
Honoring Your Ancestors: A Guide to Ancestral Veneration

Often, we acquire stuff because it reflects something we aspire to become. We buy clothes that are too small because we hope we’ll lose weight. We buy books because we hope we’ll become experts in a topic. We buy craft supplies because we hope we’ll master a new skill. Then a year or two later, when the clothes haven’t been worn, the books haven’t
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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.
Mallorie Vaudoise • Honoring Your Ancestors: A Guide to Ancestral Veneration
Since your ancestors are a part of you, they’re almost like roommates. Be a conscientious roommate and keep your space clean.
Mallorie Vaudoise • Honoring Your Ancestors: A Guide to Ancestral Veneration
Catholics of a more traditional bent perform a special devotion to the Sacred Heart on the first Friday of the month for nine consecutive months to ensure a good death.
Mallorie Vaudoise • Honoring Your Ancestors: A Guide to Ancestral Veneration
A Spell to Inoculate Yourself against Despair This spell works best if repeated on the first Friday of every month,
Mallorie Vaudoise • Honoring Your Ancestors: A Guide to Ancestral Veneration
I’ve heard it said that a spell is a prayer in three dimensions.
Mallorie Vaudoise • Honoring Your Ancestors: A Guide to Ancestral Veneration
Knowing what you truly want is hard. But asking for it can be even harder.
Mallorie Vaudoise • Honoring Your Ancestors: A Guide to Ancestral Veneration
Don’t let anyone else’s narrative override your own experience.
Mallorie Vaudoise • Honoring Your Ancestors: A Guide to Ancestral Veneration
Understanding ourselves in the context of this narrative heals one of the most fundamental wounds that our culture inflicts on us: the myth that we are alone and without history.