Nancy Hendrickson - Ancestral Tarot: Uncover Your Past and Chart Your Future

Exploring ancestral patterns can be a painful journey, especially when the road is paved with skeletons that haunt us along the way. Thankfully, Nancy Hendrickson's valuable book brims with techniques for uncovering where our ancestral inheritances may have originated and why we sometimes feel the impulse to act them out. Each exercise magically transforms the ancestral agenda, becoming a curative lesson in freeing ourselves from repeating outdated stories. Ancestral Tarot is a sound ally and advocate for healing the generational wound. Carrie Paris, creator of The Relative Tarot

A powerful, revelatory guidebook on using tarot to connect with your ancestors, Hendrickson's Ancestral Tarot meets you where you are on your spiritual journey and takes you farther, opening you up to an expansive world of psychic insight. Learn how to unveil long forgotten ancestral memories and cultivate stronger bonds with your spirit guides. Hendrickson is an authoritative voice I trust. Benebell Wen, author of Holistic Tarot

Wisdom and insights from those whom we have inherited our diverse cultures and customs are revealed through Nancy Hendrickson's accessible tarot-reading techniques. Ancestral Tarot will prove to be a go-to resource for tarot practitioners. Gina G. Thies, author and creator of Tarot of the Moors

Hendrickson magnificently breaks new ground with Ancestral Tarot. There has never been a tarot book like this, and we have never needed a book like this as much as we do now. In warm, accessible prose, she opens exciting new possibilities for using tarot to explore ancestral connection. A must-have on any serious tarot bookshelf, offering deep, important exercises for personal growth and divinatory practice! Thalassa, creatrix of the San Francisco Bay Area Tarot Symposium and founder of Daughters of Divination

Ancestral Tarot gives us practical tools and spiritual guidance to use tarot for personal healing and exploration in a way that is deep, meaningful, and masterful. Christiana Gaudet, author of Tarot Tour Guide and Fortune Stellar

Bravo! Nancy leaves no stone unturned in her phenomenal tarot debut! Working through her spreads helped me connect to one of my ancestors almost immediately and I have been growing the connection ever since. She takes a very intangible practice and makes it practical, hands-on, and very down to earth. If you seek to facilitate a connection to a loved one or do the work to recognize and break generational patterns, this book is for you! V. of RedLight Readings, the Tarot BFF

Ancestral Tarot takes what can be a very daunting, complex topic and creates a simplified way to learn and experience your ancestors. The journal pages and tarot spreads led me on an unexpected journey. I especially enjoyed the methods of making and using sigils. Hendrickson offers a variety of tools to help you connect and work with the people in your past. Debbie Chapnick, author of the Tarot Tip Sheet and The Journey of the Food

Ancestral Tarot is a level up when it comes to ancestral work and divination. Hendrickson has created a pathway with guardrails for each reader to follow along their journey. A work of self-discovery, this book invites us to travel back in time to connect with ancestral history and forward to know how our work today prepares us for our future role as ancestor. The spreads, writing prompts, and exercises included are accessible to both new and experienced readers. When you're ready, grab your cards, a pen and journal, and turn the page to . Rhonda Alin, founder of Northern New Jersey Tarot Study Group

Ancestral Tarot will enable people with disrupted or strained family backstories to heal that rift. Very hands-on and with deep foundations in Nancy's own ancestral practice and excellent tarot skills. Nancy is a born teacher! Alison Cross, author of A Year in the Wildwood and Tarot Kaizen

Nancy Hendrickson repurposes the art of tarot to manifest a divinatory window to the past. Ancestral Tarot provides a unique and in-depth way to examine the family tree, untangle complicated histories, facilitate healing, and adjust the lineage onto a positive path for the future. If you are a genealogy buff who would enjoy a new way of interacting with the Ancestors, this book should be on your shelf. Cairelle Crow, genealogist and founder of Sacred Roots Genealogy

Ancestral Tarot asks all the right questions to connect with our ancestors, so that we can gain wisdom. The book's many layouts help us to see family patterns with the detail and nuance we need. Healing relationships with our ancestral patterns not only heals us, it reaches forward into future generations enabling us to become what this changing world needswise and whole. A must have book! Jessica Macbeth, author of The Faeries' Oracle

To family, of course

This edition first published in 2021 by Weiser Books, an imprint of
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Copyright 2021 by Nancy Hendrickson
Foreword 2021 by Theresa Reed
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ISBN: 978-1-57863-741-6

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Cover and text design by Kathryn Sky-Peck

Interior photos/images from the Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot
Typeset in ITC Berkeley Oldstyle

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So many people to thank, so much gratitude to offer.

First, to Fred West, John Hijatt, and Patti Testerman, all supreme supporters of the book and of me, thank you for reminding me that patience is a virtue.

A big thanks, as well, to the members of the San Diego Tarot Collective. I'd also like to send out special thanks to my Instagram friends, especially Kate Majeski, who graciously tried out my very first Ancestral Tarot spread. And, to Becca Gray, whose reading helped me recover the X factor I knew was missing from the bookme.

This project went through multiple iterations, as books tend to do. Fortunately, I had many discussions along the way that helped solidify my ideas. Thank you to all who listened. My gratitude to Theresa Reed for her wise counsel and to Joanna Powell Colbert for lighting the spark that would become this book.

I'm not sure any of this would have been written had it not been for the many years of deeply personal and insightful dialogues with Faeries' Oracle author Jessica Macbeth. I'm convinced she holds the knowledge of all things.

Finally, a huge thanks to Judika Illes, the editor who supported my idea from the very beginning. She gave me guidance, feedback, and an ongoing belief in the project. Her confidence fueled the bookand mefrom start to finish. I suspect the ancestors had a hand in guiding me to herhow else could it have been such a perfect fit.