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Muertos Reading

Enter the obsidian mirror. Make contact with the other side.

$150 | Live on Zoom

My Own Mode of Mediumship

Once you lose someone you love, you wail and wail and wail without end. In the anti-space of where they aren’t, grief eclipses the bereaved. All year long you keep on living and anniversary after anniversary their absence is all the more cold to touch, an all absorbing afterwards. The bereaved are left to fare for themselves, and it’s so often so tedious. But during this ritual session widows are welcomed into the social order once more, none are left behind because we, the ones left alive, walk the world in the way of death

Because Mercury is a psychopomp escorting the newly deceased back to source, I make my altar a text, a card to read. Tarot is surely strong enough to provide a symbolic language between the living and the dead, the seen and unseen.

Follow the structure of the Major Arcana and you will know Death is not the end.

What we do in a session

  • Interrogate, uncover, and re-collect the fractured pieces of a self shaped by empire.

  • Move through anger, melancholia, desire, and humor with care.

  • Create space for temporary decolonization of the self.

  • Name clear next steps. Death keeps our Living accountable.

This reading utilizes tarot in a mode of mediumship for clients who are struggling with the grief of their lost loved ones, and / or for those who want support in connecting with and honoring their ancestors, and safely receiving their guidance, using tarot as a tool, where we work with varied strata of ancestors.

We know we will die, so might as well tear away the flesh to crown the skull of our mortality. Its reverence rather than revulsion. In our collective mourning we leave a cup for the dead to drink from. We enjoy a reprieve from the worry about the death that comes in threes, because our altars are tri-level. We say their name, we share their memories, they light our way. Available as a 90 min session as well.

The Tarot as Tool and Tactic

  • The Smoking Mirror

    Tarot offers a unique mode to make contact with the dead, providing uncanny insight & guidance from those on the other side.

  • Sacred Sorrowing

    For all the loss we endure, social media mourning will always be insufficient. In this dark room, under the earth, we can break down in candle-light as we cry.

  • A Language for Love & Loss

    In our need to never forget we turn to tarot to translate the grief we are left with into love. Leave with suggestions to honor that love on your altar.

Muertos Reading

$150 | Live on Zoom

  • Chris was lovely and it is quite clear that the work they do is a labor of love. There is intention, clarity, and reverence to the spiritual work and guidance they provide to others. I've found great solace in their guidance through my birth chart as I navigate my Saturn return. They provided a depth of knowledge, wisdom, and patience in walking me through my birth chart and stopping to explain what it means in the context of my life. With their limpias, again, there is so much tenderness and attentiveness in ensuring my spiritual hygiene was taken care of and my needs were met. I'm grateful and so full of love and esteem for them.

    —MARYJO V.

  • I've never received a limpieza & scheduled one because I felt a lot of negativity in my life. Beyond the limpieza, Christopher listened to what was bothering me & reaffirmed my experiences. They did their research on my birth chart & explained how various aspects of my birth chart fit not only into my life, but also the tarot reading I received. I have never felt such a lightness in my heart and body until this limpieza. When they said make sure you hydrate before, they weren’t kidding! Christopher also explained everything in a digestible and relatable way as it connects to queerness. If you’re considering booking an appointment with them, trust your gut and do it!

    —ALEXANDER B.

  • If you're on the fence about connecting with Chris, read this and you'll know why you should schedule. For my 30th birthday I gifted myself a natal reading with Chris after hearing them on the Witch Wave podcast, the timing could not have been more perfect if I had written it. Throughout our time together Chris' energy was so warm, it felt like reconnecting with an old friend...especially how much they knew about me! Firstly, Chris came to the session so prepared with notes and major talking points about my charts while also being extremely fluid and flexible during the session. I felt so safe and seen throughout my session with Chris. During the session I learned that the timing of my partner and I getting together and their personality align super close to my Saturn return. I also learned how my chart reflects the lessons I've learned and survived thus far, again lining up creepily well with my charts. Chris also allowed the session to be recorded so I've been able to re-listen/ watch it a couple times since the session and it's been extremely helpful. I know that despite the rollercoaster of things that have happened, I am absolutely on the right path and feel validated. Thank you so much Chris for this reading & I can't wait to speak again in the future!

    —ASHELY NICOLE M.

  • The reverberations of my Muertos reading continue to echo within me days and weeks afterward — and will for years to come. Christopher’s kindness is grounded, their consideration rooted, allowing deep vulnerability to be both held and cherished. The moments of connections and insights were profound, and could not have been facilitated in such a way without their guidance. Truly, an everlasting experience, and one I am eternally grateful for.

    —KELSEY C.

Christopher Marmolejo, MA, is an independent scholar, writer, diviner and teacher. Being Brown, queer and trans, through divination, they foster a literacy rooted in liberation. 

Their book Red Tarot: A Decolonial Guide to Divinatory Literacy (2024), has been featured in the University of Denver’s graduate creative program. Christopher has been a key partner with the University of British Columbia’s Tarot For Decolonization initiative, faciliating several workshops at the University on the intersections of tarot, indigeneity, gender and sexuality, and decolonial storytelling. Christopher has lectured and taught taromancy and decolonial divination for institutions and conferences such as New York University, Arizona State Univeristy, the California Institute of Integral Studies, the Philosophical Research Society, the Occult Humanities Conference, the Los Angeles Festival of Tarot and New Orleans Poetry Festival. 

Christopher is currently serving as guest-editor for the Rebis, a literary anthology celebrating tarot, art & creative writing, focusing on arcanum XVIII: the Moon, out later this year. 

As a trained educator committed to cultivating classrooms of emancipatory possibility, they work with students around the world to plant and nurture the seeds of a divinatory practice—finely weaving tarot, astrology, and curanderismo with decolonial, queer epistemologies and critical feminist pedagogies.

We read in watercolor and shadow light.
We practice attention.
We welcome what arrives.

Muertos Reading

$150 | Live on Zoom