Honoring Your Ancestors: A Guide to Ancestral Veneration

Written by Mallorie Vaudoise

Narrated by Leslie Howard

Discover the spiritual nourishment and magical power of ancestor veneration

Learn how to connect to your ancestors and receive the benefits that come from veneration-powerful magic and spellwork, deeper spirituality, more love in your life, better outcomes in creative pursuits, and an improved sense of wellness. Filled with hands-on techniques and tips, Honoring Your Ancestors shows you how to create an ancestor altar so you can work with ancestors of all kinds. Author Mallorie Vaudoise also shares fascinating ideas for incorporating rituals, spells, family recipes, and even practices like music and dancing to help you open this wonderful new dimension of your spiritual journey.

Ancestor veneration is one of the most widespread spiritual practices in the world. This book shares the important distinctions between working with blood ancestors, lineage ancestors, and affinity ancestors while helping you recognize the signs that your ancestors are responding to your petitions and offerings. You will also explore important topics like mediumship and ancestral trauma so you can be sure to develop a veneration practice that's uplifting and affirming for you.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
• Release date: Nov 29, 2019
• ISBN: 9781977366566

Mallorie Vaudoise

Mallorie Vaudoise is a spiritualist, folk Catholic, and witch of Italian descent based in New York City. Her blog Italian Folk Magic is one of the most popular English-language resources on the topic. Mallorie is an initiated Olorisha (Orisha priestess) and an apprentice in the ecstatic music and dance traditions of her ancestors. Visit Mallorie online at www.roadsideomens.com.

Reviews for Honoring Your Ancestors

[jwryn · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

I really enjoyed this book. I've been wanting to engage more with ancestor veneration, but felt lost with how to start or what I should be doing. Researching online, and trying to find scraps on the topic in other books, wasn't really working for me. This book is an excellent introduction for a beginner, and I am looking forwards to introducing her ideas/teaching into my life and practice.

[LisaVanderWal · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Love this book, especially if you just started working with your ancestors

[Katie S · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I loved the exercises and guidance so much, I bought a physical copy. Beautiful book. I feel a great deal closer to family who have passed. Even those I'd never met. Reaching out to an uncle who has been researching our genealogy for years. I didn't "get it," until now.

[Mattias L · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Good overall, with many thoughtful suggestions, and lots of inspiration. I'd given it at least one more star, if it wasn't because of the very obvious contemporary and frequently present political ideas. Me and my ancestors are not about a decade old political ideas. It doesn't interest me, and it wasn't part of either their or my life. It's getting tiresome, not being able to take part of anything created these days, without this totalitarian kind of view. Keep politics out of things where it shouldn't belong.

[Renáta Perosa · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I love this book. Engaging, informative. Really useful for everyone who's interested in Ancestor work.

[Doris Rhodes · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Enjoyed the simplicity to understand way to venerate the Ancestors.

[waxflower-775731 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

I really enjoyed this book. I've been wanting to engage more with ancestor veneration, but felt lost with how to start or what I should be doing. Researching online, and trying to find scraps on the topic in other books, wasn't really working for me. This book is an excellent introduction for a beginner, and I am looking forwards to introducing her ideas/teaching into my life and practice.

[Crystal Raines · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I've been a choas practitioner for two decades and found this helpful in boosting my practice. Know thyself means know where you come from. Acknowledging not just your direct lineage but also the primordial ooze that begins the evolutionary chain to the human that is you. Good info and entertaining.

[Kai Baraka · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I loved the narrator's voice and the wisdom shared is easy to comprehend and apply.

[Booker · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

This book is such a great introduction to ancestor veneration and gives me confidence that there are so many ways to do it that go beyond the examples here.

[Roseanne Schmidt · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

I will re-read it. I will re-read it. I will re-read it.

[Nicole Stewart · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

superb!!! This Information was quite beneficial for me even though I have been doing ancestral veneration for over 10 years. So much to learn but I am always up for the challenge.