Meet Kaitlyn Graña | Mystic Mother, Trance Medium, and Occult Educator

We had the good fortune of connecting with Kaitlyn Graña and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Hi Kaitlyn, can you walk us through the thought-process of starting your business?
TBH, there wasn’t a lot of thought or planning that went into starting Spirit Garden. It all happened very organically. I’ve been a practicing witch for most of my life, and often read cards and did spells for myself and close friends. I was in the apparel industry for a decade, and found myself very unfilled in those environments. While working for various showrooms, I was giving readings to other clothing reps and boutique owners in between appointments. After years of trying to make the apparel industry work for me and failing miserably, my spiritual mentor looked at me and said “why don’t you think you can do this [spiritual] work as a profession?” I hadn’t really considered this before. I was so sure that I needed to have a “traditional” job. It was so freeing to hear what I needed to hear to give myself permission to pursue my public spiritual practice full time. My last apparel job was in 2018, and I’ve been all-in with my public spiritual practice every since.

Let’s talk shop? Tell us more about your career, what can you share with our community?
My public spiritual practice is dedicated to developing authentic, ancestrally aligned spiritists. In the US, so many of us are separated from our culture and ancestry – either by force or by choice. Through Espiritismo (Caribbean spiritism), we are able to discover who we are, through the guidance of the Good Spirits who surround and support us. This country centers puritanical Christian ideology – a culture that has harmed so many of us. Growing up in the 90s and early 2000s, if you did not have the privilege of being connected to ancestral spirituality and wanted to venture beyond Christianity, the only options was a variety of New Age nonsense without any sort of rooting in land, people, culture, or ancestry. Espiritismo is a beautiful practice because it connects us to all of these things: our people, our ancestral lands, our ancestral culture, our ancestors themselves. My work empowers people to develop their own unique connections to divinity, their own personal spiritual practices. My work shows people that spiritual disciplines need not be dogmatic or oppressive, but fluid, supportive, and changing with the seasons of ourselves. I am not a guru or a spiritual “master”, by any means. I am a humble servant of the spirit, a guide who can show you the tools and teach you how to read the map – but you must travel the path yourself. It’s my job to help you believe in yourself, your abilities, and your guides.

Any places to eat or things to do that you can share with our readers? If they have a friend visiting town, what are some spots they could take them to?
I’m a true Cancer-Rising, and loooove to be cozy in my home with my family. But if I were to leave the house, it would be to go to Zuma Beach for a perfect beach day, to Monty’s in Echo Park for the tastiest vegan milkshakes in LA, or to Pho Cafe in Silverlake for the best Pho Ga.

Shoutout is all about shouting out others who you feel deserve additional recognition and exposure. Who would you like to shoutout?
Absolutely! My spiritual mentors: my Abuelo Ramiro, Tania Martinez, and Chiron Armand. My parents, Eduardo and Lisa, who always encouraged my interest in fantasy and magic. My partner, Brian, who encourages me and supports me in all of my creative pursuits. My friends, Branché Foston, Serita Fontanesi, and Laura Wong, who inspire me to be great because they are great. And of course, my two children, who have given me the greatest purpose I could have ever dreamed of.

Website: www.spiritgardentarot.com

Instagram: @spiritgardentarot

Twitter: @spiritgardenla

Yelp: https://www.yelp.com/biz/spirit-garden-tarot-los-angeles

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1trEf4t-U9gwo-bdITXItw

Image Credits
image credits: Feather Rae, Anisa E., myself