Your ancestors were connected to the land.
Have you been to any of your own ancestral lands?
If so — think about the most sacred spaces/areas you visited. The places that changed you forever. Go there. As in, close your eyes and bring yourself there. How does it feel? Sense?
If you have not been there, here is an invitation to use Grandma Google and search for images of sacred spaces on your ancestral land. A temple. A mountain. A coastline. A cave. A statue. Let it be like an oracle for you. Don't be rigid. Let images arise.
Then, spend some time digging. And then be with that image and whatever info surfaces-- trust yourself on the places google can take you and print out that image for your altar.
We can expect magical work with Google right now!
We practice feeling into the soil and spaces and places on ancestral land. We practice understanding that all land and all areas are made of particles and those particles are part of all particles. Nothing is separate. And so where we are now is still connected to our ancestral land, through spirit particles. We practice asking our ancestral land and the feeling it gives us how we can be with the land spirits where we are.
We practice asking the colonized land we are on how we can be in connection and relationship with our ancestral land from where we stand. We listen. We are guided by the land under our feet. We offer and pray for this land as we embody the wisdom of our ancestral land. We are the threads, the connectors, that bring these land spirits together for healing work.
This isn't to ignore the actual land you are being held by, under your feet. This is supplemental, a portal to remember that all land is connected, as are all people.
PRACTICE/PROMPTS:
What do you know about your own ancestral lands? What grows there? What are the trees like? What color is the dirt? What is the water like?
What are some plants that grow on those lands that sustained your ancestors?
How can we inhale the magic of our ancestral lands into our body memory now, to take that feeling with us everywhere?
What did your ancestors do in honor of land? Far back ones? Recent ones?
Find a song in your ancestral tongue, then sing it to the land under your feet.