Chirichahua Apache/Basqe/Mexican/German
June is a dual citizen of the United States and Mexico and follows her spiritual practice from her mother’s lineage of Chiricahua Apache, Basque and Mexican. She comes from a family of seers and was born & raised in Albuquerque New Mexico, and has resided in Arizona since January 1986.
June uses her gifts as a Psychic/Medium and offers profound readings which also include reading the top of the hands and Tarot. June offers personal home and land clearings and Blessings. She offers a variety of ceremonies based on each person or groups needs at the time which could be celebrations, healing or inner work. She is available for experiences or readings for retreats and for opening or closing ceremonies for retreats as well as a fire ceremony.
June has also been a massage therapist since 1979 specializing in deep tissue massage with only her hands, no elbows or forearms and has incorporated cupping into her work. She now has combined her healing work with her energetic healing gifts for a deeper healing experience. She learned early on that she had Healing Hands beyond massage therapy and was able to move into the physical body with the ability to communicate on an energetic level to heal the body. She is now not available for standard massages but welcomes those who need a more profound healing.
June is well known as a community builder hosting local Woman’s Circles since 2016. Since 2003 she has been working with Indigenous Elders and Wisdom Keepers from around the world hosting workshops and presentations for them to share their wisdom and ceremony with the community.
She hosts an Indigenous series at the Sedona Library bringing in Indigenous Peoples each month.
You can sign up for the West Sedona Library email list to keep updates as well as the other amazing programs they offer on their website. Click here to visit communitylibrarysedona.org.
Contact June if you’d also like to be on her email list for local events.
June does not call herself a Shaman or a Medicine Woman, she refers to herself as a Seer.
June cherishes her friendships with the surrounding tribes of Arizona which are the Hopi, Dine’ (Navajo), Havasupai and Yavapai Apache. She has worked closely and traveled with the International Council of 13 Indigenous Grandmothers since 2007 to bring their messages to our communities and make the world a better place.
June’s mother, Maria Ines Arballo de Murga
June’s mother, Maria Ines Arballo de Murga, (She goes by Ines) was born in 1922 in a small adobe farm house in San Andres Mexico and later her family moved to a home in Chihuahua, Chihuahua Mexico. Her parents were Ranch caretakers until they managed to buy their own cattle ranch and named it Perico, just outside of Chihuahua, Chihuahua. June has many fond memories of family gatherings there with her relatives.
June’s Mother on the ranch in Mexico with a ranch hand
Ines was about to be handed over her own heard of cattle when she met her father Charles Rettinger, who used to come to Mexico often with an army buddy of his buying antiques in Mexico and selling them in the United States. A year later Charles brought Ines to the States and they Married and lived in Los Lunas New Mexico as my father was a machinist for the military. They later relocated for Charles’s new job at Sandia Base to Albuquerque New Mexico and there they started their family.
Ines and Charles Rettinger wedding photo
June’s maternal Great, Great Grandmother who informally went by Nana Nela, was a full-blooded Chiricahua Apache and is Geronimo’s older sister. Her Apache name was Tejuic. There is an article about the story of how my Great Great Grandmother and Grandfather met and their journey in the website https://apacheria.es/la-apacheria-en-el-siglo-xxi/. You can read in Spanish or look for the pop-up for the English translation at the top.
There are several articles written in the Mexican Newspapers about this story of my Great, Great Grandparents of which I do have. One time they wrote a full- page article in the Sunday paper for a month and told the story of each person in the well-known portrait of my Apache Great, Great Grandmother and her children and some of their spouses shown in the next image.
Number 4. In the photo, Lupe Teran de Murga is my Great Grandmother whose family has as far back as can be traced, lived in that area of Mexico. Lupe is my Great Grandmother, she married Nana Nella’s son, my Great Grandfather who is number 5 in the photo, Ascension Murga. Lupe’s sister married into the Arballo family who were close with the family. Lupe’s sister and her sister’s husband had a son Jose Arballo who married the daughter of Ascension and Lupe, so they are first cousins and June’s Grandparents. We called them Papa Che and Mama P.
Our Family Murga
Ascension Murga (Papa Chon)
June’s Great, Great Grandfather Juan Murga came from a wealthy family in the Southern Basque country of Spain and was born into a wealthy family who still has a castle in the town of Murga Spain. He was nicknamed Juan el Duro. Juan El Duro had an apothecary and store in Mexico and had several acres of land. He traded with the Apaches as they often came into Mexico.
One day they brought a very sick Apache girl who was 15 years of age to nurse her back to health. He was taken back by her beauty and although he was twice her age he began courting her with her consent. They asked to marry and the tribe refused their request.
She hid in the grain barrels in the store one evening and they fled in the middle of the night to another property he had in San Andres Mexico. They remained there and had 7 children. The Apaches vowed to find them and they did. They killed him with a bow and arrow through a window in their home and killed him. They banned Nana Nela from contacting the tribe again and left. After this experience the children took good care of their mother and each other. This ranch was later named among the magical lands of Mexico by the Mexican Government.
The family were good friends with Pancho Villa before the Revolution and shared with the family his idea for the revolution and asked if they could back him up financially. After discussion the Murga family were on board and financed the revolution and rode in the revolution with him as his right-hand men and Generals.
Pancho Villa and his army
Jose Arballo injured in the revolution with one of his comrades he fought with
My Grandfather Jose Arballo is right behind the chair with the eagle with the hat looking directly in front during the meeting of Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata.
Later the Murga family was not happy with how Pancho Villa was conducting things and were going to secretly leave. Someone shared this news with Pancho Villa and he was very angered by the news! He ordered every male with the last name of Murga to be killed down to the babies. He did kill Ascencion Murga and a couple others, but the rest of the family were able to go into hiding for several years until Pancho Villa was killed in the famous shoot out. Pancho Villa married into our family through Luz Corral. June remembers visiting Luz in her home in Chihuahua Mexico as a child a couple times as a child in their home which was turned into a museum.
The story of this family and their Apache roots has been written many times in the newspapers of Chihuahua Mexico, as they are a part of the making of Mexican history. Nana Nela lived to be 113 years old. Many of the family members lived into their 90’s and 100’s.
Jose Arballo and Guadalupe Arballo, June’s maternal Grandparents
June’s Father, Charles Rettinger fought in WWII as did his brother Ray Rettinger. Charles fought in Saudi Arabia and it changed his life as he befriended and immersed himself with the local people of the land. He became fluent in Arabic and Farsi which were two of the 6 languages he spoke. He became an interpreter for the United States. He spent all his time with the local people as they showed him their ways and beliefs which he took on for the remainder of his life. When he left the country, the people lined up as he walked passed them and the ladies gave him coins that were sewed into their clothes as he walked by. They helped him collect a rare coin collection of Persian and Arabic coins dating back to AD and BC.
Charles designed all his rings and bolo ties with the Anch, eye of Ra and scarabs. He had an amber ring that he had inscribed in Arabic that said there is no other God than Allah and used it as a stamp on anything his name was connected to. I painted it on his coffin that he requested be a plain pine box and he did not want to be embalmed. His brother was so moved by his request and funeral that he requested the same when he passed 2 years later. They both passed at 89 years of age.
Charles Rettinger
Charles Rettinger, Ines Rettinger de Arballo de Murga and my 2 brothers and sister before I was born.
Charles Rettinger was born in 1903 in Indiana and is of German descent. He was 58 years old when I was born and my mother 38). His vacations were spent wherever the Muslims traveled from the pyramids in Egypt to Spain. He loved to take the family camping and fishing. He was also a Poet, a writer, artist, ancient Arabic & Persian coin collector and a man who followed his passions.
His father Fredrick Rettinger came into the states as a young boy with his parents as immigrants from Germany. Fredrick met his wife Anna Swoverland and became successful corn farmers in Indiana USA. He had a rival corn farmer for a neighbor who were in constant conflict with each other. They would savatage land and set fire, very serious feuds. One day the neighbor and his 2 sons tied up my Grandfather Fredrick to a tree and whipped him so bad, he nearly died. When he finally healed and regained his health he took his shotgun and went into town where he saw his neighbor and 2 sons walking down the street and he shot the father right there in front of everyone. After this incident he spent many years in jail and every time his parole came the 2 sons used their lawyers to keep him in jail. Fredrick begged his wife to move on as she lost the farm and was doing laundry for people to get by. Finally, she agreed to divorce and she found a kind-hearted man and they had a child. The man she married passed away and finally Fredrick was released from prison and they remarried.
My father had a difficult relationship with his father so we didn’t see them. Charles and his brother Ray lived with his Grandparents all this time he was in jail. In the final years of my Grandparents lives they wanted to move in with our family which was the only time I had met them. My Grandmother kindly and attentively watched me and my sister play while my dad and his father argued and my father would not let them live with us. They passed soon afterwards.
Ray Rettinger and Charles Rettinger with their Grandparents who raised them. Junes Paternal Grandparents
