Chonteau McElvin

09/11/2025

09/09/2025

I posted this in our community the wild wider it’s such a special place for those of us on the trail of Earth centered living. It’s a space to witness be witnessed in the wisdom of the wider. I felt called to share this here.
Food does not lie

I am feeling great great grandma who was Apache. A small woman, her people of Mexico before it was Texas and before it was named by Europeans. I am cooking a sauce I don’t know how to make but making it. Corn tortilla dish with this meat sauce has Mexican tarragon, Mexican oregano garlic tomato sauce and cacao.

I feel her. I feel her hands, her silence, her fears of speaking. I cook her food, our food, as we redirect her currents and bring ease to her frozen.

I feel her in the smell of tarragon and the spice of the oregano. We are remending together.

I love you… always

09/07/2025

Feeling on the other side of my personal mycelium, that inner network, that composts old patterns, grief, and noise, recycling them into wisdom rather than letting them stagnate.

Took a walk at sunset and moonrise to be in the energy of what’s here.

Goldenrod, passionflower wild mints toothache plant where my companions, my teachers, and gave witness to my arriving.

09/07/2025

Peaceful rise. Today is a Blood Moon, a total lunar eclipse. What’s alive in the energy is the sacred pause. Rest in the in-between, and trust that what is dissolving is also preparing space for what’s to come.

How are fire, water, earth, mineral, and nature moving in your field? Having these insights may shift something: permission to shine brighter, permission to feel deeper, permission to trust with more fierceness. That’s what I hear from those who’ve received their Dagara Reflective Elemental Digital Guide.

If this eclipse season stirs something in you, I am available for Intuitively Guided Elemental Insights—a space to converge with spirit.

chonteau.com

09/06/2025

I can only speak for myself when I say Untangling myself I’m disconnected. Consciousness has been some of the greatest tangling. My route system has been through in years.

No longer relying on The language of a culture that doesn’t reflect wholeness has opened up incredible space in my system.

Creating my own glossary of utterances, rhythm movements, and flows to express what I’m thinking and feeling has been another layer of coming home to myself.

wholeness Consciousness does not detour Around abrasions and friction or even disturbances in the field. In fact it includes ALL our experiences, it actually welcomes every location the ones we know and the ones we don’t know.

it welcomes comparison, judgments and hate as sacred wisdom keepers on the path. I get to dance with the partners that are present and remember the steps they came to teach this time around.

~chonteau

09/05/2025

Nature in my lineage is not all the elements combine, it is the landscapes, the plants, trees animals kingdom, and insects. It is the wind the storm and the seasons.

Nature in transformation in its rawest form. It is the magic and the shapeshifting that only seeds of a redwood could understand.

Nature reminds us we are forever in a transformative state. Nothing is nature is fake, it’s impossible.

Within the Dagara Constellations Spiral Map Guide Booklet, that I created, when nature is your closet element you may be steep in life’s magic, in a time in your life when all facades are dropping their cloaks. Or perhaps you are seeding your ideas. It all ripens when we explore the other elements—fire water earth and mineral and how these constellations are showing themselves.

This insight is sacred architectural webbing and seeks to hold you in the unfolding of your life.

DM me to get started on your journey with the spiral of elements questionaire from this Afrikan restoration system.

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09/04/2025

When I’m close to my body, I’m listening to Earth. My body is soil reminding me of presence, worthiness, and acceptance.

This is an Earth year, in Dagara cosmology, and surely it’s hitting us all differently. Back in January I heard for myself “this year will be about the body” oh boy has it ever.

I’ve been in deep apprenticeship with my relationship to resources. I am reweaving old stories of scarcity held in my circuits. I am remembering what safety feels like when it’s not connected to getting things done or meeting goals. Oof…

My thread as an Intuitive has always been deeply connected to the Natural World. I don’t just walk with Earth, but with the whole tapestry of Fire, Water, Mineral, and Nature. That’s why the Dagara Elemental Constellation Map I co-created feels like home to me: I live it in my own body as I guide others through theirs.

Even as I was writing this, a raven feather landed in my path.

Such a sweet reminder: it is never one element alone, it’s never one person alone —it is the whole damn living field breathing.

This digital guide is accessible for those ready to understand a bit more deeply how the elements are speaking. Nope you won’t get step by step instructions to complete your next project and you won’t be able to use the custom ritual, to “fix” your challenges.

If you’re like me and value the beauty of unfolding, cherish wisdom that seeps in slowly and rises from within , rather than clobbers you and forces its way to the surface this Dagara constellation elemental map of BEingness will be for you.

I’m now accepting your completed Elemental Questionnaires, this will open the way to your digital guide booklet that I complete.

Link is in my IG bio. Or go to chonteau.com

09/03/2025

Remembering one of my native tongues is reweaving my entire fabric from the inside out.

It’s accessing an inner key that unlocks a sacred door to another aspect of my soul that held the codes to another layer of liberation.

I am not learning to be fluent. I am remembering to open what is ready to fly free.

09/02/2025

The Dagara Constellations Spiral Map of BEingness is not rooted in trauma-consciousness.

We are here to reweave this paradigm .

Consider you are not “out of balance” you are not “recovering” as the West would say.

Imagine your ecosystem is constantly realigning as it evolves. It’s constantly informing you of your seasons of death, decay rebirth and expansion.

Sometimes we just don’t want to listen and we would rather cling to paradigms that keep of separate from earth/home/I

If you’re ready for a different type of remembrance, one rooted in wholeness consciousness, African cosmology… lean into the Dagara Constellations Spiral Map . Link is on IG bio.

09/01/2025

I’ve been tending my fire’s inner portal in new ways—no longer trying to control it, but listening.

There was a time when the fire in me roared as heat, agitation, mental overdrive, and movement under the skin. It burned until I wept. That was its medicine then.

Now, what remains are embers… ash and coal—fire’s sacred compost.

This is how the elements move. They shift form. Each one carries medicine depending on how it’s showing up in your life right now.

This is the world of the Dagara Elemental Constellation Map—a sacred system gifted through ancestral guidance. It helps you locate where you are inside the rhythms of Water, Earth, Mineral, Nature, and Fire.

Reflections from someone who participated in the written ritual recently told me:

“This isn’t a map that fixes. It’s one that informs.”

Yes. In wholeness, we don’t need fixing. We need remembering.
Even chaos is sacred when it’s witnessed.

If you’re feeling a yes—there’s a ritual waiting for you.

Go to chonteau.com. Scroll until you see featured pathways- journey into the mysteries of the Dagara cosmology…
I’ll meet you there

08/31/2025

The thing about soul liberation is you reach a moment in your journey when needing to be apart of a system that extracts is no longer the want.

The acknowledgement from the system that dismisses you and had to be coerced to see my cultures value is actually not an aim.

So last night’s ritual was about liberation thru community and the elements, what I see the foundation of Afrikan Traditional Medicine to be.

I get to define how my lineage wants to be expressed and lives in me.

And…

When I share it, when I live it 365…others from the diaspora remember what it is for them.

ngyibonga

08/28/2025

Something quite beautiful has emerged in my field… it’s a tool to dance with, an opportunity to deepen into the medicine of the elemental world of African traditional wisdom. It’s a Dagara elemental constellations spiral map of BEingness.

Unlike some divination practices, we are not looking for disharmony, corrections of what may be out of balance or predictions.

We are feeling for resonance.,
The medicine is in the witnessing and what is ready to be felt, in the bones.

Here’s how it flows digitally:

When you step into the Constellations Map ceremony, we first gather some information. (complete a refections questionnaire)

I listen deeply to your responses, attune to the elemental beings, and allow their messages to emerge. From there, a simple ritual arises, something you can carry with you in daily life.

Via email , you will receive your personalized written living reflections packet gathered from your responses and the elemental spirits.

The Dagara elemental constellations spiral map of BEingness is a collaboration created between me, the ancestors and the elementals as this cosmology has lived me for the last 30+ years.

DM me for a link or go to my site chonteau.com scroll down to featured pathways and follow the prompts.

In love~chonteau