You are your ancestors returned
Your healing is their healing
You are your ancestors returned. When you heal yourself, you heal your lineage — those who have come before you and those who will come after you. Your ancestry, your lineage, is not only your genetics or family line. You also have spiritual and cultural ancestors and you may have intellectual or philosophical ancestors as well. Who are the people you keep alive through your life and work? Those people are your ancestors too and they’re all calling for healing now.
Finding your ancestry, having DNA tests done, digging back into historical records of the practices of those from your lineage is very en Vogue right now. It’s an important part of self-recovery, but not the only part. The truth is that we’ll never be able to pinpoint the entirety of our lines. The truth is that healing one’s identity in this world means nothing and is incomplete if we’re not led to the reality that we all come from and belong to each other, regardless of how we identify or are identified by others.
You are your own first. But then, you are everyone’s, not a select group’s (which in no way denies that we all need communities and tribes of common belief and experience). Many traditions celebrate these days (or most days) by encouraging people to honor and call out the names of their honorable ancestors and pray for energy and support, since they’re believed to be more accessible now than at any other time of the year.
Today, whatever you’re struggling with, go to your ancestors of all kinds. Ask for their help. Ask for their assistance in your healing and to guide you along YOUR path, not the path you think you SHOULD take if you want to honor them. Trust what they send you. They know things you don’t. Ase. 🙏🏼
