Transform Hereditary Pain

The Past Does Not Bind You

Delve deep into the past and discover more about your family lineage. There may be traumas or secrets in your ancestry that have not been processed, acknowledged or healed. Consider whether there are any patterns of mental, emotional or physical abuse, rejection, abandonment or neglect in your female and male lines. Patterns of thought, feeling and behavior can be passed down through generations. Releasing them can help you move beyond suffering and into freedom.

You have the power to look back with objectivity and heal ancestral pain. Doing this not only frees you but creates space for your family to heal and for your children to walk their own path, unencumbered by familial expectation, pain or regret.

Healing is not about blame. It is about acknowledgement, acceptance and release. You have the opportunity to embrace compassion and shift from painful, limiting perspectives into expansive and progressive ones. You are not a victim of your circumstances. When you open to the understanding that the past has no bearing on the present, you realize that a whole world of possibilities lies before you.

This card asks you to explore your hereditary line from the understanding that as a soul and a spirit, you are here to learn and grow from your family circumstances to heal the past and create a new kind of future for this and future lives.

Every painful circumstance creates an opportunity for expansion. We may not be able to choose the family we are born into, but we can choose to let go and grow beyond the hereditary limitations that once defined us.

Healing Practice

To integrate the guidance of this card, please complete both of the following healing practices.

Creative Healing

Sit comfortably at a table or desk. Take some notebook paper, sketch paper, or your computer to create a family tree going back as many generations as feels comfortable. Include the people you know reasonably well or have heard stories about. Leave room under each entry for dot points.

Under each entry, write down what you know about each family member’s challenges, including significant life events, social/cultural hardships, ongoing struggles, etc. Become aware of emergent themes. Look for commonalities between the entries. Ask yourself whether these can be explained by generational inheritance. Consider how the experiences of each family member compare and contrast and what these experiences say about them and you.

Ask yourself what you have inherited from your family that you are perpetuating. Is it causing conflict, fear, feelings of rejection, abandonment and self-loathing in your inner and outer worlds? To grow, you must be willing to go beyond the limiting ideas that people in your circle have imposed on you. This can include who and how to love, what to learn and study, where and how to live, and more.

Explore your legacy and interrogate your loyalties. Ask whether they are healthy and if remaining “loyal” is worth the price of continuing the cycle of suffering. When you have contemplated your family legacy and understood it to the best of your ability, decide what to release and keep. Then proceed with the energy healing.

Energy Healing

Sit or stand comfortably. Inhale and exhale slowly until you feel calm and centered. Imagine a semi-transparent ray of crimson light is shining down on you. It is vibrant, warm and powerful.

Direct this gentle red ray from your toes to the top of your head, moving through your feet, legs, thighs, torso, arms, neck, face and crown before moving downward again. Continue cycling the red light through your body until your skin tingles and you feel full to bursting with life.

Become aware of the blood in your veins. If the flow feels stuck, thick or sticky, rest your awareness in those areas and imagine the obstruction gently dislodging and exiting your body. This frees your veins so vitality can flush through your body, unencumbered. Continue until your body is singing and you feel powerful and free of burdens.

Moving from dependency to independence is a delicate process. Be kind to yourself and those around you. This process requires patience, forgiveness and courage. Practice it daily until you feel you are following your own unique journey, no longer beholden to the past.