In the early hours of the morning, before the sun kissed the sky, I was greeted by a loving, familiar energy, Sarah.

Sarah is an ancestor who has shown up in my readings and energy work since 2023. She calls me her "wildest dream." She tells me that when she was working the fields as an enslaved person, she prayed specifically for me and my life. She prayed that I would be able to keep my own children that I birthed, that I would be free to live the life that I wanted, and to be able to practice my spirituality outloud.

Sarah was a Christian with deep, deep Hoodoo roots in the late 1700s/early 1800s. She has revealed herself to be my great-great-great-great grandmother. She was not able to keep any of her children that she birthed and attempted to escape slavery several times, but was always forced back.

Now back to her visit this morning...when she arrived, I could feel tingles on the top of my head and I asked her to reveal herself to me. She did and motioned for me to lay my head on her lap. She started rubbing my locs and asked what's been troubling me. I shared. She listened. I told her that I am experiencing "rebirth fatigue". She let out a bold laugh that also tickled me. I shared that I am exhausted from dying over and over again in this life because it is happening so frequently. She understood and shared that the death of the various versions of ourselves is so necessary. It is growth. It is expansion. It is the reason we are on this earth. She placed her hand on my cheek and told me that everything will be just fine. She said, "you have to die to become what you were always meant to be". Asè