Bio

Darci Vélez is a Priestess of the Old Religione and a devoted practitioner of the ancient arts of Witchcraft, with over twenty-five years of experience. Gifted from a young age, Darci began to understand and embrace her powers in her early thirties. While living in Puerto Rico, she experienced a profound spiritual reawakening, reclaiming memories of her past path and deepening her craft through guidance, study, and initiation. Over the years, she has become a teacher, mentor, and professional reader of Tarot and Traditional Astrology.

A natural psychic, clairaudient, clairvoyant, empath, and medium, Darci receives profound insight through dreams and trance states, maintaining a lifelong connection to the stars and the mysteries of the unseen. She has been reading Tarot and Traditional Astrology professionally since 1998.

In 2025, Darci founded and opened Hecate’s Hearth, a mystical space dedicated to crafting sacred tools, ritual offerings, and spiritual experiences for witches, seekers, and magical practitioners. She is also the founder of Temple of Diana, Inc., first incorporated in 2003 (as Temple of Rhiannon) and renamed Temple of Diana in 2005, a 501(c)(3) religious organization and public charity dedicated to the Gods, the Old Ways, and the service of humanity.

Darci has presented at HexFest, WitchCon, Witchfest, and the Festival of Witches, and has been featured on the Susun Weed Podcast and at Love Potion Magickal Perfumerie & Marketplace. She has also been a contributor and presenter for Festival of the Dead and has offered her own acclaimed workshops and spiritual services to seekers around the world.

Her journey has taken her across the continental United States and through the central and eastern provinces of Canada, with sixteen transformative years spent in Puerto Rico. She now resides once again in the Pacific Northwest of the United States, where she continues to teach, create, and guide others along their own magical paths.