Communing with the Ancestors: Your Spirit Guides, Bloodline Allies, and the Cycle of Reincarnation

by Raven Grimassi

Overview

Explore the realm of the ancestors with author and Pagan scholar Raven Grimassi. In this fascinating and far-ranging guide, you will learn practices and rituals both ancient and new for communing with the ancestors, specifically:

• How to build shrines and altars and make offerings.
• Where to find and work with sacred sites, power places, and special portals to the ancients.
• Guided imagery that will take you into the "Cavern of the Ancestors," the spiritual corridor where the ancestors can be directly approached.
• How to access the Spirit-Rider, an ancestor that can travel between the realms of mortals and ancients.
• How to see and understand the restless dead who remain bound to the Earth realms.
• The role of reincarnation in the soul's relationship to ancestral lineage.
• Plus some of the extraordinary folklore, legend, and superstition surrounding the topic.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781578635931
Publisher:	Red Wheel/Weiser
Publication date:	03/01/2016
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Raven Grimassi is a neo-pagan scholar and the author of 17 books about witchcraft and the occult, including Old World Witchcraft. He is an avid researcher on folklore and folk magic practices, particularly in European cultures. He is currently the codirector of Elder of the Ash, Birch and Willow System of Old World Witchery. Visit him at www.ravengrimassi.net.

Table of Contents

Preface vii

Acknowledgments xi

Introduction xiii

Chapter 1 Spiritual Heirlooms 1

Chapter 2 Ancestors: Old Lore and Memories 15

Chapter 3 The Long Winding Road 31

Chapter 4 There and Back Again (The Soul's Return) 55

Chapter 5 Death and Rebirth 75

Chapter 6 Ancestors and the Serpent Wisdom 105

Chapter 7 The Starry Path of the Round 121

Chapter 8 Through the Gates of Evening 147

Chapter 9 The Rites of Connection 153

Appendix 1 181

Appendix 2 187

Bibliography 191