Spare Shon a few thoughts during the full moon on this Valentine's Day.

February 14, 2014


A full moon on Valentine’s Day! Romance in the air! Is this an auspicious omen?

For some of us, yes, for others, no! Shon has all the power if she is full. When she whispers into Kam's ear, she will influence him. Queen of romance, queen of dreams, queen of emotion - which includes water! She is powerful at the moment. When the moon is full there are changes in the air, for the immortals in heaven, and for the mortals here on earth. Expect a change after this full moon!

Many of us are being challenged. Prompted by the extreme weather conditions, initiated by the likes of Kam and Shon, which have been occurring all over the world, we are being asked finally to decide where our own love lies.

We have been asked lately to think more clearly about what is taking place 'out there' in nature, and that brings into question how much we love nature! Do we love nature? How much does it take us to see what the natural world is really all about, that there is a power at work here that is literally millions of years old, and that this power may be even more powerful than we believe? Where do our loyalties lie: with these spirits who guide our overall fate, which governs our (sometimes) unwanted experience, or with the mundane, somewhat safe, mortal needs which cause us to direct our attention elsewhere?

When Shon, the Spirit of the Moon, is full, she joins in with what is going on in the rest of the universe, and there is a lot going on at this present time! Here on this Valentine's Day a new influence comes into our lives, which some of us might already feel resonating - should we allow it to buzz a little in our veins. The spirits of the natural world are with us, and will keep on luring us to slip back into their ancient world.

As Shon the moon, our ancient mother whispers in the ear of Kam the sun, her lover, we are invited to think about them, and to perhaps step up a gear in the way we perceive them. In days gone by we copied these great lovers of our universe. 

For this reason let's remember that we humans are not the only beings here in the universe: that other beings and spirits exist all around us. Just look up into the sky when the stars are clear, when the moon is full and bright, when the sun is shining, when dawn brings the golden light. All of these beings and spirits have living beating hearts just like you do.

Send a kiss to the two great lovers up there in the sky. Acknowledge the wake-up calls and the reality checks they are bringing at this time. We perhaps need to make it a safe place for them to act out their eternal courtship in the sky. And the moon being full at this time, brings a message of feminine love, romance, care, passion and hope for our souls. Acknowledge that.

Welcome Shon's influence during the full moon on this Valentine's Day.

 

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

January 21, 2014

‘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...


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COME FIND THE CHOVIHANO!

January 14, 2014


'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!

January 9, 2014


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

January 5, 2014



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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THE MULESKO DUDE - Will o the wisp of the woodlands.

December 30, 2013



‘Take care, tikni,’ said the old Chovihano, ‘the Mulesko Dude (will o the wisp) may be watching you, for we are still within that seam that sits between the old year and the new. Kam, the spirit of the sun, is yet just a baby, and the veil between this world and the next thins and beckons, like a veil floating unnoticeably all around you.

Should your spirit remain strong, however, you may not become enchanted by the lights that hover over marshes, those which haunt the woodlands at this...

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THE OLD GYPSY GHOST, a ghost story for the Yuletide fire, by Patrick Jasper Lee

December 24, 2013



There was a large wood in a beautiful part of the land. And there were two ghosts: one who haunted the first section of the wood where the cars parked, and another who haunted the second section of the wood where the river ran.

And there was also a ghost who was called the Old Gypsy Ghost, who haunted the whole wood.

When the first ghost who haunted the first section of the wood jumped out on people, they did not react. No matter how much noise this ghost made, how much lit...


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A special review on the new version of WE BORROW THE EARTH, and a lot of thoughts!

December 15, 2013


Reviews are a heartfelt statement, at least to me, because the words reach other levels...

'... W
hen I learned that he [PJLee] had rewritten some parts [of We Borrow] and also added to it, I knew that I just had to have it.'

'I did not just find it [We Borrow] fascinating because of the content but also because of the lyrical way Jasper writes. His writing transports you to other worlds, both literally and metaphorically.'

'Dare to read this book [We Borrow] and understand what an intricate, edu...

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BOKT: a Romani Peek at Friday 13! How does it affect you?

December 13, 2013



Bokt
(luck) is on the menu again! The apparently unlucky Friday thirteenth phobia has been called friggatriskaidekaphobia (Frigg being the name of the Norse goddess for whom Friday is named, and in English and triskaidekaphobia meaning fear of the number thirteen), or paraskevidekatriaphobia (Greek) – at least according to Wiki. Don’t try to say them all at once! But let’s take a Romani Gypsy look at this interesting date.

Friday thirteenth wasn’t considered to be a popular unlucky d...


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THE ROMANI NUMBERS SERIES for the Kamesko Bersh period.

December 12, 2013



The Eight is an excellent number. It symbolises harmonious rapid movement, and in the Eight Wands we are moving through the air over water. This symbolises that things may happen quickly in association with travel of some kind. The goal you have been seeking is near. As we are focusing on the Kamesko Bersh period at the moment and Midwinter, we need to remember to allow the old to disappear as we prepare to take on the new. We don’t want to incorporate old feelings into the...


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About Me


Patrick Jasper Lee Here I am often on the telephone connecting this world to the otherworld. Here are my observations, reflections & dreams about the way it all is.

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