Crystal Prescriptions: The A-Z Guide to Over 1,200 Symptoms and Their Healing Crystals - Judy Hall 2006

Healing the family tree
Ancestral Healing

Systemic entanglements [are] said to occur when unresolved trauma has afflicted a family through an event such as murder, suicide, death of a mother in childbirth, early death of a parent or sibling, war, natural disaster, emigration, or abuse. The psychiatrist Iván Böszörményi-Nagy referred to this phenomenon as Invisible Loyalties.¹⁷

Quite apart from the effect of inherited ancestral memory, our earliest relationships are made within the family and may well reactivate our karmic expectations. They will certainly influence our adult relationships, social and familial. And they will definitely reflect the relationship style that has passed down the generations before us. Some families are loving and supportive, nurturing those in their midst. Others, sadly, are not but it is never too late to reverse the effect. Crystals generate an even more loving atmosphere within a loving family, or heal the results of lack of love in an indifferent or abusive one. Most emotional problems that families face have been passed down through the ancestral line, child learning from parent and passing it on, not knowing anything different — a situation which needs immense forgiveness and compassion. Using a simple visualisation and the assistance of a crystal, the whole family line can be reprogrammed to enjoy love and project it forward to future generations.

Ritual: Healing the Ancestral Line

If you have an actual family tree use it for this ritual, which reaches way back into the prehistory of the family, otherwise find a picture of an actual tree with deep root, visualise one or use the illustration on page 237. Dedicate your crystal to heal the whole family line.

You will need:

Ancestral healer crystal from the list

Family tree or the illustration on page 237

Most potent time: Full moon

Ritual: Ancestral healing

✵ Holding your ancestral healer crystal, picture yourself leaning against a huge tree (or see yourself in your position on your family tree). The branches are present and future generations, the roots the ancestors.

✵ Place the healing stone at the bottom of the deepest taproot, or the start of the family tree. Tell yourself that this is the place of healing for the family as you stand your crystal here.

✵ Feel the crystal emanating forgiveness and loving compassion up through the roots, into the trunk and up into the branches, reprogramming negative family patterns as it goes.

✵ Roll that love out into branches and leaves that haven’t developed yet for the benefit of future generations. Seed gifts for future generations into the branches.

✵ Bring that love and healing into your own heart.

✵ Leave the stone in place at the roots to continue the healing.

✵ You can extend this exercise by laying further crystals on the branches, trunk and roots of the tree as appropriate.

The family tree

Practical example:

14: Healing the family tree layout.

Ancestralite, Flint, Lakelandite, Rose Quartz,

Celtic Quartz and Eye of the Storm.

OR

OR: CAPTION Illustration 14: Healing the Tears of a Nation (ritual for the dispossessed), Knowlton Henges, summer 2016.