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.)

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

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

Close your eyes and take a breath right now. Who told you that you couldn’t have what you really want?

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.

Since your ancestors are a part of you, they’re almost like roommates. Be a conscientious roommate and keep your space clean.

In magically operative communities throughout the world, we find the idea that like attracts like. This is especially true when it comes to scent, perhaps because smell is the sense that is most closely related to our capacity for memory. Thus, evil spirits are often believed to be attracted to foul odors. These spirits are generally avoided in dai

Listen to your favorite song from ten years ago, the one you had on repeat that summer. What do you remember about that period in your life? How did you feel back then? How was it different from how you feel now?

It’s the belief that what we do matters even though how and when it may matter, who and what it may impact, are not things we can know beforehand.