Browsing Archive: January, 2014

TANGLED DREAMS: Our Need for the Otherworld and the Romani Shaman

Posted by Jasper Lee on Tuesday, January 21, 2014, In : Romani Gypsy

‘We live within the knots of our tangled dreams, rarely emerging

from the depths we painstakingly create for ourselves.’

Patrick Jasper Lee, Romani Gypsy Chovihano and author.

In the accompanying photograph I am performing a shamanic healing ritual at The Goddess Show in Brighton, which took place around five years ago. It was a public affair, and although you can’t see them, there was quite a large audience watching the ritual up on the stage. The p...

COME FIND THE CHOVIHANO!

Posted by Jasper Lee on Tuesday, January 14, 2014, In : Romani Gypsy

'Follow the stream into the wood,' said the Gypsy Chovihano. 'There I will tell your fortune if you cross my palm with silver. You will need to find me first, and that will be your challenge. But if you follow the lighted path, lit by the otherworld, ancient dreams and the Spirit of Destiny, there I will be, waiting to tell you the story of your year. Shall you dare to come? You will be blessed by the spirits of old and your own Destiny if you can only find me.'

YEARLY READINGS up to the end o...
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DANCING STARS!

Posted by Jasper Lee on Thursday, January 9, 2014, In : Romani Gypsy

How beautiful the dancing stars! - '... my father explained that in his vision there was a sheet of pure blue silk and it was being stretched out across the earth by invisible spirit hands. Sometimes this sheet was smooth, other times silver coins were being tossed upon it like a great many dancing stars. He said that when it was being shaken by all those unseen hands, billowing and ballooning so beautifully, he couldn’t take his eyes off it. He knew we would all somehow have to fall upon i...
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from HORKI'S TALE: the exotic BEYOND A NEAR WATER

Posted by Jasper Lee on Sunday, January 5, 2014, In : Romani Gypsy

Through the narrow slits I saw the shape of a woman forming, the same woman I had seen in the water. I was seeing her more clearly this time. She was extremely beautiful, with big dark smiling eyes, and was covered in colourful veils and coins. I knew she was a spirit because I could see right through her ...

from HORKI'S TALE: BEYOND A NEAR WATER first in the trilogy THE LONG REFLECTION.
THROUGH FOREST MIST 2nd in the trilogy coming soon!
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