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Saying Hello to your ancestors, and those who have your back

4/6/2016

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Saying Hello to your ancestors, and those who have your back.

I am learning more about our ancestors, as I study Shamanism, and shamanic Journeying, this past couple of years, and add it to my practice of readings, and healing work. It’s a wonderful blend, and I enjoy adding the vision, and discipline, of my psychic tools into the mix.

In a few on my journeys, I have met with some of my ancestors. Some ancestors were from many, many, generations ago. Some were quite recent. I have been able to ask them many questions, about things I have often wondered about, and those answers have helped me greatly, to understand, and to have more compassion. Although they can guide you, remember that it is their point of view. They have seen, and experienced a lot, and a part of you is the culmination of all that experience, wisdom, love, and pain. There are a few that really have your back, a few that you may relate to more than the others. You can cherish those relationships, as they have nothing but love for you! You can acknowledge them in your ceremonies, or have them help hold sacred space for you, if you wish.

I recently completed a shamanic course on “unraveling curses, and thoughtforms”. Sometimes those whacks (with intention, and with fuel) can last many lifetimes, and even morph into other strange or bizarre fears, superstitions, or hardships. Remember, that thoughts are things. You may already have knowledge of something like this in your family life, or wondered if something like that is affecting you in the present moment. For some people, it can be an important healing for them, and for the other family members. There are many shamanic practitioners who practice that form of healing work, if you feel the need.

I do believe, that what you do in this life, can affect the generations both before, and after you, and, that you can change the course of history, by your actions, by breaking contracts, and agreements, by your forgiveness, and your love.

You can change the fate of you, and your future generations, by what you do, and by who you are. I believe that even our health tendencies, etc, are not set in stone, and that we have access to our genetic programming. I have read that trauma, and fear, (like the survivors of a genocide, or holocaust) can be in the DNA of descendants. We may have likes, or fears, that were handed down. In the same sense, we also have great love, great wisdom, and talent, as well!
 Maybe in your deep meditations, or in your dream space, you can ask for an ancestor to show him/herself to you. Someone who has love for you, who sees you, who has your back, who can guide you, or protect you, or educate you in ways you may need right now.
By acknowledging him/her, or leaving some space for them on your altar, or when you are creating sacred space, you are holding space for that to happen.
What a blessing.

It’s nice to have an ancestor as a guide, someone who has your back, who may have compassion, and love for you, or who may “clear the leaves from your path”.
Again, maybe there is something you can do for them!

I remember my father, many years ago, sitting at my table in California. While he was a humble man, and a bit shy, I remember that I told him how proud I was of him, because his father drank, and was violent, and he was not. He was the last of his generation, and he had broken that pattern. No one after him had been like his dad, who beat his kids. He was shy about it, but he heard me, and I felt that it was a marking point in time.
Many years later, and I am doing shamanic work, and I go and journey to an ancestor. I chose my grandfather, Riccardo Mazzariello. He did show up, and I asked him why he was the way he was.
He showed me his head, where his father had beaten him, and pointed to places on his head. Those beatings affected his brain, he said, and he followed the same pattern as his dad, who was beaten in turn. He looked sorry, but then again, the damage was already done. He also showed me the good things he had done, and how he had gotten his family, his wife, and children, to America, against all odds, so they could all have a better life.
My grandfather died of a brain aneurism, when my dad was 16, and I never got to meet him.
I somehow felt a little better about things after our meeting. I’m sure I could go back in a journey, and have my healing guides do some healing work on some of that pain, and trauma.
What’s funny though, is, almost magically, right after that meeting, I became Facebook friends with many, many people from the Mazzariello side of the family. Most only speak Italian, and are from the vicinity of Naples, in Campania, where my grandfather is from. Many are from all over the world. What a wonderful thing, to have this great wave of very distant relatives, very nice, and kind people, come into my energetic field, and I theirs.
There are no coincidences.

I met another ancestor, on another journey, from the same area, but hundreds of years ago, again, in southern Italy. He was a little bit north of Campania, but told me that Naples used to be a great kingdom, back in his day. He was sun-drenched, and out in a field on his land, and looked so happy, and gentle. He handed me a root vegetable from the ground as a gift, and I handed him some beets from my garden. “Let me know when you come to Italy” he said, “I’ll help you”.
Funny, I do wish to return to Italy! Since then, I have been having great luck finding things on the internet of artistic, and cultural value to me, about Italy. Oh, and I also saw a map of Italy, in the 1800’s, where the “Kingdom of Naples” took up almost a third of Italy, just like what I saw in my journey!

In your rich ancestral history, there may be someone with whom you can have a spirit relationship, for guidance, protection, knowledge, or wisdom. Or just maybe, you can be the angel to them, to help heal, or clean up trauma, or old, worn out agreements, or contracts, that serve no one anymore.
Take the time, in your next meditation, or ceremony, to honor them, and give them a hello. Remember, that, without them, you couldn’t be here!
 
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    Helena Mazzariello is an artist, clairvoyant, healer, and teacher, in gratitude and joy to be playing the game of life with her friends.

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