Aislinn Kerchaert & Cliff Taylor share about becoming the human you incarnated to be, with the help of the Little People. You’ll also hear about: How Aislinn’s life changed after a fairy spoke to her That we all have Spirit helpers and Spirit friends Advice on how to begin your connection to, and introduce yourself to the Little People And we take a moment to acknowledge the work and efforts of Malidoma ♥♥♥ Join The Earth Speak Collective Membership! Join like-hearted folks in a sacred container and community where you'll: Connect deeply to yourself, others, nature & spirit Learn to trust your intuition Activate your Earth magic Expand your healing & divination skills Put your intuition into practice in everyday life Stop feeling lonely on your spiritual path Embody & express your creative power & truths Experience safe space without agenda or judgment When you join the Collective, you get access to all of our past workshops, any live workshops happening while you're a member, live weekly energetic reset calls, monthly community rituals, all the secret episodes, member-run meetups to explore magical topics, and a lively members-only forum (that's not on FB!). ▶▶▶ Learn more and sign up for the Collective membership here: https://www.earthspeak.love/collective ***** Aislinn Kerchaert is an Initiated Kontomblé Voice Diviner, Artist, Poet, and Healer. Over the years, her work with Spirit, ancestral healing, and earth-based ritual has touched an ever-growing community. Her community membership program, The Shrine of the Heart, offers monthly group ceremonies and divination with the Kontomblé, who are the little people of the earth. Together, they hope to create a space of play, a space of sanctity, and a cocoon of transformation for beautiful souls to dive deep into the waters of their creativity and discover the treasure chests waiting there to be shared with the world!Cliff Taylor is an enrolled member of the Ponca Tribe of Nebraska. He is the author of The Memory of Souls, a memoir about the Sundance and his life/walk with the little people. He currently lives on the Oregon Coast, where he is hard at work on his next book, an essay collection titled What Being Ponca Means To Me.    In this episode, we talk about: What would change if we could see through the eyes of our ancestors Who are the Little People How Cliff re-connected to his relatives and found the community he had been hurting for Aislinn shares her grief over the recent passing of Malidoma When Cliff first realized he walked with the little people, after a divination offered by an elder The Little People as helpers, teachers, and protectors On the genocide of the Indigenous people of the Americas On becoming the human you incarnated to be How the Little People carry the ceremonies and way of knowing, often lost to the living On re-remembering and reconnecting to the otherworld New Orleans as a portal to the otherworld On how Aislinn’s life changed after a fairy spoke to her That we are conditioned to deny our connection to the Spirit realm The Little People as bringers of culture and teachers of ritual The demonizing of little people by the church Why colonization seeks to break our connection and make us afraid of the Little People and the otherworld How the fulfillment of our purpose satisfies all beings On opening the door to our own potential Misconceptions of the Little People as dangerous and mischief-makers The little people as the hidden powers of the world We take a moment to acknowledge the work and efforts of Malidoma Kontamble as the mc’s of the party Walking between two worlds That we all are events of divine spiritually How the kontamble and the Little People brought Cliff and Aislinn together Aislinn's spiritual boot camp as a tea leaf reader Building a language of communication with the otherworld and the Spirit realm How Aislinn received an initiation and immersion into voice divination Bearing witness and respect to the beauty of the Earth Th