Intuitive Genealogy Part 4
When you know....you know.
Do you trust your intuition to guide you when doing genealogical or military research or even ancestral travel? Or do you ignore it because it’s too “woo woo crazy” or “weird” to acknowledge you might know more than the world tells you that you are allowed to know?
I think most people fall into the lane of ignoring their intuition until something happens to them that shifts them into a higher vibration. A higher sense of knowing and trusting oneself and their ancestors and guides. Then it becomes a little easier to trust our knowing, but we still might keep it a secret.
Then things happen and we are again pushed into a higher realm of consciousness and start talking about our intuition. We start talking about the “weird” things that have happened to us related to our family or those things of a spiritual nature. We do this with a small trusted group of people usually. Then at some point, some of us get loud about it and release (most of) the fear that we will be judged or outcast.
It’s always interesting to me, to learn where people are on their journey. It allows me to look back on mine to see how far I’ve come…..knowing I still have a long way to go.
2024 is the year to deepen your ancestral connections. If you missed reading Intuitive Genealogy Part 1, be sure to check it out. You can find Intuitive Genealogy Part 2 here. Find Intuitive Genealogy Part 3 here.
Last week I held an Ancestral Codes Community gathering on Zoom meeting. This will be a select Wednesday evening (free) event where I do a little teaching and share resources and open the conversation to topics around genealogy, military research, ancestral healing, family patterns, energy healing, and more! This is a no-judgment, sacred, supportive, curious, safe space to discuss all things. Four new to me women attended the gathering and we had the most amazing conversations.
One of the topics we discussed was our intuitive knowing when it comes to healing ourselves and our ancestral lineage. Each of us approaches healing through different avenues and it is always interesting to hear how each person I encounter begins their ancestral healing journey. Some enter through genealogy. Others through a family crisis or illness. Others just stumble into it because of life events. There are so many other ways to enter this realm as well and none of them are wrong. The way in is perfect for each individual.
We can invite others to open up, share, and heal.
All families have secrets, shameful events, traumatic or joyous events. Stories may be concocted or lies told to keep things hidden. We may grow up fearing that if we broach a subject that has been consciously or unconsciously labeled ‘off limits’ that we might get in trouble. Cast out of the family. Or destroy a relationship.
It can take a long time to work through some of those energies within ourselves and even longer within the family and lineage. However, when we do the inner work around some of those stories or events, and make peace or heal parts of them, it allows us to start being more vocal without fear. To share the stories or events with others which may lead us to not feeling quite so alone in our family’s drama and trauma.
Most of us grow up being told ‘Don’t tell anyone……’ but when we grow up and look around, we can find many others who have gone through the same thing or something similar. If we brought the secrets into the light, how might our lives change? How might our lineage heal? How might that ripple out into the world?
What if we intuitively know that by sharing something in our family history, it might help someone else open up, speak up, and heal? What if we intuitively know and remain silent? What if we speak out? Who might this help? What if we have more intuition and less of a paper trail to prove what happened to our ancestors? Are we right or wrong for sharing this?
I say we are right for sharing. You can’t paper trail everything. One example I brought up last night around this idea was all the emotional, verbal and mental abuse that many of us have suffered in relationships or family units. You can’t paper trail that but you can see it in the behavior and beliefs and patterns within a family, your children and grandchildren. Intuitively you may know something needs to be explored here and then go in search of the paper trail to help shed some light on why the family has this type of abuse within in it.
Somewhat related to not having a paper trail around some family topics, during the Ancestral Codes Community gathering, I brought up something that happened in my family. Once I did, I was amazed at how that one sentence I uttered impacted everyone on the Zoom. I was not alone in the family trauma. Almost everyone had something similar in their lineage. My speaking up and being nudged by my ancestors opened a space for a lot of healing to take place. For people to speak up, share knowledge, and build community. For all of that, I’m so grateful I said something.
Trusting our intuition is important. Speaking up when you feel you should may shift someone’s life. You just never know.
What do you think? Do you rely on your intuition when it comes to family history or military research? What about ancestral travel? What have your experiences been? Please comment below.