Honey and Ember

Welcome!

I am Mizuki Alma – a witch who performs soft magic and a keeper of gentle companions.

My journey here was, admittedly, a tumultuous one. I was raised in a home with a Catholic Mexican mother who herself practiced witchcraft, as well as a father who came from a line of samurai on my grandmother’s side and Shinto priests on my grandfather’s side. I found myself wholly unsatisfied with both religions and couldn’t reconcile the cultural practice of witchcraft with Catholic ideas or with the purity of Shintoism. So I came to believe I was an atheist.

Except I wasn’t ever really an atheist. That felt wrong. But I didn’t want to call myself agnostic, either, simply for not knowing what I believed. I spent many years this way, content not to know but always feeling a tug toward something. My mother’s practices were always intriguing to me and she initiated me. She taught me her spells and rituals and practices, often as simple as placing herbs in each corner or always sweeping OUT and not IN. My father’s practices felt sacred as we made offerings to so many deities in thanks and in reverence at various times of the year. And all of that felt right, but the structure and constraints of religion just didn’t.

I turned to witchcraft in high school. I researched, I practiced, and my mom and I often went to our beloved brujito in Mexico for spells and readings. And so, this became my own practice, nurtured by my mom who never forced Catholicism on me. And as I grew into this practice, I allowed myself to see and hear the things that weren’t visible – to listen to my intuition.

I always knew that there were spirits and beings unseen to us, since I was a child. I saw them myself, sometimes in our plane, sometimes in dreams, sometimes during meditation. And my mom saw them, too. Her scariest encounter was with a creature she described as a muscular 6-foot being that resembled a kangaroo. It once chased her as a child, and then came back to her in her adulthood where it once watched her sleep (I was in middle school at the time). This was when she warded our home and when I knew, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that she knew more than she shared, and that there were things I didn’t understand.

Unfortunately, my mom passed away and her knowledge remains lost to me. But I decided to forge my own path using what she taught me as my foundation, and to blend that with what my dad taught me from Shinto practices. I often reached out to spirit guides to help me in times of need. Foxes of all kinds in particular came when I called, though at the time, I felt more drawn to the softness of rabbits or deer. Over the years, I encountered many creatures in addition to foxes and rabbits and deer – quetzals and parrots and wolves and coyotes. But I also encountered creatures I had never seen before, creatures for whom I did not have a name, creatures I believed to be myth – elves and wisps, dragons and phoenixes. I befriended them. Some of them came back again and again. Others came to help me during particularly challenging times and then left, likely to guide others through hardships.

And so, after nearly two decades of calling to spirits for help for myself, Honey and Ember was born – a space that is warm, tender, and gentle. My practice has never been loud. It unfolded quietly, through presence, care, and small moments nurtured by my loving parents. In my most challenging times and in my darkest moments, when I felt most alone and distanced myself from this love, everything I wanted was embodied by honey and ember.

And so, I offer this space and the companions that reside here now to you – if you seek gentleness, if you seek warmth, if you seek love, if you are weary and worn, if you simply desire additional companionship, I hope that this space can provide for you.

With all my love,
Mimi