The Ache Is Ancestral — Inheritance Sessions Bonuses End Tonight
The secret sauce of colonialism, the forces driving genocide in the world, are the ghosts. It’s the troubled dead.
The forces that uphold white supremacy and exploitative capitalism and misogyny, those forces and the institutions that replicate that harm, those institutions are like the concrete that keeps [those systems] hard to change, are the troubled dead.
The ghosts, the troubled dead, are driving an extinction crisis on Earth. The impact of the troubled dead cannot be overstated.
— Daniel Foor, June 6th, 2025, speaking at The Eternal Song Film Gathering with SAND
Hola Beautiful Wildling,
Let’s get real.
There’s a kind of ache that doesn’t come from your life. It moves through your body like smoke. It shows up in your nervous system, in your dreams, in that bone-deep fatigue that no supplement can fix.
It’s not personal. It’s ancestral.
Some of us carry what our people never got to grieve. Some of us inherited harm we didn’t choose, but that still shapes our fire, our flow, our fight.
And if we don’t tend it, we pass it on — in our movements, in our parenting, in our projects, in our bodies.
Here’s the truth this work is built on. These aren’t metaphors. They’re ancestral facts.
Ancestral Healing Work Rests on Five Sacred Assumptions
These cross-cultural truths are the foundation of ancestral lineage repair:
1. Consciousness continues after death.
The dead aren’t gone. They’re just in a different form. Their presence lives in our blood, our bones, our land, our lines. We can be in right relationship through consent and reverence.
2. Not all ancestors are well.
This is the one people skip over. Some ancestors caused harm. Some died in pain. We don’t bypass this. Some colluded with domination, and some were the dominators. We don’t pretend they’re saints. And we don’t work with them directly. We create ritual protection. We call on the wise and well ones from farther back in the line. Healing flows from them forward.
This part? I’ve lived.
My settler-colonial ancestors were not well. John Birch Society fundamentalists. Gun runners. White saviors. They carried violence, dominance, and spiritual disconnection. Their unprocessed grief and harm lodged itself in my immune system. My macrophages attacked my body like it was the enemy, because part of me, the Indigenous part, has always had to fight to exist. Even in my own skin.
When I began the repair work, I told those unwell ancestors to step aside and called in the elders of integrity, and something shifted. My body softened. My nervous system stopped clenching. The inflammation eased. The ache lightened. The fire cooled.
3. Ancestors can change.
They’re not stuck in Time. When witnessed, when asked to take accountability, they can evolve. They can stop being burdens and become blessings.
4. Communication with the dead is possible.
We don’t need a seance. We need presence. Boundaries. Practice. We attune, listen, and learn who we’re in relationship with.
5. The influence between the living and the dead is mutual.
Their wounds can shape us, and our healing can ripple backward, too.
The connection is alive. And it’s waiting. It flows backward and forward. Through us. Beyond us.
This Isn’t a Metaphor — It’s an Embodied Path
We are living in a moment of relentless harm. What goes untended, festers. We see it in our politics. Our families. Our institutions. Our movements. It’s the same infected wounds in new masks.
But ancestral repair changes the pattern, not by force, but by Inheritance.
Inheritance begins by choosing to stop carrying what’s not yours and receive your blessings.
And this choice matters now more than ever.
Every lineage tended becomes a thread rewoven into the great fabric. Every act of healing restores flow where it was frozen. Every time we listen, witness, and choose differently, we become the face our ancestors prayed for. We become a conduit for beauty, repair, and right relation.
This isn’t about bracing. It’s about belonging.
Every time you choose healing, you create a ripple of protection for your body, your kin, and the world we’re still trying to build.
The more we dissolve into that field, the more we allow the well ones to rise within us, the more the ache transforms. The more we do, too.
This is soul work. This is justice work. This is collective resuscitation.
And the portal for you to choose your belonging is open.
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The ache might not be yours. But you’re the one who can name it. Tend it. End it.
Stay wild, love fiercely. Your presence is golden.
Maltiox! xo Ixchel
Indigenous Time Ecologist | Ancestral Medicine Guide
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P.P.S. Maltiox pronounced mall-tee-osh means with gratitude in K’iche Mayan.
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I was raised and bore children on the traditional, unceded, and stolen lands of the Coast and Central Valley Miwok (colonized as Petaluma, CA) and Nisenan (colonized as Sacramento and Fair Oaks, CA), past, present, and future. I also write, work, and live in the highland forest of the traditional, unceded and stolen lands of the Totonac, Nahua, and Mexicah, past, present, and future, in what is known as Coatepec, Veracruz, Mexico.
P.P.S. I do not live or consent to the colonial impositions regarding the construct of Time. I also practice honoring rhythms of work, play, and rest so that I can serve you with embodied presence and with loving care. This means I may take several days to respond to your requests and questions. (h/t Eva Glamaris)
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