How was your holiday?  My own Solstice and Christmas was a mix of wonderful sharing with my current blended family, preceded by a powerful visit to some old, holiday-trauma spaces in my soul.  I see these latter as coming up for healing--and you can see yours that way too.  I'll be sharing a little about this in the next session of the free teleseminar--Transforming Holiday Family Heartaches Tuesday 6:45 EST.  Join us if you can.  There are also several posts immediately below explaing what we've done in this teleseminar. 

Right now, in my last blog on this holiday subject (until the bigger, better version of this next year)--I want to say more about the idea of invoking the full generational range of your family soul. That's a main part of Star Five:  Invoke and work with whatever is right in your family soul.  Can you actually communicate with, help and get help from, recently deceased ancestors?  Can you, on this "soul level" exchange healing energies with living family members who are difficult or estranged on the "everyday level"? My answer to these questions is--yes, if your belief system can be open to it, you definitely can.

I speak of the transgenerational family soul as "psychically" active.  Surveys show that over half of American and British people believe some forms of psychic phenomena are real.  The National Science Foundation likes to say that those people are either stupid or ignorant.  But its own more detailed surveys turn up the fact that 62% of those with more than a high school education accept "psi," while only 46% of those without believe in it.  So it is actually the more intelligent, more highly educated that accept the reality of psychic communication.

Through family altars, meditations, facilitated constellations, or even old fashioned "prayer"--you can invoke the desire of deceased ancestors to see you and their other descendents doing well rather than poorly.  We experience this done successfully most of the time in constellation work.  I'll go into more detail about the how's in the 12/27 session coming up. 

It seems like the deceased spend typically a generation or two still connected to the family soul, as they gradually merge back into some form of the "divine All."  If you have recent grandparents, or aunts or uncles you were especially close to--start there.  Otherwise, go back further and ask for help for the living family and insight around your own position in it.  As you go back further, there are more and more ancestors, and they are more fully merged, and their energy and intentions are "cleaner."

Do you have living relatives that are estranged, or somehow a constant thorn in your side?  Family members do not have to be deceased for you to interact with them on the "soul level."  You can step out trigger systems, and exercise non-judgment and compassion towards difficult living relatives in facilitated constellations, or your own altars, meditations, or prayers.  There are literally thousands of stories now of rather uncanny changes that have come about as a result of this--without ever a word having been said to them about what you are doing. 

Even if your whole living family is basically a "trigger system," and you have stay away from it completely--you can stil do this kind of connecting.

The other part of Star Five is about strengthening "what's right."  Focusing too much on what's wrong and efforts to "fix it" can be counter-productive.  Look for what's working, help it get larger, and this starts to crowd out what's wrong.  I go into this more fully in another online teleclass, starting up again Jan 17th.   But for the moment, be sure to shift your focus, even with family members that have wronged you, at least some of the time to whatever they did that was right for you.  It's surprising sometimes how stuck we can get in only seeing the darker side of things.  Get stuck in the light too.   :-)