Join us for our January Zoom séance!

 le Stelle

from Tarocchi di Vetro

by Elisabetta Trevisan

 

Our first Zoom séance of 2022 will be held on

Saturday, January 15

(1pm to 2:30pm Eastern)

 

Lightly facilitated space is held for peer-supported as well as private (cameras/mics off) communing with the spirit within ourselves and Spirit we dwell within.

Meditate. Write. Draw. Move. Sing. Divine. Rest. Listen. Share.
 
Bring note-taking or journaling materials.
 
Admission is free.

Donations are appreciated and accepted via Venmo or Zelle.
 

 For info and to RSVP for the link, just send me a message

via the Contact Eva form or on Twitter or Facebook.

 

The return of hummingwitch???

Eva Yaa Asantewaa

(Photo: selfie against white wall; Eva is a Black Caribbean woman elder with medium-dark skin, close-cropped grey hair, and rosy lipgloss. She's smiling broadly and wearing a black winter coat with a light-gold-colored knitted scarf around her neck.)

 

Hey, there, readers! 

This blog, hummingwitch, hasn't had a new post since 2015!!!! But I'm thinking of bringing her back!

In the meantime, I hope you'll visit my site here!

I hope your Samhain/Halloween was magickal, and I wish you a great late-year holiday season all around!

Many blessings,

Eva

Interview with Korean dancer-shaman Hi-ah Park

At the initiation ceremony, the minyong was placed leading onto the upstage portion of the house as a bridge between the heaven and the earth. To test my psychic ability and to determine if I could identify the deities who had descended on me, my Godmother and her assistant shaman, who serves as a messenger, sat at the end of the minyong, in a sense ending in heaven. A straw mat was placed downstage. Each question asked by the head shaman was repeated by her assistant. Instead of answering the questions directly, I began dancing. Then, kneeling down on the straw mat, I answered the questions orally. The dance seemed to heighten the trance state so that my answer came without thinking as if I know everything already.

The first question was, “If you become a shaman, through which gate will you enter?”

I started singing in an occult nature, previously unknown to me. Again I danced until possessed and knelt down to wait for the next question.

--Hi-ah Park as interviewed by Lauren W. Deutsch

Read more at:

Meeting With Sanshin:
An Interview with Hiah Park, Lover of the Mountain God
by Lauren W. Deutsch, Kyoto Journal, 1993

Spirit in Afro-Atlantic culture

Que viva Chango!: West African deities in the Americas
by Denise Oliver Velez, Daily Kos, December 4, 2011

Channeler requests questions for her next book

Shirley Humphreys Battie, author of the excellent guide book, Channeling, announces that she is preparing a new book based on questions and answers and would like your help.

She will accept questions related to spirit connections, our world, our future--but not personal questions best addressed in private sessions. A selection of these will be posed to her spirit guides and answered in her book.

You may remain anonymous or give her permission to use your name.

She writes: "Many grateful thanks. Now I will stand back and brace myself--ha ha!"

Contact Shirley through her Web site here.