HI, I’M TUMI
YOUR FRIENDLY NEIGHBOURHOOD ARTIST-MAGICKIAN
I walk the path of Art AND Magick; the path of creativity AND spirituality. To me, they are inseparable. I believe that the seat of our greatest power comes from embracing both.
BEFORE MAGICK, I WAS LIKE THE WALKING DEAD
I hated being in my body. I had no appetite for food, sex, or life. I felt utterly purposeless and powerless in the face of a late-stage-capitalist hellhole regime, global climate collapse and an increasingly apocalyptic world.
And then by divine grace I had a series of profound initiations, beginning with my bipolar diagnosis in 2019. I was told that I would have to be on anti-psychotics for the rest of my life if I wanted to stay sane.
But I knew that I wasn't the one who was insane. My 'insanity' was in truth me reacting to a sick and unwell world. So-called insanity is the only sane response when the world is burning and everyone is pretending that it is not. Magick helped me wake up, and find the depths of my own agency and power, and now I support others to do the same.
I WANT TO HELP YOU CONNECT WITH THE POWERFUL CREATRIX WITHIN YOU SO THAT YOU CAN DISCOVER THE DEPTHS OF ART AND BEAUTY WAITING IN YOUR SHADOWY DEPTHS.
THE WORLD NEEDS IT.
A few years ago, I would have never dared to call myself an artist.
Despite dancing for many years, I was not a dancer, and despite my love for writing I would never have considered myself a writer. Our current world, which is rooted in dominator consciousness, teaches us to devalue ourselves as artists and believe the lie that true artistry is something reserved for the elite few. I call bullshit.
Through my initiate's journey, my artistry flourished. I realised that I love to write, act, dance, sing and engage in all joyous acts of creation. I host a successful podcast. I perform in burlesque shows. I creatively direct stunning shoots. I am the author of a book. I am a social media maven who gets so much joy out of showing up online. I am a performer and storyteller at heart, and now I own it.
I thought magick was only a spiritual path, but it is a creative path too. It gifted me with my wholeness, and it is my whole self who is the powerful creatrix that the world needs.
“Tumi’s energy feels like a magic mirror, a fairy godparent, a spirit guide, a familiar.”
I felt accepted, welcomed, cared for. I didn’t feel judged or condescended to at all. I left each session feeling more courageous, more able to breathe, and more expressive… more myself. more free. I am still absorbing things we talked about, and I think I will be for a very long time. (in the best way) It feels like a gift that I will cherish forever.
JESSE — DREAM-WITCH, ARTIST, TRAUMA-INFORMED TAROT READER
WHAT I CARE ABOUT
WHAT I CARE ABOUT
01.
RADICAL DESHAMIFYING
You will only be able to discover the depths of who you are when you reclaim the parts of you that have been shamed and relegated to the shadows. Unshaming ourselves, and recovering our expression, is part of how we heal from the trauma of oppressive global cultures.
02.
COLLECTIVE LIBERATION
Our freedom is not individual, but collective. The role of the artist-magickian is to pursue as much freedom within their field of consciousness so that this ripples out into the collective. It is our responsibility to become our most powerful and embodied selves.
03.
PLEASURE
Our pleasure matters. Our eroticism is life-giving and it is the source of our deepest creativity. Pleasure is our orienting guide to aid birthing our most powerful creations into the world. I believe in healing through and with pleasure as a resource and that your pleasure matters.
MY WORK WOULD NOT BE POSSIBLE WITHOUT MY LINEAGE
2023
Sleepover Mystery School
Initiated into a Hermetic and Existential Kink lineage with Carolyn Lovewell. This is also when I began my astrological studies.
trained by Carolyn Lovewell to offer ceremony and magickal ritual.
2022
2021
the Embody Lab
Trained in Somatic Attachment Theory.
THE SOMATICA INSTITUTE
Trained in Character Strategies.
2020
ngoma initiation
Trained in ancestral lineage healing with Baba Sophia.
somatica institute
Began training as a somatic sex and relationship coach.
2018
rEad all about love
My lineage also includes the work of artist-magicians throughout time;
Audre Lorde, bell hooks, Aleister Crowley and Pascal Beverly Randolph, as well as planetary deities that I work with: Jupiter, Venus, Mercury and all planets in our solar system. Finally, my lineage includes my ancestry. I come from a Pedi lineage on my fathers side and a European lineage on my mothers side. It is the alchemy of these two lineages that also gives me my strength. I would not be able to do this work without my magickal, and blood, ancestors standing behind me.
STILL CURIOUS? THIS IS WHERE THE JOURNEY BEGINS…
THE INCITING INCIDENTS
LET’S CREATE SOME BAD-ASS MAGICK TOGETHER, SHALL WE?
This is for you if you desire my genius to support your business, organisation or community.
Let me walk with you on your artist-magickian path. Let’s create magick together.