Meet Amanda Betzabé Estévez
As a little girl, I was always looking up. The sky called to me. I knew there was something important up there, something ineffable. A portal of sorts.
Throughout my childhood and my teenage years, this interest in the ineffable never wavered. My first love was music. The sonic adventure sound could take us on. That outlet was the only portal to my soul I knew until I turned 18. Then, my focus shifted from artistic creativity to advocacy work.
In 2019 I was introduced to sound healing and tarot before I attended Georgetown University. The tarot changed my life, and alongside Georgetown’s mandatory theology requirement, something within me was set on fire. A passion for the ineffable in a way I had never experienced: I hungered for the mysteries of witchcraft and mysticism. I entered Georgetown a Government major and left with a degree in Theology and Religious Studies.
That journey is my life’s work. One I am still creating. I am a student of voice, songwriting, traditional astrology, Tibetan astrology, Mayan astrology, planetary magick, and folk witchcraft. My witchcraft and astrological work are deeply tied to my ancestry. I am Latin-American with Mayan, O’dami, Spanish, and Portuguese ancestry. Born and raised in Los Angeles, California on Tongva and Chumash land. I honor the relationship my indigenous ancestors had to our land as the foundation of my spiritual practices.
I am currently a master’s student at King’s College London where I conduct research on the intersection between modern witchcraft practices in our current global political landscape.
This work means everything to me. It is a privilege to wake up every day and feel the joy of connecting with our reality so deeply. I firmly believe everyone deserves to understand their own connection to the first womb, to the origin point of consciousness. The connection we nurture within ourselves directly tethers us to that which we are made of. The impossible singularity point that can only be felt through union with the self. That union is what sets us free. To know ourselves as creation itself—that is our birthright.
I have a strong background in anthropological field research. My interest in astrology led me to study Tibetan Astrology in Nepal and India. In 2023 I completed my thesis on the cultural comparison and impacts of Tibetan and Hellenistic astrology. My research led me to lecture at the Men-Tsee-Khang, the institute of Tibetan Traditional Medicine and Astroscience in Dharamshala, India as an honored guest. I under the instruction of Adam Elenbaas's certification course in Hellenistic astrology. I am also a student of Mayan astrology under the instruction of four Aj’q’ijab in Mexico and Guatemala.
My primary goal is to educate people about the fringes of religious experience and spirituality to de-stigmatize rhetoric around occultism and esoteric studies. I know it is our birthright to be sovereign and liberated. You can find me writing about witchcraft and magic on Substack, posting on Instagram, and TikTok!
If I am not deep in my occult work, I am writing music, doing yoga, making art, drinking too much tea, or spending time with my incredible community.
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