Product Description
A practical, hands-on guide for using tarot to connect with your ancestors and gain access to their insights for healing, self-protection, and personal powers.
With a tarot deck in hand, readers will learn how to identify and access ancestral gifts, messages, powers, protectors, and healers.
Tarot expert Nancy Hendrickson guides readers through the basics of finding recent ancestors, and navigating the confusing maze of DNA and ethnic heritage. As a longtime tarot enthusiast, she shows readers how to incorporate a metaphysical tool into a world of tradition.
Ancestral Tarot spreads are included in relevant chapters. Each chapter includes three journal prompts that lead readers into self-discovery around ancestral gifts, wounds, and patterns they may have inherited. The better we know our ancestors, the better we know ourselves.
Time to discover something about working with the different types of ancestors. Remember that the group of ancestors you work with today is going to change over the course of time. You always have the choice of working with whomever you choose—or not. This spread is just an intro to what you might expect from each of the three types of your ancestors. Think of this exercise as a version of speed dating—which contestant do you want to spend more time with right now?
Shuffle the entire deck and draw three cards, asking what you need to know about working with each type of ancestor. Who might be best for you at this time?
As you go deeper into Ancestral Tarot work, it’s likely that you’ll want to invite more ancestors onto your team. I have created, while inner journeying, my own version of a Council of Elders. These are the ones in Spirit (human and nonhuman) who came forward when I asked for help.
Members of the Council are volunteers who can come and go at will. In fact, once a “job” is complete, the one who helped with it often gets up from where they’ve been sitting and walks off down a trail.
If you haven’t created an Inner Sacred Space or taken an inner journey, now is a good time to do that.
In my own meditative journey, I go to a place with many portals. One of them is a wooden door that leads into a forest. Beyond the door is a clearing and a fire ring. There I can find the ones in spirit who have come forward to work with me. Three of them are always there while others come and go.
As you continue this work, your journeys will take you to places you may not recognize or even conceptualize. Your guides may live in a cave, up a tree, in a spaceship, in an old urban building, or under the sea. If you see your stuffy and staid Uncle Mart in a tree house, climb up and join him.
