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Ancestral Veneration.
This has been gaining a lot of traction lately, so I want to offer my experience to help others.
What is it? A Spiritual Practice of Prayer, Offerings and Communion with your Ancestors.
This has been gaining a lot of traction lately, so I want to offer my experience to help others.
What is it? A Spiritual Practice of Prayer, Offerings and Communion with your Ancestors.
Why do we do it? This is personal, like all spiritual practice you need to have an internal motivation to do it. But part of it is acknowledging that we are alive today because they once lived and loved. Not only do we share genetic material with them.
But we walk on the foundations they built. This can be a double-edged sword. Some people and families have better experiences than others.
A large part of this practice includes Shadow-work. Few people can say they have not experienced trauma to varying degrees.
A large part of this practice includes Shadow-work. Few people can say they have not experienced trauma to varying degrees.
Comparably this is a veritable age of Enlightenment, Security and Safety, at least in the 1st world countries. We have access to social programs to support us, medical care and secure housing.
Think of our Ancestors who endured War, Famine, Plague and Displacement from Homelands.
Think of our Ancestors who endured War, Famine, Plague and Displacement from Homelands.
What this means for the individual is inherited Ancestral trauma.
In my own family, my Ancestors fled from War and Genocide, while also experiencing the fallout from the Great Depression and food shortages. Trauma that has had to be confronted and healed.
In my own family, my Ancestors fled from War and Genocide, while also experiencing the fallout from the Great Depression and food shortages. Trauma that has had to be confronted and healed.
Shadow-work, Ancestral trauma release, Past-life regression and Soul contract release are all necessary to clear the field to be ploughed and planted.
We like our Ancestors are dealt a hand of cards. How we play those cards is largely up to Fate and Chance.
We like our Ancestors are dealt a hand of cards. How we play those cards is largely up to Fate and Chance.
The Awakened person seeks to bridge the gap between ourselves and the Ancestors, as a way to Enlighten and Liberate both the Self and the Ancestors.
Not all Ancestors are benefic, many will have opinions and beliefs that oppose ours. Life and the world evolves. Not all Souls do.
Not all Ancestors are benefic, many will have opinions and beliefs that oppose ours. Life and the world evolves. Not all Souls do.
However, as the person at the helm. You always have the autonomy to choose who you do and don't remember. Autonomy and Sovereignty in practice are key. And in may traditions to be forgotten is the final death. Only Beloved Ancestors need to be empowered.
So why, knowing all this potential 'bad' do we choose to actively pursue this work?
All I can offer is that healthy and healed Ancestors and Self are key to living a life of beauty and freedom.
When Beloved Ancestors are allowed to work with us they bring with them, love.
All I can offer is that healthy and healed Ancestors and Self are key to living a life of beauty and freedom.
When Beloved Ancestors are allowed to work with us they bring with them, love.
Our Ancestors are the Spirits that are closest to us. They were once Human. They lived in this world and understand human need and urgency.
They are invested in us as we are the continuation them. We Remember them, we speak their names and sing their praises. We love them.
They are invested in us as we are the continuation them. We Remember them, we speak their names and sing their praises. We love them.
By loving, knowing and remembering them. We empower their Spirits. An Ancestor that is remembered, loved, venerated and prayed to can become far more than a simple spirit or spectre. They become Enlightened, Mighty, Beloved, Powerful, Venerable and Sacred.
These powerful spirits are the closest aides and allies for Spiritualists and magical Practitioners. They are invested in us, and actively work to ensure our wellbeing and success.
The majority of people will find their spiritual Guardian or Guide to be an Ancestor.
The majority of people will find their spiritual Guardian or Guide to be an Ancestor.
These Ancestors largely are Hereditary, however, they can be Adoptive or Ancestors of Spiritual Initiation. The gap here is a lack of Cultural knowledge of how to care for them. Our society has drifted far from the spiritual and into the scientific.
Those of us who know are aware that we are saturated with the Spiritual. It exists all around us, our Ancestors walk beside us. We move through a landscape that Houses its own Spirits of Land and Place. Our Ancestors act as the Mediators and Guardians as we traverse the Unseen.
Ancestral Veneration is an act of Animism. The acknowledgment that all things have a Spirit, and that there are Spirits all around us. We are seeking to form working relationships with those Spirits. Our Ancestors are the Intermediaries.
By working with the Ancestors we strengthen our Psychic and Spiritual 'muscles'.
It's a reciprocal and beneficial practice.
In my own experience, my Ancestors are beyond doubt the greatest Blessing in my life.
As a child separated from my heritage and culture. I was unprotected.
It's a reciprocal and beneficial practice.
In my own experience, my Ancestors are beyond doubt the greatest Blessing in my life.
As a child separated from my heritage and culture. I was unprotected.
There was no one to teach me about my inherited gifts. I spent most of my young life ostracised from a family, that couldn't understand and feared a child who saw and spoke to Spirits.
It wasn't until I inherited a physical Artefact of a Powerful Ancestor, that I finally had an anchor to act as a beacon for connecting with my roots and Spirits.
For the first time, I had the context of why I had experiences that other people didn't.
For the first time, I had the context of why I had experiences that other people didn't.
By establishing an Ancestral Veneration practice. My Ancestors had permission and a Gateway to work with me and on my behalf. The random encounters I experienced with Spirits was drastically reduced. I no longer had to worry about what I would see around the next corner.
Furthermore, my Ancestors have and remain to be my most powerful and potent teachers. I have categorical success when working with things that my Ancestors knew and loved. Such as Gardening. The results I have experience gardening, pre and post Veneration practice are significant
While this might seem like a small thing. Really it is an example of the profound impact it can have. By no means do I have a Greenthumb. But many of my Ancestors do. This more than anything proved the impact and efficacy of Spirit work to me.
By comparison, the plants that I and by proxy the Ancestors care for, compared to my Flatmate are thriving. Even flowering and growing before and after their season.
This can simply be nothing sort of the Ancestors influencing those results.
This can simply be nothing sort of the Ancestors influencing those results.
Ancestral Veneration is an act of Love. Love of Self, Love of those we remember and the love that can travel through worlds and timelines.
Healing is an act of love. By healing our Ancestors we also heal ourselves and future generations to come.
This is an investment that rewards
Healing is an act of love. By healing our Ancestors we also heal ourselves and future generations to come.
This is an investment that rewards
To this point, I would like to make some recommendations.
Honouring your Ancestors: A Guide to Ancestral Veneration by Mallorie Vaudoise. Is an excellent book and my recommended text for those who are interested in Psychic and Spiritual Development, and a foundation for magic.
Honouring your Ancestors: A Guide to Ancestral Veneration by Mallorie Vaudoise. Is an excellent book and my recommended text for those who are interested in Psychic and Spiritual Development, and a foundation for magic.
Ancestral Medicine: Rituals for Personal and Family Healing by Daniel Foor PhD is an excellent work for establishing self-healing and initiation for the Self and Ancestors.
He also offers courses and training. https://ancestralmedicine.org
He also offers courses and training. https://ancestralmedicine.org
I can also happily say that I am now offering a one on one Ancestral Veneration Mentoring package, for those who are interested. in working with myself.
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