deeper, feel my womb, allow for more connection. My animal body relaxed because I wasn’t withholding my truth or contracting and contorting myself to keep the connection.

True intimacy is-

✨ Deep raw presence.

✨ A devotion to repair.

✨ The shared willingness to stay.

✨ Taking responsibility to know and feel our truth — then share in emotionally intelligent ways that honor all truths.

This is what I am committed to as a woman and Priestess- emotional alchemy, intimacy with life and true self, the art of re enchantment ❤️‍🔥

There are times when you may feel like *too much* or too intense. But I am here to remind you -

You are the exact juicy dripping holy wild magick that the right people love to love 💦

In this moment of raw truth telling and receiving his love reflected back to me, I felt alive in our devotion to the altar of Love.

Because this is the why we are here

And real connection is worth it ✨❤️‍🔥

06/13/2025

✨ Happy Friday the 13th- Day of the Goddess ✨

They told us Friday the 13th was unlucky.

But they didn’t tell us why.

They didn’t tell us that Friday is the day of Venus—the planet of love, pleasure, beauty, and the sacred feminine.

They didn’t tell us that 13 is the number of lunar cycles in a year, mirroring the rhythm of a bleeding womb, the spiral of nature, the dance of the moon herself.

They didn’t tell us that Friday the 13th was once a holy day of the Goddess—a time when women gathered in temple spaces to honor life, death, rebirth, and the mysteries that pulse beneath the surface of it all.

They didn’t tell us that before patriarchy turned Her into something to fear, the number 13 was sacred. Divine. A symbol of the feminine power that creates, destroys, and transforms ✨🐍

So today, we remember.

A day to bow to the Goddess within and without.

A day to return to the rhythm of your blood and bones. And also, let’s be spooktacular together ✨💀🩸🩸

Adrianna Renee Velez

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