Blood Magick For Christian Witches: 3 Methods To Trace the Magick In Your Blood & Bones
Your ancestors are speaking through you and to you. Here are 3 methods to access the most potent magick you can EVER work: the magick in your blood and bones. Let's begin...
Magick is visceral. Intimate. Personal. You need look no further than your own ancestry to find powerful magick.
I call these blood magicks: yes, magicks with an ‘s’ to denote multiple magickal traditions running through your veins and abiding in your bones.
Here you’ll discover 3 methods to reveal the magicks lurking beneath the surface of your skin. The intention of this conversation?
Awareness: most people have no clue as to what magick they have access to, on an ancestral level.
Access: the forces in your blood and bones can be tapped for health, wealth, happiness, love relationships, living your purpose, growing a successful business, world travel and anything you desire. Magick is practical.
Activate: awaken dormant forces in your blood and bones for supercharged rituals and spells that work beyond your comprehension.
Method #1: DNA Testing
This may sound like a strange start to a conversation about blood magick, yet it’s the easiest to quantify, and anything that can be quantified is helpful in the realm of spirituality where much can be claimed without evidence.
As a Witch, I take a magickal perspective and tend to view things through the lens of witchcraft and magick.
I also love science, and the scientific method. I’m a Libra. As an air sign, logic comes naturally and automatic. It can be my default if I’m not careful. Because I love logic, science and critical thinking, and highly encourage it for all who I have the opportunity to teach and serve, I will include logic and science in my magickal workings where there’s harmonic convergence.
I do not require science to prove spirituality, or magick, or that Witchcraft works. I know these potent forces from decades of personal spiritual practice in an ongoing question and answer conversation with the Universe, through rituals and spell work in a walk with Spirit that is undeniable.
While I do not require science to prove my spiritual experiences and resulting knowing, I look for points where magick, spirituality and science align.
This is a sweet spot for me.
Back to this first method of uncovering your magickal roots.
Once you’ve submitted a DNA sample to a provider who can trace your ancestry with accuracy, examine the results. Here’s how, using my ancestry as an example:
My DNA results:
Nigeria
Benin & Togo
Scotland
This is a partial list of the most prominent aspects of my ancestry. Many of us are descendants of people from multiple races and cultures. While some would look at my ancestry and say that the colonizers and slave trade had much to do with the mix in my blood, I look at it differently.
Though a portion of my ancestors traversed the middle passage as slaves, some may have traversed as free people from Scotland making new lives for themselves.
Do not judge your ancestry.
We’re simply seeking to reveal, access and activate the magicks that lives in our blood and bones, regardless of how it got there.
Either way, you have what you have, and ancestry in this incarnation cannot be changed. On a soul level, you chose it all, so this would make your entire ancestral line perfect for you as a soul and the lessons you’re learning in this incarnation.
Next, let’s examine the magicks from each of these lineages:
Nigeria - Yoruba
Benin & Togo - Vodun
Scotland - Scottish Witchcraft & Folk Magic
As you can see, this is a rich starting place. It could literally take decades to unwrap all the magick here, and master it.
Since you’re in this lifetime to do just that, dive right in! Being a powerful witch requires study, contemplation, and action. There’s no better place to start than with yourself. Know Thyself is the first lesson in the Covenant of Christian Witches Mystery School (CCW for short). When students enter CCW, we start with a pivotal lesson: KNOW THYSELF.
This fits perfectly with that ethos.
Let’s examine more deeply the magicks revealed in my DNA testing:
Nigeria - Yoruba: a spiritual path that honors the Orisha (Gods/Goddesses), venerates ancestors, practices divination to understand the best path forward with Divine guidance, and can be an initiatory path for those who are called to it, and has priests and priestesses who are keepers of the tradition and who pass on knowledge to initiates and walkers of the path. An important note is that Santeria — which is a spiritual path syncretizing Yoruba and Roman Catholicism — is another way those who traversed the middle passage kept their spirituality alive and thriving. Other closely associated syncretic spiritual paths are Lukumi, The 21 Divisions and Candomblé, though each has their own spirits, traditions, rituals, offerings and initiatory practices. Some have European elements woven in, and are practiced throughout the Caribbean, making these traditions far more universal than their origins.
Benin & Togo - Vodun: a multidimensional, complex and varied belief system and spiritual path that has morphed as it traveled from its birthplace in Benin, West Africa to the Caribbean, Haiti and into the Americas, with a unique flavor in New Orleans. Also spelled Voodoo or Voodou or Vodoun, the spiritual path has intrigued me so much that I decided I would visit the annual Vodoun Festival, the biggest in the world celebrating this tradition.
Scotland - Scottish Witchcraft & Folk Magic: I finally discovered where my inexplicable fascination with Scottish culture, folk tales, ghost and fae stories and Scottish Witchcraft is sourced in: they live in my blood through ancestry.
How To Work With This Information
Now that you may have discovered 3-4 traditions in the most prominent aspects of your ancestry, proceed by:
Research: begin to research all the magicks that live in your blood. Are you familiar with the traditions revealed by the spiritual paths and magickal traditions honored by your ancestors? What Gods/Goddesses were they connected to? What were their holy days or feast days or sacred times during the year? What practices are still alive in your family that may have roots in magick practiced by your ancestors centuries or even millennia ago?
Listen: tune in to the spirit world and listen carefully for your ancestors and especially for the deities they were connected with. You’ll hear the gentle whisper deep in your soul, igniting the flame of remembrance and guiding you in the best path for you.
Act: take action by erecting altars in your sacred space that honor the ancestors and the spirits they were connected to. You are connected to these spirits too, and they may have been speaking with you for this entire incarnation.
Though I have not been initiated in either Yoruba or Vodoun, and I do not currently practice Scottish Witchcraft, I draw deeply on all these traditions as spiritual sustenance.
In the ATR’s (African Traditional Religions) the ‘ori’ is the head and is understood to be ruled by an Orisha (god/goddess or more accurately, an aspect of divinity) who accompanies one throughout a lifetime, much like a Guardian Angel. I am in contact the Orisha who rules my head and honor her. This is part of the magick that lives in my blood.
I also speak with and seek guidance from the ancestors as a regular spiritual practice. This too is from my ancestry.
Examining your ancestry closely for these magicks doesn’t mean you’ll be initiated in all of them. It means you’re a seeker on the path who’s going deep within your self to reveal the hidden power within.
If it’s helpful for you to do this kind of spiritual work in a group space (as many of the above traditions do), the Christian Witches Mystery School could prove helpful.
Method #2: Ancestral Meditation
Be still each morning during the ‘Witching Hour’ (3 AM to 6 AM) for 20 minutes to 1 hour to connect with and establish unbreakable communication with your ancestors.
In Yoruba culture, dead family members are often buried on the family’s land, a practice designed to foster close physical and spiritual connection with the dead.
Though your ancestors may not be buried near you, they are vested in your ascension, since their ascension is your ascension and vice versa. They will be happy to speak with you, filling in missing details of family spiritual traditions and practices, as some of this information has come to us fragmented.
Document these sessions with your ancestors in your grimoire or a book dedicated to ancestral communication.
Method #3: Dumb Supper aka Feast of the Dead
The Dumb Supper is a potent way to contact ancestors and other loved ones who are on the other side of the veil, and is usually held on October 31st (Samhain for Wiccans). Though I am not Wiccan, I’ve learned much from the tradition.
The meal is eaten — in the presence of the ancestors and loved ones who have crossed over — in complete silence. Hence the name. If I were to put it simply, I’d call it a seance with a meal.
I was taught observance and instructions for the Dumb Supper from a group of witches that met regularly, called The Most Excellent Order of the Black Hat. I attended several meetings as I was finding my way as a baby witch. In one of the gatherings in October they spoke of the Dumb Supper, its meaning and significance for witches, especially at that time of year when the veil is thin.
I followed the steps and held my own Dumb Supper with the intention of contacting my mother and grandmother, both of whom reside in the realm of the ancestors.
The experience was so paradigm shifting that I’ve conducted it again and taught it in a master class. I’ll be teaching it in the Mystery School as we get closer to that time of the year.
In my book How to Be a Christian Witch, I adjusted the name to suit my practice. I now call it the Feast of the Dead. It seemed fitting. Name it what you like, and what most suits your ritual practice.
What does this have to do with the magicks in your blood?
You can ask that auntie who was rumored in the family to have practiced the craft to find out what she was doing.
You can find out specifics of rituals and spells that any of your ancestors may have conducted.
You can ask for wisdom for your path from your ancestors directly, while in a ritual meal.
I’ve found the Feast of the Dead to be paradigm shifting in the deepest way, and a potent reminder that there is a thin veil between dimensions, one that can be traversed by the witch, who resides in the liminal space between worlds.
Conclusion
There are many ways to activate the magicks in your blood and bones. Unfortunately, many of us are activated into magick and the craft through traumatic experiences, though it doesn’t have to be that way.
We can intentionally and proactively seek the magicks in our blood, contact our ancestors, meditate and receive the guidance and insight we’re seeking on how to best practice our unique and individual practice of witchcraft.
Blessed be,
Rev. Valerie Love - KAISI
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