
Honoring Your Ancestors: A Guide to Ancestral Veneration

You are already the high priest or high priestess of this religion.
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
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
At first this will seem like greater self-knowledge—that is, a better understanding of who you are. But then it will expand into conscious awareness that transcends your lifetime and what you think of as yourself. The story that
Mallorie Vaudoise • Honoring Your Ancestors: A Guide to Ancestral Veneration
Their household religion was the entire world writ small.
Mallorie Vaudoise • Honoring Your Ancestors: A Guide to Ancestral Veneration
can’t reveal the instances of adoption and cultural exchange that may have shaped your ancestral line. If you think a test like this would be helpful for you, treat it like any other form of divination, like a tarot reading or your monthly horoscope: it’s a source of inspiration, not a commandment carved into stone.
Mallorie Vaudoise • Honoring Your Ancestors: A Guide to Ancestral Veneration
household devotion.
Mallorie Vaudoise • Honoring Your Ancestors: A Guide to Ancestral Veneration
Dying is hard work. It requires intense effort from both the newly dead and their living community for the transition to go smoothly.
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.