In this very special episode, I’m joined by my partner, Nore Davis. Grief can be hard, especially when you experience multiples losses in a short period of time. Nore shares how he navigates grief through his new understanding of ancestral veneration.
The ancestors don’t stop speaking just because they’ve crossed over. If anything — they finally have room to speak louder. Through dreams, signs, and sudden knowing.
Please understand, I don’t worship my ancestors. I honor them. I stay in relationship with them. And they stay in relationship with me.
The ways they speak:
In dreams that carry their faces or their voices.
In repeating signs — animals, numbers, words that come like echoes.
In gut instincts that hit like truth before my mind can even catch up.
In confirmations — sometimes through strangers who don’t even know they’re being used.
My great-grandmother Madear has visited me in dreams. She shows up for me and other family members when we need her. Also I think she does it when we need to remember our own strength. Sometimes to warn, sometimes to guide. Her presence feels like clarity — not fear. The world would call these coincidences. I call them conversations.
Because our ancestors were silenced for so long, many of us were taught to ignore these moments. We were told they were “bad” or “spooky.” But they are sacred. We are the first generation with permission to speak what they had to whisper.
If you feel your people speaking — trust it.
Build your altar.
Call their names.
Listen for the quiet ways they show up.
You don’t have to force it.
You don’t have to explain it.
The relationship continues.
Covered by spirit, guided by blood.
🎙 Listen to this full reflection now on The Practice of a Hoodoo Baptist.
