Description Examining Ancestor worship in southeastern Europe and western Russia and the way it shaped indigenous magical and spiritual practices. Natasha Helvin explains how energy flows in a familial context and how strengths and dysfunctions are passed from one generation to the next for centuries. Sharing time honoured rituals and spells to help you to recognize these ancestral patterns and influences, and to make changes in the harmful ones, while harnessing your familial strengths to direct your destiny. Looking at both Slavic Pagan and Eastern Orthodox traditions concerning the dead, the author also examines ancient Slavic burial and funerary customs. She reveals how these burial rites became incorporated into rural witchcraft practices, and she explains traditional Slavic ideas on death and the afterlife, the soul, the spiritual power of colours, and magical objects. Raised in the Soviet Union / USSR, where she grew up steeped in ancient Slavic magical traditions, occultist and hereditary witch Natasha Helvin reveals not only how you are continually and powerfully influenced by your ancestors but also how you can open the door to your ancestral connections in order to know who you truly are and change the course of your destiny.
