Born the daughter of a stable hand in the city of Adeluna. She grew up as typical child of the common class. When she was not helping her mother about the house she was playing in the streets with local children. Or exploring the city streets and getting underfoot of traffic caused by their betters. She might have keep up this sort of life style apart from one thing which made her life take a slightly different turn.

Her elderly neighbor a woman by the name of Fausta was the healer and midwife of their local area. She was elderly and while she was sound of mind her body was not what it used to be. Being aware of this her mother would lend Araceli to help her with house hold chores and the like. It was then Fausta discovered that the girl was passably clever despite the lack of education. She took her under her wing, when she was not doing chores she went with Fausta to visit patients who requested her presence.

Most of the knowledge was of herbs, and simple potions and cordials coupled with things Fausta had picked up along with the way though years of experience. In one way Fausta differed from others was she perhaps oddly for the time and place insisted on cleanliness, washing her hands before touching a sick patient or a woman in labor, she had no idea what the cause of this was but she had learned that it stopped many people from catching certain sicknesses and passed that knowledge on to Araceli.

She also learned folk lore for what the sex of a child might be, or what the correct way to to predict when a woman might conceive and when she might not, as well has how to remove an unwanted child from the womb provided the pregnancy had not progressed to much. Araceli proved to be an able student and when Fausta eventually died Araceli took her place, her home often times having visitors in need of her services