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THE ANCESTORS
THE ANCESTORS
ANCESTRAL HEALING
[If you choose to pray for an ancestor that has caused harm to
you or a loved one, you can say a brief prayer that you forgive
them and that you pray for the soul of {name of person} to elevate
and find the light, peace, and love in God that he or she needs
that will bring peace to you, your family, and your home.]
Either way, we need to pray for healing, for both the deceased, for
ourselves and for generations to come so that we can alleviate as
many dysfunctional and abusive patterns as we can so that they
will cease and will no longer plague any member of the family
line, directly or indirectly. On another note, we also need to pray
for ancestral healing from karmic energy. Many of us have heard
of karmic energy that affects an individual singly but multiple
family members as a whole can also carry karmic energy, whether
negative or positive. From a negative aspect, I am sure that you
can think of at least one family that just cannot get it together –
they struggle and suffer for many reasons. These families can
carry a karmic energy of sickness, poverty, death, or even mental
illness. While in other families; drugs and judicial problems are
prevalent. Some would even view this type of enery as a
generational curse.
Through ancestral healing, whether through prayers, rituals, or
ceremonies we can work to heal our ancestors in the spirit realm
so that they can help us to heal in the living for a better way of
living. For this reason, I have written an "Ancestral Healing
Prayer" that can be said at your altar or at any time that you get
the feeling to help not just the deceased but yourself in the
healing process.
I offer light and pour libation with respect and honor for all my
ancestors whose names I know (say all the names that you know)
and all the ones I donʼt know to uplift and liberate their soul(s) in
the name and light of the Almighty God. For it is through the love,
the will, and the power of God that all souls are saved.
I offer guidance to my ancestors by way of the Guardian Angels
and Protective Spirits who by the power and order of God will
assist them in their greater act of evolution. Let the light I offer be
a Beacon of Hope and serve as an escape and protective shield
from the shadows of despair.
In addition, I forgive those ancestors that committed wrongs that
have set their generational line “us that are living” in barrenness.
And I forgive those ancestors whose past sins Iʼve had to suffer
as a result of their own naivety, ignorance and inferior habits and
traits. Let the light I offer serve as a reminder for us in the living
to acknowledge and learn not to make the same mistakes as the
ones who lived before us.