Calling Lineage Gifts Home
This month’s article follows the thread of our previous exploration of Ancestral healing, and the potential origins of what we call curses. The subject of lineage gifts is something that is perhaps easily overlooked in the great work of understanding, untangling, and releasing the heavy inheritance of generational trauma. It takes a lot of awareness and effort to heal the burdens of the past, particularly when we consider the dual influence of individual stories of tragedy, destructive patterns, and limiting beliefs alongside the larger cultural tides of oppression, persecution, displacement, and terror in its many historic guises. Yet, there is another equally important side to this coin, if we are to truly heal and restore our capacity to flourish on a soul level. Through all the times that our Ancestors survived by difficult means, by hiding, by moving to an unknown place, by keeping their heads down, by adapting and accommodating, by burying their trauma for future generations to reconcile, even by becoming ruthless themselves, through all of these wounds and changes of self and worldview, what was left behind? What was forgotten? What was lost?
We may be different from our families in significant ways, but often if we look closely we find that at least within one side of our lineage we find reflections of ourselves, not only in terms of our issues, but also when it comes to our gifts. This can take many forms, from artistic talent to physical and mental skills, from a compassionate nature that reaches out to others to innate psychic ability. If we look more deeply, we might find that some of these talents are well celebrated and encouraged and some are not discussed, or perhaps not understood consciously. Is there such a thing as family medicine, a theme of abilities and soul work that repeats in a family, gathering knowledge and refinement over time? For most of us, at least in the United States, the history of migration and assimilation, and all the reasons that made it necessary, has made this an obscure notion, rather than something passed on with nurturing, teaching, and intention. Recovering ourselves from past wounds and the tides of suppression that swept over many cultures, mystery traditions, and intuitive forms of knowledge, also means looking within to rescue the threads of our lineage gifts that were worn thin through the ages. In my personal experience, finding what came before the time of necessary adapting and forgetting made sense of many of the intuitive impulses, dreams, and psychic experiences that I experienced with curiosity as an adult and fear as a child. That inquiry led me to empowerment and an integration of the strong Ancestral forces that were farther back than the family stories I knew. What within your history and bloodlines might be waiting for the embrace of your conscious awareness? What would our world look like if many of us were to rescue the knowledge and gifts that have been obscured by trauma?
And, even beyond the lineages of blood ancestry, there exists the history of the soul and its journey through time and incarnation. What might we have known, lost, or agreed to forget on a soul level? Where might you have suppressed your own gifts and inclinations in the name of survival? Certainly the astrology of this season has been pushing us to bring these questions to the surface, and even to consider what structures and relationships in our lives are helping us to stay in a limited mindset, even as the change of epoch that is happening now invites us to remember our truest nature. This layer of information may be buried even more deeply within the psyche, and yet our passions, longings, and dreams will ultimately reveal what’s hidden, if we learn to listen with trust. Intentional delving into the Akashic records through meditation, journeying, and divination methods can also be illuminating. Much of what is needed to bring what is buried to the surface comes down to allowing ourselves to listen to the inner voice over the outside input that tells us what we and our reality are allowed to be.
We are exiting an era when for generations it was dangerous to embrace the intuitive, the mysterious, the feminine, and the natural magic of the earth. And, even as the times of danger subsided in many places in our world, these aspects of inner life and the more hidden elements of our reality became something distrusted, lowered to the realm of fantasy, or ridiculed. Knowledge that survived was kept secret for good reason. Secrecy also creates wounds and gaps in understanding over time, but when knowledge is brought to the light again those wounds can transform to empowerment. We should be grateful for all the ways in which esoteric knowledge was preserved, through sacrifice, through hiding, through surviving, and through remembering in even the quietest of ways. The prophecies of our time say that we are at the start of looking within again, recovering and expanding the gifts of the intuitive, the feminine, the earth, and the soul territories. We can make this true, and we can honor the people of the past who brought us this far, by picking up the frayed threads, reclaiming our lineage gifts in the light of day, and making them stronger by using and sharing them again. What a beautiful act of reverence and revolution.
May you find more of who you truly are and become the Ancestor of the future, who paves the way of remembering.
Ometeotl.
-This blog was written by Melusina Gomez, originally for publication with the eleventh house