Healing the past to make way for future growth

Honouring our ancestors

A common thread between all indigenous cultures is the practise of honouring and connecting to our ancestors.

We carry our ancestors inside us in our DNA and in honouring and blessing those that have gone before us, we honour and bless ourselves.

There is no separation as this spirit energy travels through the generations slipping from one body to the next, learning, growing and evolving as it does so.

We are a culmination of all of the experiences of our ancestors, all of the knowledge they gathered, their traumas and triumphs is contained within our being and we reap the benefit of this cumulative experience.

For many of us family relationships can be very strong, but for others it can be fraught with difficulty. Perhaps there has been a schism of some sort between family members at some point. Perhaps even stemming back to generations past. What then?

Healing our ancestral line

In his study of Epigenetics, Bruce Lipton explains that genetics are simply the blueprint, not the actual house. (I love that sentence! it opens up tremendous possibilities)

He tells us that at any time we can be the architects and change the design of the house by making different choices and choosing new ways of responding to experiences. We can adapt from the programming we have inherited.

We can create a ceremony to heal whatever needs to be healed in our ancestral line. In doing this healing work for ourselves we can heal the collective ancestral unconscious.

Like a viral story sweeping through the internet shifting ways of thinking, this healing will ripple through the ancestral web of connection – like a Kaleidoscope, one shift affects the whole. The work of the individual realigning and benefitting the greater being.

Healing the past clears the way for new shoots to grow

So why is all of this relevant today, at this point in our evolution and in this season of the year?

One of my teachers William Spear described it as being similar to casting a fishing rod. In order to cast forward you must first swing it back. If there are any unresolved issues in our past they will become hooked onto the rod and we will cast them forward into our future. This is why we can feel we are meeting the same issues/people/blockages over and over again.

Like clearing the flower beds of dead leaves and old growth before sowing new seeds. This is the work Springtime invites us to do on the inner plane also.

As William Spear was fond of saying “There is nothing going on out there, it’s all an inside job”. So true.

What are you being called to clear now to make space for the new seeds you are planning to sow for the future?