This is the first in a series on working with the ancestors.
The first time I remember asking about
the family history was when I was eight-years-old. I was lucky enough to have two grandmothers who dished out stories that made my kid-self want to know more. On mom’s side of the family, I found three brothers and their father who all enlisted in the Union Army following Lincoln’s call for volunteers. Going further back were Revolutionary War soldiers, Quakers, imprisoned dissenters, and adventurers.
On dad’s side, the family got its American start thanks to one young man’s thievery in London and his subsequent sentence of seven years servitude in the young colonies. From him and others came preachers, farmers, soldiers, and mothers who birthed more children than my mind can imagine.
The families came from England, Wales, Ireland, Scotland, France, Germany, Scandinavia, and the Iberian Peninsula . . . joining someone (yet unknown) who was an indigenous inhabitant of this continent. And another whose African home was across the sea.
So why am I telling you this? Read on.
When I wrote Ancestral Tarot, it was my
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