Having Fun With Spirits

I believe I was about ten years old when I realized I had some kind of ability to connect with those who had or were passing on to the Ancestral Burial Grounds. It scared the hell out of me and I instantly suppressed it. We were coming home one day from dance school, me, my sisters, and my mother, when she saw a note in the door. She read it and said, "It looks like a phone number for Virginia." Without taking a breath I blurted out, "Grand Daddy died." The entire hallway felt like it went still and then I said, "Nah nah nah, probably not." Saying that allowed everyone to move again. "Grand Daddy" was my father's father.

My mother opened the door and immediately went to call the number on the note. Before I could get my coat off she came in the room and said, without a thought for my fragile mind, "Grand Daddy died." And once again the movement in the space seem to freeze. All I could hear in my head was, "You did that. You killed Grand Daddy. Why did you say anything? You did this!" I recall expressing this feeling to my exhausted mother and being told, "You did not make that happen. That was just a lucky guess or maybe you felt him." However this was not enough for me to forget the incident and it sat with me for years...until I started high school.

I started hanging out with a girl who became like a sister to me and she introduced me to tarot cards and Obi (Coconut Shell) Readings. There was never a fear of the metaphysics, I knew however that I did feel a fear of others knowing about the activity. So we did readings in her basement and eventually I got my own cards. Still, it wasn't something I felt I was good at. My heart was set on being a successful dancer! And I was! I have toured Italy, Senegal, Guinea, Puerto Rico, and more for FREE as a performing artist in various dance companies, solo, and with my own group. Then everything kind of changed for me and things took a different direction, completely.

When I had my last three children, I had no idea that they would be emergency C-sections and a set of twins. So this took a huge hit on on my dance businesses. My dance studio closed, my dance company became inactive, and even started to turn on me and form their own little groups using my choreography while I was unable to perform. It was a very eye opening time in my life. About two years after the birth of my twin daughters and then my son, we realized they weren't developing at the speed of other kids. Turns out they had Autism (ASD 2), ADHD, and were non-verbal. This was a mixed blessing. I was able to maintain while unable to work due to the Social Security, however, I was unable to continue to dance the way I could before. I was way heavier and easily winded which wasn't good for a professional West African dancer. On top of that, we moved from New York City to Statesville, NC. Pretty much I was beginning my career from the bottom again...well sort of. I did (luckily) have some kind of a reputation and it did help me once I climbed out of depression to get back to teaching classes. The depression was of course only temporarily suppressed.

Past traumas and issues began to rise back to the surface and I couldn't find my footing. Waking up crying for no reason, crying pitying my youngest kids, sad my oldest didn't have siblings she could talk to and play with, guilty as if it was my fault, especially for their father because they were his only blood children. So yeah things got real dark, as I attempted to out run clouds. Though I had been taking some bookings here and there for readings over the phone, but nothing really steady. I still didn't fully have a trust in my gifts, nor did I understand them. This see saw of emotional distress seemed to have no end....and then I'd do some healing and then hit rock bottom and then get some healing and then I found out I was Vitamin D deficient and this was causing my teeth to chip. A dentist removed all four of my front teeth and then some bottom ones. They gave me dentures because I had Medicaid and I guess people who are on Public Assistance don't deserve to have a secure smile.

My first breakthrough came one day when I started a certification course in Chakra Dance For Healing. This program was one of the most memorable moments in my life where I felt myself reconnect to Source Energy, my Ancestors, and Spirit Guides on a deeper level than ever before. I danced into the light and ever since then it has been an uphill movement. I joined The Holistic Business School and the rest was history. I started to transition into a new career as a Life Coach. Long story short, I became a certified Master Life Coach, Intuitive Guide, C.M.T., N.L.P., Reflexologist, and then some on top of the Chakra Certification. Immediately I started to teach my FEMhealing African Dance classes and then COVID hit. All the dance studios shut down and the theaters closed. All of my gigs were cancelled and classes postponed. So I almost sunk back into my hole, but not this time. The breakthrough I had had, was just soo off the hook there was no going back. This time instead of drowning I simply plateaued until the next uprising in my energy.

I became dedicated to the uplifting of women through tarot, oracles, and meditative dance. The rest is history. I have been teaching courses in inner knowing, and bringing closure to people's lives through intuitive guidance. Recently, I was getting the feeling it was time to slow down and so I took a break. During this week, I started to look at my other projects and one of them was to start writing books and getting oracle cards published. So I am not very patient and I began to buy blank cards on Amazon to turn into my own channeled oracles. This little fun hobby became a passion. Like I get up in the morning and want to work on my cards. I use some of them in my readings and I cleanse them with my crystals as well as instill some of them with copper chips. I have soo much fun drawing, channeling and just chatting with Higher Powers...it is addictive! So now what was done for fun and to bring me out of funks has become something almost in high demand! People ask me how much do I charge for an original deck. So far, I haven't sold any yet...I must admit...it's hard to let any of my original creations go. Eventually I plan to sell them but not yet. Not yet. For now, it is my way to speak to my Ancestors and connect to other realms, while assisting people with finding direction in their life's journey.