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…

THE MARTYR

Sacrifice and Self-Reflection

Ancestral Principles: surrender, resistance, waiting

Main Element: Asé
Secondary Element: Air

Declaration: I surrender all – and trust.

Sacred Inheritance: Put it all on hold. There is a difference between letting go and giving up. Let go. You are feeling trapped, stagnant or stuck in this moment of uncertainty. The solution is to let go — but how, right? Well, healthy sacrifices may be necessary. It may not seem like it. But you will look back and it will all make sense. What if you did the opposite of what you’re doing right now?

Everything that you are trying to fix externally needs to be remedied internally. You may prepare for a new project, but it’s not the moment to get started. To quote the late great ancestor Dr. Wayne Dyer, when we change the way we look at things, the things we look at change.

Ancestral Memory: Great Ancestress Sara la Kali (meaning Sara the Black) was an Egyptian prophetess and the patron saint of the Romani. Oral history says that Sainte Sara had the highest Divine lineage as the daughter of Jesus and Mary Magdalene.

Lineage Healing: You are not being punished, although it sure feels like it. Wait. Take a moment to reflect. This is a luxury that many of your ancestors did not have, my child.

Shadow Aspect (Reversed): You are not imagining how challenging this moment is. You are being impulsive and falling on addictive patterns but that’s not going to help you here. Neither is seeing the world through those victim colored glasses.

Tarot Correspondent: Hanged Man

Ritual: Where do you need to release the illusion that you have everything in control?