Sacred Contracts Graduate Class: EXPLORING YOUR ANCESTOR WHEEL
As all of you know, the study of Sacred Contracts in an arduous undertaking. You’ve put in several CMED sessions to learn the wheel and to become familiar with your archetypes. But in addition to learning about the wheel and your personal archetypes, you’ve become familiar with the truth that everything in life is an expression of the power and influence of archetypal patterns. They are the engine of this physical life of ours – and that is a very rich truth to realize. So with all that hard work under our belts, it’s time to discover the greater power sphere of the archetypal wheel. In this graduate class, we will use the wheel to explore the extraordinary realm of our ancestors.
In the Ancestor Wheel, we will be tracing family patterns that shape who you are by culture, collective myth, inherited psychic pain or power, inherited expectations, long lines of traditions that continue to speak through your life as well as other archetypal patterns that present themselves in various ways in a person’s consciousness. For example, many people find that they have an unexplainable attraction to another culture. It doesn’t make any logical sense whatsoever; yet, it makes sense when interpreted symbolically or through the realm of archetypal power. People often have dreams in which dream figures from another culture take shape, as if awakening a distant memory. Yet another common trait is that many people collect objects from a distant culture, talismans of power, for instance, that have nothing to do with their own power traditions. Some ancestors, in other words, do indeed go back to other lifetimes.
Carrying psychic pain from one generation to another is extremely common – all too common, in fact. Every person is a container for some degree of pain from a previous generation, whether consciously or unconsciously. That pain has to be held by a particular archetype within your psyche and therefore, that archetype and pain has to have an expression within the wheel of your life. Similarly, we all carry some form of collective wisdom and power from our ancestors, though without articulating it, that wisdom is wasted.
In this workshop, we will seek out this precious knowledge and no doubt fill in some of the blank spaces in our life. Perhaps we will understand our dream imagery better or our family patterns or our relationship dynamics. Everything we are, after all, is in some way inherited or influenced from those who went before us.
This is going to be yet another wonderful CMED experience. I would encourage you to bring along photos of your ancestors or objects that represent your family or cultural history.
See you back at the Doubletree.
Love, Caroline