The Dreaming Table and Fire + Honey are offerings conjoint with spiritual responsibility. They are containers built in active relationship with Ancestors, Spirit, land, elementals, creativity, and collective liberation. This framework exists to articulate how that relationship is held, tended, and protected as well as offer shared language—not to prescribe belief. You are invited to enter with curiosity, respect, and an openness to multiple ways of knowing.

This is an invitation to walk with this work.

A living spiritual, creative, and communal praxis.

Ancestors at the Center

Ancestors are the foundation of this work.

When I speak of Ancestors, I am speaking of those who came before us, known and unknown, who are invested in our wellbeing, our healing, and the future of those yet to come. Across Indigenous cultures globally, Ancestors are understood as active participants in our lives, not distant figures of the past. Time is not linear: past, present, and future are always in conversation.

My own Ancestral practice emerged through decolonization, through asking what my people practiced before enslavement, before forced Christianity, before disconnection from land and lineage. Even when specific villages or tribes cannot be traced, this truth remains: African and all Indigenous peoples have always worked with their Ancestors.

My Ancestral altar reflects my lived reality as an adoptee. It includes:

  • Birth family Ancestors

  • Adoptive family Ancestors

  • In-love (In-law) family Ancestors

  • Ancestors I never met in this lifetime

  • Loved ones who crossed while we walked the earth together

I began simply, calling in:
“Ancestors, known and unknown, who wish to work with me toward my and the Collective’s highest good and with ease, I invite you.”

The relationship unfolded from there. Ancestors are consulted before offerings are designed, before space is held, and before others are invited into the work.

All Dreaming Table and Fire + Honey work begins by honoring the Ancestors first.

Spirit & the Spiritual Court

When I say Spirit, I am not naming a single belief system.

Spirit refers to what I call your spiritual court, the network and web of energies, beings, and intelligences that support you in moving toward your highest good and collective wellbeing. This may include:

  • Ancestors

  • Deities

  • Elemental spirits

  • Land and place

  • Nature and the elements

  • Faith traditions

  • Guides, dreams, and intuitive knowing

Your spiritual court may look very different from mine. That is welcome here.

This work does not require abandoning existing faiths or practices. Many people, particularly within Hoodoo traditions as well as witches, work with both Ancestral practices and Christianity. Others work with African Traditional Religions, folk traditions, or no formal religion at all. I personally do not work with God or Jesus, but I honor those who do and make space for any relationship when it is held ethically and without dominance.

What is required is mutual respect: honoring that others may move differently while sharing space together.

Creativity

Dreaming, imagination, play, writing, making, and world-building are ritual acts that:

  • Reopen Ancestral memory

  • Restore the nervous system

  • Interrupt colonial logic

  • Reactivate Indigenous ways of being

  • Activate future-oriented wisdom

Creativity is how people remember their golden thread- the unique medicine, spark, and collective responsibility we each carry.

Creative practice is used here to move people from individual remembrance into communal alignment. Art is created towards integration.

Divination

Divination in this framework is relational listening, not prediction or authority.

I entered divination through making not a mastery of inherited systems. Traditional tarot imagery did not reflect what I was seeing or receiving, so I created tools that allowed clearer communication with Spirit and Ancestors.

These divination tools include:

Divination is used to:

  • Identify what is asking to be witnessed

  • Surface Ancestral themes present in a group

  • Reveal where healing, repair, or remembrance is needed

  • Guide the shape and flow of creative ritual

When ancestral medicine emerges, healing is understood as simultaneous across:

  • The living participant

  • The Ancestor(s) present

  • The lineage

  • The collective

  • Generations forward and back

Divination is never used to override consent or personal agency.

Decolonization, Indigenization & Collective Liberation

Decolonization is understood as cyclical, non-linear, and lifelong. I work explicitly with Poka Laenui’s Processes of Decolonization as an orienting framework and a map to revisit.

I also name indigenization and collective liberation intentionally. Individual liberation that reinforces harm, hierarchy, or extraction is not liberation.

This work centers:

  • Communal responsibility

  • Interdependence

  • Repair when harm happens

  • Impact over intent

  • Liberation that expands safety for the Collective

Creativity, rest, dreaming, and joy are treated as legitimate sites of political and spiritual transformation.

Anchoring the Dream

The Physical Offering with each Dreaming Table Gathering

Every Dreaming Table gathering includes a physical and energetic offering you will receive after our time together. This offering is designed to support integration of remembering that continues once the gathering has closed.

You will receive:

A Custom Divined Collage

Created by Nyasha Williams through divination with Black Tarot, Elemental Alchemist, and other decks as called in relationship with your Ancestors and Ancestral team.

Each collage is centered on your Golden Thread: the remembering of who you are, your medicine, and your right relationship with yourself, the Earth, and the Elements. It is a visual map of your soul’s orientation, created to support Ancestral alignment, clarity, and embodied movement forward.

My relationship with the Golden Thread was first activated through Tori’s Follow Your Heart Oracle. Working with that deck returned me to a knowing that already lived in my body, a quiet, steady guidance that shaped how I listened, chose, and trusted what was being asked of me. Over time, that remembering became embodied, and the Golden Thread shifted from something I was following into something I was carrying.

The collages I create now are an extension of that journey. They are offered not as instruction, but as reflection; a visual anchoring of the thread that already lives within you.

A Custom Sound Bath

Created by sound healer Christina Ifurung in direct relationship with your collage.

Christina sits with the visual transmission of your Golden Thread and creates a custom sound offering designed to amplify, heal, and anchor what has been revealed. Sound is used as a medium of memory and activation supporting your nervous system, spirit, and body in returning to resonance.

Note: While the collage and sound bath may not be received on the day of your Dreaming Table gathering, they are created because of the time we spend together. The energy, insight, and movement of your Day of Dreaming informs what ultimately comes through. They are part of the integration arriving, when your dream has had time to speak back.

How This Framework Shows Up in Practice

Every Dreaming Table experience is different, but certain anchors remain consistent.

Before any Dreaming Table offering (individual, communal, or retreat-based), I enter divination and consultation sitting with:

Additional guidance may come through:

  • Dreams

  • Land and plants

  • Deities or specific Ancestors

  • Co-facilitators’ spiritual courts

  • Participant needs

Ethics of Holding and Being in Space

This work operates on clear ethical principles:

  • Ancestors are honored first

  • Consent is non-negotiable

  • No belief system is imposed

  • No practice is extracted or aestheticized

  • Power is named and tended, not ignored

  • Community safety supersedes individual ego

  • Accountability for self and others

  • Care for the Collective

Those who co-facilitate or collaborate are expected to be in active relationship with their own spiritual court and accountable to their impact. 

This is a space for remembering who we are, together.