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A practical, hands-on guide for using tarot to connect with your ancestors and gain access to their insights for healing, self-protection, and personal powers.

With a tarot deck in hand, readers will learn how to identify and access ancestral gifts, messages, powers, protectors, and healers.

Tarot expert Nancy Hendrickson guides readers through the basics of finding recent ancestors, and navigating the confusing maze of DNA and ethnic heritage. As a longtime tarot enthusiast, she shows readers how to incorporate a metaphysical tool into a world of tradition.

Ancestral Tarot spreads are included in relevant chapters. Each chapter includes three journal prompts that lead readers into self-discovery around ancestral gifts, wounds, and patterns they may have inherited. The better we know our ancestors, the better we know ourselves.

ISBN-13: 9781578637416

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser

Publication Date: 03-01-2021

Pages: 224

Product Dimensions: 5.90(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.80(d)

Nancy Hendrickson is an author with decades of experience in genealogy and tarot. Her published work includes several genealogy books and magazine articles. Nancy has been interviewed on the topic of internet genealogy by the New York Times, Kiplinger’s, and Better Homes and Gardens. She is a columnist for The Cartomancer Magazine, writing about Tarot decks of the past as well as Tarot from a cultural perspective. She is active on Instagram @nancysageshadow where she posts daily about Tarot and other forms of divination. You can learn more about Nancy and her work at www.sageandshadow.com.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments xi

Foreword Theresa Reed xiii

Introduction xvii

The Journey Spread xxi

How to Use This Book xxiii

Chapter I Beyond the Veil 1

Ancestors Come in All Flavors

Ancestors of Blood

Ancestors of Place Ancestors of Time

Closer Than You Think

Choose an Ancestor

Chapter 2 Working With a Spirit Guide 13

The Volunteer

How to Find Your Guide

Calling Your Guide

How to Work With Your Guide

Sacred Tools: Prayer

Chapter 3 Tools For The Journey 27

Tarot Decks

Sigils

Lunar Energy

Pendulums

Runes

Oracles

Chapter 4 Meet The Family 49

Who Are They?

Family Chart

First Impressions

Family Patterns

Getting to Know You

Ancestral Message

Sacred Tools: Gratitude

Chapter 5 Ancestors of Blood 69

Lineage

Family Traits

Breaking Patterns

Is Healing Possible?

Group Patterns

Generational Patterns

Addiction

Ancient Ones

Chapter 6 Ancestors Of Place 91

Where Is Home?

Spirit of the Land

DNA

Ancestral Heritage

Family Lore

Ethnicity Sacred Tools: A Personal Devotion

Chapter 7 Ancestors Of Time 111

Who They Are

Another Incarnation

Collective Lifetime

Generational Incarnation

Chapter 8 Keeping an Ancestral Tarot Journal 129

Daily Intent

Journal Spread

Astrology and Your Journal Sacred Tools: Petitions

Chapter 9 Pairing Up; 141

Birth Pairs

Birth Pair Combos

Death Pairs

Cemetery Symbolism

Event Pairs

Chapter 10 Whole Self Mandala, 159

Choose an Ancestor

How to Build a Mandala

Lessons Learned

Chapter 11 Ancestral Rituals 167

Sacred Space

Ancestral Altar

Cemeteries

Crystal Grids

Ancestral Cards

Final Thoughts 186

Appendix A Tarot 101 187

Appendix B Tarot Practice Resources 196

Appendix C Genealogy Resources 199