About Alexis

Multiverse Analyst & Psychic Showgirl

Portraits by Jacquelyn Tierney | Brand Identity by Swail Studio

Hi, I’m Alexis P. Morgan (also known as Dom- navigator of liminality, professional life player, and intrepid explorer of anarcho-matriarchist possibilities. In other words, I live my life for the plot (of my memoirs), prioritize process over product, and take folks along for the ride. What else is there to do in a world that needs fundamental re-arranging so it doesn’t prematurely eliminate us from existence?

As little girl who was told that she would “make a great lawyer”, my plan was to stuff all my interest in self-expression down as far as I could until I burst into a perfect housewife with 6.5 children, a whitewashed fence, an HOA, and a husband who barely tolerated my presence. Thankfully, my ancestors intervened. Like a Tower card jumping out during a, “Should I leave him?” reading, my adoptive parents passed before my first Saturn Return. My life dramatically and violently veered me away from law school and the trajectory that my full-ride, best-honors-program-in-the-nation, 18-year-old self set out on, and towards a life of being a second-generation queer femme doing social respectability crime.

I unmasked, I radicalized *and* led myself to a bit of despair, and built my life around being a self-employed fractional COO/OBM turned leftwing feral bog witch, whispering wealth out of the ethers to support those I loved and those who didn’t love me back, eventually moving $5+ million into the hands of grassroots organizing, mutual aid, and solidarity efforts. By 2022, after 20 years of study and direct apprenticeship, I was initiated as a kasima/ba’alat ov on my 31st birthday by my Ancestors and the Asherah. This literally translates as “well” (as in, water well) or “well of the fathers”, highlighting the goal of my practice Mzizi Udongo/Adamah Shoreshah (lit. “root soil”), my predominantly Judeo-Kongolese body of magical & healing practices, of helping others repair & bridge the gaps between who we are now, who are ancestors were, and who we want to be, both individually and collectively, much in the way the Ancestors and Asherah did for me, radically healing my life.

Had you told 13-year-old me that one day, she’d be an observant Jewish witch, married to a soon-to-be-rabbi who is also a trans man with two sweet cats, making her daily bread by doing whatever the fuck she wants, she was in such a state of despair and fear for her future that she wouldn’t have believed you. I might not have even believed you at 22, or 25, or even 27. While I certainly have plenty of certifications, a degree, and a bunch of training experiences under my belt, my truest and best qualification is my own peace, joy, and satisfaction. I have a life I was never supposed to have - people make much ado about miracles, but simply being content with these types of flashes in the pan was never an option for me. I had to make the commitment to struggle and play the game of life in a way that has fundamentally reshaped what is possible for us as a society.

As initiations are beginnings, not endings, I am currently focused on mastering the art of demystifying and translating my own process of meaning-making as a form of community stewardship. In the spring of 2026, Ancestor Civil Care Society was born as my way of nourishing my self-expression, while also helping folks begin to build their own unique relationship with our ancestors, in a structured, intentional, and communal way. If you

Now I’ve landed here on Substack, where I’ve decided to park my multimedia archive of my quest to inherit the title of “the most exciting [femme] in the world” from Eartha Kitt, by way of a vivid + kindly phantasm of the late Orson Welles, for public perusal.

I hope you stay around and voyeur productively for the rest of the ride.

XOXO,
Alexis


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