write your ancestors

Words of Praise

Speak an ode out loud: 

   You are  ________

   You make ________

   You bring ________

   You are like ________

   Thank you for __________

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List making:

   All the beings/things who make your life possible

   All the beings/things you meet where you live

   All the beings/things you are made of

   All the beings/things you love

   

Deepen with Guides

QUESTIONS:

  • What is sacred to you?

  • Where is your homeland?

  • How do you live in the land?

  • What are your special gifts and powers?

  • What are your affinities? Do you have particular plants, animals, stones, or elemental forces you are aligned with?

  • What needs healing here?

  • How can I help facilitate the healing?

  • How do you like to be honored? What offerings can I bring?

  • How can I live your blessings forward in my life?

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Write the results of this conversation in any genre you like--

as a story, a theatrical scene, a comic, an epic poem, a song-- anything!

Language of Help

Write direct requests about at least three places in your life where you could use help. Use words like please.

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Speak aloud your plea for help to your ancestors, or share with others in the group to receive their co-intending that you receive the help you need (this last process learned from Rachel Naomi Remen).

Intuitive Connection

DIALOGUE:

Dominant Hand writes questions from your usual self

Non-Dominant Hand writes responses from your ancestors or guides or body or intuition

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NON-DOMINANT writing or drawing to channel messages from your guides or ancestors or body or intuition.

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WRITING LIKE DREAMING:

Stream of consciousness, present tense writing that flows out like a dream. Try "I am..." as your prompt and return to it as needed. (Carl Jung calls this Active Imagination.) Afterwards this can be interpreted as you would a dream.

Lineage Poem

In the moments after connecting with a lineage, capture its essence in short phrases, images, metaphors, or similes.

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Describe how your guides present themselves and make them come alive as particular characters. What shape do they take? What do they wear? How do they speak to you?

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Detail what it feels like to receive a blessing from these ones, step by step.

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Use specific sensory imagery to portray how the intuitive connection and communication works in your body/mind. 

Journal Tending

Track Your Dreams: 

Keep a journal by your bed and write down any scrap of dream or idea as soon as you wake. With persistent attention, your dream recall is likely to improve.

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Track Your Drop-Ins: 

Keep notes, writings, and drawings from any guided sessions, healing circles, or self-guided visits with your lineage in one place.

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Track Your Synchronicities:

At the end of the day, make note of anything that came up in your life, your body, or your thoughts that may be connected to the lineage you are tending.