Ever seen someone scream at an ATM machine? Or at their GPS? Ever done it yourself?
You’ve been witness to a repeat ancestral pattern that’s just been re-engaged and reenergized for future generations. The more supercharged the incident, the more it’s available for an ancestral evaluation and healing (meaning it no longer creates drama and trauma).
You saw how some people had a fit over having to wear a mask in retail stores during COVid, while others simply went about their day, slightly inconvenienced, but really no worse for wear.
Let’s dissect the nuances and opportunities of an ancestral patterns:
The good news is, once you recognize a pattern in your life, you can shift the trajectory to stop that energy before you find yourself screaming at an electronic device again. What are the dynamics of these ancestral patterns? How can we learn to spot them and change their trajectory?
During COVid, many of us had never been in the following situations. Is it possible, that our ancestor’s physically experienced the following?
- Having to wear a mask (limiting ability to be heard or understood)
- Having to be separated (cut off from supplies, due to isolation), etc.
- Being scared to walk into a clinic or hospital (a place they normally sought safety and healing)
- Afraid to visit friends or have friends come to visit
- Not being able to get the supplies needed – vying against their very neighbor, family member, or friend for the last ___ (can of soup, toilet paper), etc.
Can I imagine this being a situation of my ancestor’s?
It’s pretty easy to take a look at something like COVid and imagine, this may have been the story of our ancestors during the Spanish Flu of 1918
- Some may remember the more recent polio isolation issues of the 1940’s
- Gas mask drills of the Kennedy era
- Separations and staying at home (Polio epidemic ~ Spanish flu 1918)
- People masked during the 17th century plague
- In the late 1940’s certain countries practiced wearing masks, in fear of germ war-fare
- Rations and shortages of WWI and WWII, and even the gas lines of the 1970’s meant not being able to get the supplies needed – vying against their very neighbor, family member, or friend for the last ___ (can of soup, toilet paper), etc.
Is it becoming easier to recognize an ancestral repeat trauma pattern now?
What you can know is that if you encounter somebody who is having a really strong emotional response to a situation, you’re encountering someone who is super-loaded with a trigger that says, “This still threatens us! This threatens me, my family, and my genetic line!”
It’s as if we’re loaded with our very own evolution. In this way, if we were separated from our family at birth, as happens in some adoption cases, we’re pre-loaded to know that a lack of necessities at the store has been a threat to our family (causing big drama and trauma) in the past and we’re nearing the danger point.
It’s a truly beautiful aspect of our physiology and one we should give some time to consider. For that individual who is super upset about not being able to get toilet paper at the store, they may have had an ancestor who couldn’t get nylon stockings during the WWII era, and perhaps that absence of stockings meant they couldn’t get an interview for a job, which led to them having to go to a soup kitchen, where they got pneumonia.
We could keep going with that scenario. Perhaps someone in the family got sick and they couldn’t afford medicine.
All of this story could have happened without our friend knowing anything about their ancestry, because their parent was adopted, and they didn’t know anything about their biological family’s history.
What they knew, is they couldn’t get toilet paper and they needed it, and their every cell in their body was screaming, “This is a problem! Why can’t the rest of you see the danger in this?!” It’s also recognition that they were not surrounded by the people who understood them – who understood that the absence of such a necessity was a huge threat.
My friends, this is where the fight begins. Suddenly two rational people are fighting over something that was indeed a huge threat to their ancestors, but not necessarily a huge issue in 2021. If we could run their DNA we may even find they are both descendants of the two very ancestors who had an argument in a store over nylon stockings or aspirin.
Wow. That’s a lot of energy and a lot of reason to start looking at ancestral patterns right now.
The thing we forget, in the heat of the moment, is that this isn’t 1949 or 1918 or 1970 – we have options. We have online purchasing. We aren’t completely isolated as our ancestors were. We have Zoom and Skype, and Wi-Fi.
Some things are still threats today. There are even new threats. This is why we should do a daily inventory. Before you engage the beast the next time, stop and ask yourself?
Can I recognize how this might be ancestral?
Is this still a threat?
Do I have new tools to work around this?
Those people who got through the first year of COVid, and got unemployment with the greatest of ease, or changed careers to something magnificent, probably had ancestors who did just fine, or were even greatly successful during the time of Spanish flu or the polio epidemic.
Those who couldn’t get unemployment, even though they did exactly what everyone else did, had an ancestral trauma pattern. If their stimulus check got held up, lost or denied? They likely had ancestors who had a similar problem in their day. They were in a repeat ancestral pattern. “Why me?!”
Keep in mind we are each wired to different ancestors, (than our siblings, or parents). We are the ONLY one who will ever exist, wired to exactly the ancestors that we are connected to.
Meanwhile, we all recognize people who tend to blame themselves… “How should I have said it? What could I have done to make them hear me?” These are the ones we want to keep an eye on for self-destructive patterns and depression.
Other people go straight for the jugular, “Why couldn’t you hear me!? Did I stutter? You never listen to me!” You’ve stepped into their ancestral trigger and you want to put a ton of love on your ancestors in that moment. Bless them for how challenging their life was and how we live in 2021 and we’d like to find a new way through this moment.
Your ancestors have waited your whole life for THIS moment!… and your next!
