We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Dennis M. Gamez Jr. a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.
Dennis M., thanks for taking the time to share your stories with us today Let’s start with inspirations and heroes. Are there any historical figures you look up to?
So I would say my historical figure, or figures in this case, would be my ancestors. Everyone who has come before me and all of their triumphs, trials and struggles will never go unnoticed in my books. Your ancestors have your back if you have theirs and I’ve come to learn that over the years I have spent working with the afterlife and esoteric. Leaving offerings, praying to the ancestors and treating them as if they were still alive are all different ways that I have managed to maintain a relationship with my dearly departed, and that stretches back centuries. Not just my recent ancestors but my ancient and distant ancestors as well. For you and I to be here today, it took 12 generations and over 4,000 people. That’s over 4,000 different lives that have been lived to the fullest. So many love stories, tales of glory, triumph and struggle. So many people that have long since passed in order for us to walk the path we take now. Never underestimate your ancestors and the help they can give to you.
Great, appreciate you sharing that with us. Before we ask you to share more of your insights, can you take a moment to introduce yourself and how you got to where you are today to our readers
Well for me, the way I stumbled upon my craft was through breaking generational curses and straying myself away from family tradition. A quest in search of knowledge and truth that would wind me down seemingly perilous roads of uncertainty. I’ve always been very keen at reading people and sensing their true motives and intentions beforehand, so I found myself in the study of divination and the different methods that have been applied over centuries of practices and various cultures. I decided to go with tarot cards because it spoke to me in a way not many other methods did. I began to dive deep into the study of the tarot and where it originated from and how many variations of decks and methods of reading them there were. It was enthralling to say the least. My services go as far as intuitive and spiritual counseling as well as card readings and cleansings as well. I have been told by clients that I have helped them though past traumas that they have experienced, burdens that needed lifting off of shoulders, a certain push in the right direction of change that had been long overdue. I like to help people realize that there is more to life than just autopilot and working through the motions. It is a thing of beauty for us to just be alive as spiritual organisms experiencing what the human experience is, and what exactly is the human experience? That question, my friend, is relative to the parties involved. Open to interpretation! What I would like for possible new clients and customers to know is that it is okay to be confused and it’s okay to not know what exactly you’re looking for. Intimidation of one’s own mind is what usually keeps customers away because what I do is quite different from what is considered Normal, but hey. with the way society has been growing out of its close minded shell, perhaps I can be one of the people that helps open you up to new ideas and possibilities in life.
Have you ever had to pivot?
Well this one is a big one, and honestly was the one thing that set me on course for the rest of my life. Context being that since I was a child I had wanted to be in the military. Make my parents proud! Serve my country! & all that other mess. Went through most of my childhood studying war and the different branches of the military. Even as far as attending JROTC all four years of high school to prepare myself for the life I’ve chosen. Then comes the big day, the ASVAB test. I didn’t even get a chance to write my name on the dang paper! The two Gentlemen took a look at my personal file and relayed to me that I was ineligible for military services due to a string of health reasons. ANY military service to be exact. I swear in that moment I thought they were joking and I laughed. Their response was “I’m sorry son. Good luck.” And they packed up and left my grandmothers house. I was thrusted into a cascade of depression and thoughts of dread. My entire life plan had been thrown out the window and now I have to start from scratch. So that’s exactly what I did. I took the time, 7 years to be exact, to find myself. Exactly who was I? What were my interests outside of war and the military? Music? For sure. Mechanics? Absolutely. Then came my ancestors. The sweeping feeling of being in the right place at the right time. Exposing myself to various forms of higher thinking and intellectual challenges, as well as practicing meditation and conscious consumption. Unlocking the secret of life and that secret being that EVERYTHING that we know, see, interact with and feel is FREQUENCY. once you understand that simple fact of life, everything else starts to fall into place.
Any stories or insights that might help us understand how you’ve built such a strong reputation?
Credit will be given where credit is due, and in all honesty it was The Victoria’s Black Swan Inn owned and operated by Ms.JoAnn Rivera. They gave us the space to be ourselves without question. Of course our business is a little off the beaten path and our aesthetic is a little dark and macabre but so is the Black Swan Inn (located at 1006 Holbrook rd. San Antonio TX. 78218) they host markets every 1st and 3rd weekend of the month and that is what built a majority of our client base. Us having our own shop, a steady flow of business and customers who were heavily interested in exactly what my wife and I had to offer. The black swan inn is a hauntingly beautiful venue that gave us the wind beneath our wings to take off as a business. Once we moved on from that business site we moved into an online venture that is still to this day a flourishing business that brings me joy to run with my wife every day.
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