Ritual for Healing Ancestral Patterns and Blocks

Heal your family in all directions of time while rising above your own challenging patterns with this powerful ancestral healing spell.

We are interconnected with our ancestors and our ancestors are interconnected with us. Some of the seeds of challenges we experience in this lifetime predate this actual lifetime, and their offshoots may even climb like ivy throughout the branches of our family tree.

I don’t profess to scientifically understand time, or physics, or relativity. But I do have the basic understanding that while time appears linear to us, and we interact with it as if it is linear, that is not the case.

Similarly, I couldn’t possibly profess to understand the dynamics of epigenetics and intergenerational trauma. But I can certainly grasp the idea of the effects of ancestral challenges, habits, disasters, and tragedies being passed down, both psychologically and in the physical expression of our genes.

That’s why I wanted to share this ritual for healing an inherited, multi-generational dynamic. It works in all directions of time and space: healing our contemporaries, healing future generations, and even reaching backwards in time to heal our ancestors as well.

If you’d like to heal ancestral patterns and blocks, this ritual is for you.

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What You Need

• A white or off-white soy candle
• A lighter or matches
• A tied bundle or small, loose bunch of 3-5 fresh rosemary sprigs
• A notebook or journal
• A pen

Step 1: Set The Vibe

Set up somewhere quiet where you can work alone for a good little chunk of time, ideally where you can sit at a table or desk. Make sure the area feels clean, clear, and conducive to focus and relaxation.

Light the candle.

Close your eyes and take three long, deep breaths.

Call on and connect with the Divine in any way that feels powerful and right to you.

Then allow your breathing to be natural, but keep paying attention to it. Continue breathing and relaxing consciously until you feel focused, grounded, and centered.

Pick up the rosemary, rub a pinch between your fingers, and inhale the scent. Notice the invigoration it offers. Then set the rosemary down.

Step 2: Journal

 Take a moment to consider the pattern you would like to clear. Tune into it as best you can. Then answer the following questions in the notebook or journal. Don’t overthink this process. Just get the pen moving on the page and write everything that comes to mind.

1. What behaviors are associated with this pattern or block?
2. What emotions are associated with this pattern or block?
3. When you experience the effects of this pattern or block, where do you feel it in your body?
4. When you observe this pattern or block manifesting in others in your family, what happens?
5. What positive qualities will you be freeing up by doing this ritual?
6. Pretend for a moment that this pattern or block is already cleared for you and for your entire family. What will that be like? How will it look? What will it feel like? What new behaviors will you observe?

Step 3: Connect with Your Ancestors

Close your eyes again. Take 3 more deep breaths.

Become aware of the ancestors who are connected to you through this pattern or block. You might imagine yourself as light, and see concentric branches of light around you, reaching forward, backwards, and in all directions, connecting you to everyone who will benefit from healing this old pattern or block.

If you are less visual, you might simply consider your family: your ancestors, your contemporaries, and the family members who are still unborn. You might sense their presence, and feel your emotional connection to them through love.

Or, you can always simply set the intention to connect, and ask the Divine to support you with this.

Announce to your collective family consciousness: “I am now clearing this old pattern or block: for myself, and for all of you. Thank you for allowing me to do so now.”

Open your eyes, pick up the rosemary, and stand up. Still sensing your connection to the others in your family who are a part of this pattern, clearly state:

“With the help of Divine Power [or feel free to use whatever name for the Divine you choose], I am now removing this old pattern or block, as well as all limiting or painful effects of all related traumas, for myself and my family, in all directions of time.” 

Now, brush your aura (not your body, but the space that immediately surrounds your physical body) downwards and outwards with the bundle as you slowly rotate in a counterclockwise direction. End each brushstroke with a rapid outward/downward flick. As you do this, feel, imagine, sense, or just know that you are removing the old cords of energy connected to this pattern or block, as well as every related energetic and emotional quality.

Step 4: Wrap it Up

Say decisively:

“With the help of Divine Power, I have now removed this old pattern or block, as well as all limiting or painful effects of all related traumas, for myself and my family, in all directions of time. Thank you.”

Inhale the scent of the rosemary once more as you feel the joy and freedom of having released this old pattern. Notice the positive effects that are rippling out to and through your family, in all directions of time.

Gently smile. Extinguish the candle.

Be sure to drink plenty of water within the next hour especially and also for the remainder of the day.

You can place your rosemary bundle on your altar, or if it feels right, you can also place it or hang it near a family photo. After a week or two, remove any string if necessary and release it to the earth or a moving body of water.

…Did you try this ancestral healing ritual, or are you planning to? Or do you have any questions or thoughts about it? I try to respond to every comment if I can. So please don’t be shy! Chime in below.