Communing With Your Ancestors

Moments in the Flow--A Meditation and More

Hello Again,

During this October Ancestral Theme, we’ve explored many ideas, beginning with reawakening ancestral memory and moving on to topics including Ancestors and Past Lives, Ancestral Customs, and more. As the beginning of November arrives, we may hope to connect with an ancestor to receive a message, commune with beloved ancestors, or meet an ancestor from the distant past.

Choosing the Time

The timing now is right. It is easier to connect to those who’ve passed over because the ‘veil separating the worlds is thin’.  But not every spirit that comes through the veil is part of your family line or comes with love and good intent.  It’s important to know a way to embark on this journey that will bring a safe, positive result. 

For this reason, we also may bypass the deeper intensity of ‘All Hallow’s Eve’ and choose to do our ancestor connection ceremony on November 1^st or 2^nd.  November 1^st has been called All Souls and All Saints Day and is celebrated through November 2nd as the Day of the Dead in Mexico. This allows us to have a more auspicious time to respectfully connect with those in our lineage who have passed on.

Day of the Dead costume, lisaleo on Pixabay, some AI content

However, if the desire is strong, we can choose to commune with our Ancestors at any time.  

A Guided Light Meditation

For this purpose, I have recorded an Ancestor Connection Meditation. It is just under 30 minutes and has some explanations and instructions at the beginning.

You are welcome to download and save the MP3 link. For the first time, please listen from the beginning. If you use it again, you can bypass those opening communications if you wish. The meditation begins 5 minutes into the recording.

The technique uses light, color, frequency, and the ‘effortless effort’ of thought. It is a modified version of tools I was taught over my 6+ years in the school of Actual Design. I highly recommend their training in this Agni Yoga lightwork.

Before you begin the meditation, it is a good idea to set the intention for what you want to experience. Choose a location and time where you won’t be disturbed and where you can either sit in a chair with the soles of your feet touching the floor, or cross-legged on the floor. Make sure you will be comfortable with the temperature, too. Less distraction gives a more profound result.

I highly recommend that you choose a time when you have not had alcohol or other altering substances. It’s also easier to do this before you have a meal. Eating something after the session will help to further ground you once it’s over.

Connecting with Cards

Another way to get a message is through a specific card spread. Nancy Hendrickson at The Hidden Path  is a Substack page that focuses card readings on genealogy and ancestors.

One she offered her free subscribers was a simple three card spread that involves a question or something you’d like to know about a project or action you are considering.

Choose any deck you wish to use (I used the Rider Waite Tarot) and decide what card best describes the ancestor you want to reach, or something you feel represents your ancestors in general. With that card back in the deck, start shuffling. When you feel you should stop, turn the cards face side up.

Go through the deck until the ancestor card you have chosen appears. Place that on the table. Put the card that came before it on the left side and the card that came after it on the right. The card on the left is a comment on the situation and the one on the right is what you can expect if you pursue this.

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Moving Forward

Celtic Calendar, artist unknown

In the ancestral 8 cycle calendar we move on into the winter in the northern hemisphere (I subscribe to the idea that winter begins now and not at the Winter Solstice. In ancestral times it was called ‘Midwinter,’ even as the Summer Solstice was called Midsummer during and after the time of Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream. ‘Mid’ still means ‘middle.’).

Other holidays and the New Year are on the way. The deep inner focus of the Samhain will yield to the outer world again. And there will be more Moments in the Flow to explore.  2025 is a year of tremendous change in the focus of our slow-moving outer planets and the nodes of the Moon that bring our eclipses.

A reading of the birth chart is recommended as this cycle will be very different than the one we’ve been going through for the past 16 years that Pluto has been in Capricorn. My readings are done via Zoom or teleconference call, and you can be present if you wish. Either way, a recording is made and emailed to you. You can contact me or visit the astrology readings page on my website to learn more and order yours.

Here’s a review from a recent client: "My astrological reading with Shellie was so deeply insightful and interesting. I gained a new perspective which allowed me to go deeper with my soul's healing journey. She has such an expansive knowledge of astrology, and it has been immensely helpful as I move forward on my path." Colleen L

Solar System, KERBSTONE on Pixabay

I will be also putting together a few webinars to be held from mid-November to mid-December. They will provide a detailed look at the changes for the Lunar Nodes and Eclipses, Jupiter and Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, and Pluto in Aquarius. I’ll post details when I have the dates. Classes are held via Zoom with recordings available to those who register, so you will have this if you can’t take the class in person. A heads-up: these will be $35 each or $120 for all four.

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See you next time!