Ancestral Healing Tarot Spread

I received a request to do this tarot spread a while ago. It was one of those suggestions that I felt was absolutely brilliant but I felt that I couldn’t quite do it justice at the time.

Some tarot spreads come to me at the blink of an eye and I have to scramble to get them down on paper fast enough before I forget.

Other times I have to sit with the idea for months and try to integrate the type of energy that I want to bring to the spread. Something similar happened when I created my Divine Masculine Tarot Spread, after I got the request I had to sit with it for months until I felt ready to do it justice.

Unlike the Divine Masculine spread, I felt very connected to the idea of ancestral healing. The issue is that I understand the importance and the responsibility that comes with helping others through ancestral healing and I wanted to make this spread as meaningful as possible. I wanted this tarot spread to be able to help anyone regardless of your ancestral lineage and what type of trauma you were carrying (or not).

WHAT IS ANCESTRAL TRAUMA?

Ancestral trauma is passed down through DNA. These are hereditary traits that are passed down to us and play a role in our epigenetics.

This means that what we experience in our lives either through things like diet, medicine, chemical exposure and even social interactions can actually turn off or on certain gene expressions. When we face similar trials in our lifetime as our ancestors we continue to pass along those DNA sequences… until finally we reach an individual who heals their trauma and changes this physical structure of their DNA.

It’s a BIG topic and I understand that it is much bigger than a tarot spread. If you feel called to this tarot spread, I hope that it will help you on your journey of healing. I honor your resilience and determination to heal something bigger than yourself!