Traveling Tintypes, Cosmic Caves, and Barefoot in the Bosque-Oh New Mexico

New Mexico is a very intense place. The temperature can shift fifty degrees in one day and you can experience blinding hailstorms one moment and sunshine the next. The land is wild and gorgeous and fierce mirroring the people who live here. There is as much beauty as there is cultural devastation. Violence, poverty, and …

New Mexico Tarot Tribe

New Mexico is filled with great magic and wonder. The land is intense and the people are also fascinating. The divining tribe here is a wonderful group of people dedicated to wild beauty and independent visions. The photos below are of some of my wanderings with the other desert Oracles, including Anne Staveley and The Wheel …

Plaza Blanca, New Mexico

Abiquiu, New Mexico is my favorite place in the world. Plaza Blanca is just one of my haunts there, and its surreal moonscape was made famous by Georgia O'Keeffe's interpretations of it. My Oracle of Initiation deck was created in other canyons in the area, but this eerie terrain holds a special place in my heart. …

Cemeteries for Recovering Perfectionists: God I Love New Mexico

I must have had some very good lifetimes as a Latin Catholic. My ancestors were German Lutheran preachers, but somehow I have always been in love with Mary, Jesus, and Our Lady of Guadalupe. My German grandmother had a bust of Mother Mary that she would stroke with a vaseline covered rag every day to honor …

The Tarot de St. Croix is almost finished! Reserve your own through Indiegogo now

I love Lisa de St. Croix. She is a fellow earthen artist who lives the life of the Creatrix. We met when I lived in Santa Fe, and have been friends ever since. She was also one of the featured artists in MK Barr's movie, Painted in the Desert about my own creative underworld journeys in …

Image Highlights from the Painted in the Desert filming

First promo video for the movie, boy has the project grown since this!!     http://vimeo.com/26590741 Blog for the film: http://www.PaintedintheDesert.wordpress.com

Leaving New Mexico for a spell

Today I leave my beloved New Mexico to soak in the ocean ions for the winter. I will miss her vast and haunting lands, and there are times we are to leave the beloved to return with new adventures and riches to share with her. MK has begun editing the Painted in the Desert film, …

New Mexico Initiations while filming Painted in the Desert

MK and I had a whirlwind filming tour of New Mexico last week. The energy here is very, very intense, and during our time in Abiquiu I was initiated back into this land I love with a cleansing experience. When I first considered moving to New Mexico, EVERY SINGLE PERSON I spoke to told the …

New Mexico return to the graffiti tunnels of my heart

You have NO IDEA how happy I am to be back in New Mexico. It truly is one of the places of my heart, and I am glowing from the return home. There is something about the vastness of the sky and the pinion baking on the earth that satisfies me like no other place. …

Painted in the Desert-A Travel Essay and my NEW Name

This is so exciting, a NEW blog! My initial MelissaWeissSteele.Wordpress.com blog was a big commitment and surprising joy, and I met its call for a couple of years. In the last nine months I have left New Mexico, written my first book, The Oracle of Initiation-Rainbows in the Dark, and traveled to Central America. I …