31. Word Witchery, the Ancestors, & Tarot - Sanyu Estelle

Medicine Stories

Amber M Hill

Herbs, Health & Fitness, Ancestry, Alternativemedicine, Herbalism, Alternative Health, Dreams, Healing, Society & Culture, Psychedelics

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2018

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

Why to always work with the ancestors first, diving deep into the meaning of the words we use, and more...

In the Intro:

A word about this podcast
November Tarot Forecast
The best bio ever

In the Interview:

The power of words & etymological knowledge
Ancestral migratory paths
The history of "queer" & being multisexual
Sanyu's Belizean and Ugandan roots
Why to work with our ancestors first and foremost
What it looks like when a genealogy/research nerd pieces together an ancestor's life
Placing our forebears in the wider socio-historical context of their times: discovering a great-grandmother's life through understanding colonialism and the Trans-Atlantic slave trade
The feeling of being the first generation in a new land
The ancestors & Tarot
Being claircognizant
When illness is a spiritually energetic leveling up
The interweaving of Christianity and spiritualism
Working with dreams
Opening yourself to the wisdom & weirdness of the multiverse
Naming things collapses possibilities
Taoism rules
The Plant Alchemy Deck

Links:

SanyuEstelle.com

Life as Ceremony Magazine

My website MythicMedicine.love

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The Medicine Stories Facebook group

Take my fun Which Healing Herb is Your Spirit Medicine? quiz

Mythic Medicine on Instagram

Music by Mariee Sioux (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes)

Transcript

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0:00.0	When I work with the unknown, we work with our ancestors first because there are closest link into the unknown.
0:07.0	They were alive, they are our blood, and they crossed over to the other side. So they are literally a direct link energetically to that side.
0:22.0	Hey, hey, welcome to Medicine Stories. This is episode 31 and I'm Amber Magnolia Hill.
0:31.3	Talking today to Sani O' Estelle. Saniou is amazing. We talk about the power of words and knowing
0:41.0	the etymology of what you're saying different ancestral migratory paths
0:46.9	that humans took over time and you know that the DNA testing that can tell you which ones your ancestors took talked about that on the podcast a few times
0:56.5	The history of the word queer and being multis sexual
1:00.9	San use Belize and Ugandan roots.
1:04.0	Why to work with our ancestors first and foremost when starting out out on any spiritual path?
1:11.0	What it looks like when a genealogy slash research nerd pieces together
1:16.3	an ancestor's life placing our forebears in the wider socio-historical context of their times, discovering a great-grandmother's life through
1:24.7	understanding colonialism and the transatlantic slave trade.
1:29.0	The feeling of being the first generation in a new land, I really loved how San you framed this as knowing
1:34.5	that she's going to be the first person in her line to be buried in America
1:38.0	because you know the land that are dead are in is the land of our ancestral home. The ancestors and
1:46.4	Taro being clair cognizant when illness is a spiritually energetic leveling up,
1:54.0	the interweaving of Christianity and spiritualism in Sanja's family.
1:59.0	This makes me want to jump in real quick and say that spiritualism, that word is different from spirituality.
2:06.8	I see people confuse these and misuse the word spiritualism a lot.
2:11.4	We all know what spirituality means, although we all define it differently. But spiritualism is like the belief in ghosts, mediumship, the ability to communicate with the dead basically.
2:25.0	Working with dreams, opening yourself to the wisdom and weirdness of the multiverse,
2:31.0	naming things collapses possibilities and other ideas from Taoism and the
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