by Jillian Root Walker | Aug 19, 2022 | Ancestral Healing, Initiation
Today at the river, I remembered that I am a body prophet. A body prophet is an ancestral title. One who is rewilded, rewinding—constantly—to receive, accept, and surrender to Knowing in the body. It is not as if I can pretend I didn’t receive that name. Clear. The...
by Jillian Root Walker | Aug 8, 2022 | Ancestral Healing, Initiation
In one of her most renowned songs, Marian Anderson sings, “sometimes I feel like a motherless child/a long ways from home/a long ways from home.” Saidiya Hartman writes in Lose Your Mother: “I realized too late that the breach of the Atlantic and the routes traveled...
by Jillian Root Walker | Jun 7, 2022 | Ancestral Healing, Initiation, Politics
I’m thinking this morning about how much of our Black feminist politics of refusal do not take into account the ancient world before the onslaught of the transatlantic slave trade. It’s understandable that we spend lots of time in that historical portal. There are...
by Jillian Root Walker | Jun 4, 2022 | Ancestral Healing, Initiation
And then, And then — And then you give it a title. THE QUANTUM PHYSICS OF DIVINATION And then, And then, you begin to see what it means. Or, you don’t. You start some other Way, or, you never “start.” You never take a first breath; have a beginning, because continuity...
by Jillian Root Walker | Jun 3, 2022 | Ancestral Healing, Initiation
the list of reasons I made for myself the day before beginning my initiation WHY Because I believe the reclamation of indigenous knowledge is core to creating better futures. Because I want to be happy, aligned and healed. Because climate justice. Because “remember”...
