There are many who work with Anubis because he is an exceptional initiatory spirit - he will initiate you into the skill sets hidden within your ancestry and show you how to use them.

When you first meet him, he is awe-inspiring; tall, looks like a doberman with a mans body and a deep booming voice. He feels like an oak tree - broad and sturdy - which is perfect when a lot of his work is not just caring for the dead, but also training those who are to work with the dead.

He is a master of his art.

He will often step in and train those who are yet to be accepted or connected with their own lineage - he does the heavy lifting, and once you are competent a door opens and you move forward into the more specialised role of your ancestors.

He is the boot camp - only he shouts a lot less and doesn’t care if you make your bed.

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How He Arrives

Anubis tends to show up in your life once you have accepted that you can indeed see/feel/hear the dead. Your acceptance of such a gift/curse/quirk is the key to giving your permission for him to step forward.

This doesn’t mean that you are not scared of the dead - this is perfectly normal. It doesn’t mean that when your heart stops and the hairs on the back of your neck stand to attention that you are rejecting your mediumship. These are the baser instincts that evolution has pre-programmed in to keep you alive.

It’s perfectly normal.

Anubis may show up unannounced during a meditation, dream or even just in the middle of your lounge. He isn’t necessarily the most subtle - but then death isn’t supposed to be.

If you have the opportunity to be under Anubis’ tutelage you are very lucky indeed. He will ensure you gain skills, confidence and understand your role in your own protection.

He is one in a million.

If you wish to develop your membership in a 1-2-1 setting, and depending on your lineage, it could be Anubis who takes the helm, or someone who have worked closely with your ancestors who steps forward.

You will always be supported, protected and thoroughly educated on how to work with the dead in a safe manner where you call the shots.

Beginner Mediumship Courses within The Order of Bona Dea tend to be under the watchful eye of Anubis, with him taking people to having never meditated to giving accurate messages, and then crossing the dead over. He is that quiet presence that let’s you know everything is going to be ok.

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Pomba Gira hails from Brazil. She is the matriarch of a cult called Quimbanda that originated due to the African diaspora and contains elements of African, indigenous and European magic. They kept what worked, and Pomba Gira is a spirit who evolves with what her people need.

The best way for me to describer her is she is everything, which is incredibly unhelpful for you.

Pomba Gira being legion means that there are many Pomba Giras, all of which have a role to play within the world. Each Pomba Gira has a speciality that we need to either survive in the world or change our internal lives so we can be who we are supposed to be.

All of the Pomba Giras are here to help you free yourself from your self imposed chains.

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There are many who only work with Pomba Gira to effect their lives (e.g. bring me wealth, love, protect my children, stop my husband hitting me), this will not last long - she would like to know why you aren’t asking to be in a position to leave your husband. Why do you not think you deserve love? Why do you not think money is easy to come by?

Pomba Gira will ensure you face your soul, and the worst parts of yourself so that they can no longer control you.

So you are free. Free and powerful.

As Pomba Gira is legion there are Pomba Giras that are queens, soldiers, sex workers, cabaret dancers, nuns, gypsy’s, business owners, teenagers, gardeners…each with their own distinct personality and expectations.

I have not met another spirit like Pomba Gira - she is incredibly special with her breadth of understanding the human suffering and her inability to not believe in you. She can be harsh, loving, dismissive and sarcastic - whatever is necessary so you take the right action for yourself. Some of us need the anger to fuel us, some of us need the love.

She knows which.

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One thing to be very clear about is that Pomba Gira is an ancestral spirit - so she is a dead human with something extra - she is not a goddess. AT ALL. This means that Pomba Gira is much closer to our vibration and she is exceptional at appearing in front of you or in corners when she is around.

Being ancestral also means she is a lot quicker at getting results for you, and understands the importance of some of your requests.

Working with Her

Ideally you would work with Pomba Gira within Quimbanda as she prefers to have her counterpart Exu honoured and worked with at the same time.

Pomba Gira and Exu are not pretty spirits - they are incredibly sharp, effective and beyond powerful so having a system like Quimbanda ensures you have the correct precautions and being within a group with a responsible leader makes a huge difference.

If you want to know more, please research Quimbanda/Kimbanda to understand the breadth of her reach. Even then this is not accurate as records and traditions relating specifically to her within the cult have been lost as men deemed them unimportant to keep.

This will be rectified in the coming years.

There will be more articles coming on the individual Pomba Giras which will be far easier to write.

When people speak of the saints, it reminds me of that cabinet full of ornaments at your Grandma’s house that no one is allowed to touch. Or the wedding china that sits there looking all pretty in that custom made cupboard begging to be used, but is always kept for that special occasion that never comes.

Work. With. The. Saints.

With my Clients I find a lot of beliefs around the Saints is ‘but why would they help me?’ ‘I am not good enough for them to even look upon.’ Only the Priests are good enough.

And the concern that if they do not here a booming voice clear as tell announcing the arrival of Saint so-and -so, that their beliefs of worthlessness were right.

Saints don’t want to be worshipped, they want to be worked.

The Saints are Vast

The Saints are just humans.

They are people that died, who due to the energy sent to them in death by us, have a little more juju to walk between worlds and help out.

These are people who have been tortured, fought the enemy, aided the poor and stood for what they believed in. They do not want to be a simple ornament on your mantle, they are people of action.

Treat them as an Ancestor, treat them as a friend whom you would like to get to know.

There are some Saints/Ancestors who died after gaining some spiritual knowledge in life. Christian mystics, pagans who were also priests and the prophetesses, are all walking with people on a path imparting their wisdom, helping them learn how to fight and showing them what they have to offer.

Because the Saints ARE our Ancestors it gives them access to the various magickal and religious traditions across the globe, so understand that there are many ‘pagan’ systems that have accepted various Saints into the fold simply because they kept showing up.

The saints are not a stand alone group that belong to the church, they run through everything and are not only to be found in Christianity at all.

That is simply who decided to use their story for their institutional and political needs.

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Folk Saints

Folk Saints are some of my favourite spirits, because it is the community themselves who recognised that these people were helping them after death. Whether they came to them in a dream with good news during sickness, showed up on a hospital ward or delivered money that they desperately needed.

Thanks is given, candles are bought, love is freely given and a connection created.

This occurring over and over turns this person into an elevated Ancestor (or a saint).

One of the things I love about folk saints versus canonised saints is that there has been no attempt to sanctify or sanitise the image of a folk saint. If anything it is the opposite - they reflect their community, they ARE one of them which is why they are so successful, and spread like wildfire.

They are far more likely to be approached as it’s just like going to see your Uncle John who liked his beer a little too much.

It’s just such a shame that we don’t see all saints this way.

So whether it is Jesus Malverde, Rosa De Lima or Ursula approach them as a human, not a religious figure.

Their Plea

Canonised saints have been sat on that mantle of ours for a long time now, only being prayed to within certain confines, never being given the tools that will help them to make a difference. Help us to make a difference.

Please take them off of the mantle.

If you keep thinking of a saint in particular, you have a dream with one or you hear the same name three times in a day, understand that is them reaching out. They will come to you as much as you go to them.

Take them off the mantle and onto your desk so you can get to work building your relationship, changing your life and making a difference in this world.

~ Malika

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Ah Puch (Cizin) makes me wish I could draw.

He is a tall rotting corpse that is somehow still incredibly majestic at the same time.

If Ah Puch were a metal it would be steel, colour - black. He is an ally who will cause you to take a step back when he first appears as he does not retract his energy for anyone, so you can expect to feel a little uncomfortable whilst he takes the weight of your character, and what you can achieve together.

Ah Puch’s Role

He governs over the deepest level of the underworld - as legends have it - the place people go who die ordinary deaths (God forbid) or do not pass the challenges laid out by the Gods.

Ah Puch is the judge, jury and executioner down there exacting punishments, and when he fancies it, he visits topside to stalk those who wander in the dark with no protection, sometimes harvesting the already sick souls.

However, in my experience the underworld changed, and it’s forces evolved along with it.

We used to have knowledge of how the afterlife works, we were raised with the stories of what was to come after death so we knew what to do when we met the Council of Gods. But now that information was obliterated by the Spanish and replaced with the notion of ‘heaven’.

And it does not work that way.

So Ah Puch’s level of the underworld is too full - it cannot hold what it is having to hold. He needs our help as much as much as we need his.

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As an Ally

He is not one on my lineage Spirits, but I am regularly in his territory and I train those who belong to him.

Ah Puch is one of the most loyal, distinguished and effective forces I know. He is a steel blade made flesh, with his hollow eyes and putrid skin.

He is a sight to behold.

His work with his children centres around psychopomping (crossing the dead over) in the dark places of the Americas. Ah Puch is adept at going to the sites of natural disasters, high level violence and mass graves with those working with him, psychopomping and adjusting the energy accordingly.

He will ensure you are protected, challenged and supported in a way that makes you not just a better practitioner, but a better person.

As the kind of death Ah Puch is, he will help you in cutting from your life what is rotting, without any feelings of guilt or obligation, as those feelings are useless in the real world.

They are a cage, you must free yourself from.

Those who walk with Ah Puch are incredibly lucky.

~ Malika

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Santa Muerte is a Mexican folk saint who is spreading across the globe at a rate that could never have been predicted. She is worshipped and worked with by those of differing religions and those with no spiritual leanings whatsoever.

She is one of few who appears to those in need of her help when they have not called upon her, and, in fact, have no knowledge about who she is at all.

Oddly disconcerting when she looks like a very cute Grimm Reaper (she is 4 ft nothing), but she does fill the room with a feeling of ‘safety’ so there are no feeling of imminent death.

Everybody’s Mother

The best way I can describe her personality is a Mother of errant children (us).

She hopes we choose the light as often as possible, she is always on our team, but she will let us make those mistakes that teach us how to be better people, how to have a better character.

You are a single mother who sleeps with men so you can afford your rent - she absolutely gets it. She’ll get a friend to offer you a job in school hours so you have the choice - continue with what you know or decide you deserve better.

Cartel Member - Father just died and is beside himself with grief. Santa Muerte sees the light in this guy that is buried beneath bad choices and she stokes it. She will comfort this man, love this man and always hold hope that he will make a different decision.

She will not hurt people on his behalf. She will not protect his weapons cache.

She is not an idiot.

If you are a school teacher in Ohio and you are desperately unhappy in your relationship, but what else is there? You feel like you are worth more than this town, more than this job and you want to give more to the world.

Santa Muerte is the one who will give you the courage to make this ‘death’ happen. Sometimes we need that raspy voice in the corner saying ‘if it now, when. Don’t die with this inside of you.’

A protector, cheerleader, benefactor, advisor, someone who raises their eyebrow when you do something questionable…everything a Mother is.

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Her Status

Part of the reason Santa Muerte IS so popular is because she isn’t tarnished by religion. She keeps being rejected by the church and I am hoping this remains in place going forward.

Santa Muerte’s beginnings came during the genocide across the Americas by the Christian Spanish - she has witnessed what has been done in Gods name and the lies that are told.

There have been many smear campaigns by the Catholic Church - especially in Mexico - because she poses a threat to them. She is, very loudly, exactly what the Church should be but chooses not to be.

Effective, accepting and merciful.

By Santa Muerte not being welcomed into the arms of the church, she has been welcomed into the arms of all those the church has (and continues to) rebuked. Queer, non-binary, women, the differently-abled, those in poverty, the abused, immigrants in affluent communities…..it’s a match made in heaven.

~ Malika

Everyone’s relationship with their spirits is different; it all comes down to personalities and path.

My spirit’s have walked me out of a path of chronic people-pleasing, anxiety, low self-worth, suicidal ideation and fear, onto one of freedom, self assurance and resilience.

Anubis took me by the hand and taught me skills in my lineage that I didn’t know existed. He helped me fight the disbelief; the feeling of ‘yeah, but why me? I am not good enough for this…’. He protected me from those in the worlds who tried to interrupt my development in real time.

Sekhmet grabbed me by the scruff of the neck and showed me that the world doesn’t end if I walk out of a shop without buying something, or pressed the brake pedal unnecessarily on a turn.

This was the level of anxiety I lived with.

She taught me boundaries by throwing me into a viper pit when it was necessary, tending to my wounds when they bit too deep. She showed me no mercy, and continues to hold me to the highest standards - pushing me when I don’t think I can go any further.

She will forever be one of my most valued Mothers. A crucial role model and part of me.

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Exu and Pomba Gira walked me though love, sexuality and what being part of a family actually means. The helped me release the grief that had consumed me for decades and they taught me to dance again.

They threw me into the fire so I could burn of the chains that surrounded me.

Every single one of my spirits has fought for me, and I can feel it. I would not be alive without them.

The Fight has Changed

My path was never a light one. It has been dark, old and, at times, terrifying.

The animals that used to eat me in my nightmares every night as a child, are now the parts of me that make me good at my job.

Some of the dark entities that I used to see, weren’t dark but old, powerful and look pretty weird.

But there are still the bad guys.

And now instead of my comrades fighting for me, they fight alongside me so we can change the order of things in the physical reality.

Whether it’s helping someone heal after a divorce, clearing a house where a child is seeing things or dealing with simple spiritual interference, I know there is someone with their ear out just in case…..

This is why they are my comrades.

This is why I try to honour them with every choice I make.

~ Malika

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