“Maritza doesn’t just do magic. Maritza IS magic.
She rolled into my life like a blazing ball of transformative fire and set me alight. She is infinitely talented, intuitive and can move mountains. Do not miss this opportunity to work with her. You deserve nothing but the best.”

“I’ve worked with Maritza for diverse projects within the spiritual community where we met.  She has a great ability to create a safe space and hold compassion for the emotions and ideas that come with individual and social discomfort at the same time as she provides a practical action/ritual-oriented outlook to navigate life. Her passion and commitment to the inherent witchcraft talents she was born with truly make her a “walk the talk” type of professional and anyone who works with her will be drawn into the stream of positive, smart, resilient life force. It is impossible not to love her!”

“Maritza is a magic maker who brings her huge heart and brilliance to everything she does. She is creative and wise, and I’m sure that Bruja School will help her students make the life changes needed for our collective transformation.”

“I told Maritza about my drama/ sadness/ medical treatments related to the challenges I was having trying to get pregnant a second time. I spoke with her at length about my feelings not being able to conceive again, about the emotional charge of not getting pregnant. She said to me “Mirtha, you are speaking as if you didn’t have another child, as if this was your first time trying to become a mom”. I really liked hearing that from her because it allowed me to refocus and be grateful that I was already the mother of a beautiful daughter! Who maybe wasn’t getting my full attention because I was processing not being able to have more children. It was very helpful and the detachment from that emotional load freed me up, and as fate would have it, when I was feeling very comfortable as the mother of my one daughter, my son arrived! “

“Maritza helped me with evolving a community-led concept from idea to a financially sustainable enterprise (The Catalyst Network). I was stuck – feeling like the concept wasn’t working and that it was time to abandon it. Maritza posed a series of frank questions around my intention in bringing people together, and her probing highlighted my deep ambivalence about this group, which I’d originally co-founded with someone else, and my reluctance to take it in a different direction. It clarified that I was the issue and the solution. I had to step up and own it all or walk away. It was both confronting and liberating to have someone so skilfully nail the underlying issues I’d been skirting around. It helped me to step up and honour my aspiration to be a changemaker in my own way. Now The Catalyst Network is thriving. Maritza sees what few other people see, and she expresses it like poetry.“

“Maritza oozes good vibes, positivity and an incredible can-do attitude with covid and bushfires on the doorstep. Her strong yet wisdom keeps inspiring me to turn up and do better.“

“Maritza gave me the confidence to take a job I was offered but didn’t think I was qualified for. “Lamer people have done cooler shit” she said, and she was exactly right. I took the job and was able to get executive-level leadership experience I never would have had otherwise. It was a trying, and difficult job but I am better off for it. I created programs that continue to benefit my community. I can point to verifiable ways I changed things for the better within my industry as a result of my work. None of that would have been possible had Maritza not stopped my disparaging self-talk dead in its tracks and kicked me into gear. She has no time to watch women minimize their skills and abilities. She literally will not stand for it.”

“Throughout the years, I have turned to Maritza when I needed the kind of  help that goes beyond good advice, the help you need when you know your soul is out of whack or there’s something in your way that can’t be removed by sticking to a to do list or using your time ” more efficiently.” The help you need when you know you are lost, spinning in circles, or just plain stuck. She helps you clear out the crap, and get to what matters. She’s tough, and clear, and funny.  She won’t let you make excuses and she offers you a path forward. It’s your job to take the path, but she clears the way. The rest is up to you, but isn’t it always?

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And whenever I have asked, she has been there for me, most of the time literally there for me IRL, with magic and clarity.

One day, several years back, I realized my house was filled with negativity, fear, and generally bad energy.   I tried everything I knew to reclaim it, but couldn't. Suddenly I realized what I needed to do: ask Maritza for help. I did. She came, almost the next day, we smudged, purged and cleared, and my space was suddenly lighter, clearer, and full of possibilities.

I am an only child, so when my mother died after many months in hospice, I knew I had to offer spaces and events for friends and family to celebrate her life. So I organized them and they were good and healing. But I also had to bury my mother's ashes at the cemetery where my father and his family are spending eternity. It's a place I don't like, but I had no choice--it's what she wanted. I'm not religious, and neither was she. But I knew I couldn't let the cemetery just put her urn in the ground without a ritual or ceremony to mark the passage. I also knew that I wanted to make this final journey with my mom by myself because I did not want to have to appease family members who would have wanted a conventional, and to me and to her, meaningless, ritual at the gravesite. I stewed and mulled about this for days when suddenly my brain opened up and light flooded in. I knew I needed Maritza. I called her and she said yes-- yes she would go with me to the cemetery, in Stockton fifty miles away, and she would create a ritual. She said yes, even though she was moving from San Francisco to Melbourne freaking Australia a week later! We drove out to the cemetery, spent a beautiful powerful 90 minutes with my mother and the family members there before her. She helped me create a loving space in which to place my mother even inside a very troubled family. And she created a space for me, too. It was beautiful and helped me move onto the rest of my life in grace and peace. Oh, and we laughed a lot. A lot.

I could go on and on. But one last thing that's really important. Several years ago, a friend named Giselle died after several months of treatment for ovarian cancer, I could write a book about Giselle and how powerful, brilliant, astute, deep, wise, kind, funny, beautiful, clear and kickass she was. She and Maritza were super close. So when Giselle passed, many of us who knew her as a work colleague and friend wanted to have a ritual to both mourn our loss and celebrate her. Of course Maritza cast the circle, and, on a hill overlooking San Francisco Bay, created the ritual space that allowed 30 or so of us to grieve, remember, and deeply connect. It was a chilly winter Sunday afternoon, and we were together on that hill for at least two hours. When it was over, as I was walking to my car, two women approached me. They were strangers. One of them asked, "Do you all come together for ritual on a regularly?" And I replied, that no, it was not a regular event, that we had come together to celebrate a friend who had passed. "Oh," she said, "I'm sorry for your loss. But the energy coming from your group was so positive and inviting and you all looked so happy together. We were hoping it was a regular thing so we could be part of it."

That's Maritza; that's what she does. She can help you spin what you might think is the dreck of your life into gold and magic."