Word Witchery, the Ancestors, & Tarot - Sanyu Estelle
Medicine Stories
Amber Magnolia Hill
4.7 • 1.4K 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
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Music by Mariee Siou (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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