Honoring Your Ancestors: A Guide to Ancestral Veneration

The alchemy happens in a circle. We need to weave together our threads of care and transfigure this tapestry. It is only together that we can reimagine the territorial treaty we’ve inherited as a generous invitation to a communal feast. Look around. Your allies are everywhere. And they love you.

THE SOUL AS TEMPLE OF MEMORY THE CELTIC STORIES SUGGEST THAT TIME AS the rhythm of soul has an eternal dimension where everything is gathered and minded. Here nothing is lost. This is a great consolation: the happenings in your life do not disappear. Nothing is ever lost or forgotten. Everything is stored within your soul in the temple of memory. T

Monthly letters may be written to anyone you like—a deity, natural element, friend, family member—

When you’re ready, find or create an object that symbolizes the closure you seek, and consider imbuing it with your prayers: I bless your absence, your silence, your disappearance from me with this grief. May the echo of your going missing reach back to you one day, so you know your own substantiality. May I know my grief as a measure of my willing