First let me say that I think traditions are generally mutually exclusive (perhaps with the usual exception for lunars). Traditions teach ways of dealing with spirits that are different from each other. Knowing how to do Waha's Giant Dance tells you nothing about how to make a Kolating fetish. That said, I can't find a rule directly on point. The net of the below is that the rules do not expresly prohibit a member of one tradition from joining another tradition as a spiritist.
Page 132 says that a practitioner must be a member of a tradition's core practice, but cannot be a member of more than one core practice. I think the most natural reading is that, if you join two traditions as a practitioner, you are joining two core practices, which is forbidden.
Note that the sentence applies to practitioners, not spiritists. So, potentially, you could allow practitioners in one tradition to participate in another tradition, at the low level of spiritist. I think this generally unlikely; if it is possible anywhere, it would be between lunar-affected traditions. I really cannot see a Waha practitioner / Kolat spiritist.
Usually, the way around this restriction is to join independent practices. (See page 132.) This allows, for example, my Horned Man shaman to join the local landscape independent practice of wherever he happens to be killing Outlanders. Note that the description of independent practices makes much of the fact that practitioners can join them, even though they are not part of the practitioners' traditions. I think this implies that you cannot join a practice of another tradition. Therefore, if you permit a practitioner to join another tradition as a spiritist, they cannot join the practices as a spiritist member of the practice. (See p. 135 for the rules on this.)
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