Honoring Your Ancestors: A Guide to Ancestral Veneration

Mediumship is like divination, but your body is the tool instead of cards. That’s why so many messages are experienced in a way that resembles the physical senses. Care for your tool, and it will serve you well. Pay attention to your diet: do certain foods make you less psychically sensitive? (Excessive salt, meat, and dairy are common culprits.)

Plants are born in the darkness of the earth, which is the realm of the ancestors. But they reach up toward the heavens and call down the divine energy of the sun. They bind the realms together.

Fresh mugwort can be bound into a bundle and dried in order to create a smudge stick for clearing out spaces of negative energy or ghosts.

others. Hope is an embrace of the unknown and unknowable, an alternative to the certainty of both optimists and pessimists.

Think of your descendants: perhaps biological children, or the people who will inherit your art or join whatever groups you are a part of after you’re gone.

Knowing what you truly want is hard. But asking for it can be even harder.

A Spell to Inoculate Yourself against Despair This spell works best if repeated on the first Friday of every month,

Their household religion was the entire world writ small.

For the ancients, rosemary was associated with a variety of important days: weddings, funerals, and festivals. During these times, it was seen as a symbol of fidelity and remembrance. It was also burned as an incense in religious ceremonies and magic spells. Rosemary has a particular affinity for women and the female ancestors. It is said that the