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.
From the Publisher
The Ancestors Are Closer Than You Think
You may not realize it, but you receive ancestral messages all the time. Although this book focuses on using tarot for ancestor work, there are many ways our ancestors communicate with us. Once you recognize and open those portals, tarot will enhance them tenfold.
Feathers
To communicate with the ancestors, you’ll need to be receptive and begin asking questions. You’re going to get plenty of practice with tarot, but why not request a message the next time you see a feather? And there’s always a message. It may not always be from the ancestors, but when you chance upon a feather, someone’s trying to get your attention.
Waking Up at the Same Time Nightly
Before my mom passed away, she told me that after she was gone, she would communicate by coming to me in the night. And do you know what? I wake up almost every night at 2:00 a.m. If your ancestor is waking you up at the same time nightly, maybe it’s because they can’t get your attention any other way.
Smell
If you’ve smelled a fragrance from someone who has passed over, they’re letting you know that they’re close to you. As in my mom’s situation, the fragrance may be an aftershave, or it could be roses, lily of the valley, or cigarette smoke. We pick up on those fragrances as a reminder that someone we loved is with us. They want to let us know they’re around.
Which Ancestors Do I Want to Work With?
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.
Publisher : Weiser Books
Publication date : March 1, 2021
Language : English
Print length : 224 pages
ISBN-10 : 1578637414
ISBN-13 : 978-1578637416
Item Weight : 10.4 ounces
Dimensions : 6 x 1 x 8 inches
Customers say
Customers find this tarot book excellent for exploring ancestral patterns and connecting with ancestors. The writing is clear and well-structured, with one customer providing step-by-step directions for interpretation. They appreciate the healing aspects of the book, with one review specifically mentioning its effectiveness in addressing generational wounds.
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