Here we go. This is the first of what may turn out to be many posts about ancestors. This is all based on working with my own and those of my clients. Your mileage may vary.

Let’s start from the beginning and a story I like to tell to illustrate many things. I went on a trip with my best friend at the time to visit our relatives. I went to visit my aunt, and she wanted to see her uncle. They didn’t live that far away from one another, so we made it a combined trip. While visiting her uncle’s house, we stayed in one of the rooms together. My friend took the bed, and I slept on the floor. I’m one of those people who can sleep anywhere.

It’s the middle of the night, and I’m woken up by my friend kicking me and telling me to get up on the bed. This was when I was still in Hawaii, so my first thought was there was a bug, like a sugar cane spider or a centipede coming toward me. Nope, none of the above.

After groggily climbing up on the bed and trying to figure out what was going on, my friend told me what she saw. She woke up to go to the bathroom and saw me sitting there. She was going to ask me what I was doing sitting in the dark when she realized that the person was dressed in ancient Hawaiian-style clothing and I was still sleeping on the floor. My friend ran over and turned the light on, and the person sitting next to me on the floor was still there. She stayed for a few moments before disappearing. That was when my friend scurried back to the bed and started kicking me to wake up. A few weeks later, we asked a psychic we knew if she could tell us what that was, and she said it was my grandmother.

Now here we are years later, and I’ve come to realize that the woman who visited me was not my immediate grandmother but one from several generations back.

It’s a fairly recent thing for me to work with my ancestors, but as soon as I opened the door to doing so, they have been teaching me things practically at the speed of light. It’s almost as if they’ve been waiting for me to open the door and reach out to them. It turns out they were.

My ancestors were waiting for me to own my power enough to reach out to them. They also wanted to give me more power and the teaching that goes with it. I can call on them to ask questions when I want, and I have asked them to protect me on several occasions when I felt I needed it. Whenever I do, I feel the warrior energy surrounding me. When I ask for wisdom on something. I feel the energy of my ancestors guiding me toward whatever is best for me. They might be dead, and you might not have the ability to see them, but they are willing to help in whatever way they can.

A teacher of mine lived a couple of states away from her children and was about to have surgery. The kids couldn’t come to support her for various reasons, and it left her feeling alone. She said she really needed the feeling of having family around her.

She had never worked with her ancestors, and I had just started. My guides told me to call through the ether for her and see if any of her ancestors would show up to support her. After I did, a man stepped forward, a shaman, who brought with him a young wolf as a pet. As soon as I began to describe him, my teacher began to see him and feel the familial connection between them. The surgery went well, and she felt him with her the entire time.

Our ancestors are here to support us, love us, and care for us even when they are no longer able to share physical space with us.

If you would like to talk to yours, start talking. They can still hear you, and if you ask for a sign from them, they can find a way to communicate with you. You can also use methods like automatic writing or asking them to talk to you in dreams.

The bonus to connecting to your ancestors is that they can help you with the wisdom they have acquired. Them leaving the state of being alive means that they have dropped all the things that get in our way, like obsessions, hatred, grudges, etc. If they have passed all the way through and stepped into the light, they have let go of all the things that don’t matter. The thing that always matters is a connection to loved ones.

This is not the end of the line as far as ancestors are concerned. From what I learned, that rang true for me, and how I have come to navigate the other side is that there are three sections. The living are in one, the second is an area of transition, and the third is when the dead goes to the light and are returned to Source. In the third section, they do a sort of life review and then can move between the second and third sections to help the living. If they want to. They can also choose to hang out in the third section, fully reintegrate with Source, or prepare for their next life. The second section, the one in between, is where all the action happens. That will be the subject of another post.

Meeting your ancestors can be a very powerful thing. This is where you came from. These are your people. Without them, you wouldn’t be you. Many people think that once someone is dead, they can no longer be a part of your life or affect it. I can tell you from personal experience, dead or alive, your ancestors definitely have something to say.