It All Started with an Edible

On Memorial Day 2024, I took an edible, which I'd done many times before, but something was different about this time. I received many images in my mind that I had to write down, and that led to an hour+ of channeling messages I received from my ancestors, starting with my mother.

But let me back up a little bit. I've had dreams and visions since I was a kid. I'm a vivid dreamer, and often lucid dream. There was even a time in my life when my dream life was so active and overwhelming that I prayed for them to stop, and you know what? They did. But after some time had passed, I wanted them to come back, and I prayed to have them return, and slowly over the course of a few years they did. And now they are stronger than ever.

I've often received prophectic messages that I've been compelled to share with people throuughout my life, and as I've gotten older I started channeling messages from my Spirit Guides (I'll dive in to what this means another time), my Higher Self and ancestors. While I'd never experienced anything as powerful as my ancestral channeling exsperience on Memorial Day, it wasn't a foreign idea to me.

Although I'd never consider myself an artist (I used to have my friend do my art homework in middle school, that's how bad of an artist I am), I love playing in paint and painting abstract art and I'd even started drawing out some of the vivid images in my dreams. I mention this because I believe all of these experiences primed me for the channeling experience I had with my ancestors.

Back to Memorial Day. Leading up to that day, I was having a hard time, and feeling disconnected and my ancestors showed up right on time! My mom died almost 6 years ago, and although I often feel close to her, I never spoke to her directly when I spent time at my ancestral altar, it was just too raw. But when I started channeling their messages, my mother was the first one to come through. There's a lot that happened during that experience, and I'll share more about it as we go. But the main thing to know right now is that each of my ancestors showed up with their own colors and symbols that represented who they were/are to me, and I wrote them down. Not only that, but I received all kinds of images from animal spirits and others that represented my connection to myself, Spirit and ancestors.

This blog is dedicated to the images I channelled during that experience. I'm still processing a lot of it, but I will share as I begin to understand more. But I really felt like my drawings and images needed a home, and I want to pay homage and respect to my ancestors.

The first set of drawings are dedicated to my mother, Brenda Parham. Just typing her name stirs up emotions and longing in my heart because I still miss her. But her presence in these images are bringing me so much peace, warmth and helping me feel more connected to her. Anyway, when I was a girl, my mother loved PEPSI and doublemint gum, and all of the images that came through that represented her were old school PEPSI machines from the 70s and 80s, and they turned into Crayola crayons. And the PEPSI machines were in different colors (including Doublemint gum green), that represented different aspects of my mother. So the first series of drawings that I'm sharing are dedicated to her. I love you, Mama!

Join me for this ride as I share the images and art from my ancestors and the creation process.