by Jillian Root Walker | Aug 27, 2022 | Ancestral Healing
How Not to Spiritually Bypass with Ancestors – Watch Video Wohoo! Welcome to the first-ever ROOTVlog! In this video I dive into: What spiritual bypassing with ancestors can look like and What to do instead. Only calling in and on Ancestors of “love and...
by Jillian Root Walker | Aug 24, 2022 | Ancestral Healing, Creativity, Politics
How to Heal as a Black Woman – August 24th, 2018. 1) Go to the river. Baptize. Sit and write. Take a nap. Find the rock in the sun and lay there eating oranges. 2) Write. Think. Think about your body. Ask each other how your bodies are. Talk endlessly about...
by Jillian Root Walker | Aug 22, 2022 | Ancestral Healing, Initiation, Prophecy
Dear Dears, I am writing to you from deep inside a healing portal in California.* The best way for me to describe the way it’s feeling, to give you a sense, is that I feel like I’m underground above the ground. I am thinking about that wise saying, as above, so below....
by Jillian Root Walker | Aug 20, 2022 | Ancestral Healing, Creativity, Initiation
// song as direct connection to ancestors >> I talk about music or a song, rather, as something that arises or rises above the surface. The music is always present and sometimes it enters the realm of the heard, but it is not that when there is silence there is...
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...
