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…

FATHER OF WATER

Balance

Ancestral Principles: wisdom, diplomacy, stability

Element: Water

Declaration: I embrace my feelings and allow myself emotional harmony.

Sacred Inheritance: Trust your instincts. There is unity and balance between your head, heart and spirit, a balance between the conscious and unconscious. This is a good thing. Although you must give yourself permission to feel your emotions fully and completely, acting out in tantrums or rage is not healthy for you or your loved ones. The answer is not more control. The answer is doing your spiritual healing work.

This Ancestor is spiritually mature and compassionate. He comes through when you may need a reminder to be more open and trust your heart. If there is a Prince Charming, this is his dad with more substance, King Charming.

Ancestral Memory: This ancestor comes forward as Sonzwaphi, Zulu god of healing. He brings forward the energy of giving and receiving compassion and kindness. This ancestor is a kind, generous and centered father, stable and calm in the raging seas of life. In some traditions he is a goddess, rather than a god.

Lineage Healing: Have you experienced positive and loving divine masculine energy? This is very different from patriarchal energy. You are capable of balance and worthy of loving and being loved, fully and completely.

Shadow Aspect (Reversed): Where is your empathy? Yes, you have been hurt but having the walls up is hurting you even more. Just because you turn a blind eye to your issues and problems doesn’t mean that they go away.

Tarot Correspondence: King of Cups

Ritual: Pay it forward for someone else today.