Ancestral working is an integral part of feeling a part of this earth.
It connects you to the entire Universe 
and helps you understand your place.
The lineages that are within you are powerful and when you invite them to walk with you-they will arrive with a force that is noticeable, not only to you, but to those around you. 
I am an indigenous, mixed race woman.
My family is from the World.
The USA spoke of a place free to love who you want, a place to represent your culture without fear and yet being Native American as well;
there is the representation of needing to hide away.
The pain of slavery and harm.
Of hardship and taking.
Of repressing and concealing.
Of erasing.
Erasing what is power within.
The robbing of our very ancestry to keep us from knowing our power.
The silencing of those of us who remember, as a way to keep us controlled.
I’m awake now and I will never go back to sleep. 
What a conflicting amount of ancestral legacy within my blood and the bones of many.
To be of Mixed race is to identify and understand the World.
It is to reject those that took part in inhuman treatment and to embrace those that were power and Magick.
It is to understand that you are not the mistakes made by your people and also you are the lineage of a people so powerful they wrote the sky.
Conflicting bloodlines that converged to create you.
A pathway to freedom.
I’ve found that traveling to places of my ancestors has been particularly powerful.
When I came home from India I began drawing my ancestors.
A woman ‘Lang’ of Chinese decent, an Amazigh woman, a Scottish & Yoruban woman. Later in my life an Ethiopian woman.
All powerful representations of the women who’s bloodline is within me. 
WE are the WOMEN that make up AMERICA and YOU will never ERASE us or silence us!
I placed pictures on my wall of the representations of these women and in some cases of my actual ancestors captured in a click of a frame
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I did intentional meditation with these ancestors and also began cooking foods connected to my ancestry, as well as celebrating festive days of their lineage without knowledge of their existing.
My body began doing the dances that represented their culture as my connection to dance and music has always been powerful and strong. 
Even with a spinal cord injury my body needed to dance. To feel my ancestors pulsing through me force and form.
Ancestral work gives you the strength to connect to you and your Worldly lineage.
I am of the World. The whole thing.
I have found that being in a mindset that celebrates my ancestry has brought me great power. They say when you do ancestral work it heals 7 lineages back and 7 lineages forward. 
I can feel a change in my being. A change in my soul. A kinship with the land that is unmistakable. That has always been present in my indigenous body.
If you are able to travel to a destination your ancestors are from, do so.
If you can stay where you are connected to the land-do so.
I miss my home. I did not leave by choice.
I have always connected to the land, the sea, the river, the trees, animal and plant.
It is in my being.
The Great Spirit is in my Body.
I walk with the knowledge and wisdom of all the Universe and I am grateful that so too, do my ancestors.
Both of Earth and Sky.