The ancients couldn't have known that DNA exists in our blood which identifies our connection to every single ancestor on to the dawn of man. And yet.. Blood is and has always been an essential part of Pagan practices, traditions, Blot rituals, witchcraft and ancestor work. Sacrifice is a concept we don't really understand today the same way our ancestors did. Because of our medical knowledge of blood, we tend to think of it as unsanitary or even as "self harm" to use blood in this way. This gives such practices a sort of taboo, macabre or morbid connotation which only serves to give it a bad name. However, if done with care, using sterilized tools, knowing where is safe to administer a small incision, powerful ancestor magic can be performed. This only requires the smallest drop. And though this would for sure seem morbid, women have a natural source to take from. This is big for fertility rituals, for connecting with the womb of your bloodline. The women. Your ancestors are those who remain in the spirit world and in my personal perspective, I believe deeply in reincarnation. So, to me you can choose to return and live a new life for new experiences and to impact the physical realm, or you can remain spirit and become a guiding spirit for your kin. If you remain an ancestor, you can't do much to impact the physical, you must work through your living descendants. And we just don't do stuff like that anymore, no whwre near enough.. Honoring our ancestors, having actual communication with them in forms of divination. This leaves the spirit realm restless with neglected ancestors who must be very frustrated with us these days I imagine. But if you have ever had a loved one pass, and then saw a sign you just KNOW was from them, then you know. You already know! They are with us. And they want to help us. Ancestors, if you embrace them, are like an army at your back. They are the bloodline for hundreds of people who have lived and died so you could do the same today! So you could be here! Even if they didn't know they would even have a 56th great grandchild, well, they do! You! And they may be waiting for the chance to tell you what they truly wanted for your family! What they died for. Not an empire and it's wealth and power. Not a life of working 80 hours a week to barely get by in misery. Oh no! Certainly this isn't what they imagined the future would be like for their descendants, but here we are!

Wherever on this goddess of a planet you are from, you come from all that she is. You are the product of everything you have consumed. The earth is the host of our bounty. Everything we eat comes from it. We are what we eat, and this is true. In ancient times, people didn't get imports from distant places, they didn't even really get much outside their own locality and gardens. It was all natural, all the time! And it was a labor of love, every harvest, every sacrifice, every hunt, every foraged food or medicinal element. Our ancestors returned to that same earth, generation after generation, replenishing the soil, giving back what was borrowed. We are a cycle of life like everything else. We are part of that cycle, with everything else. And to make humanity out to be more than ultimately an animal with advanced cognitive functions, it's grasping at what simply isn't. But that is the flesh. What makes humans unique isn't the flesh, the brain or the intellect. It is the spirit! Humans live in both the negative and positive fields of energetic balance. We shift in and out of them. And we are aware of it consciously. To feel the pull of a bad idea, or the deep desire to make something right. The fields of energy are always shifting around us. And we around them. Like a dance. Our spiritual being is what makes us do this. We simply cannot wholey be one or the other. Even the darkest darkness has a pinhole of light. Our connection with the universe, the spiritual realm, and the earth are simply undeniable. But most don't really know anything about it. Some, however, have experiences that secure a sense of certainty in the belief that there is a somewhere else. And this seems to be rapidly growing despite a parallel growth in scientific study! In truth, much of science serves to prove the spiritual rather than debunk it!