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Ancestral Wisdom, field notes and rememberings on connecting with our ancestral ecosystems and living a more connected and resourced life.

we will not grieve in isolation

March 7, 2024 tamira cousett
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Allowing ourselves to be companioned in our grief by our ancestors and unseen kin is a practice of vulnerability and deep intimacy.

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May we all feel safe enough to practice sharing our grief with our ancestors and our unseen elders.

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May we be led by the collective choreographies of our grieving toward generative lifeways and rituals that articulate our love of life and the insistence that our grieving be held in deep ecology.

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On March 12th, Elder Wisdom, a two-hour ritual container intended to support us in connecting with our ancestral ecosystems, unseen kin, and elder wisdom fields, opens. This ritual of connecting with our ancestors and unseen elders in times of deep suffering and grief is a love offering to our nervous systems, our hearts, the earth, and all of our kin-folk displaced and suffering at the hands of oppressive systems.

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In these times, we choose community and connection. In these times, we refuse to allow ourselves to grieve in isolation.

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Register at https://bit.ly/elderwisdom

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[quotes on tan and brown background with striated white lines reads: Allowing ourselves to be companioned in our grief by our ancestors and unseen kin is a practice of vulnerability and deep intimacy. May we all feel safe enough to practice sharing our grief with our ancestors and our unseen elders.

May we be led by the collective choreographies of our grieving toward generative lifeways and rituals that articulate our love of life and the insistence that our grieving be held in deep ecology.]

#elderwisdom #ase #ancestralwisdom #community #practice #ancestors #healing #liberation #love #relationshipgoals #hope #ancestralconnections #generativelifeways #ancestralassignment #ecologicalbeing #lineage #kin #descendants #ancestralveneration #curiosity #kinship #ritual #radicalimagination #remember #belonging #interdependence #ecosystems #connection #unlearning #grief

Tags grief, elderwisdom, ancestralwisdom
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all praises

March 7, 2024 tamira cousett

All Praises

Praise impossible things

Praise to hot ice

Praise to flying fish

Whole numbers

Praise impossible things.

Praise all creation

Praise the presence among us

Of the unfenced Is.

-Lucille Clifton

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Praise for the gift of your life.

Praise to the signs you continue to send us one year later that you are still deeply connected to us as you settle into the ancestral realm.

We miss you 🕊️

#love

Tags grief, death, lucille clifton
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a spell for heartbreak

November 5, 2023 tamira cousett

the very real work of these times is learning to sit with and presencing our personal and collective heartbreak.

our heartbreak will catalyze us into co-creating more generative and life-affirming ways of being.

we must learn to trust our heartbreak

we must feel our way through these times

a loving & liberatory praxis of being is blooming in and through us.

Tags spell, grief, heartbreak
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a hymn for grief

October 27, 2023 tamira cousett

the lights and internet have been disconnected in gaza as the empire carries out its deeds in darkness, but we know what is happening, and we don't need sight to feel the ripples of loss and violence surging through the web of life.

no matter who you are and or what you believe, i hope you take time to grieve and withness, not consume the Palestinian peoples' struggles of resistance.

may none of us believe that our physical distance from these events serves as any measure of safety or boundaries from the global reach of empire and oppression.

may we all remember that we are moving towards collective liberation for all.

may we abandon our composure, may we grieve, and may our hearts be broken wide open.

#ase #grief #hymn #freepalestine #liberation #collectiveliberation #wheredoesithurt #gaza #loss #healing #together #solidarity #grieve #composure #heartbreak

In hymn Tags hymn, grief
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grief medicine

October 25, 2023 tamira cousett
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dreaming of communal grieving that is held in the integrity and vast resource of deep ecology.
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holding visions of all of us being braided into deep webs of resource, presence, and community as we grieve.
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join
@nora.dennis.md and I for a communal grief & hope ritual at Jubilee Healing Farm.
we will invite in the vast resource and presence of ecologies rooted in love and liberation to guide our ritual and withness our grief and hope offerings.
📅oct 29
⏲️1-230 pm
🔗 www.tamiracousett.com/gatherings
[quote reads:
grief medicine moves us deeper into ecology.
its presence invites an ecological response of holding & withness.
how is our grieving impacted when systems
of domination work overtime to push us out of ecology and back into economy & productivity amid our grieving?
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#meditation #grief #griefmedicine #ancestralwisdom #ritual #gather #healing #community #ecologicalbeing #ecology #reflection #inquiry #vision #dreaming #hope #ase #love #ecologicalresponse #kin #presence #resource #integrity

Tags ancestralwisdom, grief
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a reminder

October 19, 2023 tamira cousett
image shows the profile silhouette of a black woman with braids facing the sky. quote reads: Bring your grief, rage, confusion & heartbreak to your ancestral connection practices; this is an invitation to be withnessed. Bring your whole self into you

A reminder
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Bring your whole self to your ancestral connection practices.
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Our ancestral ecosystems are not in some far-off place watching from afar. They are with us always, witnessing.
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Presencing what is, while rooting in ecology is how we affirm our interconnectedness.
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Our broken hearts are potent pathways of connection.
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[image shows the profile silhouette of a black woman with braids facing the sky. quote reads: Bring your grief, rage, confusion & heartbreak to your ancestral connection practices; this is an invitation to be withnessed. Bring your whole self into your practices of connection and trust the ancestral ecosystems to embrace the layered complexities of your human experiences.]
#ancestors #ancestralwisdom #healing #peace #egungun #support #prayer #spell #ritual #community #love #liberation #courage #spell #meditation #ancestralconnection #grief #rage #trust #ecology #interdependence #interconnected #collective #human #life #brokenheart #heart #connection

Tags ancestralwisdom, ancestralecosystems, grief, love, spell
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a grief ritual

August 8, 2023 tamira cousett

I received this ritual in the summer of 2020 as I wept and worked in the garden. That is where I spent most of my free time, wet with tears and sweat, pressed against the body of the earth, grieving and anxious. When I received this ritual, my children helped me harvest our plant kin with care and love. We asked permission from the land and the plants to harvest their bounty, laid offerings in the soil and washed their green bodies and bright petals with cool water, prayers, and songs. We patted them down with soft cloths and held them between the flesh of our palms before making tea and tinctures.
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I find myself drawn to this ritual often, grateful to work with the fresh offerings of plant kin when available or with the homemade tinctures that some mysterious and wise aspect of my being guides me to craft in advance.
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I share this with you, hoping that you, too, might be inspired to co-weave and engage with rituals for expressing grief. I share this because I am learning that our rituals carry the most potency and ase when they are shared with and support others.
#love #grief #ritual #ancestors #plantcestors #healing #ancestralwisdom #support #share #ase #potency #plants #plantmedicine #botanical #herb #medicine #descendantbelovedkin #presence #meditation #rose #lemonbalm #tea #tincture #water #gratitude #learning #growing

Tags ritual, grief
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