Healing The Ancestors

Many of us believe in re-incarnation and past lives, there are also those that believe our karma can be passed down the bloodline from generation to generation, through the mother to the child, via the mitochondria DNA (female DNA). It is thought that many of our problems in this life are linked to our ancestral past; a direct cause of unresolved issues began by our former relatives. Our unresolved problems can be visualized like a blocked pipe or cluttered tunnel spanning back through the years into our ancestral past, without the proper cleansing we could be dumping our problems (and our ancestor’s problems) onto our offspring.

Cleansing or healing our bloodline is in fact taking full responsibility for its patterns – the failings, the traumas, the injustices, the suffering, the poverty, the wealth, the successes – absolutely everything that has happened to your family tree, whether you know about it or not. It is thought that we can send love back through time to our ancestors; healing thoughts that acknowledge all their suffering and traumas, all the bad things that have befallen them, thoughts of love to every individual ancestor through time. You do not focus on any particular family member but heal all individuals as a whole, the entire family tree.

You may be able to spot the kinds of things that have affected your personal family bloodline; certain traits that you’ve noticed recurring from one generation to the next, it is almost certain that these traits go back a lot longer than your own experiences. The traits could be anything; addiction to alcohol, violent tempers, eating disorders, health problems caused by stress… the traits can also be positive, gentle and kind; in this case it is thought that the timeline tunnel is clear up to the present day, but it can still benefit from a pre-emptive burst of healing power.

Healing your bloodline could well be one of the most selfless and significant acts you ever undertake; the effects will be most beneficial to future generations in your bloodline, hanging onto emotional baggage from previous lives will only pass the same problems on to your children, this could well be a way to end the cycle now. In fact, merely attempting this is a huge positive step towards your own spiritual well being and healing. We all have things in our lives that we believe are beyond our control, little negative things about our personalities that we blame on our genes, our ancestors. The following is a Wiccan bloodline healing ritual; it doesn’t require a huge amount of faith in magic and the supernatural, it’s more of a visualization of forgiveness and love that sends positive vibes through your past that reverberate back to you and will carry over to your children and so on.