I'm Not Crazy I'm Clairvoyant‪!‬ Tonya Melendez

Tune in to this important and profound conversation about Decolonizing Spirituality, reclaiming African Spirituality and more with Verona Spence Co founder of Ancestral Voices.

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Do you have judgments about Tarot?

Perhaps you feel that it’s more of a game, or maybe even that there’s something “bad” about it. The associations we might have with Tarot often come from culture, a culture which has both appropriated and suppressed indigenous ways of knowing and accessing our inner wisdom. 

In episode 5 of I’m Not Crazy, I’m Clairvoyant we dive into why Tarot is such an important practice, why we need to decolonize Tarot, and how it can be used as a powerful spiritual practice that builds our intuition, highlighting in particular:


How Tarot is a symbolic map of consciousness that reveals information to us through symbolism, which is our first language
Tarot is an ancient divination system that we have inherited from our ancestors
How until very recently American Tarot decks were exclusively white-centric, and which ones to get to decolonize your Tarot
Tarot gives us access to our inner knowing and can be seen as a daily initiation practice
How to use Tarot to foster the development of our intuitive abilities



“Before there were words before we could understand putting-this-letter-with-this-one, we understood symbols. It activates our most primitive language, which is the language of symbols; the language of our soul. Sure, we can talk about Tarot for fortune-telling, but Tarot also contains and expresses so much of what is in our consciousness.” 

Tony Melendez,

S1 E5, I’m Not Crazy, I’m Clairvoyant Podcast 



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Do you sometimes feel like you’re not as aligned with your spiritual practice as you’d like to be?

Through the centuries of colonialism, white supremacy and patriarchy, spirituality has been impacted in myriad ways, and today many ancient practices have been reduced from what they once were, labeled as wrong or bad, or tainted by the booming wellness industry.

The path to reclaiming and rediscovering a spirituality that feels truly authentic to us is a profound inner process of inquiry and decolonization.

In episode 4 of I’m Not Crazy, I’m Clairvoyant we dive into the layers we have to explore around Black spirituality and the colonization of modern Western spiritual practice, the inner work of liberation, the role of community 


How spirituality was shaped historically to serve systems of oppression and the process of exploring what we actually believe versus what culture has taught us to believe is the norm
Why decolonizing our spirituality is decolonizing ourselves and the colonization of Black spirituality 
The inner work we need to do in order to liberate ourselves from the legacy of fear and shame and judgment around Black spirituality 
Coming into the right relationship within ourselves and with our community of Black and Brown sisters on the spiritual path
The role of rest and relaxation in emotional and spiritual growth and healing



“We have to think about what was meant by this spirituality in its inception versus what was it shaped to become in order to serve various different systems of oppression, and in the spirituality, I am practicing today, to what extent is this spiritual belief or this practice or this behavior really the roots of what I actually believe versus what comes to be known as the dogma or the reality of the spirituality.”  

Layla Saad,

S1 E4, I’m Not Crazy, I’m Clairvoyant Podcast 

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Do you second-guess information that comes to you that isn’t “rational”? Are you scared of acknowledging and honoring your intuition?

There are strong historical reasons that you might feel safer hiding your intuitive gifts, but here’s the thing: they matter. The time has come to liberate ourselves from the stigma and to normalize our intuitive gifts, to heal and guide and be able to support others.

In this episode of I’m Not Crazy, I’m Clairvoyant we dive into what this age is asking of us, where we’re coming from and what we need as intuitive Black folks and why authenticity is the new currency, highlighting: 


Living in the time of the cosmic healer (Chiron) and what that means for us
The age of Aquarius and the implications for our culture
The authentic self and the higher self; the wisdom of guidance from beyond the rational mind
Some examples of famous Black people who accomplished amazing things and who were in fact highly intuitive 
The journey your intuitive intelligence needs to go through of unlearning and decolonizing the mind in order to truly tap into your intuitive gifts


“The invisible world is extremely active and is always trying to connect to us. The question is, are we connecting to it? Our authentic self is our most intuitive self. This is a wake-up call for us to not fear ourselves any longer, but to acknowledge and accept ourselves. Authenticity is the new currency.” 

Tonya Melendez,

S1 E3, I’m Not Crazy I’m Clairvoyant Podcast

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Have you ever had the feeling of knowing something without knowing how you know it? Do you sometimes wonder where you’re getting information from? 

Intuition can show up in many different ways and because it’s not normalized in our culture we can feel like we might be going a little crazy when it manifests in us.

In this episode of I’m not crazy, I’m clairvoyant with special guest Ellen Edmundson, we talk about the experience of awakening to psychic gifts and the importance of honoring intuition and facing our own and other people’s fears and judgements about intuition, highlighting:   


Ellen’s journey of experiencing the world as a psychic who was raised Catholic 
How psychic gifts can feel conflicting to our belief systems when they start coming online and the process of softening resistance and opening to them
Intuition, mental health and recognising the distinctions in our experience 
How to deal with our fears about other people’s ideas about our gifts
Learning to trust our intuition and standing in our truth

“We go through this experience where we think there’s a break in our mental health when really it’s an awakening to our spirit. It’s that soul language that is saying, “Follow me”!”

Tonya Melendez,

S1 E2, I’m not crazy I’m clairvoyant Podcast 



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