To really deepen into our spiritual path, we cannot skip over working with our ancestors and ancestral lands. There are good reasons why indigenous and pagan spiritual traditions work with ancestors as an integral part of rituals and practices.
These practises have been mostly lost in the major institutional religions, which have in many cases dismissed it as ‘ancestor worship’, putting a stigma on these age old practices, although there are still traces of it left such as All Saints’ Day in Christianity.
Our ancestors want nothing more than to help and guide us and they are ready to assist whenever we call on them. They want to help us release and move beyond limitations and beliefs that they were unable to let go of during there time on earth, and they are now seeing things from a higher perspective. They want us to release the density and old thought forms so that they can be released through us. Some wounds and limiting beliefs that we carry may be from other lives or this life but some can just as likely be ancestral wounds.
I have found that many of my patterns and limitations surrounding money, work and responsibility is inherited from grandparents and great-grandparents. I couldn’t understand where my pattern of feeling responsible for others and not asking for financial or practical help came from. This is until I spoke to my parents about how my grandmother used to in effect support her family by working nights at a hospital while at the same time carrying out all of the house and childcare duties. She kept her head down and didn't ask or expect help. Although this is showing up slightly differently for me, it's the same pattern. There are rituals and release work that we can undertake to release these patterns and your ancestors will thank you for doing this.
I am also convinced that some souls or aspects of a soul may incarnate into the same bloodline or family tree several times. Although our oversoul and where our souls have been is not necessarily connected to our current blood ancestry, I believe parts of us are inextricably linked to our biological family trees and even to the lands that our blood ancestors inhabited.
My ancestors on my father’s side are from a region of Sweden called Dalarna (meaning The Valleys). We have an old family farm, in one of the villages in this region, passed down through many generations, with two cottages and lots of cherry trees. I used to spend most of my summers there as a child. Whenever I go there I feel a sense of belonging to the earth and the lands, and a groundedness that I don’t easily feel elsewhere. I often long to go there if I have been away for too long.
My feelings of belongingness to this place is not just cultural. There are other parts of Sweden that I have spent more time in, but that don’t have the same magnetism for me. I am convinced that it has to do with our DNA being linked to certain lands. I hear stories of people having a strong experience when visiting some of their ancestral lands for the first time. Again, it’s not cultural belonging as such since you might not have grown up with the culture of that place. Culture is on the surface level. This feeling is much more deep and rooted. It’s our DNA resonating with certain places. This can also happen on a soul level in terms of ‘past’ lives.
Ancestry is integral to the spiritual awakening process. How can we be rooted if we don’t connect to our DNA lineage in some way, and if we are not first rooted in our ancestral stories, how can we heal the wounds that we carry for our ancestors and look to ascend them? For those of us who live in parts of the world where the ancestors of the lands are not our own, you can still pray to and honour the ancestors of the lands you are on. They can help you to connect to your own ancestors.
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May the divine feminine rise from all ancestry lines...✨
