Eating Ancient Virtue
Absorbing The Past to Nourish The Future
Ancestry, Divination, & Destiny
Most of us sense that something essential has been lost, for modern life has severed us from the inheritances that shaped human beings for eons.
Eating Ancient Virtue (a precept found in the oracular I Ching) is about taking those inheritances back in (eating them). These are the timeless truths and ancestral gifts that poured through human societies for millennia, digested and made usable in a life lived now, so that what is innate in you can be embodied in service of your own soul and of the whole.
Beneath it all is a vision of the human being as our ancestors knew us: rooted in lineage, alive in the body, awake to power, and charged with a destiny.
At the heart of it is the way of the seer and the craft of divination: the reading of omens, the communion between spirits and humans, the deeper meaning held inside the mundane, and divination itself, the art of listening for what ancestry, land, and cosmos are asking of your one life, while drawing forward the guidance and blessings that help you walk your own golden path.
“The old ones say the future is behind us, because we cannot see it; the ancestors are in front, because they show the way.” - Lakota Teaching
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This straight talk podcast is an exploration of what it means to live as a fully embodied, 21st-century human still connected to our deep-time hunter-gatherer inheritance. It moves through ancestral healing, embodiment, magic, creative expression, and the long work of aligning with fate and destiny. At the heart of it is the art of divination and the way of the seer: contact with the broader forces at play, and the old craft of reading them.
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