EVENT: Santos & Signs: Holy Intermediaries for Sacred Journeys Online Workshop

The two new Santos and Signs—Holy Intermediaries for Sacred Journeys divination decks are modern prayer cards for all your pilgrimages of the soul. Whether your quests are within or without, these portable icons offer divine guidance for all of your voyages between the worlds. This new online course is a perfect introduction to working with the decks …

Look What is Going to Paris! (Graffiti Stickers)

Valentine's Day is one of my least favorite holidays. I think it is totally contrived and glorifies the cult of the couple when we get love from so many more places. So today I am celebrating all of the love that surrounds this Lucia Land from all of the people who inspire me daily. My …

A Love Letter to Costa Rica-Weed Wackers in Paradise

Costa Rica has captured my heart, as I suspected it would. Before leaving on this adventure whenever I would say where I was going my shoulders would do this little shimmy and I would get a sly grin on my face. Good signs. The journey on this land has been both oddly familiar and perplexingly foreign. …

I am 9 years old Today in Costa Rica with an earthquake

What a week. I am in Costa Rica with torrential rains, thunder and lightening and a half an hour ago we had a 6.0 earthqauke. This week has been a major initiation, getting a rugged head cold, not seeing the sun for 6 days and then the fiascos with trying to phone home. And that said, …

Circa 1984 Parisian Graffiti in Costa Rica

  OK, work with me here. I can´t find a way to call the US for under multiple dollars per minute, I am butchering the language and inserting my latent Italian at every turn, and saving the day in this magical verdant valley I have found a stencil graffiti artist that is extraordinary. I wish I could …

Psychedelic Easter in Antigua Guatemala

Here I am in glorious Antigua, Guatemala. I have come to Central America to learn Spanish and experience Semana Santa, Easter in this Technicolor land. It is the biggest Easter celebration in the world, begun after the Spanish overtook these lands. The procesiones (processions) and valaciones (holy vigils) have been occurring since the mid-1500s. The …

Holga, Oktomat, and disposable camera CRAZEEEE

A new era in my photography play for Melissa Weiss Steele. FILM! Eight eyed camera, Holga with multiple exposures, disposable cameras with fabulous  fortunes and travel postcard imagery printed on the film. Life is so good. I am taking 50 rolls of film to Central America. Look out Latin Catholics on Technicolor acid during Easter …