Ancestral Divinations
The spirits call me:
The woman in the boat who meets others on the threshold.
I am an initiated diviner in the tradition of the Dagara people, an indigenous people and their lineage rooted in Burkina Faso and Ghana, West Africa, and brought to the West by elder and ancestor Malidoma Patrice Somé.
Stick divination is an indigenous, earth-based, shamanic modality of receiving answers from the spirit world. It is an 8,000+ year old tradition of ancient spiritual technology that connects one to the other side in order to receive guidance and direction that ‘opens the way’.
The channeled messages and rituals that you receive are intended to support you in facilitating alignment, creating clarity, and establishing the conditions for significant healing to happen.
While this medicine originated in Africa, it traveled to the West to help those with broken lineages heal their roots and (re)discover their ancestral gifts.
Divinations are powerful soul diagnostics.
They reveal what is in need of healing.
Through the power of divination, you are able to receive channeled messages from ancestors, guiding spirits, and elemental entities (i.e. the consciousness of mountain, earth, water) who wish to assist you.
The messages and rituals that are provided to you by your guides and ancestors will illuminate your healing path – and when completed in a timely manner, provide real and tangible results.
In your divination, you will receive direct answers to your questions/prayers, be offered powerful guidance from the ancient ones, and provided unique rituals to complete as part of your healing process.
What is a divination?
Divinations can assist you with…
Remembering your true nature
Aligning to your soul path
Illuminating opportunities for your expansion
Uncovering your gifts + activating your potential
Healing ancestral trauma and inherited patterns
Revealing the larger scope of your purpose on this planet
Divinations can be extra potent when…
You are at a crossroads, threshold, or life milestone
You are experiencing a spiritual emergency
You are asking deep questions about yourself + your life
You are feeling blocked or obstructed somehow
You are ready to heal limiting ideas and beliefs
You are wanting to do ancestral healing
Things to know before scheduling a divination
Divinations in this tradition provide both a personal reading and several unique rituals for your healing.
These rituals channeled in your divination are unique to your situation and questions, and should be considered an essential part of your session.
Rituals acclimate and (re)acquaint one with the larger rhythms and forces of existence. They also align the mind, body, and soul in order to enact a significant shift in one’s experience.
The rituals are usually nature-based, sometimes require a few ingredients that can be easily procured, and must be completed within a 5-6 week timespan in order to see results.
Rituals are where the true medicine lives, for you are the healer of your own wounds. They should be done with respect and reverence. Not completing your prescribed rituals is considered disrespectful to the ancestors and beings who are offering healing assistance to you.
The messages you receive are always illuminating. But your rituals are where the real change lives.
If my calendar is closed, you can try emailing me.
My way to the medicine
I came to divination through my own healing journey.
Right away, it was a medicine that astonished and awed me for the alignment, insights, and miraculous effects it generated. The insights and rituals that came through this ancient medicine struck a deep chord in my being.
These rituals and ancient wisdom ways propelled me through a powerful and necessary doorway in my own soul development – and along the way I experienced spontaneous healings, profound revelations, and a sense of purpose coalescing in a way that ultimately recalibrated my entire world.
My experience of the living world radically changed forever. For the better.
My spirit felt alive, rooted, connected, and healthy.
This medicine helped me remember the wisdom of my people, my body, the land. This medicine taught me how to be in respectful right relationship with myself and everything around me. This medicine taught me about taking responsibility for my life. This medicine showed me how to be here, how to walk with integrity, and how to show up for my community in ways that matter. It revealed my soul purpose and my ancestral gifts, and continues to expand me every day.
For those used to Western rational, linear constructs of ‘knowledge’ and ‘learning’ this way of communing with the intelligence inside everything might challenge your worldview completely.
For in this tradition, there is a remembering of what is sacred, true, and ancient.
This is earth medicine. And it is here to help us remember.
It is a great honor to be invited into this lineage and to be initiated as a diviner. I wish you every blessing and look forward to being of service to you, your healing, and your mission on this planet.
I offer this ancient medicine with deep reverence for those who walked before me.
It is only through the radical generosity, selfless devotion, and deep wisdom of my ancestors, teachers, elders, lineage holders, and elemental beings that I am able to share this incredible ancestral medicine with humans in the West.
My wonderful teacher Mark Bockley has been working and mentoring with the Somé family for over 40 years.
Deep bow to all those beings that I connected to through my teacher and his teachers: Malidoma Somé, Martine Somé, Narcisse Somé, Nahillé, and Papa Ellie. With enormous gratitude to the House of Bahkye and the House of Tampla.
A Note on Cultural Context
Yes, I am a white person working within a traditional West African lineage.
To be invited into this lineage is a privilege that I do not take for granted. While there is much to say on this subject, I wish to address a few (natural and normal) concerns about my work and its indigenous cultural context.
The Dagara lineage is a closed lineage, which means you have to be invited in and formally initiated to offer this medicine. Unlike many other traditions that have moved out of their original context, there is no way to join this lineage unless specifically invited by the spirits themselves. This invitation is corroborated through a double blind confirmation process that eliminates human bias.
There is no teacher training or certification for stick divination.
I have worked with this medicine personally for 6 years, and been initiated for over 4 years. I have been formally initiated 3 times over those years in order to work with several groups of beings and their particular form of divination.
I work with several groups of spirits: the ancestral realm, the wild ones, the water beings, and the Gina.
Almost every ancient culture has their version of the “wild ones” which is how we refer to the Wedeme, or wild ones, in this tradition. You might recognize them as fae, leprechauns, gnomes, or little people – and perhaps you too once had the ability to communicate with them.
It is humans who have forgotten that we are in a web of relationship that is so much bigger than us.
I also am initiated with the Kontumble, or beings of the water, and the Gina, who are celestial beings (also known as the Djinn). These different beings communicate in different ways, and offer me access into different realms.
Ultimately I find that the Dagara medicine uses any doorway it can find to speak and reach people. This medicine is an extension of nature itself – of the elemental soul of the world. This medicine wishes to bridge what has been broken – especially for those people who walk with fractured lineages, who do not have a connection to homeland, or have lost touch with their ancestor’s cultural traditions and medicine ways.
This is part of my work as a white diviner who works outside the original context of this medicine. I recognize and honor the privilege and responsibility of being welcomed into this lineage, and I walk with the blessing of the beings and elders in Africa.
For those like me who lost their ancestral root in the earth, who exist outside a true ‘motherland’, this medicine can help you remember what is more real, not what is borrowed or stolen.
I am always happy to refer you to a diviner of color if that feels better for you.
The Spirits
Payment Exchange
$175 - $350 USD
I offer divinations on a sliding fee scale to make this medicine accessible. Payment is paid via PayPal, Zelle, or Venmo on the day of your session.
If this is out of your price range, please contact me.
I offer reduced rates to those disproportionately impacted by wealth inequality on a limited monthly basis.
Keeping Your Spirit Appointment
If you want to book with me, please read this first.
I am asked all the time if I keep a waiting list. I do not.
There are many reasons for this – the primary ones being that I value my time too much to manage a list of people who may or may not be available on a last minute basis if someone does not show or has to cancel their divination.
Cancellations rarely happen.
However. I do sometimes have people who miss their divination because they do not accept the calendar invites sent to their email OR they assume that the times I provide are in their time zone, even though all calendar invites should adjust to the current zone you live in.
I book with people all around the world. It is not my responsibility to know your time zone. I live in EST and all times given are in EST. This is indicated in all my communication. It is your responsibility to do those time zone calculations, check your schedule, make sure you accept the invitation sent to you, and have done your preparation.
This is respectful to both me and your ancestors.
If you miss your session and do not provide notice in advance and still want to reschedule with me, I will require a non-refundable payment upfront to confirm your session. You will be charged 50% of the base rate (87 USD) for your missed appointment in addition to my standard rate for your actual divination session (200 USD) for a total of 287 USD.