Santa Muerte Devotion 101: Answers and Explanations for Curious Readers and New Devotees
Digital Web Book by Arnold Bustillo
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Digital Web Book by Arnold Bustillo
Buy the paperback at https://amzn.to/41gmMKg
Who May Be a Devotee of Santa Muerte?
We are all welcome to be devotees of Santa Muerte.
If you are alive, then you will one day die, and it is this fact which connects every human being on the planet to the Santa Muerte. While you may not consider yourself a devotee as of yet, and while there are even people who actively avoid acknowledging the power of Santa Muerte, the fact is that she is coming for us all, and each day that we live to see, each breath that we live to breathe, is one small step that takes us ever closer to her impending embrace.
One reason why the community of Santa Muerte devotees continues to grow is precisely because of how accepting the Santa Muerte is. She is a force accessible and approachable by all of us. Often depicted with the scales of justice, the Santa Muerte is frequently described as The Great Equalizer, because nobody gets special treatment. No matter how good you are, no matter how many mistakes you make, the Santa Muerte will come for you, too. Where some gods might reject you for who you love, or for where you come from, the Santa Muerte is completely indifferent.
Mexico might be the cradle of Santa Muerte, but you don’t have to be Mexican to know death. Death exists in all cultures and all religions, so you can be from any culture and of any religion (or no religion at all), and the Santa Muerte will accept you.
If you have ever been made to feel as if a certain spiritual path was out of your reach because you didn’t have the right skin color, the right lineage, or the right initiatory degrees, then rest easy knowing there’s a place for you as a devotee of Holy Death. Santa Muerte has no skin, so race is of no importance to her. Santa Muerte has accepted all of our dead ancestors, so a lineage is already shared. Santa Muerte has been moving towards each of us since we were born, so it was our birth that initiated us into her community.
If you are alive, then you will one day die, and it is this fact which connects every human being on the planet to the Santa Muerte. While you may not consider yourself a devotee as of yet, and while there are even people who actively avoid acknowledging the power of Santa Muerte, the fact is that she is coming for us all, and each day that we live to see, each breath that we live to breathe, is one small step that takes us ever closer to her impending embrace.
One reason why the community of Santa Muerte devotees continues to grow is precisely because of how accepting the Santa Muerte is. She is a force accessible and approachable by all of us. Often depicted with the scales of justice, the Santa Muerte is frequently described as The Great Equalizer, because nobody gets special treatment. No matter how good you are, no matter how many mistakes you make, the Santa Muerte will come for you, too. Where some gods might reject you for who you love, or for where you come from, the Santa Muerte is completely indifferent.
Mexico might be the cradle of Santa Muerte, but you don’t have to be Mexican to know death. Death exists in all cultures and all religions, so you can be from any culture and of any religion (or no religion at all), and the Santa Muerte will accept you.
If you have ever been made to feel as if a certain spiritual path was out of your reach because you didn’t have the right skin color, the right lineage, or the right initiatory degrees, then rest easy knowing there’s a place for you as a devotee of Holy Death. Santa Muerte has no skin, so race is of no importance to her. Santa Muerte has accepted all of our dead ancestors, so a lineage is already shared. Santa Muerte has been moving towards each of us since we were born, so it was our birth that initiated us into her community.