Serpentine Spiritual Arts

06/12/2025

For Gay Pride month, we’re introducing spirits whom qu**rs can work with. Some consider Metresili the patroness lwa of gay men, but she’ll help anyone q***r or trans. She can be petitioned for q***r love, romance, lost love, wealthy men as partners, marriage, and partnership. Metresili may bring lovers of a somewhat lighter complexion than Ezili Dantor might bring. For fun and casual q***r encounters, one might work with Anaisa Pye, whom some consider Mestresili’s daughter. Anaisa could also bring a sugar daddy. Anyone they bring must be treated well.
Metres Ezili is a spirit of romantic love, marriage, healing, purity, wealth, self love, writers, confidence, unconditional love, attracting a wealthy man, and mental health. She is the most beautiful Metresa. In Haitian Vodou, her full name is Metres Mambo Ezili Freda Daome. She is syncretized with Mater Dolorosa. She is also called Metresili in Sanse (Puerto Rican Vodou) and 21 Divisions. Metres Ezili is a spirit to approach for assistance with luxury, beauty, love, abundance, prosperity, clairvoyance, breaking negative work, and writing. It is best to serve her on Thursday (her sacred day) and on her feast day of September 15th. She enjoys luxurious offerings of pink roses, perfumes, chocolates, jewelry, soaps, mirrors, and hand towels. She is partial to Chanel No. 5, gold rings, Lotion Pompeia, and the colors light pink, white, and light blue. She also accepts offerings of orange juice, milk, pink champagne, Royal Bain de Caron perfume, grenadine, basil, and fruit.

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06/04/2025

I wanted to take a moment during Pride Month to recognize someone extraordinary at the heart of this work. As a proud member of the community and the visionary behind this business, Jennifer’s leadership and passion deserve to be seen and celebrated.

There are people who enter your life and change the very way you understand love. Jennifer is that person for me.

From the moment she stepped into my world, she brought with her a kind of gentleness that doesn’t just soothe, it transforms. Through the years, she has taught me what it means to truly love and be loved. Not the kind of love that is performative or fleeting, but a steady, patient, fierce kind of love that’s rooted in loyalty, integrity, and care.

Jennifer is one of the most devoted and nurturing people I’ve ever met. Her loyalty is unwavering, even during difficulties. She shows up with her whole heart. Her presence is grounding. Her love is healing. She’s kind in a steady and real way. Not the kindness that’s about appearances or niceties, but the kind that comes from knowing how to hold pain and how to stand beside people.

She has modeled patience in ways that have softened me. She has held space for me in my darkest hours and offered kindness where others might have turned away.

Jennifer is not only a brilliant and gifted spiritual practitioner. She’s the kind of healer who knows the terrain of pain because she’s walked it. She doesn’t peddle false light or empty positivity. She offers depth, authenticity, and wisdom. She’s sharp, intuitive, and masterful in her energy and spellwork.

Her love continues to be a constant teacher to me. She has helped me grow into someone I can be proud of. She brings out the best in me, and in others too. There’s a reason so many people love her. She is honest, steady, creative, and deeply caring. Her intelligence shows up not just in how she speaks, but in how she listens, how she works, and how she carries herself.

Jennifer doesn’t need to try to be anything other than who she is, and that is more than enough. She is someone who quietly outshines everyone in the room, not by trying to, but simply by being herself.

She is loved by many, and she deserves to be.

Leah Lightspring
Sancista, Yaya, Psychotherapist, Spiritual Coach, and Mentor

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05/29/2025

The horses that appear in Jennifer’s story that we shared this week come alive in these photographs taken by award-winning Eric L Hansen, a director and fine arts photographer, whose work is collected by Drew Barrymore and other celebrities mentioned in his bio below. He also shot the photos of Jennifer above. Jennifer Medway and her horses have been featured in art galleries and museums all over the world. She purchased them as they were headed to slaughter, often for being wild or considered untrainable. She found many of them homes with families as a way of giving back to the horses who saved her from her childhood.

Jennifer started riding horses at age six by climbing the neighbors fence and jumping on their appaloosa pony while they were at work. Horses helped Jennifer overcome a childhood of s*xual and physical abuse and neglect. She became a working student, riding four to five horses a day in exchange for one lesson. With money she earned at her high school creating a journal for a mural project in Indio, CA, she purchased a difficult chestnut thoroughbred who was scheduled to be sent for meat processing. At 16 years old, Jennifer showed her thoroughbred at the most prestigious hunter jumper horse show in the United States where she won a championship over 300+ entrants, which included her own trainer and members of the US Olympic Equestrian Team. The above photo of Jennifer with her thoroughbred was published in Show Circuit magazine. At the time, she lived in Sky Valley, a working class community without even a stop light. The sign for Sky Valley appears on a Kyuss album, stoner rock legends whose members later formed Queens of the Stone Age.

Jennifer is gifted at working with the most wild and traumatized horses. She once purchased a thoroughbred gelding at a meat auction whom the cowboys warned her not to acquire because they couldn’t ride him successfully. With much training, he became a hunter show horse on a collegiate equestrian team. Jennifer has shared her love of horses with inner-city children, celebrities, executives, and their children. Her students won five state championships.

Eric L Hansen’s work has been featured in the Lucy award-winning journal Eyemazing and published in the Connecticut Review. His private collectors include the actress Drew Barrymore, producers Margaret Koval and Penny Adams, and film director James Contner. In 2010, Eric won three First's and an Honorable Mention in the Pollux Awards international competition. This work was exhibited in Buenos Aires in January 2012. Eric L Hansen is married to Stellasue Lee, Pulitzer-nominated poet and founding editor of Rattle (one of the most prestigious poetry journals in the US).
Museum directors who have curated his work include:
Director of Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art Robert Fitzpatrick, Director of the Smithsonian Museum of American Art Joann Moser, Director of the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery Marc Pachter, Curator of Photography at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Malcolm Daniel, former Director of the Museum of Photographic Art Carol McCusker, and Director Emeritus of the Museum of Photographic Art Arthur Ollman.

Jennifer was also photographed by Tom Atwood for his project Kings and Queens and their Castles, which is an intimate look at LGBT lives. Modern day tableaux vivants, the images portray whimsical, intimate moments of daily life that shift between the pictorial and the theatrical. Among the luminaries depicted in his photos for this project are the following:

* Billy Porter – Actor from Pose and Tony-winning actor from Kinky Boots, Jesus Christ Superstar
* George Takei – Actor from Star Trek, The Twilight Zone, Star Wars, Heroes
* Leslie Jordan – Actor from The Help, Sordid Lives, Will & Grace, Boston Legal, Newhart
* Christian Siriano – Project Runway winner
* John Waters – Director of Pink Flamingos, Polyester, Hairspray, Pe**er, Serial Mom
* Carson Kressley – Judge on RuPaul’s Drag Race and Bravo and OWN television host
* Meredith Baxter – Actress from Family Ties, All the President's Men, Glee, Family
* Alan Cu***ng – Tony-winning actor from Hamlet, Macbeth, Cabaret
* Jonathan Adler – Designer and homeware magnate
* Don Lemon – CNN Anchor
* Greg Louganis – Olympic diver and gold medal winner
* Michael Urie – Actor from Ugly Betty, The Good Wife, Partners, Modern Family
* John Berendt – Author of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, The City of Falling Angels
* John Ashbery – Pulitzer-winning Poet Laureate of New York
* Terrence McNally – Tony and Emmy-winning writer and playwright
* Ari Shapiro – Co-host of NPR's All Things Considered
* Kate Clinton – Comedian and actress from The L Word
* Tommy Tune – Ten time Tony-winning performer and National Medal of Arts winner
* Alison Bechdel – Cartoonist, MacArthur Genius Grant winner and author of Fun Home
* Rufus Wainwright – Award-winning singer and songwriter
* Joel Schumacher – Director of Phantom of the Opera, Batman & Robin, St. Elmo’s Fire
* Bruce Vilanch – Emmy-winning celebrity from Hollywood Squares
* Mark Takano – US Congressman
* Jim McGreevey – Former New Jersey Governor
* Randal Kleiser – Director of Grease, Grandview U.S.A., Big Top Pee-wee, The Blue Lagoon
* Christine Vachon – Producer of Still Alice, Boys Don't Cry, Far from Heaven, I Shot Andy Warhol
* John Corigliano – Grammy and Pulitzer-winning composer
* Anthony Rapp – Actor from Rent, Dazed and Confused, Psych, The X-Files, A Beautiful Mind
* Heather Matarazzo – Actress from The Princess Diaries, Sisters, ER, Strangers with Candy
* Dan Savage – Columnist and media pundit
* Simon Doonan – Television personality and Barneys NY creative director
* Michael Musto – Village Voice columnist and television personality
* Barney Frank – Former US Congressman and chair of Financial Services Committee

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05/27/2025

For Gay Pride month in June, we’re sharing a creative nonfiction essay published by Jennifer under the name Durenda Medway in Gertrude. Gertrude holds the distinction of being the longest consecutively published q***r journal internationally, with an acceptance rate lower than Ivy League Universities. They have published work by individuals from more than 40 US states and 13 countries worldwide.

You can read Jennifer’s essay on being a country le***an experiencing misogyny in the Midwest here:

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We also included an article where Jennifer was interviewed for being recruited by a top literary agent. Please see the above article in the photos. Jennifer also worked with Dorothy Allison extensively on refining her forthcoming novel. Dorothy Allison needs no introduction, yet we feel it necessary to mention that she’s one of the greatest feminist le***an writers of our time who’s also a New York Times bestselling novelist.

Jennifer began writing more seriously when she was an editor for her high school newspaper that had been named the top high school newspaper in the US. She was offered the position of editor-in-chief but had to decline it because of her demanding horse show schedule. At only 15 years old, Jennifer had been named in an article in the Los Angeles Times as a young journalist to watch out for. She was awarded a full scholarship to attend and major in English and creative writing at UC Berkeley, which consistently has the top English program in the US. Jennifer also received an award for excellence in Creative Writing from College of the Desert and the rotary club in Palm Desert, CA. Multiple editors and publishers have offered publishing contracts to Jennifer for both her novels and occult books in progress.

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05/25/2025

Today is my mother’s birthday. Though my grandmother was only fourteen at the time, she gave birth to my mother in Maywood, California, (southeast LA). They soon traveled east, and my mother grew up in migrant farmworker tent camps in Texas as part of the Bracero program. These camps lacked clean water and proper sanitation. My mother started picking cotton until her hands bled at age three and wore flour sacks for clothing. Later, she settled outside of Shreveport, Louisiana. She didn’t have medical care as a child and had to rely on the land for everything. She was raised with her Southern family who practiced hoodoo. She was mixed race and spoke Spanish fluently.

My mother experienced s*xual abuse from a family member while in Louisiana, so my grandmother moved all six of her children back to Lynwood, California, where she was from. Lynnwood is next to Compton, and my mother attended Lynwood high school. She had her first child as a teenager and went to work in a factory. My uncles told me that she always wanted a better life and, from a young age, talked about what she would manifest. She happened to be a powerful witch and landed a job working at Technicolor. She then married a TV producer for Sesame Street and Mister Rogers. She left him and married a man who was royalty. There are photos above of them and a card he gave her on her birthday. He built her a custom home in the Hollywood Hills. Woody Allen wanted to direct a film in her home, but my mother declined because she heard that he might damage it.

My mother was a member of Hugh Hefner’s private club PIPS in Beverly Hills and played backgammon with Lucille Ball. She had many celebrity friends and played tennis regularly. Her neighbor was musician Ray Conniff who won a Grammy. There’s a photo of him and his wife above while at my mother’s home. They spent holidays together. Wanting more children, my mother left that life behind. For part of my childhood, I grew up in Sky Valley, which is a community in Desert Hot Springs. DHS had the highest crime rate in California at that time. My mother stayed in Sky Valley until she passed of breast cancer. I was very devoted to her and was her sole caretaker. I miss her every day. She was loved by many.

05/13/2025

Santa Muerte has three traditional robes or personalities: white (La Blanca), red (La Roja), and black (La Negra). Each robe represents a different side of her. La Roja may help with love, money, prosperity, fertility, passion, justice, pregnancy, legal issues, fidelity, and marriage. Santa Muerte Roja was the second-born robe, resulting from the s*xual union between Adam and Eve (the original sin). The blood of the original sin stained her robe red. The red robe helps with day-to-day matters, which include work, relationships, s*x, commitment, school, and anything related to blood, such as the circulatory system, blood diseases, or death during childbirth, an accident, from hemophilia, or at the hands of a lover. La Roja can heal, heat up with passion, or bring stability and commitment to a relationship. She can ensure fidelity of a partner (including tying one’s nature), cause someone to obsess over a lover, and even help him or her fall in love with a petitioner. She is the force of blood and wraps us in love, warmth, and comfort. She guards, soothes, and repairs the heart.
Research from the 1940s and 1950s indicates her role aiding in love sorcery amongst people of mostly African descent. The oldest known Santa Muerte prayer is for amarres or love bindings. Research from the 1960s and 1970s documents women who prayed to her for domination over their husbands and lovers, chanting “Most Holy Death, torture him. Mortify him”. For most of the 20th century, many worked with Santa Muerte Roja for amarres, where humbled men returned or committed to their jealous partners. Many think of bindings as negative workings, but they can be beneficial. Amarres can protect a relationship from separation spells. Marriage can also help protect a relationship from witchcraft. Some spirits won’t cause marriage separation, and many believe this includes Santa Muerte, especially if they apply Catholic doctrine to their spiritual practice with her.
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05/06/2025

On July 29th, we celebrated the feast day of the beautiful and incredibly powerful lwa, Filomena Lubana. Her names include Santa Marta la Dominadora, Metresa Lubana, Metresa Marta Pye, La Colora, Marta la Culebra, Marta Guede, and La Morena. Santa Marta Dominadora lives in the cemetery and often comes in the form of a snake. She cleanses spaces of negativity and circles around men to cleanse their auras, making them more attractive to women.⁣ Many petition her to dominate men, situations, and enemies. She can help bring back a lover, bring peace in a relationship, or bring out the truth. She also aides in overcoming obstacles, dominating primitive impulses, and freeing a person of destructive thoughts.

In Sanse (Puerto Rican Vodou), Filomena Lubana syncretizes with Saint Martha, sister of Mary Magdalene and Lazarus. When we serve Filomena Lubana, we offer her coffee grounds with cinnamon, cloves, and star anise smothered in honey with a raw brown egg on top, dark flowers, orchids, black beans and rice, grape soda, black coffee, menthol ci******es, ci**rs, anchovies, Malta Goya, herring, and dry red wine. Her colors are green, purple, black, and red, though she likes all dark colors. We serve her on the floor because she appears as a snake.

Her images often depict her holding a small boy. According to African folklore, she came across an orphan boy in the grips of a snake in a cemetery. She rescued the child by charming the snakes and raised him as her own.

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04/30/2025

Happy birthday, Katya! I hope your day is full of joy.
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04/23/2025

Today, April 23rd, we honor and celebrate Ogou Feray, the lwa of iron. He’s associated with war, justice, fire, healing, power, transformation, martial arts, protection, and metal workers. He’s also known as Ogou or Ogun Fegay in Sanse and 21 Divisiones and Papa Ogou in Haitian Vodou. The name Ogun originates from West Africa and refers to an orisha who’s also a warrior and a blacksmith. Ogou Fegay receives a machete, red candle, cigar, red beans and rice, barbancourt rum, and pork in some houses of Sanse. In 21 Divisiones, many serve him with red roosters, and in Haitian Vodou, some houses offer him goats or bulls. He is served with the color blood red and sometimes blue in Sanse, red, black, and green in 21 Divisiones, and red and blue in Haitian Vodou.

He’s often syncretized with Saint James whose feast day is today. Some houses syncretize Ogou Feray with San Santiago or the armored warrior fighting behind him in most battle scenes. Ogou Feray is a much hotter spirit than the other ogunes. He is a ferocious warrior. Like sparks that fly when a blacksmith hammer hits hot metal, Ogou Feray charges into battle. He loves war and is an assassin. He expects precision and military discipline. Ogou Feray works tirelessly, without nurishment or rest until he’s victorious. He’s a fierce protector of his children. Call him only when you’re ready to move forward because he’s impatient and aligns with decisive action.

He’s often married or paired with Ezili Dantó and was also an integral part of the Haitian revolution. He takes down oppressive regimes through bloody means. He can be served with the Haitian flag. In some houses, he’s partnered with Ezili Freda. Women who are Vodouisants often marry him for his aggressive protection.

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04/08/2025

Here’s Chicana writer Sherrilyn Kenyon promoting Jennifer Medway and SSA on Dia de los Mu***os at Cheekwood Museum and Gardens.⁣⁣ Sherrilyn is a #1 New York Times Bestselling novelist with over 70 million books in print internationally, and there are also toys available of her characters. She helped set up and work the Serpentine Spiritual Arts booth all day out of the kindness of her heart and without payment. She also promoted Jennifer during an interview on the news.
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04/02/2025

Santa Muerte is a Mexican folk saint of death. Some of the names devotees use for her are Santisima Muerte and La Niña. Santa Muerte has the highest power over life of any spirit or saint under God. Many accept her as the archangel of death who accepts instruction only from God. At times, Santa Muerte supersedes God with her miraculous power. Santa Muerte is a psychopomp who escorts the dying to their death, ensuring safe arrival to the afterlife. 

The exact origins of Santisima Muerte are unknown. One belief is that a group of very powerful and highly developed brujas discovered Santa Muerte during a ritual where they contacted an entity who introduced them to her. La Negra was the first robe to come through. Others believe that Santa Muerte resulted from the syncretization of La Parca, the female Spanish Grim Reaper, and other spirits of death.  Santa Muerte has many similarities with the Aztec goddess of the dead, Mictecacihuatl. They are both associated with bats, spiders, and owls and are queens of the underworld who decide a person’s fate. Though, some believe that the origins of Santa Muerte aren’t Aztec but are Purepecha, which is a major indigenous group that was never conquered by the Aztecs.

Santa Muerte is a complete magickal system. She can be called upon for any request and does not separate good from evil. She will answer both protection requests and baneful petitions. However, no one has to work the left hand side of the art. She is known for her miraculous power and rapid results. Some believe that if you work with Santa Muerte, and she grants you numerous favors, you are inherently her devotee and must serve her for life.

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02/06/2025

Apply our Sun Oil and Herbs to yellow, gold, white, or orange candles at dawn or the hour of the sun on a Sunday. It can also be combined with our Fame, Victory, or Crown of Success oils. Burn our Sun Incense at the same time as your candle for best results.

Our Sun Oil can help with issues and draw on all the powers that are under the domain of the Sun, including success, wealth, victory, dominance, renown, honors, creativity, health, empowerment, generosity, glory, invoking sun spirits, law-abidingness, advancement, grace, equilibrium, gold, high rank, immortality, triumph over enemies, vitality, good reputation, abundance, leadership, joy, vision, superior status, authority, friendship, spirituality, promise keeping, virtue, illumination, jewels, and royalty.

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According to the Picatrix, the Sun “signifies and reveals perception and intellect, exaltations and high offices…He gives delight in good and pleasant things, great eloquence and giving ready responses in all things; he increases the appetite for amassing wealth, and for people to desire good things, a good reputation in the mouths of the people, and high positions and official posts, making all legality and goodness, and all things that are proper for kings and great men in the world and the mode of living that is necessary to them, as well as all exalted and ornate work with minerals, and making the crowns of kings and sublime things, and making large books.”

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