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...
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...
