YAYI JOYCE · ANCESTRAL PSYCHOLOGY™
A two-to-three-year journey in relationship, practice, ritual, and cosmology. Each level opens another part of the work
Establishing relationship to the work. You begin with the body as the altar, caring for the Crown, Ancestral relationship, and the beginnings of Crossroads relationship. You are introduced to how movement, choice, timing, and spiritual direction can move through Ancestral relationshi
Introduction to ritual vocabulary. Basic Crown work and starter ways of honoring Self and Ancestors. You begin learning foundational ritual practices and the language that helps you understand what kind of work you are doing
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You continue caring for Self as the altar while expanding relationship with Ancestors, Crossroads, land, and community. You begin learning how movement, choice, timing, and spiritual direction take shape through those relationships within Low Country Hoodoo cosmology.
Building on the rituals introduced in Part One. You continue ritual work for Self and Ancestors while beginning an introduction to the different kinds of ritual work and what each type is meant to address.
Your relationship with the Crossroads continues to develop and expand. You continue working through relationship with Self, Ancestors, land, community, and place while learning how the Crossroads shows itself through lived experience
Crossroads ritual work expands. You begin learning what belongs at the Crossroads, how relationship changes the work, and how rituals for Self, Ancestors, and Crossroads can intersect while remaining distinct forms of work.
Your relationship with the Crossroads continues to develop and expand. You continue working through relationship with Self, Ancestors, land, community, and place while learning how the Crossroads shows itself through lived experience
Crossroads ritual work expands. You begin learning what belongs at the Crossroads, how relationship changes the work, and how rituals for Self, Ancestors, and Crossroads can intersect while remaining distinct forms of work.
Each new level opens another part of Low Country Hoodoo cosmology. The directions are studied over time, with approximately 4 to 6 months devoted to each direction. Your relationships with Self, Ancestors, Crossroads, land, and community continue throughout the journey
Your ritual vocabulary continues to expand alongside the cosmology. You learn additional ways of working with Self, Ancestors, Crossroads, land, and the directions while becoming more capable of recognizing what kind of work a condition may call for and how different forms of work may intersect.
Each relationship continues to travel with you.
You do not finish working with Self when you begin working with Ancestors. You do not leave the Ancestors behind when your Crossroads work expands. You do not finish the Crossroads when a direction opens.
The practice is the power.
There is no fixed timeframe for how long each part takes. This work moves by Ancestral Divination, not by the calendar. Some work is completed in four months, some in six, because the pace depends on the Ancestors of the collective in the class at that given time. We consult and divine throughout the whole process. The timing belongs to the Ancestors.
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