Healing with the Ancestors
Ancestral healing, animism, and earth-based spirituality for queer folx, the post-religious, and the witchy-curious.
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Dancing into Darkness: Autumn’s Call for Balance and Grace (opens the original)
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Your Altar Is Not an Escape Hatch (opens the original)
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Queerness Is Sacred Medicine for Our Families and Ancestors (opens the original)
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So many queer folks are taught, directly or indirectly, that we are the family rupture.The black sheep.The secret.The disappointment.The one who “broke” the family story.Sometimes that message is loud: spoken from pulpits, written into family silence, enforced through rejection, shame, or estrangement.Sometimes it is quieter. A glance. A skipped conversation. A carefully avoided pronoun. A sense that our fullness is tolerated only if it remains small enough not to disturb anyone else’s comfort.A
Community Ritual and the Sacred Work of Belonging (opens the original)
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Tending the In-Between (opens the original)
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Summer Blessings, dear friends,We just passed Lughnasadh on August 1st, which places us halfway between the Summer Solstice and the Fall Equinox. This special cross-quarter celebration is known as the “First Harvest” and marks the beginning of the harvest season. It honors the potent fire energy of the sun, bringing us the warmest days of the year before we gently begin tipping toward the Fall Equinox. And in the coming weeks, we will begin feeling both cooling and slowing as the fire energy beg
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