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

Honouring the ancestors
Ancestral Healing

In traditional societies, ancestors are an honoured part of the family. Ancient peoples kept bones under the floor, created home altars, or regularly visited tombs making offerings so that the spirits of the ancestors blessed them. In modern families people often unknowingly make an equivalent ’family altar’ with displays of photographs or inherited objects (which may need to be cleansed, see page 218). An altar can be used to honour and bless the ancestors and to bring their blessings into your everyday life. Spirit Quartz is an ancestor-orientated stone as is Ancestralite.

You will need:

Family photographs

Large photograph frame

Spirit and Rose Quartz or Ancestralite

Tea light or candle in holder

Most potent time: Full moon

Ritual: Honouring the ancestors

✵ Gather together a selection of family photographs that span the generations and create a collage radiating out with you or your immediate family in the centre. As you do so, thank each person for being part of your ancestral line and ask for their blessing.

✵ Frame the collage and set it up in the ancestral portion of your home (the middle of the left-hand wall of the house).

✵ Light the candle and place it in front of the collage.

✵ Hold the Spirit Quartz or Ancestralite and dedicate it to honouring your ancestors. Touch each ancestor with the crystal and bless them. Place the crystal in front of the collage.

✵ If you feel that more love is needed, place Rose Quartz next to the Spirit Quartz.

✵ As you blow the candle out, send love, blessings and honour out through future generations.