Ancestral August: Community Card Pull + Knowing Your Channel

This weekend, I had the honor of holding space for a Group Akashic Reading and an Ancestral Lineage Meditation, offered as part of my 45th birthday celebrations! Being in that space was one of the best gifts I could have asked for. I’m grateful to those who showed up and made this birthday one I'll carry with me.

During the lineage meditation, I saw fire inside a cave, then a cauldron. I felt an overwhelming sensation of rage, seething and simmering. And then the knowing landed: This kind of fire burns you out. The ancestral trauma I'm here to heal is using rage as fuel. It gives you a limited kind of power, one that hollows you out from the inside. Instead, I can choose love, connection, joy for fuel because they build momentum instead of burning out.

Then another image came - air swirling, a voice expanding out to the four corners of the world and beyond. I recognized these images as an ancestral gift of teaching, a gift I already know I carry. I've always leaned toward creating space rather than telling people what to think. What's shifting is that I'm finally recognizing that holding space can be teaching itself, not something separate from it.

My ancestors are a source of resilience and healing for me, and this August, I want to invite you into that same inquiry: what role are your ancestors playing in your life right now?

August Card Pull: 7 of Swords & 9 of Cups

This month, I asked: What do the ones who came before us want this community to know right now? I pulled the 7 of Swords, clarified by the 9 of Cups, from the Thoth deck.

The 7 of Swords can point to being stuck in your head, second-guessing, and circling the same mental loops without resolution. It's the futility of trying to think your way out of something that isn't a thinking problem.

The 9 of Cups clarifies it: the way through is connection, not more analysis. Reaching toward your ancestors - toward what came before you - is one way to move out of your head and into something that renews you.

The ones who came before us this month seem to be saying: Stop trying to think your way to peace. Let connection provide what thinking can't always - emotional renewal, happiness and relief.

A Gift for Ancestral August: Know How You Receive

Ancestral wisdom doesn't come to everyone the same way. Think back to an intuitive hit you received - that time you knew something without knowing how you knew it. Which of the descriptions below matches what happened for you?

☐ I saw something - an image, symbol, or vision (clairvoyance)
☐ I felt something - a physical sensation or emotional wave, like a knot in your stomach or chills (clairsentience)
☐ I heard something - a phrase, a name, a sound, or a voice (clairaudience)
☐ I suddenly understood - no image, no words, no sensation, just sudden certainty (claircognizance)
☐ I smelled, tasted, or sensed through touch - a scent, a flavor, a texture with no physical source (clairalience, clairgustance, clairtangency)
☐ I received it in a dream - an image, message, or feeling that stayed with you after waking

The boxes you checked are likely your primary channels, and most of us have more than one. Knowing them matters because it's how your ancestors are most likely to reach back to you - which is exactly what this month's inquiry is about. Once you know your channels, you'll recognize the connection when it shows up, instead of dismissing it as imagination or coincidence.

If this month's theme is stirring something for you (a memory, a feeling, a question you can't quite shake) I'd love to help you work through it. August sessions are now open for full readings and shamanic energy healing - or start with a consultation if you're not sure what you need.

Walking with you and your lineage this month, and hoping you’ll walk with me and mine.