Fatima on Life, Lessons & Legacy

We’re looking forward to introducing you to Fatima. Check out our conversation below.

Hi Fatima, thank you so much for joining us today. We’re thrilled to learn more about your journey, values and what you are currently working on. Let’s start with an ice breaker: What’s the most surprising thing you’ve learned about your customers?
First of all, I am SO grateful to my clients and customers.

What I can say is that my clients, especially my repeat clients, have taught me so much about myself through their own journeys.

They are mirrors reflecting parts of myself that need attention and to hear some of those same messages from Spirit too.

In essence, my clients have healed me as much as I’ve helped them.

I’m grateful for Spirit leading the way and illuminating our paths.

Can you briefly introduce yourself and share what makes you or your brand unique?
My name is Fatima. I am a Puerto Rican and Palestinian third-generational psychic/medium and healer.

Some of my abilities and gifts include: Past-life readings and past-life regression therapy, dream interpretation, tarot, mediumship, palmistry, coffee readings, intuition development, oracle readings, divination and remote viewing, scrying, and pendulum work.

But I am best known for removals and hex breaking ability, as passed down from my matrilineal side, which originates with the indigenous Taíno people of modern day Puerto Rico and Spanish travelers.

I currently run my own botanica: International Botanica LLC: suitcasepsychic.etsy.com where I create everything from candles, oils and mojo bags by hand. I also provide mini readings there as well.

I mainly travel back and forth between Hawai’i, the Pacific & Oceania and the U.S. Continent to provide readings while on the road.

Aside from teaching my gifts to others, I am also a lifelong student. It’s important to keep learning as you are practicing.

One day, I would like to travel to other the parts of the world, especially Ireland and Iceland to learn exchange knowledge with the people there.

Great, so let’s dive into your journey a bit more. Who were you before the world told you who you had to be?
I grew up with generational trauma on both sides of the family. In particular my mother’s side of the family in which I was raised.

There was and is a “lack mindset” in which everything felt “scarce” or hard to obtain. This made any goals or dreams I had as a child feel out of reach or impossible.

Unfortunately, when this wall of stagnancy a is imprinted and forced upon on you as a child, you end up suppressing your own desires, and try to fit in with everyone around you.

You start to believe that “money doesn’t grow on trees” and that you have to work extremely hard to get to where you need to be.

I’ve taken so many corporate jobs, one after the other, to try to “make ends meet.”

No matter how hard I would try in these settings, nothing seemed to work and it would be tower moment after tower moment leaving me feeling confused and defeated – not realizing that Spirit had other plans for me. And then one day, it just clicked,

I needed to be myself.

As soon as I let go of being what and who everyone else wanted me to be, my ancestors came through with the swiftness. As soon as I started training to control my gifts, doors and opportunities opened for me.

This led me on a journey to deep dive into my spirituality and roots to find out more about who I am and where I came from.

I started asking my family hard questions. Some answered some didn’t. I didn’t let it deter me. I stood strongly in my authenticity KNOWING that my ancestors are guiding me.

In doing so, I discovered my great grandparents and aunt were known for their Mesa Blanca temple in Puerto Rico and practiced for at least 40 years. They opened their doors to those in the community that needed healing and light and helped so many people find their way.

Without realizing it, I had already been practicing Mesa Blanca in my daily life. My alter with the white tablecloth, chalice of water that I used to divine in and messages from Spirit I would channel to help others.

It was then I realized I was on the right path.

The only scarcity worth fearing, is scarcity of the soul.

If you search for who you are you will find what you need.

If you could say one kind thing to your younger self, what would it be?
When no one else believed in you, I believe in you.

Next, maybe we can discuss some of your foundational philosophies and views? What’s a belief you used to hold tightly but now think was naive or wrong?
My first spiritual teacher was an Irish Catholic medium. She was very strict on discernment and that there is only dark and light. Good and evil.

And if something wasn’t of the “light” it was evil.

This is something our ancestors struggled with when it comes to the colonization of our land and our spiritual beliefs.

I realized at a later age that she was white-washing spiritualism. Although I learned a lot from her, it was mostly based in fear. Fear of the unknown. Fear of what was “dark.”

Any indigenous spiritual practices were considered “evil” and “dark” because they weren’t “Christian.” In-fact during colonization, spirituality was a line of defense our ancestors used to protect themselves from the trauma inflicted by the forces of the West.

Taíno and other Carribean peoples, my ancestors, hid their practices and beliefs from the Spanish colonizers by incorporating their practices with Catholicism—sometimes even merging their beliefs together in order to avoid brutal persecution.

This is where you get Espiritismo – Santeria, Mesa Blanca, 21 Divisions… etc…

It’s also important to note, and I feel like not a lot of people speak about this, but what exactly is light and what is dark? What do these words mean in the context of spiritual history? Who decided what was light and what was dark?

Because from here, it looks like “dark work” is almost always associated with Indigenous practices and beliefs, often by those of a darker complexion.

So is “light” good and “dark” evil?

Well, being that the Spanish inquisition murdered many people in the name if Christianity in what they believed was “light,” murder in their own book being a deadly sin – you do the math.

Okay, so before we go, let’s tackle one more area. If you knew you had 10 years left, what would you stop doing immediately?
Wasting time.

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