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You are not forgotten…you are never forgotten
I was going to wait to tell this story until we’d delved into some of the more hands-on aspects of ancestral work. But, for reasons that should become clear in the coming weeks, I’ve been told the time is now… As the sun began to hang low over the city and dip down beneath the hat of Billy Penn, the young couple made their final farewells to family. Seven months heavy with her first child, Beatrice knew that this would most likely be the last time she saw her parents and her four younger siblings—her whole world until mere months ago—before her own child was born. She knew this…
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Some Thoughts on the Full Moon Lunar Eclipse*
Hello dear ones. Just a quick post today, as I felt called to provide a few cautions in the wake of the crazy eclipse energy swirling around us. The lunar eclipse this afternoon will be a big one—the longest lunar eclipse of the entire century. We are being thrust into the heart of the storm. This full blood moon lunar eclipse can herald conflict and strife, but also growth and change. With the fireyness of Mars retro in play, we’re feeling the heat, and it’s stirring up all of the muck, for good or for ill. We can use that energy to burn off what no longer serves us—release those…
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What is Ancestral Healing and Why Would We Want to Practice it?
Well, I’m not the most linear-minded person, but I thought I’d make some effort to start at the beginning, for those not as familiar with this work! Welcome to the world of ancestral healing… Ancestral healing operates on the principle that whatever an individual experienced during their lifetime, some energetic imprint of it remains and can be handed down through the generations (and possibly also has physical, tangible effects on our biology, as well, but we’ll look at that when we dive into epigenetics). What is handed down may be a legacy of joy and love—it does happen! But more often we encounter an inheritance of pain and suffering, trauma…
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Welcome to the Sacred Work of Ancestral Healing
I am Tara—named for the rocky home of the ancient high kings of Ireland—and I’ve been consciously performing ancestral healing work for about 15 years, now. In a broader sense, I’ve been doing it my entire life. I was always the strange, off-kilter child who was more interested in hearing about and investigating the spirits and history of my places and people than playing games with kids my own age—more interested in spending time with the dead than the living, and I’ve always held the historical/familial/institutional memory for any group that I’ve been intimately involved with. But about 15 years ago I dove into the deep waters of more focused…
