Ancestral whispers can surprise you — Have you ever experienced feeling a presence close to you without seeing or hearing it? That is what I felt about my father recently. Nothing ominous, on the contrary, I felt love. It did not surprise me when he appeared in a dream, too. That is a mode of communication…

The first step in healing ancestral trauma is remembering For many years I was a Nuclear Cardiology Technologist. In simple terms, while the heart was stressed by exercise or medication I injected a radioactive tracer into a vein in a person’s arm. That allows a camera with a giant crystal…

Listening to your ancestors by divination gives them a voice Recently I attended a virtual summit about ancestral healing. The presenters are all involved and healing trauma, genealogy, ancestral healing, even in exploring past lives. The goal of the summit was to present ideas and practices to promote healing trauma…

Soul retrieval through ancestral healing dreams Iroquois elders told ethnologist Harriet Converse that you can lose your soul if you don’t listen to what it’s telling you in dreams. …

Grief, like love, becomes part of who you are in every reality This story goes back to 2008, and I still miss this boy. He took great delight in “helping” me while I was working on the computer. He would squeeze his paw from behind the tower, slowly easing the…

The ups and downs of time in dreams — Word Of The Day: Time I’m still collecting words for my sestina, a cool form of poetry I just realized existed. This fits in with reaching my ancestors through dreams. They seem to enjoy poetry, too. Most people see the word time and they instantly visualize measuring the hours of a day, month, or year. …

Baby steps to ancestral healing with dreams and cartomancy — The Word Of The Day: Steps When most people hear the word steps they instantly picture a series of platforms that allows them to climb to higher levels. When seekers read the word steps they frequently think of a sequence taken in small increments going from a lower point to a higher point. But many also…