It’s natural for humans to want to get in touch with their family tree’s past. We feel them in our wisdom bodies on some level, which begs the question: are we able to have a two-way conversation with these beings?
The ancestors can help guide, protect, and heal the living by being invoked through daily prayer, meditation, the making of art, music, food, and ceremony. Ancestral healing is a time-honored practice in all world religions and philosophies. Ancestral contact is always open to you.
The days between Halloween (October 31) and Election Day (November 2) mark a pivotal turning point in the life cycle. The season of death and decay is halfway between autumn and winter. Because of this, it is a potent period for connecting with one’s ancestors. With the help of this article, you can plan a meaningful ceremony trip to connect with your ancestors.
Understanding the Past
There is a common challenge experienced by all Latinas, whether they are of the first or fourth generation when making contact with their ancestors. Assimilation, to be precise. To thrive, our immigrant ancestors had to adopt aspects of what is now considered “American culture.” Among other things, this would entail decreasing one’s use of the Spanish language and increasing one’s observance of American cultural norms, and leaving just shards of our history accessible.
Tracing your family tree and paying respect to your ancestors’ legacies can be an arduous and lonely process. For numerous reasons, it can be challenging to find reliable information when looking into one’s family history. But don’t obsess over it. Paying respect to one’s ancestors and the land on which one currently resides is an act of historical recognition. You can then use this information to fill out your family tree, analyze DNA, and solicit oral histories.
You need to start treating your family’s history with respect. Everything can be good, awful, and ugly. As horrible as it may sound, it’s true.
It’s OK to Communicate with the Dead (Ancestral Healing)
Thoughts on decolonizing our brains are a good place to start if you want to begin communicating with your ancestors. As people of color, we have been taught to fear. There is a lot of taboo about communicating with the dead or doing any activity related to the deceased.
How? Deal with the stories you’ve told yourself all your life, stories that have their roots in colonial religion and masculinity. The ability to communicate with the dead is a manifestation of the feminine. It’s a way of being open, receptive, and intuitive. Actions we were conditioned to view as wrong and ignored because they served to strengthen patriarchal authority and toxic masculinity.
The departed can no longer hurt you. You can limit your interactions with ancestors who don’t have your best interests in mind by setting firm boundaries with Spirit and your higher power. Consider which guardian spirit you’d like to have watched over you in the afterlife, then invite them into your altar space or prayers to do so. That can include everything from angelic beings to animal totems.
You decide.
Living in fear causes us to attract events and energy low in vibration. Particularly so in the ethereal dimension. Accept the reality of the shadows while confidently anticipating the triumph of light. Declare your limits to the supernatural world.
Retrieve Your Customs
Relating to your forebears is a personal and singular experience. Your family’s traditions will be unique from the norm. Honor the customs of your people and your close family when you create or reaffirm you’re ancestral practice. Using familiar models for your practice can be tempting, but putting your faith in your inner wisdom and the practices of your ancestors’ generations can yield better results in the long run.
You can learn a lot about the culture of a place by inquiring about its traditions and dishes from people who still live there. Ancestral healing reverence and spiritual activities can be better understood by hearing from living elders about how they were carried out in the past. If those don’t work for you, it’s OK to make minor adjustments or eliminate them.
Remembering is at the heart of the process of reclaiming. Roots-tracing can be challenging for various reasons, including integration, trauma, and distance. Reclaiming your traditions out of appreciation for your forebears is a noble goal, and doing so is a simple method to invoke their spirits.
Learn as much as possible about the region they lived in and the customs they passed down. Simultaneously, observe your current elders’ (your future ancestors’) way of life and learn any businesses you’d like to pass on to the next generation. Doing so, you forge a connection between the living and the deceased.
Engage Actively with the Elder Generation
Why wait till they’re all dead before you start honoring and working with your family? Involvement with current elders, who are, in essence, our ancestors, is a proactive means of establishing a link to the past. The afterlife-bound relationships are strengthened by this intention as well.
It’s natural to question if distant or unknown relatives would make contact with you after death. Most of the time, yes. Unless they didn’t believe in this job or they never crossed over. You can’t expect them to celebrate your decision to involve them in your spiritual work by throwing a party in your honor.
Ancestral healing may help you even if you don’t have a blood connection to them. However, their previous repertoire helps energize the call and get them in faster. Connecting with our ancestors is really good for us, they help you in many ways and also guide you. You get many answers from your ancestors. Ancestral healing is the process that helps you to identify how many ancestors are carrying DNA of blockages that are affecting you in your current life as part of the current generations.
Making a Spiritual Call to Your Family Tree
Building an altar, praying, or performing rituals are all excellent places to start invoking the spirits of the departed for help. Leaving out food and drink is a great way to invite people inside.
A sacrifice might be anything from the person’s favorite dish to a vow of loyalty. Creating an altar is a powerful way to establish a rapport with them. Create an altar that will serve the requirements of your ancestors. When they were living, what did they find most rewarding? Can you tell me which flowers brought them joy? What about caffeine and alcohol? Did they enjoy those? You can show them you’re serious about developing a spiritual connection by leaving items out as offerings.
Aside from praying to them, meditating about your ancestors is perhaps the quickest and easiest way to sense their presence. Spend 10-30 minutes meditating, calling out the name of the ancestor to whom you feel the most vital connection, and asking for guidance.
Conclusion
Allow yourself to be surprised. The presence of the Spirit can be felt as a gentle breeze or a cosmic slap in the face. Sometimes it happens right away; other times, it takes a while. Remember that the most important thing is your focus, determination, and intention. If you keep at it with a sincere spirit, the seeds you’ve planted will sprout. Affirmatively, have faith in the procedure. Greetings, and may the spirits of the departed protect and guide you
