Secrets of the Ancestors Oracle: A 45-Card Deck and Guidebook for Connecting to Your Family Lineage, Exploring Modern Ancestral Veneration, and Revealing Divine Guidance is a deck by Abiola Abrams. Click here to learn more…

CREATURE OF EARTH

Responsibility

Ancestral Principles:stubborn, hard-working, loyal

Element: Earth

Declaration: I finish what I start.

Sacred Inheritance:  Take responsibility for every aspect of your life. Patience is required. Slow and steady also wins the race. It is about being solid and stable, at the moment. Eventually your hard work will pay off and you will see the success you desire. Be loyal to your own dreams.

When you are uncomfortable with emotions, your own or other people’s, you are robbing yourself of experiencing true intimacy. Being vulnerable means allowing yourself to be uncomfortable and still being open. Make space for others to be vulnerable with you as well.

Ancestral Memory:  This ancestor, the animal spirit of earth, is known as the sand fox or pale fox

Have you heard of fox divination? For the Dogon people of Mali, the fox is a sacred animal, one whose guidance you can trust. The priest, who is the diviner, makes sacred geometrical markings in the sand, prays over them and leaves them overnight. The next morning, the answers are clear based on the footprints left and movements of the sand fox.

Lineage Healing: This is the most hard-working ancestor. The Creature of Earth wants you to trust yourself. Sometimes what is required of us may be boring or repetitive. Stay the course.

Shadow Aspect (Reversed): Are you bored or boring? You need to get back into the flow of things. You are ignoring so much of your life. Don’t beat yourself up for being “lazy” or allow perfectionism to block your flow. Self-inquiry: Are you overwhelmed or depressed?

Tarot Correspondence: Knight of Pentacles

Ritual: Things may have been a bit tough. Take a day off for a self-care break. Go play!