Gifts of Fire & Fortune A Winter Solstice Workshop with Baba Lou Florez & Coyote Saturday, December 20 | 12:00 PM – 5:00 PM Location: Los Angeles
Warm your spirit, ignite your magic, and craft gifts that carry the radiance of the hearth. Join master conjurers Baba Lou Florez and Coyote Vargas for a luxurious, hands-on ritual workshop blending the ancestral currents of African Traditional Religions, Rootwork, and Brujería into a day of sacred creation.
In this immersive experience, participants will create and consecrate a full suite of five hand-blended magical formulations, each designed to bless your life—or serve as rare, meaningful gifts for your loved ones this holiday season.
What You’ll Create & Take Home
All materials are lovingly provided. Each participant will ritually craft and take home a full ceremonial suite of 25 handcrafted creations, each infused with the elemental fire of your own intention and the ancestral blessings of Golden Hearth Alchemy:
Five 10ml bottles of Van Van Oil — Turn the Wheel of Fortune
A time-honored blend to shift your luck from stagnant to golden. Clears crossed conditions and renews your aura with brilliance and vitality.Five 10ml bottles of Strongest Protection Oil — The Shield of Ancestors
An old family recipe, passed through initiatory lineages, that fortifies your boundaries and cloaks you in divine defense.Five 15ml bottles of Money Stay With Me Perfume — Flow & Retain Prosperity
Crafted for financial magnetism and wise stewardship, this alchemical scent ensures more flows in than slips away.Five 15ml bottles of Steady Work Perfume — Rooted in Right Livelihood
A career-sustaining perfume to secure purpose-driven employment and strengthen your connection to meaningful work.Five cakes of Destiny Soap — Align with the Path of Your Soul
Wash in the wisdom of the ancestors. This sacred cleansing bar harmonizes your spirit with your divine destiny, revealing the hidden paths when the way forward feels unclear.
Each of these creations is a gift of both beauty and power—a keepsake of your craft, a blessing for your beloveds, and a vessel of your own golden magic.
Experience the Golden Hearth
As gold melts in fire, so too will we melt away what obscures our inner light. Through guided ritual, sound, and invocation, Baba Lou and Coyote lead participants in imbuing each creation with breath, Ashe, and intention, transforming the act of crafting into ceremony.
Why Attend
Create twenty-five luxurious, handmade spiritual gifts infused with your personal magic.
Receive direct teachings from two renowned rootworkers and ritualists.
Celebrate the Winter Solstice with ancestral reverence and community warmth.
Leave with tools that protect, prosper, and empower your coming year.
Preston “Coyote” Vargas, PhD (he/him) — Black queer spirit-worker, Reclaiming witch, author, and scholar of transformative education and African-diasporic traditions. and practitioner of Ifa, decolonial ritual, and oracular storytelling.