The Spirit Guides
One-of-one alebrije companions for
transformation, remembrance, courage, and becoming.
Each Spirit Guide is a handcrafted alebrije created as a symbolic companion connected to the world of Monarch of the Heart. No two are alike. Each carries its own name, meaning, Spirit Role, and blessing.
Adopt the Spirit Guide That Calls to You
These are not pieces you simply choose. They are companions you feel called to. Each Spirit Guide carries its own name, meaning, role, signature, and blessing. Some bring courage. Some offer healing. Some call in joy, clarity, abundance, protection, or new beginnings. The one meant for you may be the one that reminds you who you are becoming.
Explore the Spirit Guide Collection
Each Spirit Guide is one-of-one. When one is adopted, it leaves the collection and becomes part of someone’s personal journey.
Spirit Guide Collection
What Makes Each Spirit Guide Unique
One-of-One
Each Spirit Guide is individually handcrafted and unique. Once adopted, that exact guide will not be recreated.
Handcrafted Folk Art
Each guide is carved, painted, and finished by hand by skilled Mexican artisans.
Story Symbolism
Each guide is connected to the emotional world of Monarch of the Heart through
symbols of transformation, remembrance, love, and courage.
Personal Meaning
Every Spirit Guide includes its own Name, Meaning, Spirit Role, Spirit Signature,
Calling, and Blessing.
Three Symbols. One Journey.
Monarch Butterfly Wings
Transformation, migration, remembrance, and becoming.
Cempasúchil Marigolds
Memory, guidance, grief, love, and honoring those who came before us.
The Heart
Courage, healing, love, and the emotional journey at the center of Monarch of the Heart.
Current Featured Collection
Handcrafted in Oaxaca by BLAS® Taller Zapoteco
The first Spirit Guide collection is handcrafted by BLAS® Taller Zapoteco, a family-run Zapotec artisan workshop founded in 1979 in San Pedro Cajonos, Oaxaca. Each alebrije in this collection is carved from copal wood and painted by hand using traditional techniques passed down through generations. Rooted in Zapotec cultural identity, nature, imagination, and story, these pieces honor the living folk-art tradition of Oaxaca while becoming part of the symbolic world of Monarch of the Heart.
From the Story to Your Hands
In Oaxaca, alebrijes are carved and painted as figures of imagination and transformation, companions for the journey rather than decorations for a shelf.
In Monarch of the Heart, María is a renowned alebrije artist, known throughout her village for a style no one else could copy. Every creature she carved wore monarch wings. Every one carried a heart. Every one was marked with cempasúchil, the marigold that lights the way home. She gave each one a name and a blessing, and she never made the same one twice.
The Spirit Guides here are carved and painted in María's signature style by artisans in Oaxaca. Each one wears the monarch wings. The heart. The marigolds. Each one carries a name, a calling, and a blessing of its own. And like María's, no two are alike, which means the one you choose has never existed before and will not exist again.
Which Spirit Guide Is Calling to You?
Browse the available one-of-one guides and adopt the companion that speaks to this
season of your life.
Begin the Journey
Sometimes the bravest journey is not to another country. It's back to yourself.
Read the first two chapters of Monarch of the Heart free, plus notes on the story, the journeys behind it, and what's coming next.